Yes, I was born in 47. When I was old enough to work, each time I changed jobs my salary doubled. The health ins and retirement benefits were the same for us as the bosses. I lived in NYC for most of my life and there was a time I could move from apartment to apartment, easily affordable. I left NY in 1999 and my Avenue A apartment went from $450\mo to $2400/mo. Who can afford that. Yes, times have changed and here in Maine we fight our elected officials who sell our pristine water to Nestle, are trying to give away the Penobscot River to some Norwegian company to poison with farmed salmon, and who want to turn our National Treasure Sears Island into an industrial park for constructing gigantic wind turbines. It only makes sense to me when you realize the politicos who push this chit, will someday need a job, one where they do very little for lots of money. I can’t think of any other reason. Everything our governor does is counterintuitive…greed is a mental illness.
I started to write but my post seems to have disappeared. Anyway my grandkids 38,37 ,32,28 all rent and I don’t think they will ever be able to buy a home. My oldest granddaughter does have a home and mortgage only because she inherited from my son when he died. My youngest grandson and his wife are paying $2400 per month for a tiny 2 bedroom apartment. My oldest grandson, wife and great granddaughter live with mother in law because none of them can afford to live alone. Grandson & wife have good jobs but have the work crazy hours, 7am-3PM and his wife 3 pm till 9pm and every other weekend so they both have time with their daughter but tough schedule to be a family. At least they have jobs. But buying a home seems to be a pipe dream. And although he wants to inherit my home he will have to buy out the other 3. Hopefully there will be enough inheritance for each to buy a small home someday. Our country is in bad shape.
"All people my age can do is hope they don’t steal our pensions, if we’re lucky enough to have them". I fear that The Great Taking as per David Rogers Webb is already underway.
All the money printing only makes it worse. It quickly finds its way into the hands of the 1 percent who don't realy need it so they speculate with it which drives up asset prices first, and eventually all prices thus impoverishing greater and greater percentages of the population.
Practically all the politicians on both sides are totally bought and paid for by this one percent.
After years as divorce industry slave, having to pay extortion for debt I did not incur - falsely called "child support", because Virginia unlawfully stole my 3 kids whom I'd been supporting, bankruptcy, loss of career, 9 months total jail time for civil disobedience, I had no desire to become slave to a mortgagor by buying a house at grossly inflated prices. So I built out a Nissan high roof cargo van that's solar powered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSBiK_vAPLQ
My hope is to live in it and save to buy a small piece of land.
Only Humans have Rights: God-given Rights. Corporations are creatures of state with privileges that originally had to serve a public good for the people. It's upside down now, so that corporations own government. That's called fascism.
The Virginia legislature just passed several unconstitutional anti-2nd Amendment bills. The only reason they'd do that is because they fear The People. But that's the way it should be:
"When the People fear government, that's called tyranny. When the government fears the People, that's called Liberty." (often attributed to Thomas Jefferson).
“There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.” Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 78
There are now 29 states that have passed constitutional carry laws upholding the 2nd Amendment.
"Poverty was common in the Middle Ages." Yes it was, but so too was happiness. But first off, let's start by defining those "terrible Middle Ages." For this Wolf, the "Middle Ages" ended in 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Cathedral Door at Whittenburg, and was called to a Diet at Wurms. (Not placed on a Diet of Worms; Claus Schwaub was still half a millennia in the future.) And for this Wolf, that was the beginning of the Revolution.
Not that Europe had not had, and had in Luther's time, plenty of Pope's and Bishops and Abbots and Kings and Dukes and Counts who were complete assholes. This Wolf, unlike many of his fellow Traditional Catholics, is not going to glorify or romanticize the days of yore. They certainly had their problems too.
That being said, the average peasant in those terrible Middle Ages had basically three choices: One, he could scratch out a living on a small parcel of land rented to the manor, or provisionally deeded. While private property was as rare as sage grass in an oak forest, laws and contracts were vigorously upheld, and the lords, even the bad ones, did keep up appearances. Back in those days the commoners voted not with ballot and script but with staves and pitchforks. (They had their version of the 2nd Amendment)
His other choice was to be an itenerant pilgrim. That was for those with wanderlust who wanted to see the world- at least the world from Portugal to Poland. A man could walk fifteen miles and come to a Monastery that would give him a meal and a bed. Monasteries back in the day were more common than Motel Six, and they did much more than leave the light on for you. Most pilgrims were sponsored by a Duke or a King, and had some coins jingling in their pockets they could plunk down for a donation, or to pay tolls. Otherwise, they could work a week or so at a Monastery, being paid with food and lodging and eventually a coin to pay the toll and cross the river or the mountain pass to the next adventure.
