The VENT
Welcome to the vent. The purpose: To relay thoughts and feelings about the time we live in and to learn from history so that we do not repeat same mistakes and disasters. This is a place not only to vent about problems and issues but to produce a healthy discussion on solutions and return to the basics.
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Monday, September 12, 2011
Cain is Able
The new candidate that needs audible recognition as the man that can help America get back up on her feet. Our country needs this help due to the tripping games caused by the Obama administration. America needs not to be bullied anymore. She needs assistance. The Cain administration will do that. Many have said it before and I will go down as saying it again: America needs to be run like a business! So support and in time vote for President elect - Cain. "Getting America back on her feet!"
Friday, April 8, 2011
The Common Citizen...
America is yet in another phase of awakening since 9/11. Through ignorance and by way of the media's will. A king of most spectacle wonder flies under the notion of "The first black American president". Too many times have words lost their meaning, too many times have promises been a crutch for a politicians' own self- gratification. This is the time where the American people need to understand and know the true power of government, FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND OF THE PEOPLE!
Appropriate knowledge must be learned and applied to correct our walk for the future, away from histories mistakes. But I feel that this generation of America must learn by hardship and pain. Which pain can only awake us from our deep slumber. Our government is nothing without US. We must awake to the reality that all is not bright and perfect in America. We must awake to the reality that their really are individuals that seek after the liberty, held most dear and precious in America. Never can we allow ourselves to fall in the trap of saying, "Oh, that can never happen here." When that becomes the basis of thinking, the worst has hit. What of the great city, Rome? The mighty kingdom of Jerusalem? There is urgency for America, although corrections must be done timely and in order. First, it starts with us. Have I seen people for who they really are and not by the grandeur of their words? Have I judged "by the content of one's character?"(MLK)
I express my thoughts and feelings as a single insignificant entity, overwhelmed by the power of a growing government feeding like a parasite off the well-being of the PEOPLE. My most sincere desires are for America's bright and joyful future. But this cannot be obtained by one individual, each to their own must want this for themselves. It always starts with, one.
The Meaning of Re- Invention ; January 26 2011
"Meaning of Re-Invention"
President Barack Obama addressed on the State of the Union which in reality is crippling. Many examples of innovation were used in the body of the President's speech. In the transcript we read and heard of Robert and Gary Allen, brothers who own a roofing company that once helped the re-roofing of the Pentagon on 9-11 had been hit hard during this recession but as the President states "with the help of a government loan, that empty space is being used to manufacture solar shingles that are being sold all across the country. In Robert’s words, 'We reinvented ourselves.'"
My only question: Who "reinvented" who?
It was NOT through Government grants that Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the electric television, who many times through toil and headaches and even, I'm sure failing many times, that he produced his innovative idea, and succeeded.
It was NOT through Government grants and loans that the Wright Brothers upon failing time and time again to create a thing known as a "flying machine" received aid from the Government to master and create which we now enjoy as the Airplane.
It was NOT through a Government loan and aid that the invention of the light bulb and video camera from Thomas Edison occurred. As Thomas Edison had so greatly stated, "If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward". He did NOT use any government help whatsoever, 10,000 times. It was his innovative and free mind, nurtured in an Innovative and Free Nation, organized by Men who knew what it meant to be free, and what the power of Freedom could do for a people.
The President went on to say that "Our free enterprise system is what drives innovation…" this is true.
"But because it’s not always profitable for companies to invest in basic research…" I comment: businesses have the right to fail, which is yet another important principle not correctly taught in our nation.
He continues, "…throughout history our government has provided cutting-edge scientists and inventors with the support that they need. That’s what planted the seeds for the Internet. That’s what helped make possible things like computer chips and GPS."
This statement: caused me to question and further investigate his meaning of government providing “cutting-edge scientists and inventors”, leading up to saying that because of the government, the basic seeds of the internet were invented, his example: the computer chip.
Created by Jack Kilby (with the help later from Robert Noyce) at Texas Instruments in 1958, the computer chip was born. Not by any action or decision by government whatsoever, Jack Kilby said, "As a new employee, I had no vacation time coming and was left alone to ponder the results of the IF amplifier exercise. The cost analysis gave me my first insight into the cost structure of a semiconductor house." (http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackstclair.shtml) It had been through the power of innovation that lies within every human being, a power that cannot be matched to any government decision or "handout". An idea such as from these great inventors were not from any incentives from Government but from the mind of "what can I do to make America better?"
AMERICA the brave. AMERICA the free. Can we allow such greatness to be forgotten at the promises and hand of the wonderful and beautiful words of a government figure? Can we afford to lose such a Nation that is built up for the enjoyment of freedom and liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Are WE the generation to put common sense decisions to the grave? Are WE the generation to cover Honesty and Integrity until they become nothing more than "a hiss and a byword...?"
NO! We ARE the generation to RISE with the same thought process and reasoning of those past GREAT pioneers that has led us to where we are now today. It is the common sense reasoning that exists within each of us, and of my own common sense reasoning that I obtain. There is a GOD, known by many names, and, to some, nameless. But He exists and is real and is constant and never changing. It is WE who are inconsistent and ever changing, when WE begin to realize such truth, then the PROGRESSION to the, at first unattainable, becomes clear and promising. Before one can doubt an ultimate Creator, one must first deny their own existence. And when you have done this, your answer is made clear.
With love, Dan Fowlks....These are my words and thoughts.