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Bike lanes are completely under utilized. As written before, bicycles are used primarily by men and mostly under the age of 45 years old. Bicycles are almost never used in very cold or rainy weather. Bicycle lanes slow down more important traffic including trucks, ambulances, fire trucks, delivery vehicles and private cars, that often have passengers. Motor vehicles pay for the road through registrations fees, tolls, and gasoline taxes. The use of bicycles also represents a lowering of the standard of living in New York City, when compared to the 1960's and 1970's when there were almost 30% more cars in the city. It is time to reconsider where bicycle lanes are installed and further, reconsider the existence of bicycle lanes in general. As written before, bicycle should be registered, with clearly marked license plates and bicycles should have insurance. Private cars represents freedom. A private car allows the owner to travel beyond the city and enjoy the countryside. Further, cars provides for the owner comfort, warmth and safety. In the 1960s and 1970s, most New Yorkers owned cars. Unfortunately since then, there has been a general decline in the standard of living in NYC. Also, many people from third world countries have entered the city, who never had the funds or opportunity to own a car. The result has been that many new New Yorker's say that they do not need a car, since they live in the city! Of course a car is always useful and again, a car represents freedom. Socialism, may sound wonderful, but it rapidly becomes a prison and slows down human growth and advancement. Having traveled extensively throughout the Soviet world, before the Wall fell, I never met a single person who was in favor of socialism. Everyone I met wanted to move to the west. The Christian concept that all people are equal under God is beautiful, but it does not mean that every person will have the same achievements or success in society. Socialism, at very best, provides minimal assistance to people to sustain themselves, but does not encourage advancement. It is human instinct for private ownership and to advance in society. Just go to any playground and watch young children playing with a ball and you will see a child scream out "that is my ball"! People under the yoke of socialism become a ward of the state. America is a country built on freedom, independence and self sufficiency. Failed countries promise their populations "free " government handouts.
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on Socialism Unsuccessful are jealous of the successful.
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is happening to this country? Is it a country of the people, by the
people and for the people? Extra judicial killings, without an
indictment, trial by ones peers? Has the USA become a dictatorship?
The USA was for over 200 years, the symbol of freedom and justice.
Have we lost this? Is it any wonder, why Mr. Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City? Mr. Mamdani has promised the struggling people hope for the future. Consider this. President Jimmy Carter cut deals with China that ultimately allowed U.S. industry to flee to low wage countries and so went real jobs. Now the U.S.A. is left with huge numbers of highly educated/indoctrinated young people who have huge student debt and have no hope to achieve the American dream of a house, wife, cars and future and instead live in shared apartments. The collapse in the standard of living in the United States has been massive over the past 60 years. In 1963, the average man with a high school diploma at age 39 could afford a wife who did not work, a house in the suburbs, a car for himself and a car for his wife, three or four children and have enough money left over for a family vacation or perhaps a cabin in the country or a boat. Today, two highly educated people with advanced college degrees, can perhaps afford a one or two bedroom apartment, one child, no cars and both people must work. Now, with the introduction of "artificial intelligence", many of the remaining jobs are in jeopardy of being lost. Mr. Mamdani offers hope for many people, but may well destroy the remaining middle class and eviscerate everything that the baby boomers worked for.
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Purpose of Government Declining birthrate caused by the effects of "feminism", student debt and no-fault divorce The declining birthrate and an aging population, is a major problem in all industrialized countries. Decline in marriage rates caused by declining real income, burdensome student debt and the desire of women to seek a career in business rather than family. Also many marital pleasures are now freely given prior to marriage. Further, men are afraid to get married since divorce is so prevalent and men tend to lose much of their wealth in a divorce. Divorce courts are universally favor women. No fault divorce does not take into consideration such factors as the woman or man cheating. Custody laws favor the women. All of this adds up to discourage men from marrying and easy divorce kills the notion of marriage till death do them part. Food stamps holds people back. Food stamps, also known as EBT and SNAP, was never meant to be a permanent solution, but rather was always meant as a temporary, critical emergency measure to help people truly in need. It has evolved into an entitlement whereby some people feel that they are entitled to be fed by the taxpayers. In the past, people on food stamps were ashamed to admit this. Today, over 40 million people are paid to eat, in the USA. Some estimates are that as much as 20 percent of the population are using and often times, abusing the system. Many of these people do not want to work since they want to continue to receive this free handout. School. Education or Indoctrination? The general view of school is that it educates the young and the not so young. Prior to the "compulsory education", a young student in the 1850's was taught to read, write, mathematics, geography, basic history in just three years and only for about four hours per day. Today, children are stuck in school from 9AM till 3PM and forced to go to school for twelve years. Is that necessary? Further, a student is no longer free, but is required (indoctrinated?) to raise their hand to ask a question or for permission to go to the rest room. All classes are exactly the same length of time, usually 50 minutes. Until a few years ago, students wore uniforms. Essentially students from a young age are indoctrinated with obedience and steered to become good workers and good potential soldiers. Students for the most part are not taught how to critically think and they are not taught how to be independent and they are not taught how to truly prosper and get ahead. Since the introduction of "compulsory education " starting in the 1870's, it would seem that schools, all schools, fall under the category of Indoctrination centers. Private ownership is a human instinct You can prove this to yourself by going into any playground and watching young children say such things as "that's my ball". They understand private ownership because it is a human instinct. Everyone wants their own space and their own property. Socialism can never work and has never worked. Socialism and Communism