His other choice was to become a professed religious. Options in the Early Middle Ages were the Benedictines, Carmelites, and cloisters sponsored by the Local Bishoprics. By the 14th Century, those options had expanded to include the Dominicans, the Franciscans, the Templars, the Hosplitars, and the Cistericians. A wide variety of charisms, education, and travel separated the various orders, but it was a great time to be alive.
Today, one has basically the same options: he can work on the plantation, eek out an existence on a Reservation, or go see the world, all while remaining basically dirt poor but not starving to death. The only difference is that the votiaries of the state will harass one every inch of the way.
Meanwhile, the "Dark Ages" was anything but. All those beautiful Cathedrals, Castles, bridges, and towers, along with their artistic decorations, were not built by overseas laborers, or imported from China. A significant middle class did exist, supported by the guilds. It is tragic that the scions of the Revolution have indoctrinated us to the point where we have forgotten the Glories of Christendom.
Yes, the Dark Ages was full of wars, looting, plunderers, rogues, pirates, marauders, burnings, sacks, and the clash of swords. But there were hardly any standing armies, no draft, and no building codes. And hardly any taxes. And by law no battles could occur during Sundays, Holy Days, Lent, Advent, the Rogations, and the Octaves of Easter, Pentecost, and Epiphany. It was possible for the Godly to stay out of trouble, and hoe their row unmolested for the most part.
God bless you for bringing this up. To talk about "conservatives" or the laughable "free market" critically is to be a commie or Marxist or whatever. Anything but someone who is looking at what the country actually IS as opposed to what they tell us it is. Wave the flag, rah rah, thank you for your service. I just learned that my nephew who was in the Marines until recently, was making $160,000 a year doing logistics in the U.S. Thank you for your service, indeed. Explain that to a fireman.
My father delivered newspapers when I was little and was a Teamster. The Right goes on and on about unions, but without the Teamsters, my brother, sister, and I would never have had eye, dental or doctor care. Today, my father gets a pension from them. Unions were noble until they became corrupted. Maybe that's also an apt description of the United States of America.
The right seems to be guilty of hypocrisy. The say:
-the family is important and the best way to raise children
-single mothers should have to get jobs and work outside the home
But the right is mostly right. It is right that only freedom and free-enterprise will lessen poverty in the long run. And the reason we no longer have free-enterprise in America is NOT because it doesn't work, but because leftists destroyed it, to replace it with government control.
I think that you and I are of the same blood! These are the thoughts that weigh down my heart day after day in the America we see around us. The one thing that I hold on to as we see all this destruction coming toward us caused, literally, by the greed of the elites is the following Bible verse:
"Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”
These utterly selfish and self-consumed individuals will soon meet the very God whose role they now seek to possess. He has been waiting to come and deal with this only out of his great Mercy and the desire for more human beings to be born so that they may ultimately have eternal life if they call on the name of the Lord. Just look at them in this verse! Cowering in their caves and their hideaways! Scared to death as they should be! I have to smile as I think of them hiding like this. The image of the elephant holding that little piece of fluff in Dr Seuss's book entitled :Horton Hears a Who" comes to mind. There is no hiding from this God and His Wrath on this tiny Blue Marble we call earth!. I consider my own sins daily and I Repent of them. I have thrown myself at his feet for mercy and if these people do not, they will find that all the pleasures and possessions that they stole from millions of other downtrodden people will be a very poor exchange indeed for what is coming.
PS. I love and thoroughly enjoy your writing! You touch my very spirit!
