The Senate deal has been reached as
a means for the political crowd to avoid default. This deal will reopen the
government as well. The House Republicans have been so extreme, that their
popularity has radically decreased. The Democrats and others in the Senate seem
to hammer a deal. The end game has always been austerity. The markets have
rallied back today. The compromise is similar to the economic proposals of the
Tea Partiers than real economic populists. Ted Cruz said that he will not block
the vote. The deal will drastically lower spending. The agreement will be voted
on by the House and the Senate. The government shutdown started in October 1,
2013. House Republicans then refused to pass a continuing resolution to finance
government operatives unless there was a provision that delayed or defunded the
Affordable Care Act or the White House's health care law. This was influenced
by the fervor by reactionary activists. Soon, the ACA is mostly left off the
table now, except for a verification system. The deal has been worked by
numerous human beings like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and
Senate Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky (including numerous female Congresswomen among both parties). By the end of the
day, they want the Congress to pass the measure. It was a concession among both
sides. They want to sign the law before the deadline. They want to raise the $16.7
trillion debt limit. The Reid and McConnell deal was about to give federal
agencies increased flexibility in coping with the effects of across the board
cuts. It requires individuals and families seeking subsidies to purchase
coverage to verify their incomes before qualifying. There were some dire warnings from
the financial world a day after the Fitch credit rating agency said Tuesday it
was reviewing its AAA rating on U.S. government debt for possible downgrade. John Chambers, chairman of Standard
& Poor’s Sovereign Debt Committee, told “CBS This Morning” on Wednesday
that a U.S. government default on its debts would be “much worse than Lehman
Brothers,” the investment firm whose 2008 collapse led to the global financial
crisis. The deal wants to extend the debt limit into early 2014. It also set a
mid-December deadline for bipartisan budget negotiators to report on efforts to
reach compromise on longer-term issues like spending cuts. And it likely would
require the Obama administration to certify that it can verify the income of
people who qualify for federal subsidies for medical insurance under the 2010
health care law. Boehner failed to create a bill that could pass his own
chamber, because of the extremists in his own party. The Democrats have once
again compromised. When Obama took office in 2009, for example, his first-year
budget proposed a total of $1.203 trillion in discretionary spending in
2014--the Senate's continuing resolution proposal is a nearly 18 percent cut.
The funding levels in the deal to raise the debt ceiling and restart the
government are much closer to Ryan's latest budget proposal, put forward
earlier this year, than the Senate's budget plan. This is a victory for the
status quo. The working class and the poor still experience austerity. Our
living standards are harmed by austerity. Some Republicans who engineered the
political standoff in Washington are in threat of losing their seats. It is
also important to note that the elite use the Republicans to move the nation
slightly more reactionary on fiscal matters. When the GOP issue draconian
proposals, the Democrats will still become more reactionary as a means to play
ball. It is that the GOP's extremists are energized, their moderate wing is
silenced, and the Democrats embrace policies ultimately that are closers to
where the reactionaries started out. Both parties follow the interests of
Corporate America and Wall Street. The Senate proposal would raise the debt
ceiling through February 7 and fund the government through January 15,
according to congressional aides. Under its terms, the two parties would agree
to a long-term deal on spending and taxation—centering on cuts in Social
Security and Medicare and a reduction corporate taxes—by December 13.
Both the House and Senate proposals would keep government funding at
levels dictated by sequester budget cuts. Over the weekend, Republican Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that as a result of the sequester and
other cuts: “Total federal spending has now gone down for two years in a
row—the first time that’s happened since the Korean War.” He added that cuts
currently in place for 2014 would result in “the most significant spending
reduction in modern history.” So, that is the truth. When they do battle with
the Republicans again over the federal budget, they'll run in the same
direction, because they think they're going the right way.
