tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post8740276023347927731..comments2024-03-17T12:51:46.412-07:00Comments on Cutting Through The Crap: Blood 'n StuffSid Schwabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-35963788102957536482023-03-19T21:12:27.112-07:002023-03-19T21:12:27.112-07:00Here's a brutally honest take of the last 50 y...Here's a brutally honest take of the last 50 years and the effect on Americans and America itself...it's also a damning profile of the wealthy for the last 50 years. By the time I got out of the corps. Reagan had decimated American labor. We found out that this new generation of labor was not so team oriented. Crossing picket lines was a daily occurrence for years. The only job for me was a SCAB. That's it. Scab or non-union. State education was no longer free and already more than I could pay by 1988. All of my friends my age were left behind in the same way. The generation before us got LBJ's legislation. We got Reagans, Clinton's and Bush's...Then Obama *sigh*...<br /><br />Now? Senior's worry about Social Security solvency. "The promise"...So they decided that raising the retirement age of 20 and 30 year olds, while raising current seniors bennies is the way we have to fix it. Same they did with their wages when they worked. We'll sell out the next workers in contract negotiations who are not even here yet for our gain. Everytime a contract came up. Times are bad so you must sacrifice or else! And 50 years later, the Boomer generation sees only one cure. Sacrifice everything for their benefit. And if everyone is broke? It's because they suck as people...Right? Gotta be something wrong with these people if they are poor. 50+ years and counting.<br /><br />Use incognito mode to view this New York Times arty<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/magazine/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond.html#commentsContainerSmoothtooperatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07901523276177195419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-25059156410341480732023-03-18T15:15:46.270-07:002023-03-18T15:15:46.270-07:00A long time ago, my girlfriend and I did a "s...A long time ago, my girlfriend and I did a "study" with the Witnesses. We ultimately decided not to join. For her, their teaching on receiving blood was THE wedge issue; for me, the blood teaching was **one of** the issues, doctrine being the key one.<br /><br />While we were doing the study, I looked pretty extensively into the Witness teaching on receiving blood. I found that whether you looked at it from a logical, ethical, scientific or Scriptural perspective, it simply did not hold up. Also, over the history of the Watchtower organization, their teaching on receiving blood, blood products and organ transplants had run the full gamut between permission and proscription. Acquiring an understanding of where they were at on blood and related issues was like trying to hit a moving target.Mythigatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08472129001677390304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-12481950050228647462023-03-16T14:24:55.498-07:002023-03-16T14:24:55.498-07:00We deserve whatever we get for being stupid.We deserve whatever we get for being stupid.Smoothtooperatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07901523276177195419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-1324554404003122602023-03-16T10:07:54.293-07:002023-03-16T10:07:54.293-07:00Bloody well said....Bloody well said....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com