Yes, I was born in 47. When I was old enough to work, each time I changed jobs my salary doubled. The health ins and retirement benefits were the same for us as the bosses. I lived in NYC for most of my life and there was a time I could move from apartment to apartment, easily affordable. I left NY in 1999 and my Avenue A apartment went from $450\mo to $2400/mo. Who can afford that. Yes, times have changed and here in Maine we fight our elected officials who sell our pristine water to Nestle, are trying to give away the Penobscot River to some Norwegian company to poison with farmed salmon, and who want to turn our National Treasure Sears Island into an industrial park for constructing gigantic wind turbines. It only makes sense to me when you realize the politicos who push this chit, will someday need a job, one where they do very little for lots of money. I can’t think of any other reason. Everything our governor does is counterintuitive…greed is a mental illness.
Anyways, my say in the matter.
I started to write but my post seems to have disappeared. Anyway my grandkids 38,37 ,32,28 all rent and I don’t think they will ever be able to buy a home. My oldest granddaughter does have a home and mortgage only because she inherited from my son when he died. My youngest grandson and his wife are paying $2400 per month for a tiny 2 bedroom apartment. My oldest grandson, wife and great granddaughter live with mother in law because none of them can afford to live alone. Grandson & wife have good jobs but have the work crazy hours, 7am-3PM and his wife 3 pm till 9pm and every other weekend so they both have time with their daughter but tough schedule to be a family. At least they have jobs. But buying a home seems to be a pipe dream. And although he wants to inherit my home he will have to buy out the other 3. Hopefully there will be enough inheritance for each to buy a small home someday. Our country is in bad shape.
"All people my age can do is hope they don’t steal our pensions, if we’re lucky enough to have them". I fear that The Great Taking as per David Rogers Webb is already underway.
All the money printing only makes it worse. It quickly finds its way into the hands of the 1 percent who don't realy need it so they speculate with it which drives up asset prices first, and eventually all prices thus impoverishing greater and greater percentages of the population.
Practically all the politicians on both sides are totally bought and paid for by this one percent.
And it is the same all around the world.
For those who can't afford to buy a house or pay rent, there is an alternative: a home on wheels
https://www.youtube.com/@CheapRVliving
https://homesonwheelsalliance.org/
After years as divorce industry slave, having to pay extortion for debt I did not incur - falsely called "child support", because Virginia unlawfully stole my 3 kids whom I'd been supporting, bankruptcy, loss of career, 9 months total jail time for civil disobedience, I had no desire to become slave to a mortgagor by buying a house at grossly inflated prices. So I built out a Nissan high roof cargo van that's solar powered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSBiK_vAPLQ
My hope is to live in it and save to buy a small piece of land.
100 Bible verses about rich people: https://www.openbible.info/topics/rich_people
Economic Depression By Design: http://issuesoutline.org/#economy
Only Humans have Rights: God-given Rights. Corporations are creatures of state with privileges that originally had to serve a public good for the people. It's upside down now, so that corporations own government. That's called fascism.
The Virginia legislature just passed several unconstitutional anti-2nd Amendment bills. The only reason they'd do that is because they fear The People. But that's the way it should be:
"When the People fear government, that's called tyranny. When the government fears the People, that's called Liberty." (often attributed to Thomas Jefferson).
Please urge Gov. Youngkin to veto those bills. https://www.gunowners.org/va03052024/
“There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.” Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 78
There are now 29 states that have passed constitutional carry laws upholding the 2nd Amendment.
FOUNDING FATHERS VS. GUN CONTROL
http://issuesoutline.org/founding_fathers_vs_gun_control.htm
2nd Amendment = The Original Homeland Security System
"Poverty was common in the Middle Ages." Yes it was, but so too was happiness. But first off, let's start by defining those "terrible Middle Ages." For this Wolf, the "Middle Ages" ended in 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Cathedral Door at Whittenburg, and was called to a Diet at Wurms. (Not placed on a Diet of Worms; Claus Schwaub was still half a millennia in the future.) And for this Wolf, that was the beginning of the Revolution.
Not that Europe had not had, and had in Luther's time, plenty of Pope's and Bishops and Abbots and Kings and Dukes and Counts who were complete assholes. This Wolf, unlike many of his fellow Traditional Catholics, is not going to glorify or romanticize the days of yore. They certainly had their problems too.