There have been new discoveries
about how similar ancient cultures are. This is not surprising since all human
beings are related to each other genetically and historically. Many similar
religious icons have been found in the ancient civilizations of Africa, the
Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. The same pagan icon is found in
the stone Temples of the world like in the Gate of the Sun in Tiahuanaco,
Bolivia and in the Temple of Hadrian in Ephesus, Turkey. So, the reality is
that ancient cultures worldwide followed similar spiritual systems or the
Universal Religion. The same religion icon of a human being holding twin
objects in each hand symmetrically in found in ancient Egypt, Sumeria, Crete,
Greece, England, Afghanistan, etc. The icon has both arms outstretched in
opposite directions in the right and left. It shows a single god or a single
goddess holding twin objects. These objects are usually animals or often
serpents. Some hold onto vegetation or magical staff. The artwork is always
perfectly symmetrical just the icon's pose. So, we see that ancient cultures
worldwide were once united in their spiritual beliefs and most likely came from
a shared cultural heritage that came from the prehistoric era. Humans existed
from a similar cultural framework. Some of the ancients called this existence
the Golden Age. In the Stone Age, there was the Master of Animals archetype in
the Old World. The ancients knew about sacrifice, life, death, and other
religious themes. The win objects are found in history. Some assign to the sun
in the right hand and the moon in the left hand. In essence, to the occult
crowd the 2 pillars refer to the physical and spiritual side of humans. In
the occult, followers believe that man is material and divine (being immortal,
eternal, etc.). The union of the body and the soul is one secret of spiritual
traditions in the world. In Freemasonry, they have the square and compass in
their symbol. That symbol means the merging of the material and spiritual or
the masculine and the feminine into generation. One source admits this: “…the
compasses stand for…the spiritual side of man, while the square appertains to
the material…” (J. S. Ward, Interpretation of Our Masonic Symbols). I do not
believe that man is God. I do believe that man's soul and body has value. I do
believe that we should enrich our souls via prayer and almsgiving. I do believe
in respecting the Lamb also.
The man Kevin Jackson is confused
and wrong totally. I am sorry. I read his entire article. He has a right to his
opinion and I have the right to disagree with his opinion. He is wrong on
nearly everything. The reality is that Reagan harmed the communities of black
Americans with his Drug War advancement and harm to the poor. He funded fascist
regimes overseas and he aided the Taliban with economic aid during the 1980's.
Under Reagan, there was a growth of economic inequality and the increase of the
deficit rapidly. Then he wants to bow before Reagan. Ronald Reagan used
authorities to violate the human rights of the black Panthers. He supported the
then apartheid regime of South Africa. Reagan executed policies against the
civil rights movement decades ago. Many members of his administration were
accused of corruption and illegal activities across the board. I lived during
his time and the poor were starving half to death with massive homelessness in
America. Most importantly, average annual GDP growth during the Reagan 80s was
lower than during the Clinton 90s or the JFK-LBJ 60s! I know that facts are
stubborn things. Supposedly he believes in fairness, but he judges a white Republican
President as being better than another black President. Middle class growth
does not mean total black liberation. To assume that we need a white Republican
President as a means to cause black liberation is part of the self-hating
mentality of many black reactionaries like Kevin Jackson. A black person has
every right to be President as anyone else. The reality is that there is a
decrease in the amount of black human beings on welfare since 1990. Since 1991,
black teen pregnancy rates have gone down. Since 1970, total black crime rates
have gone down. From 1945 to 1975, progressive economic actions have decreased
the poverty rate. 1975 started the growth of supply side economics massively in
the States. I can show more stats too. Therefore, we know that the Republican
party of today is more reactionary than the GOP decades ago on some issues. The
Democrats ought not to be worshipped, but the Tea Party has so much extreme
rhetoric. He ignores things. He ignores the racist and extreme words from Beck,
Limbaugh, Savage, Hannity, and others that agree with most of his ideological
viewpoints. He ignores the massive creation of deficits from budget surpluses
under the time of the white Republican President George W. Bush. He is a white
Republican President that folks like Kevin Jackson want us Brothers and Sisters
to ignore. So, bigotry is found across both of the political parties. This does
not mean that we should not fight poverty. We have no choice but to find unique
ways to fight poverty, lower income inequality, and have justice for humanity.
That is our job as human beings. Take money? The Federal Reserve and the
politicians have stolen money from the poor and the middle class to send it to
the rich & the military industrial complex for decades. That is our money.
They stole our money. We earned that money by our work. Getting our money back
that has been stolen by the oligarchs and using that money to build our
infrastructure (and to fight poverty) is moral. It is just. Some of the super-rich
must take adequately sufficient accountability for their own actions period. I
will not feel trepidation over that pronouncement at all. That has been going
on for centuries and all throughout human history among many oligarchical
factions. Therefore, revolutionary solutions are necessary that can give
justice to the poor and to the oppressed among the entire human family
succinctly. Fundamentally, most of the poor work hard. Some are poor by no
fault of their own via sequester, job lost, or other debilitating conditions.
