Ozell Williams: “Our president and his democratic colleagues continue to boast that the 750 billion-dollar Stimulus Plan has created or saved millions of jobs. They attempt to validate their claim by saying that leading economists and statistics backs up their numbers. What statistics? They believe that most Americans are either stupid or naive enough to believe them!!”
Our president and his democratic colleagues are bull shooters. Ozell is right. Only the stupid and naïve believe them. Last winter we in the Portland, Oregon area experienced a warmer winter than usual and now a cooler than usual summer. Weather patterns come and go as part of a bigger picture. In a similar sense, the universe has patterns that come and go, also affecting our lives. The movement is now from Pisces to Aquarius, from indecision and fear to stubborn determination and independence.
Chaos theory is a study of dynamic systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. Small differences in initial conditions yield widely diverging outcomes. This is true in mathematics, in physics, in economics, in philosophy. It is not possible through the force of law to predict a desirable end. The end justifies the means is in La La Land nonsense. It never ever works. Perfection is without movement. Without movement, nonexistence, this is chaos theory. Thus, there are certain precepts of law that have perpetual necessity among all nations, and which absolutely cannot be broken. Nothing ever reaches a state of perfection. Write Sen. Graham and tell him he’s as good as gone with the wind. The Tea Party is here to stay.
Chaos theory was discovered by meteorologist Edward Lorenz in 1972. With computer technology, Lorenz found the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil can set off a tornado in Texas. In the microcosmic world, likewise, from mathematical deduction it is now known that the smallest excitation of a quantized wave or field, as a photon or phonon, the fundamental unit of a quantized physical property, as angular momentum, and the smallest amount by which its magnitude can change, suddenly and significantly, comes a quantum increase in productivity. In the universe, likewise, the subtle forces from planetary alignments can have great effects on our lives. This has been known for thousands of years as a matter of mathematical deduction. So get real, Americans. You are here with increasing purpose. Washington’s yesteryear answers don’t work. They never have worked and never will work.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a utopian dreamer, believed America had a rendezvous with destiny, that the American people would survive the Great Depression and achieve unparalleled economic and social well-being. After a century of unending struggle for the right of their unions to exist, the New Deal assisted American workers at a time when the national labor movement was declining in membership.
In 1933, Congress enacted the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) to combat the economic depression by shortening hours of labor, increasing wages, and eliminating unfair trade practices; in other words, government meddling with the free enterprise system, the very thing Roosevelt accused Hoover of doing. Shades of the past, Obama accuses Bush of the current economic turndown.
The NIRA also created the National Recovery Administration (NRA) to work with industry and labor to increase employment. The NIRA provided workers with the choice of their own representatives to bargain collectively with employers. Sounds good. Workers deserve consideration, but, as it turns out, this is not the way to do it. Roosevelt’s government “duty” did not include involvement in restructuring the free enterprise system, as President Obama, a Roosevelt Democrat calls it, “transformation.”
Why the economic woes of California? On the Pacific Coast, where company unions had dominated industrial relations since the early 1920s, the effect of New Deal legislation was to open a new era in employer-employee relations. A notable exception was the situation in Tacoma, Washington, with the only major closed shop longshoreman unions on the West Coast.
With the New Deal, worker militancy naturally asserted itself. When San Francisco, key to the coast, was organized in 1933, longshoremen were ready to move. By March 1934, forty-four ILA locals held charters on the Pacific Coast. They were solidly organized from San Diego, to Juneau, thanks to Roosevelt’s utopian New Deal. Actually, what Roosevelt’s New Deal started was Marxist class warfare.
By favoring unions, NRA efforts to bring shippers and unions to negotiate were futile. Roosevelt’s New Deal was like mixing oil and water. Roosevelt promised to appoint a fact-finding commission to investigate the controversy and recommend a solution. Naturally, no solution was found. On My 9, 1934, thanks to Roosevelt’s New Deal, 12,500 West Coast longshoremen went on strike. Maritime workers tied up their vessels when they reached port and struck as soon as meetings were convened to approve the strike. Thus the first industry wide strike began. The economic consequences were devastating. Roosevelt’s New Deal prolonged the Great Depression.
The publicity during the twelve week longshoreman’s strike stressed that the stoppage was a struggle by workers to achieve job security through the closed shop and union hiring halls. The strike was font-page news. Most editors and publishers, on the side of class warfare, questioning their mentality, sided with union workers.
When the strike was only three days old the Tacoma Longshoremen’s “Flying Squad” launched their “scab-clearing” effort on the docks. There was violence. The situation went out of control. ILA President Joseph P. Ryan praised the workers’ magnificent fight and proposed an agreement that outraged workers. Undaunted, Ryan entered negotiations again with employers, but this time with the assistance of Dave Beck, president of the Seattle Teamsters, and Mike Casey, Beck’s counterpart in San Francisco. Both Beck and Casey thought the strike had lasted too long and they should take what they could get from employers. With Beck and Casey guaranteeing Teamster unions to cross picket lines if any longshoreman failed to return to work under a provision of the new settlement, they got thumbs down. It was called “self-destruction”—actually self-destruction of free enterprise in favor of Marxist theory.
As the strike continued, Seattle employers and newspapers agitated the public about the plight of starving Alaskans. The joint Northwest Strike Committee decided to release vessels to alleviate the distress. Under Roosevelt’s New Deal, the end justifies the means, disagreements naturally broke out. The joint Northwest Strike Committee retaliated by suspending their special agreement exempting Alaska ship owners from the closure of ports.
The Tacoma Citizen’s Emergency Committee decided to reopen the Port of Tacoma. The Tacoma police alerted longshoremen that a Greyhound bus filled with scabs was coming to Tacoma from Seattle. When they arrived the Flying Squad had nailed shut the dock gates. Law enforcement officers entered the bus and disarmed scabs of their pistols, blackjacks, tear gas canisters, and baseball bats. The scabs returned to Seattle and the strike situation became more intense in Seattle, all thanks to Roosevelt’s utopian New Deal.
Proof of Roosevelt’s folly, it took an Act of Congress empowering the President to establish boards of investigation and arbitration to end the West Coast longshoremen’s strike, but the battle continued. While arbitration ended the 84 day strike, the scars were permanent. The 1934 longshoremen’s strike was repeated during the next few years in a period of labor unrest such as has never been recorded. During this period, thanks to the press, Marxism crept into the general public’s minds as the way to go. The battle for minds continues to rage. Roosevelt’s New Deal remains a self-fulfilling prophecy. The entire nation is heading for bankruptcy.