That being said, the average peasant in those terrible Middle Ages had basically three choices: One, he could scratch out a living on a small parcel of land rented to the manor, or provisionally deeded. While private property was as rare as sage grass in an oak forest, laws and contracts were vigorously upheld, and the lords, even the bad ones, did keep up appearances. Back in those days the commoners voted not with ballot and script but with staves and pitchforks. (They had their version of the 2nd Amendment)
His other choice was to be an itenerant pilgrim. That was for those with wanderlust who wanted to see the world- at least the world from Portugal to Poland. A man could walk fifteen miles and come to a Monastery that would give him a meal and a bed. Monasteries back in the day were more common than Motel Six, and they did much more than leave the light on for you. Most pilgrims were sponsored by a Duke or a King, and had some coins jingling in their pockets they could plunk down for a donation, or to pay tolls. Otherwise, they could work a week or so at a Monastery, being paid with food and lodging and eventually a coin to pay the toll and cross the river or the mountain pass to the next adventure.
His other choice was to become a professed religious. Options in the Early Middle Ages were the Benedictines, Carmelites, and cloisters sponsored by the Local Bishoprics. By the 14th Century, those options had expanded to include the Dominicans, the Franciscans, the Templars, the Hosplitars, and the Cistericians. A wide variety of charisms, education, and travel separated the various orders, but it was a great time to be alive.
Today, one has basically the same options: he can work on the plantation, eek out an existence on a Reservation, or go see the world, all while remaining basically dirt poor but not starving to death. The only difference is that the votiaries of the state will harass one every inch of the way.
Meanwhile, the "Dark Ages" was anything but. All those beautiful Cathedrals, Castles, bridges, and towers, along with their artistic decorations, were not built by overseas laborers, or imported from China. A significant middle class did exist, supported by the guilds. It is tragic that the scions of the Revolution have indoctrinated us to the point where we have forgotten the Glories of Christendom.
Yes, the Dark Ages was full of wars, looting, plunderers, rogues, pirates, marauders, burnings, sacks, and the clash of swords. But there were hardly any standing armies, no draft, and no building codes. And hardly any taxes. And by law no battles could occur during Sundays, Holy Days, Lent, Advent, the Rogations, and the Octaves of Easter, Pentecost, and Epiphany. It was possible for the Godly to stay out of trouble, and hoe their row unmolested for the most part.
God bless you for bringing this up. To talk about "conservatives" or the laughable "free market" critically is to be a commie or Marxist or whatever. Anything but someone who is looking at what the country actually IS as opposed to what they tell us it is. Wave the flag, rah rah, thank you for your service. I just learned that my nephew who was in the Marines until recently, was making $160,000 a year doing logistics in the U.S. Thank you for your service, indeed. Explain that to a fireman.
My father delivered newspapers when I was little and was a Teamster. The Right goes on and on about unions, but without the Teamsters, my brother, sister, and I would never have had eye, dental or doctor care. Today, my father gets a pension from them. Unions were noble until they became corrupted. Maybe that's also an apt description of the United States of America.
The right seems to be guilty of hypocrisy. The say:
-the family is important and the best way to raise children
-single mothers should have to get jobs and work outside the home
But the right is mostly right. It is right that only freedom and free-enterprise will lessen poverty in the long run. And the reason we no longer have free-enterprise in America is NOT because it doesn't work, but because leftists destroyed it, to replace it with government control.
Mr Jeffries,
I think that you and I are of the same blood! These are the thoughts that weigh down my heart day after day in the America we see around us. The one thing that I hold on to as we see all this destruction coming toward us caused, literally, by the greed of the elites is the following Bible verse:
"Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”
These utterly selfish and self-consumed individuals will soon meet the very God whose role they now seek to possess. He has been waiting to come and deal with this only out of his great Mercy and the desire for more human beings to be born so that they may ultimately have eternal life if they call on the name of the Lord. Just look at them in this verse! Cowering in their caves and their hideaways! Scared to death as they should be! I have to smile as I think of them hiding like this. The image of the elephant holding that little piece of fluff in Dr Seuss's book entitled :Horton Hears a Who" comes to mind. There is no hiding from this God and His Wrath on this tiny Blue Marble we call earth!. I consider my own sins daily and I Repent of them. I have thrown myself at his feet for mercy and if these people do not, they will find that all the pleasures and possessions that they stole from millions of other downtrodden people will be a very poor exchange indeed for what is coming.
PS. I love and thoroughly enjoy your writing! You touch my very spirit!