Surtax Who Conundrum?

 Who could afford to pay a pandemic surtax?

In a previous post titled: Pandemic Surtax, I stated my opinion “Why is a surtax needed as an incentive to make wise prudent government and private citizen decisions to cope during the pandemic?

The Purpose of This Post

Is to relate an ancient proverb that would help solve this conundrum.

King Solomon

The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor. (Proverb 10:15)

The poor plead for mercy,
    but the rich answer harshly. (Proverb 18:23)

What’s My Point?

The pandemic is a harsh circumstance that has occurred and cannot be blamed on either the rich or the poor.

However, the rich are fortified with wealth for a longer period during harsh times such as this pandemic.

In another previous post titled: Politicians ears are shut from the cry’s; I related another proverb to consider as a clue to this conundrum.

 Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out. (Proverb 21:13)

My point is because this pandemic is both harsh and has created an unprecedent need on the poor because of government mandates to shut down the businesses they are employed, and 53 million Americans live on week to week paychecks, we need to listen to the cries of the poor.

In My Opinion

After reading a post forwarded to me, perhaps it will become not only a clue but a source where and who to surtax.

And the reason why is because of the urgent appeals I am listening to from charitable organizations who are crying out for more people to donate to help during the pandemic.

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Is it even more sad that the politicians who are elected to serve cannot seem to solve this simple conundrum or hear the cries of the poor during this harsh pandemic?

Is the conundrum so hard to solve because our Nation’s religious beliefs have waned over time because we no longer teach or practice the wisdom and love our founders believed when they founded our Nation?

Regards and goodwill blogging.

Source Links

Trillions Why?

Fifty Trillion Reasons Why

Pandemic Surtax?

https://rudymartinka.com/2020/10/16/pandemic-surtax-king-solomon-blog/

School Vouchers

https://rudymartinka.com/category/school-vouchers/

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Helplessness vs. Constructiveness Wisdom? King Solomon Blog

 Interested in a news reality how teaching religion and psychology help us to overcome helplessness to be constructive in life for ourselves, families, communities, and Nation?

The pandemic has certainly promoted psychological effects of helplessness in the lives of the 53 percent of people who live from week to week wages and lost their jobs because they work in businesses that government has quartered or prevented from operating to prevent the spread of the virus.

The Chicago Tribune article today report huge increases in the sale of legal recreational marijuana in Illinois, along with increase in criminal violence, shootings, etc. etc.  

And because very few people arrested are tested for drugs, no one knows if the persons actions were because they were being fueled by drugs to engage in criminal or foolish actions.

The Purpose of This Post

Is to relate ancient wisdom proverbs that most people have never been taught in public schools which if Proverbs had been taught would have, in my opinion, provided constructive guidance to prevent or reduce destructive feelings of helplessness that is fueling crime, violence, and drug use in our Nation.

King Solomon

Open your mouth for the mute,

For the rights of all the unfortunate.

Open your mouth, judge righteously,

And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy. (Proverbs 31:8-9)

Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. (Ecclesiastes 11:6)

What’s My Point?

In a Blog Post yesterday I stated Congress is playing games with another economic stimulus for the poor and helpless, in my opinion, to win the 2020 election.

My point is if perhaps the above Wisdom and Love verses were taught to children, the phones in Congress would be ringing loud and clear for the political power games to end.

In My Opinion

If the government decides to shut down a business it should provide a reasonable means to help subsidize the helpless 53 percent living week to week.

Instead of borrowing the funds, it should place a pandemic tax during the pandemic to help those in need because of government shutdowns.

And in my opinion, if religion is taught, there would be a lot more people willing to speak out for the unfortunate in our Nation, and working to get rid of politicians playing games to hold up immediate aid in order to pass a package of aid to win an election.

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Would teaching religion lessen or increase helplessness or constructiveness in our Nation?

Regards and goodwill blogging.

Source Links

USA, Reality Game 2222-23 Game of Thrones

https://rudymartinka.com/2020/10/14/usa-2222-23-reality-game-of-thrones-king-solomon-blog/.

Psychology Today –

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/learned-helplessness

Does religion make us helpless?

School Vouchers

https://rudymartinka.com/category/school-vouchers/

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Trumps COVID News? King Solomon Blog

 What wisdom advice might we consider about the news that President Trump and his wife have tested positive?

The morning news is reporting the that the even the President and his wife are susceptible to the virus in spite of all the human precautions to protect them.

