GREENHAMMER: Donut Shop Pundits CHAPTER 12

John A Almada
2012

Liberty Lessons

Lesson 1
Does War create Liberty?

Do we follow the 9^th commandment ……or the 9^th amendment of the Bill of rights, constitution thingy? In the case of tea party ‘patriots’, the answer is neither.

Remember in 2009 when the national discussion was energy self-sufficiency and Infrastructure Repair? The price of gasoline had gone upto $4.25. We needed a fresh, optimistic new start, and it had nothing to do with Republicans and Democrats. It had to do with Liberty and our ability to create without coercion. We would invent our way out of the near-depression created by the real estate bubble. Small business creates more jobs than the big corporations, let’s remember, and as I often say, “the innovations of the future are going to come from the garages of America, not the boardrooms of corporations.”

The cranky Donut Shop Pundits are trying to be the fulcrum of power and falsely claim to represent America. Donut shop pundits are who glennbeck and rushlimbaugh emulate, the charismatic right-wing jackbag at the donut shop or breakfast place, holding court as teens sling the donuts or home fries, and slack-jawed yokels nod as these ‘pundits’ jettison dissension from their pulpits of powdery hate. This week the word has gone down from the 1% to the Donut Shop Pundits. 'If Obama is re-elected it will be the end of America.' So they all begin working it into anything they can.

They have wanted to go back to 1950 since 1962 and they influence public opinion more than we’d like to admit. The only problem is that; their world has died, and the Old Order refuses to admit it. At the donut shop you hear, "I earned that lifetime pension defending our country, not like those welfare queens and food stamp moochers". What the alcoholic military pensioner doesn't like to talk about is that he or she worked 18 of those 20 years, selling boots in the commissary. Hardly defending our country, but thoroughly enjoying the perks of a socialistic, overly huge military. No offense of course. I'm all for a military closer to the homeland. Higher pay, no more lifetime pensions, More Seals, less salesman. Fewer lifers, more Coast Guard

George Washington (upper right)sits around with 13 goddesses from this fresco on the ceiling of the Capital building. Minerva and Ben Franklin confer below

We could cut troop strength down to 750,000. More warriors, less shoe salesman at the commissary. and pencil pushers. Too much Veteran benefits for some, terrible health care for others.
My children will be paying disability for those injured in the Bush Wars. This is what the so-called greatest generation will be known for---bankrupting the future with golden promises and unsustainable payouts.

Highways, bridges, hospitals, wetlands, inner cities, all need workers to repair and maintain, and we are truly wasting our money on a worldwide military and costs will dog federal budgets nearly to the 22nd century.
We are truly wasting our money on a worldwide military. Too many lifers milking their jobs to get to twenty years. The soldier who shot 16 Afghanis was 18 years into his stint---he was only 2 more years away from retirement. It is conceivable that someday, someone who retired from the military at 40, collects a pension till they are 110, we’ll be living longer they say, so, therefore, 20 years of work will yield 70 years of pension.

We need to evolve socially also. United States sells weapons to 100 countries, what’s that all about? Weapons help boost the economy? Or would money be better spent on hospitals, bridges, restoring wetlands, health care, have blighted inner cities rejuvenized. Building or adapting roads to accommodate slower 25 MPH traffic as we create a more diverse transportation system . It is such an irony that taxes are being used instead to bomb hospitals, bridges, wetlands and creating bombed neighborhoods that need repair.

Instead of using the 9th amendment to support the effort to balance the foundation of authority:: Instead of heeding the spirit of the 9th commandment that demands we speak truth about other people, the closed minded right wingnuts persistently plunge forward, jettisoning their appalling display of ignorance, their fecal contamination of half-truths and an insurmountable pile of lies from their pulpits of hate.
What does bearing false witness mean you ask? False witness can be described as making up deceptions to make a person appear sinister or crooked or un-American in the teabag rulebook. Gossip campaigns that bring people down, this is bearing false witness but they seem to revel in it. Do not lie about your neighbor or relative, ALWAYS SPEAK TRUTH, this is what the 9th commandment states.
The credit collapse will clear the path for the final industrial and military destruction of what’s left….that’s any good. Resource bankruptcy will be our grandchildren’s birthright. THEY WILL MERELY BE A POOL OF WORKERS THAT WILL PAY OFF BANK, INSURANCE, AIRLINE, INDUSTRIAL AND GOVERNMENT PENSIONS.
Our founding fathers are accused of being slave owners and that, but the foundation of liberty had to begin somewhere and it had to begin somehow, it couldn’t arrive full blown out of nowhere. Let's see you leave a constitution that is still admired 235 years later.
Environmental wacko is the term used by Rush Limbaugh to describe people involved in earth stewardship. He thinks that the only good tree is a dead tree. Furniture, decking, house frames, sports equipment; trees are a product exclusively. All good utilizations, but many of us feel trees need to be forests too, and not just baseball bats. The best wood has been harvested, the old trees incinerated to grow monoculture crops.
Planting as if nature mattered, creating a sustainable resource base, a movement for change and real progress and getting a grip on the 21^st century. Capitalism bankrupt…...dictatorships barbaric…Socialism is passé…Like it or not this is the era when new governing principles will be created. A movement that respects all life on the earth. THE EARTH MOVEMENT.

People who say this is a Christian nation are bearing false witness; most Christians therefore break the 9^th commandment. Spreading lies, half-truths, and defying the spirit of the 9^th commandment while they pass out NObama stickers at Bob Evans, speaking lies out of both sides of their mouths. While at the same time they are using the 9th amendment in the wrong way.