failed in every country that it was pushed in and only were able to keep communism up at the point of the gun. Communism and socialism is anti human nature. Communist countries that continued, such as China, ultimately had to allow private ownership. If people are given everything for free, then there is no incentive to innovate and work hard. After all, what is the purpose of working hard when you can not keep the fruits of your labor. Always oppose socialism. Value Value is determined by availability and unavailability. Value increases if something is difficult to obtain and if the item is needed or desired. Time to license, and insure bicycles. It is essential that bicycles in New York City be required to registered and to have clearly visible license plates and required to have insurance. So many pedestrians are being injured by bicycles, who rarely stay with the person injured, leaving the injured party to suffer and pay for their medical care. It is long over due that all bicycles follow the Vehicle Traffic Safety Law of New York State and follow all rules such as traffic lights, stop signs and more. Perhaps all bicycles should be equipped with a GPS/air tag type device so that the offending bicycle rider can be quickly identified. Anyone guilty of a any vehicle law should be prosecuted and fined, just like automobile drivers are. Time to install an electronic limiter to limit the speed of electric powered bicycles and other vehicles Electric bicycles, monopods and quadracycles, such as is now being used by major big box stores, must be equipped with an electronic speed limiter to the average bicycles speed which is 12 miles per hour. Presently electric bicycles, which really are motorcycles since rarely do the rider use the pedals, travel 25 miles per hour or faster. This must come to an end and traffic laws must be enforced. It is a simple matter to add an electronic speed limiter. New York State Human Powered, motor assisted laws are being vastly abused. The original purpose of a motor ASSIST was to help wheel chair bound people with motorized wheel chairs. The law was changed to assist the many U.S. Veterans who were severely injured and needed assistance to move about. Presently, the law is being abused and essentially electric powered motorcycles, that have hardly used pedals, are skirting the law requiring a license, registration and insurance. Further, recently, some big box on line stores have been flooding New York City streets with delivery trucks that are electric powered and have barely used pedals The law must be changed immediately for the quality of life of all New Yorkers. Import Tax (Tariff) President Donald Trumps high import tax that ranges from 10% to over 200% may lead to major shortages in American stores. It is estimated that over 70% of the products purchased in the United States have Chinese made components or are completely made in China. The import tax (Tariff) of Chines products and the ship docking tax, based on tonnage, comes to 246%. Thus a product that costs $1.00 today, will cost $3.46 (minimum) after the local supplies in warehouses runs out. This high Tariff essentially bans all Chinese manufactured products. The belief is that the United States will suffer short term pain but manufacturing will return to the United States. It did in fact work in Brazil, though the conditions were different. Self Sufficiency America was founded on the concept of self sufficiency. Unfortunately, since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), some members of the lower classes have come to depend on handouts and have essentially become wards of the state. True freedom is only achieved when a person is self sufficient. Of course certain things are best handled by the state, such as the construction of roads, protection of people and property, food and quality maintenance, basic civil order actions and a few other societal rules to allow society to operate smoothly. Automation and robotics will help return businesses to the United States. With new automation and robotics, which requires less employees, it is now possible for most American Based companies to return manufacturing to the United States, with the benefit of lower production costs, lower shipping costs and a safer business climate, when compared with outsourced manufacturing. -February 14, 2018 Internet free speech and censorship read more The Downside of Robotics Robotics will bring about a fundamental change in society. Millions of jobs will be lost, but only a few, high end jobs will be created. Most former employees will not be employable in this new environment. The same occurred in England in the early 1800's with the industrial revolution. High end weaving jobs were lost after the introduction of high speed looms. Another example is the computer revolution from the late 1960's till the mid 1980's and on till today eliminated the need for thousands of office clerks. - May 5, 2019 Social Media Social media has very little to do with being social, but rather deals with ego and the desire for recognition and self defined importance and with the number of "likes" or "followers". Perhaps "social media" should be renamed "anti-Social media". A key issue is that those who are addicted to "social media" tend to neglect real life. Education today As mentioned before, schools have become more and more focused on indoctrination and formation of opinions, rather than focusing on the basics such as reading, writing, mathematics, critical thinking, basic history, art and business. USA is now a third world country? The strength of a nation is its manufacturing capacity and capability. Since 1978, the United States has deindustrialization and is now similar to what used to be the definition of a third world country. That is that the USA sends raw materials and food stuff to more industrialized countries and after, those countries sends back finished products. Avoid "start-ups" Most so-called start up's are a waste of time and investment and are doomed to failure. The majority of startups do not attempt to manufacture or develop anything new, but instead make apps or software, yet they refer to themselves as "technology" companies. A true technology company produces physical products. Apps and software are not the end but the means to service the end. Facial recognition Global facial recognition technology and storing such data is a huge infringement of privacy and ultimately freedom. It is a form of branding, without the brand. Facial recognition technology should be universally banned. FEDNOW digital currency and payment system Fednow is a newly, partially introduced Central Bank Digital Currency also known as CBDC. This means the elimination of cash and all purchases conducted electronically through a phone, credit card or similar. All CBDC's represents a complete elimination of privacy and freedom and can easily evolve into a new form of To continue, click here and scroll down the page People want to be told what to do It might be difficult to believe, but it seems that the majority of people want to be told what to do and how to live. People want others to do things for them. People are told what to buy, how to dress, how to talk, how to live, what to eat, almost everything, buy the media and other forms of social influencing areas.
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