What is an election?

A democratic presidential election is citizens coming together to listen to lies every four years.


Are these lies too?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMmVwW8h4Ho

Help! Please help!

Last November when I was in Hong Kong, I joined a one-day Hong Kong island tour along with 40 schoolmates.  Our local tour guide gave comments about present day economic atmosphere in Hong Kong, saying that lower middle income families are suffering due to two facts, inflation and Hong Kong dollar devaluation, especially against Chinese Renminbi since Hong Kong’s resources depends greatly on its neighboring  China.

Last night I watched a Hong Kong TVB reality show video 窮富翁大作戰 田二少變身掃街清潔工. The program is for rich people to have a firsthand experience of being poor.  田二少 had to work and live 3 days as a street cleaner in Hong Kong.

 

The conclusion in both cases is that Hong Kong government ought to do something.

Really? In both cases, people draw the conclusion not knowing the real causes of the problem. It may sound convincing from the mouth of a respectable rich person or an everyday ordinary citizen as they observed the compelling symptoms of the problem.

Watch this video before going further: 

The simple truth is governments don’t have anything. To take from any individual rich or poor without each one’s consent is robbery.  It is stealing. In our so-called democracy, governments are condoned to take from the people by force. Governments enforce their legislated laws with their police and army. Weapons are the governments’ resort for collection of individual properties. That’s why they prefer to disarm their citizens to reduce the resistance to zero. In our democratic societies, property right is only temporary.

To ask government to solve a problem is to ask government to further rob other citizens. Government becomes a recognized legal robber.

Truth is always simple and they need to be defended on the onset.

In the Hong Kong reality show video, a woman who is a realtor blames the free market for the high property prices and rental. I like to mention that ours is not a free market economy. It is a manipulated economy by the government. Free market only existed by struggling in between laws in the background and underground. But that’s another article to follow-Why the poor is getting poorer.

The One Percent

The One Percent is a 2006 documentary about the growing wealth gap between America's wealthy elite and the citizenry on the whole. It was created by Jamie Johnson, an heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, and produced by Jamie Johnson and Nick Kurzon. The film's title refers to the top one percent of Americans in terms of wealth, who controlled 38% of the nation's wealth in 2001

Sunset in Richmond, BC, Canada

WOW!

Why Theft Is Never OK, Even When the Government Does It - Jan 19th, 2011 | By Gary Gibson

'Truth' is always simple. When it gets complicated, the truth becomes distorted and is no longer THE ''truth'.

'Stealing is not good' is a 'Truth'. It is simple and true.

When a neighbor steals your plasma TV, sells it and pays for his daughter's medical bill. Does it make the crime right?

Where is the 'Truth'?

If it has to be explained in pages, it is no longer a 'Truth'.

'Truth' is like a ship navigating in the sea. If it deviates a slight degree, it will end up way off course later.

'Truth' has to be defended in the very beginning just as the ship's course has to be maintained. Otherwise, it is not worth debating anymore because there is no sense discussing 'Un-Truth'.

Title link: http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/why-theft-is-never-ok-even-when-the-government-does-it/

I'm what you might call an Atheist Christian

I'm what you might call an Atheist Christian; I don't believe in any gods, but I do find great value in what Jesus actually said and taught, which was to love, forgive, and let live. That's quite different from what many modern churches teach, which is to fear and to try to control the behavior of others. Such people often have no qualms about employing the coercive machinery of the state to impose their values on others, which Jesus never did nor advocated – his slate was clean, and yet he cast no stones.

3 Kinds of Pros and You Are Doomed

There are 3 kinds of people in any profession.

First kind is those honest ones who can't do a good job.

Second kind is those dishonest ones who are out to get you for their own benefits no matter what.

The third kind is those who are honest, capable and deliver fantastic results.

In the financial field, the first kind is those advisors who wish their clients can make money with all their hearts. Most likely they will go to heaven but their clients' money goes to hell, because they are simply not good at what they are doing.

The second kind of financial advisors are out there for themselves only. The only incentive is their priority--to make money as fast as they can and as much as they can. Their clients are their bridges to prosperity. Nothing else matters. Their clients' money goes to hell.

The third kind of financial advisors are ethnical, capable and truly professional. But most ordinary people won't become their clients or even have a chance to meet them. They are too busy working mostly for wealthy clients.

You see. 2 out of 3 is not good! Most of you are doomed to fail in the investment field. That's one of the reasons that the rich is getting richer, and you getting poorer no matter what. Depending on others to give you advice is dangerous. Even when you are lazy not wanting to work for the money, at least you should be educated about the financial/investment field in some way and know how to select an advisor whose incentive is the same as yours.

Most investors don't understand "common sense always overrides professionalism". Too many crooks hide behind their profession to swindle money from their clients legally and illegally. Their licenses and credentials don't mean a thing. Anyone can pay and get them. If they are so good at giving advice, why aren't they sitting on the other side of the desk?