The Purpose of This Post

Is to relate ancient wisdom verses and recent medical information of improvements in treatments of the virus and risks based on sex and age.

King Solomon

The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. (Proverb 27:12))

I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. (Ecclesiastes 9:11)

In their heart’s humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. (Proverb 16:9

Since no one knows the future, who can tell someone else what is to come? (Ecclesiastes 8:7)

What’s My Point?

A CNN article titled: ‘Helpless’ doctors at start of coronavirus pandemic now have more treatments to save lives, reports what doctors have learned over the past nine months is saving lives.

The September CDC, Center for disease control for September lists the ages of victims who died from the pandemic.

My point is regardless of how prudent human precautions where to protect the couple from the virus, no humans are capable of knowing for certain what will happen in the future.

In My Opinion

The President and his wife will receive the best medical care available in the world and hopefully will soon recover.

And regardless of what is in our hearts and minds, or whether we make prudent wise or reckless foolish choices of chance in our short lifespans on earth, this sad occurrence should remind us that we are all mere human mortals and no one knows the future.

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If we have a religious faith and goodwill, we will pray for the couple and perhaps consider and discern the above ancient wisdom advice.

If we do not have a religious faith and/or goodwill in our lives, perhaps we should consider a need for a lightning bolt to activate our hearts and minds to help us wise up and discern the above ancient wisdom advice.

Regards and goodwill blogging.

Source Links

Doctors Now Have More Treatments

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/coronavirus-doctors-now-have-more-treatments-to-save-lives.htmlt

CDC Data

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-by-Sex-Age-and-S/9bhg-hcku

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What’s Your Wisdom Ro? King Solomon Blog

Interested in a comparison of discernment of Covidiots to Fools?

The Chicago Tribune New York Times article titled: Who is the biggest Covidiot of them all – you be the judge, reported various examples of people actions during the pandemic. For example, it began with this statement.

“Fighting a pandemic is hard enough without baffling demonstrations of ignorance also going viral, leaving us to wonder if humanity stands a chance.”

The Purpose of This Post

Is to compare the medical use of spreading infections term RO to spreading RO wisdom or folly.

RO

 Scientists use R0 – the reproduction number – to describe the intensity of an infectious disease outbreak.

King Solomon

The words of a talebearer are like tasty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body. (Proverbs 18:8 KJV)

In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding. (Proverb 10:13 KJV)

What’s My Point?

A wiseman will discern the words of a person to judge if they are wise of foolish.

For example, the young man statement in the article. “If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I’m not gonna let it stop me from partying”

If you compare this statement to the young man’s wisdom and love RO. it is apparent that if he lives in a household with an elderly person, or is employed in a nursing home, that his statement is foolish. He obviously does not know or care that a person can spread the virus unknowing for eight days before he himself realizes he has COVID19.

If you read the article which explains how scientists discern RO exponential effects as shown in above feature image, he is a fool and even a menace to his community. Same comparison can apply to a covidiot or a fool.

Compare the same scenario to someone who expresses an opinion based on gossip, lies, or lack of experience, or education, or discernment: of wisdom and love of himself, his family, or his community.

For example, a news source or columnist, of a gossiper, activist, or someone who spreads lies or news gossip of opinions to personal attention or profit,

Depending on his audience, the same exponential of Ro (reproduction output) is multiplied.

My point is in our present contemporary times of news outlets, social media, varying education, philosophizes of life, parental training, religious or atheists’ philosophies, or politicians or political party.

In My Opinion

In other words, the exponential of either wisdom or folly and all the various factors, we are now living in a pandemic of folly based on the present spread of both coronavirus, anarchy, gossip, activists.

Whether the pandemic of wisdom or folly continues will continue to exponentiate can only be contained or spread will be determined based on the moto of this blog.

What the world needs now in addition to love is wisdom. We are the masters of our own disasters.

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You Decide

When will a vaccine be discovered to protect us from the gossip and lies being spread in the news, social media, activists and discern before participating in following the rhythm of the music of the pied pipers leading rats to drown themselves?

Or when will we wise up and end the repetition of each new generation repeating the same folly Ans previous generations as King Solomon observed 3000 years ago in this verse.?

What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;
    there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9)

Or, when will we begin teaching wisdom in our school to teach wise discernment to contain the Ro of folly we read and hear in the news every day?

