Bill Clintons Contribution To History
December 27th 2005.
Listened to C-Span, the Clinton Years today. I hate to say it, but that ‘How History Will Judge His Presidency’ theme kept pointing how great he would be, not his administration, cabinet, and all of the people that voted for him and forged ahead in spite of all the negative publicity his actions generated and the downgrading of the importance of the office. Yes he touched on that, but patting himself on the back kept sneaking in over and over again.
Being a friend of George Bush doesn’t absolve him of disgracing himself in the public eye and flying in the face of the moral foundation we strive for, even though most of us fall short. As brilliant a Rhodes Scholar as he is, he still didn’t get the point of impeachment. All he had to do was walk the walk while in office. The little boy rebelling against his parents, authority, Hillary, public opinion, religious convictions, marriage and family relationships, in the White House overshadowed all of those shining things he and his administration accomplished. He betrayed those of us who went out on a limb and backed him against our better judgment.
Being a minority, doesn’t give you the right to change the will of the majority, as in gay rights. Yes they have rights, but they also have duties and responsibilities to not tear down the fabric of society and the long held institution of marriage and family relations that the majority man/woman biologically anchored covenant religious based value system has long enjoyed protecting those who make a commitment to each other for the sake of their BIOLOGICAL offspring. Sure there are exceptions that closely match those parameters… But they are exceptions to make up for the misfortunes of parents who can’t conceive but present meaningful biological framework for a natural parental family structure inside the acceptable biological mores, not isolating the children by fringe element behavioral ‘’family’’ practices.
The premise that “Everybody does it anyway�? still doesn’t change the ideals in marriage and the Church. Sure the common man can’t act like a rich man with legal muscle, and pretty much break any law and get away with it, but the common man is the heart and soul of any country and it’s backbone too, the fiber that protects us from foreign threats, sacrifices some or all on the battlefield for their country and is given a small edge in getting hired in a public service job if he keeps his nose clean, with reduced medical and retirement benefits. He’s the guy who doesn’t have the time or money to fight a traffic ticket or parking ticket! He’s the guy who has to wait years for a living wage while you rich give your offspring opportunities in abundance. He’s the guy who sucks it up when wronged by a surgeon or bad business practice because he can’t retain a lawyer! Why was everything reduced to the public servant? Because You Mr. President couldn’t keep a straight face in office! Because the rich wish to keep more of their profits!
He damaged his party in ways that his party is unable to overcome. Now we are governed by ruthless little men, capitalists hell-bent on dismantling the good things that were achieved during the ‘90s, making our democracy more of a capitalistic dictatorship ruled by small minded anarchists playing the righteous part, who have no real grounding in this country because their holdings are welcome in any country in the capitalist world, which now is almost all countries world wide.
If it gets a little tough in the U.S., head for any place in the Pacific Rim, or the Bahamas and you can avoid paying taxes or the restraints of a moral leadership. If the leadership gets too good, start a war somewhere, and the moral public will look the other way to protect itself, allowing those large interests like tobacco, drug trade, firearms, the military industrial complex, pharmaceuticals and oil to regain power to flourish and remove our peacetime liberties once enjoyed under President Clinton.
Being a republican doesn’t make you righteous!!! There are many who are righteous on both sides of the isles, and have differing reasons for being on opposite sides. Our government can become too autocratic if unchecked by honest men. Who could trust a single mindset to govern the world fairly? Oops, did I say the world? Think about it. Either directly or indirectly our capitalists govern the world, the world banking industry, and the world stock markets the world drug trade and more.
Mr. President, it wasn’t your fault, that we excelled in the ‘90s, because we were already there! Technology brought on the bubble in the stock markets, and we flourished as long as we were given stock options in the companies that didn’t go broke, and that would have happened no matter who was in charge, but I think we have to evaluate why we excelled, and why we aren’t now. Nouns like China, India and Russia come to mind. Cheap foreign labor! Toyota! Honda! We are losing G.M. products.
We need more open source competition in other areas than software platforms. Bill Gates is a perpetual control-freak. Yah the Windows operating system was needed, but not the monopolistic way in which the cost of the product and, an everybody-paying-the-fee attitude that gouged Americans and the world has allowed. This kind of capitalism is it’s own form of rich socialism…
There is a long-term cost to the public when prices are bloated for laptops, hardware, software and desktop computers, and technology products included in automobiles and other products and of course the badly deserved gouging that 30 pluse million Californians took by the Texas power brokers, electrical power that is.
The software developers who would have been supporting the educational environments were hamstrung by excessive costs to keep up. Gamers are doing more to advance our society than the educational environment, because profit is what drives our world. What does that say about us as a collective of people governed by our ideals? Directly link profit to education and we can probably overcome our educationally challenged country. But, wait a minute; if we are developing the world’s greatest gangster video games, then we have some pretty smart dudes out there!
Both memory prices and hardware prices were not competitive. Someone developing compression routines, were hamstrung by those who developed microdrives, because if you didn’t need the microdrives, you couldn’t market that obsolete hardware technology. Don’t step on the toes of the wrong people or it could become the end of you! BTDT!
What it says to me is we are a highly controlled society by aggressive personalities who don’t consider the public welfare unless is has a positive effect on their ego, political aspirations, and the bottom line in their product offerings. Little financial dictators, good at numbers, who want special privilege, want to go to the front of the line no matter who’s expense, want to be considered history’s best at whatever they do, and the public good be damned! Egomaniacs abound!!!
My question is, if you are a real, true Christian you have to ask; what would Jesus Do? The answer is spelled out in The Bible!
