Rewritten History, Orwellian Style.

Here is an example: Sept = 7, oct = 8, nov = 9, dec = 10 (decimal/tenth). So why is September the 9th month, October the 10th, November the 11th and December the 12th. December should be the 10th month, shouldn’t it?

Let’s see, that would make the New year around March first – or most likely March 21st at the Spring Equinox. Whoever decided the New Year should be in the middle of winter? Obviously, at some point in history things got changed, and these days I bet most people never thought that dec means 10.

The important thing to note about the calendar is this cannot have happened by accident or evolution. People did not suddenly wake up one morning and all decide to move the time for the New Year. Some person or persons in power had to make the change. In this case, it was Pope by the name of Gregory the Great.

So, the question for the day: Is this kind of rewriting of life happening today? Yes.
First, an obvious one that some people still understand:

False: The Civil War was a war to free the slaves.

True: The Civil War was fought because many southerners believed their states, communities and individual rights were being trampled on by a national government out of control. The Southern answer was to separate from that national government. The Northern answer was to “preserve the union.”

Slavery was deliberately not discussed for two years of the war because of the hope that the Southern states might yet be reunited peacefully. When the Emancipation Proclamation was finally passed and signed, it was done with the hope that it would cause a spontaneous uprising of slaves in the south that would cripple the southern economy. It did not happen…

False: European colonialism was perpetrated by aggressor nations and greedy men who oppressed people and suppressed local cultures in order to gain economic advantage, steal the native resources and enrich the looting nations

True: In the thinking of the time, the world was seen as progressing from worse to better, from primitive societies to civilization. It was the same kind of progressive thinking that produced the theories of Marx and Darwin and caused the founding fathers of the United States to want to “form a more perfect union.”

Far from being exploitative, the Europeans believed they were giving the people of the world, some of whom were still living a stone age existence, the best that they had. It was their moral imperative to bring the benefits of civilization to “backwards” nations. They believed the spread of western, Christian civilization was right, good and true and for the benefit, not detriment of the world. And this colonialization, though far from perfect, was always driven, not by greed, but by the highest ethical standards. Indeed, Ghandi himself was clear when he said his passive resistance would be utterly ineffective against anyone who held to a lower moral ground than the British.

False: Food, clothing, shelter and (now) healthcare are human rights.

True: Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and the original word that was taken out because of the slavery issue, that is, property are rights. You own your thoughts, your beliefs, your labor, your things and (yes) your money, and what you do with them is your decision. The United States Constitution spelled out some rights for all to understand: freedom of conscience – to assemble with others and worship as you please, freedom of speech and the press, freedom to defend yourself, your family and your property against tyranny. These are rights. Why? Because they depend only on you to do with what is yours as you see fit.

Food, clothing, shelter, education and healthcare are not rights. They are entitlements according to our current rulers, but they are not rights. Why? Because they depend upon others, specifically stealing from others in order to insure them to you!

You can see, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Life is being rewritten by those with power and influence, and it is being rewritten under our very noses. Perhaps the second question should be, why?


-MichaelThe Fiction Side: The Storyteller http://mgkizzia.wordpress.com/ The Non-Fiction Side: Word & Spirit http://michaelkizzia.wordpress.com/

The Truth About Social Security

The truth about social security is you and I got snookered. Madoff could not have planned it better. The planners sold the scheme to the American people on the idea that the money would be invested and untouched in a so-called “lock box.” When we retired, we would reap the benefits according to what we paid in. It sounded fair. But the whole thing died on the day the government voted the money into the general treasury. Died, dead, gone.

You may be receiving benefits at the present time, but remember, Madoff paid his early investors a good return out of the money his new investors were throwing at him. He did this to make the scheme look good—to entice those new investors into coughing up the big bucks. So you are living off the backs of your children and grandchildren. Do you feel good about that?

That is the reality. There is no money for you other than what you can steal from your children and grandchildren (or honestly, what the government can steal from then on your behalf). I’m 56. There is and will be no money for me, either, other than what the government can steal and put my kids in the poor house before my age. And just to be clear, I have no other pension and never made great gobs of money. I will need help when I reach retirement, only the money isn’t there!

No, no no! Don’t say you are just getting back what you invested. That is not true. You did not invest anything, despite what you were told. To be blunt: You were lied to, and so was I. Social security taxes are just that—another tax, another revenue stream for the government to spend any way they see fit. Social security taxes have nothing to do with an investment on your part. You just got TAXED, and so did I. You got lied to. I got lied to. There is no social security money, and there should be no social security benefits. Why? Because we are ruining and bankrupting our children and grandchildren by insisting on our “entitlement.”

“But I paid into the system all those years. I only want my investment. I only want what I am entitled to. That is only fair…”

Wrong, wrong, wrong! There is no system. You and I were merely taxed under a government version of the Madoff pyramid scheme. You and I got snookered. You and I sincerely should not be getting any money because there isn’t any money available to get. We may technically be owed the money, but you can’t sue a man who is broke! Don’t you get it? What? Do you think there is a secret stash of money in Washington somewhere? There isn’t any social security money. No matter how much you think you deserve it, no money means there should be no benefits either. After all who is paying for those benefits? The future…

The only way you or I can be paid our “social security benefits” is to bankrupt the future and ruin our children’s lives. You may not care about the future or our children and grandchildren, but I do. The only decent thing to do is stop social security now. Just stop it. Stop lying about investment and returns and retirement funds. And stop paying it out. Just call it the tax that the government turned it into and be done with it!

You might also want to dig up the graves of those congressmen and senators who voted the social security money out of the “lock box” and into the general fund in the first place and shoot them, hang them or fry them. That might make you feel better. But as for benefits, there are none so we should just stop this pyramid before it destroys our future and our nation. Just stop. It was all a lie. Accept that truth and move on.

Now, can the government help people set up a retirement fund that will be there for their old age? Yes, by all means, but only if the government keeps their filthy stinking hands off of it. Once they get hold of your money, you know you will never see it again. Like now, they are paying you by stealing out of your children’s pockets, by making your grandchildren “depression poor.” Do you feel good about that? I don’t. Just stop the payments, now! Find another way to help those who need help, but stop the payments now before it is too late.

And as for Medicare, the same goes for you, too!


-MichaelThe Fiction Side: The Storyteller http://mgkizzia.wordpress.com/ The Non-Fiction Side: Word & Spirit http://michaelkizzia.wordpress.com/