Regards and goodwill blogging

Source Links

New York Daily News Coviditots

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-covidiot-pandemic-flu-influencer-20200331-5rfux5nmrjbzvehumhibsl5mme-story.html

Labblog Scientist Measurements of RO

https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/rounds/how-scientists-quantify-intensity-of-an-outbreak-like-covid-19

Rhythms in Life – King Solomon Blog  

https://rudymartinka.com/2020/06/05/rhythms-in-life-king-solomon-blog/

Bible Verses – Gossip and Lies

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Gossip-And-Lies/

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Globalism Economists Folly Unmasked, King Solomon Blog

Thanks to globalism selling politicians, we are not able to buy a N95 mask  for $1.35 in the USA when we need it the most.

Everyone should know or be reminded about the story how the USA outsourced manufacturing capacities that began on Dec 8, 1993 when Bill Clinton signed the NAFTA treaty despite the warnings that it will suck out millions of USA jobs and our Nation’s manufacturing capabilities.

Outsourcing manufacturing turned into an avalanche over time with some good effects for creating cheaper prices for non-essential items which buyers could wait 37 days for ships to transport. Yet it resulted in many former manufacturing workers to be paid less livable wages by stocking shelves in big box stores instead of skilled manufacturing wages.

The Purpose of This Post

Is to remind us to correct the problem of allowing manufacturing of 90 percent of medical supplies to be imported which sadly is the main reason why there is a shortage of PPE protective medical gear and N95 masks in the USA,

The result is thousands of lives have been impacted or lost or either medical personnel, elderly, and the general public along with a quarantine shutdown of the USA economy along with added trillions of dollars to our National Debt.

King Solomon

“It’s no good, it’s no good!” says the buyer– then goes off and boasts about the purchase. (Proverb 20:14)

What’s My Point?

Politicians have been listening to the warnings over the years by  thousands of critics about outsourcing manufacturing of critical items such as medical supplies and military equipment.

Globalism proponents brushed off their concerns with economic theories and arguments to result in politicians agreeing to globalism.

For example, when Obama was running for his first term in office, he promised to renegotiate trade agreements. I am assuming after listening to the globalism economists and by his record of making more trade agreements he decided their argument that the USA would thrive as a service economy and  manufacturing will never return to the USA.

My point is as the above proverb explains, buyers and sellers have been negotiating with each other to  obtain what they may at the time be the best deal for themselves for thousands of years..

Sadly though, the best deal to import lower cost critical protective (PPE) medical supplies and masks, and if there ever was a war, military parts, has not turned out to be the best value based on the trillions of dollars now being spent because of the pandemic.

Or as every professional purchasing agent is taught or learns from experience.

“Sometimes the cheapest price is not the best value over time.”

In My Opinion

If you read the articles below you will better understand how 3M, while increasing manufacturing of N95 masks by millions is still exporting to other countries the masks.

It is a humanitarian thing for 3M to do because globalism is a two-way commitment and Canada needs the masks just a badly as the USA.

In previous posts I also explained what everyone with manufacturing experience knows. That we cannot build 4.1-million-dollar machinery in a week, or month, and even years. Especially if the machinery has to be built in Germany because the USA no longer has the trained machinists, technical expertise, and machinery to make the machines that make the masks.

Hopefully, this sad experience will sadly serve to remind our politicians of the consequences of outsourcing 90 percent of medical supplies was not the best deal or value for the USA.

If Interested

Read the Source Links below and previous posts

You Decide

Was globalism of 90 percent of USA medical supplies and a service economy  a wise or foolish economic theory?

Would it be better if the USA had stocked billions of masks, or would it have been far better and more efficient and economical to have the capability to manufacture billions of masks if the manufacturing machinery was available in the USA?

For example, in a previous post I explained how Illinois paid millions of dollars and who know what exorbitant price to fly in N95 masks because of the pandemic. Hopefully the masks obtained were  not counterfeit or inferior masks as I explained in previous posts.

In your experience, have you ever bought any item because it was cheaper than a brand name? Then regretted it later for some reason because over time it turned out not to be the best deal that you, or the same as the proverbial buyer boasted 3000 years ago to someone about the great deal he purchased or negotiated?  

Regards and goodwill blogging.

Source Links

December 3,1993

https://time.com/5468175/nafta-history/

3M Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-25/3m-doubled-production-of-n95-face-masks-to-fight-coronavirus

3M Hits Back at Trump

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/3m-hits-back-at-trump-says-ceasing-exports-of-n95-masks-will-have-opposite-effect-humanitarian-consequences-2020-04-03

Previous Posts – COVID-19

https://rudymartinka.com/category/covid-19/

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