Ron’s Thoughts …

The year is close to it’s end and customary New Year Wishes are due.

In the past year, some things were good, like the price of oil coming down to under $40 per barrel. That will help all of the remainder of the world to (hopefully) prosper next year instead of only further enriching a few obscenely rich Arabs.

Some things were bad, like the Israeli/Palestinian conflict where many innocents have died because of religious extremism, as also like the humanitarian crises in Zimbabwe where a maniacal despot like Mugabe has destroyed a once prosperous country.

So,what are my New Year Wishes ?

It is pointless trying to be romantic or naive.

The truth is that some people in this world are parasites that should be removed.

So, my New Year Wishes are that,

1. Remove Mugabe, by whatever means.

2. Destroy Palestinian/Islamic extremists who deny Jews a home in Israel.

3. Support the English and American initiatives that have kept us free countries for many years.

Mugabe is on record as saying, “There are more millionaires in Zimbabwe than anywhere else in the world.”

He failed to say that a million dollars Zim-Dollars was not enough to buy a loaf of bread.

Is the USA going the same way.

When they bail out the home-loan mortgage lenders and the car manufacturers to the tune of multi-billions of dollars, are they not just printing money and making the US dollar worth nothing ?

I heard an ad. on TV today that had as it’s punchline, ” Buy low, sell High.”

Repeat, “Buy low, sell high.”

Repeat again, “Buy low, sell high.”

What they were advertising is irrelevant, the mind-set behind it is very,very relevant.

What it means is, don’t bother about producing anything useful, just be clever about how you trade.

Let the stupid labourers work in the fields while we smart money-managers

get rich on their sweat.

Well, the bubble has burst !!

The money-manipulators are going broke and only hard working simple people are not facing massive re-possessions.

I am not a scientist but I do have some knowledge about engineering and science.

There is indisputable evidence that the world is getting warmer. The ice caps are melting and sea levels are rising with potentially devestating consequences.

Popular scientific opinion is that this is happening because we are burning large amounts of fossil fuels and generating carbon dioxide that rises into the stratosphere and forms a ” blanket ” that traps heat inside and causes the world to heat up.

I can comprehend the concept of a ” blanket ” but would dispute the cause of the creation of a “blanket.”

When I make a fire for a barbecue and send smoke up into the sky, or when the wind blows dust and sea moisture up into the sky, these particals soon form clouds and fall back to earth as rain.

However, when thousands of jet aeroplanes daily leave a trail of pollution behind them at heights not visible to the human eye, those particals do not drop back to earth but remain suspended in the stratosphere and further thicken the ” blanket.”

 They fly that high because they use less fuel in the rarerified atmosphere and therefore can make a better profit.

However, I believe that they are the main cause of global warming and that ultra-high jet flight should be banned.

In America and Europe and Asia, governments are pumping multi-billions of dollars into the the monetary system to try to avert a total meltdown.

They are simply trying to prop up businesses that were so greedy for profits that they indulged in reckless lending.

Why help and support these failed businessmen, who were only trying to enrich themselves ? ( Now at taxpayers expense )

We all recognise that the ordinary John Citizen has become over-indebted, but, the main culprits are the banks and clothing shops and the money-lenders who endlessly plead with us to borrow some more.

In my considered opinion, the solution is not to penalise the vulnerable ordinary people by re-possessing their houses and all their goods, but rather to penalise the  money-lenders.

That can be done by not allowing bad debt to be written off against profits for tax purposes.

Reckless lending would soon stop as also ill-considered over-indebtedness.