Many of the poor suffer issues not because of laziness of they lack going into
the next step. Some of the steps have been destroyed in the glass house. We
need to rebuild the steps, so that they can walk up in the steps into the roof
of the house. The only way that can be achieved is by a comprehensive approach
using public and private resources. It must be a revolutionary change in
society. Revolutionary changes have worked wonders in history. Also, the
majority of black families love their people. The majority of black families
work hard and they are strong. The majority of black families love their
children. So, that shot is really silly. BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL. BLACK LOVE IS
BEAUTIFUL TOO. BLACK UNITY IS REAL, STRONG, AND AGAIN BEAUTIFUL. IT IS ALWAYS
RBG FOR LIFE. No one is talking about using government aid alone. Even the most
liberal human being knows that the government cannot solve all problems. The
government (or we the people) is part of the solution not the total solution.
Also, many who have worked hard, are intelligent, and played by the rules
suffer greatly. The poor just need opportunities. They only want justice
nothing more or less. We should end this war on terror and use our resources to
rebuild this nation. That can help the poor to achieve that next step in human
liberation. So, we should end discrimination, fight poverty, and use programs
of social uplift beyond you are on your own.
How is he going to condemn that show
when he believes in many of the tenets of the preachers in that show? All of
them including TD Jakes love the Prosperity Gospel. TD Jakes may have created
his own wealth in some ways, but he got much of his total wealth from his
congregation and others via their cash & resources. No human in his
position is an island. That prosperity gospel revolves around the lie that
being poor is a direct curse from God and anyone who is poor is someone lacking
from authentic spirituality. That deceptive gospel dehumanizes the poor and
nearly deifies wealth. For true prosperity is moral development and social
growth beyond just material abundance. Also, material abundance is never a true
sign of spiritual strength or spiritual enlightenment at all. Spiritual
strength exists among folks from across the economic spectrum. The reality is
that the poor should be respected and many of the most horrendous crimes in
world history have been organized and executed by members of the super-rich.
The poor believer and the rich believer are equal in the eyes of the Creator.
Each human born has great value. We as black people are one irrespective of
class or wealth. The Holocaust was funded not by the poor totally, but by the super-rich.
The Maafa and international slavery was not organized by the poor directly, but
by the super-rich. It is that heresy of the Prosperity Gospel that has
commercialized the Gospel in great measure, which is a disgrace. This
commercialism is related to the excesses of capitalism (whose most vicious form
murdered over one billion human beings since the 16th century). Real religious
leaders should be encouraged to question the current economic system, to fight
for black liberation, to fight for human civil liberties, to oppose unwarranted
spying, to reject imperialism, and to fight for justice for the poor including
the oppressed. In the 21st century with the advent of more advanced
technological development, we should still fight for great social change in the
globe. We must never reject the realities of history. Real spirituality is
focusing on the mind, body, soul, and spirit. It is about having a connection
with yourself and the Creator. It is about caring for Nature and the
environment (as the Great Sister Courtney has outlined). It is about fighting
injustice and fighting for truth. It is not about lusting for money and it is
not about allying with an establishment that could care less about the
interests of the people. Real spirituality deals with Love for God is Love.
Faux spirituality is big business, but there are sincere males and sincere
females who embrace true spirituality in life for real. Now, it is
important that while we disagree with TD Jakes, we should not disrespect him
since he is a human being and he is a Black Man (there are folks who are much worse
than Jakes). I will never disparage a Brother or a Sister at all, but I will
show dissent though. I fully dissent with the Prosperity Gospel 100%.
The Motherland of Africa is
extremely special. It is home of my ancestors. Black people have every God given
right to love Africa. As a black man, I love Africa with all of my heart, mind,
body, and spirit. Africa has great human life and great fauna including flora. The
truth is real. The Sister going into Ghana in a story is doing the right thing by helping human
beings in Ghana. Many locations in Africa have advanced infrastructure,
technology, computerized system, and other glorious amenities of life. So,
Africa is not monolithic. The languages of Africa are beautiful. The women of
Africa are strong, resilient, and beautiful. The men in Africa are heroic,
strong, and brave. In real life, I know a great African business teacher that
taught me a lot of economics, so there are tons of Africans that have the backs
of African Americans living in the States. The blood of Africa is strong. Black
Africans in this pan Africanism spirit is holy and it is just. So, Africans are
my Brothers and they are my Sisters. I hold them in high regard and I cherish
the Motherland with all of my heart. The truth is that we should continue
onward in our fight for liberation. The truth is that black human beings
overcame a lot of obstacles. The truth is that black humanity is diverse filled
with doctors, scholars, mathematicians, athletes, singers, engineers, lawyers,
teachers, and in many other legitimate fields of life. So, the great truth is
that inspiration and appreciation of the Motherland I superior to hate and to
bigotry. Black Love and Black Unity are forces in the Universe that you can
never stop. Black Power is a real goal. I will love my Blackness and black
people all over the world.
By Timothy
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