October 25th, 2010 / Author: Pia Fields
In the autumn of 2010, owners of farms in the west coast of United States posted an advertisement that hired a few thousand agriculture workers with the wage of $10 hourly. They only got seven people signed up. That news made me understand Americans more. Americans don’t do some work even though they have no jobs, no shelter and no food because they know that their government will take care of them anyway. Our government meanwhile giving out huge unemployment fund and doing nothing either. They even do not assist people to fill in opening jobs. Under the bad economic situation, all they did were creating debt, printing dollars, giving out unemployment fund and forcing the other country to change their currency rate. Still jobs go all over the world but do not come back to the United States. It is the high salaries and different kind of insurance that Americans need frustrate our business companies. Jobs that cannot move out of this country, such as agriculture jobs are hiring illegal immigrant workers for it. Americans gave up jobs in either ways.
Why are there jobs and nobody likes to do it? Agriculture is more and more important today for natural disasters occurred frequently on the Earth. In 2010, U.S agriculture exports increased 5% with the total amount of 113 billion dollars. Grain that the Chinese imported was increased from 14 billion dollars to 15 billion dollars. This demand will be continually increased in the future. China has about 20% population of the earth. Things that they need will become short in the world earlier or later. For seeking profit, the Chinese are unwilling to plant grain today. In China, one acre field only creates 500 RMB profit ($80) per year and that amount is 4% of a factory worker’s annual income. In 2010, the companies in China have difficulties collecting grain from their peasants.
Since agriculture can bring in profit for us we have reason to develop it and expect jobs from that field. Our government should use some of the bailout funds and unemployment funds to improve the agriculture working environments. We should build up decent living facilities and design different kinds of entertainment programs. We should set up connections and help people to find jobs not only in the cities, in the towns but in the countries. This is an age that has internet and TV. I strongly believe that as long as we have delicious food (by using organic material), have companies (soul mates) and have fresh air life will be fine. In Israel there are farms(kibbutzim) that provide people houses, furniture, clothes and food for free. People meanwhile work for the farm for free. If we have free housing in farms, basing on the 10$ hourly salary rate working 5 hours will be enough to maintain a basic life for us. When we have nineteen hours to entertain ourselves everyday life should not be considered tough.
We can use our grain to exchange for oil and other raw material from the Middle East and Africa. The price of oil can be increased from 12$ per barrel to over 100$ per barrel as well as the price of grain. When time comes we will without mercy and go ahead to collect our dollars back. We are not printing dollars any more. We work hard and we do what people are unwilling to do. We therefore have grain on hand. Grain with a decent price will bring in appropriate profit for us.
We need to improve our agriculture environment and create new life style for Americans as well. This is not an easy project and should be considered part of the green revolution that Obama promotes. It needs our government to plan it. It needs our business to fund it and it needs Americans to participate in it. This should be a project for the whole society and can be considered a socialist project.
My ideas in this blog might sound crazy. The financial difficulty we encounter today is much more serious than we believe. Ordinary ways such as lowering the interest rate, stimulating consumption, and printing dollars cannot help us to solve the problems. We have to use some unusual ways to deal with things even though we are considered crazy by people who live in the box.
October 22nd, 2010 / Author: Pia Fields
17.5 Million Dollars NY City Fund was spent to
Compensate a Criminal
In Oct, 2010, a judge ordered NY City to compensate a criminal by giving him 17.5 million dollars. The criminal had diabetes and was arrested by policemen when selling drugs. Policemen kept his medicine as well and resulted in the criminal having brain damage. The whole case made New York taxpayers’ lose the 17.5 million dollars fund.
In this case the judge did a very careful job. He listed why he made New York City pay that kind of reward. Two million dollars is compensation for the criminal’s current suffering. Two million dollars is for his suffering in the future.( The criminal will suffer for his diabetes early or late even though without the accident.) Ten million dollars is nursing fee for the future.(Actually providing the criminal home care lifelong only needs about six hundred thousand dollars). Another 3.5 million dollars will be paid by the two policemen who made the arrest. In this case the judge ignored one very basic condition: if the criminal didn’t sell drugs the whole thing would not happen. The judge did not let the criminal take a bit of responsibility and over – estimated the cost of the accidents. Even a patient would not get that kind of reward in a medical negligence case in a hospital. I feel that I am watching a show here. A show tells the world that America cares about human rights including a criminal’s human rights. Again no one cares about the public and taxpayer’s benefit in this picture.
We always see that millions and millions of dollars are paid to victims of different kind of accidents. One day after I saw the news I mentioned above, the court made New York City pay another 18.5 million dollars to Alan Newton, a guy who was jailed over twenty years by mistake. In my opinion what happened has already happened. All we should give the victim is twenty years high salary for instant fifty thousand dollars a year (for his level should be high enough). In twenty years it will be 1.2 million dollars. On top of that we gave him one million dollars for his suffering. No matter what the compensation should not go up to 18.5 million dollars. I don’t know who actually makes decisions in the court, the judge or the people having jury duty.
I once was selected to do jury duty related to a car accident. When being interviewed by lawyers from both sides, I made a simple comment and said that soldiers who were wounded in the Iraq war could not get the rewards people requested in our courts. My comment was passed to the judge and the judge wanted to see me. When I got there the judge asked me,” do you know American law?” I said: “No! I just know something from the newspaper”.
At that time, two interesting cases were reported in the newspaper. One was related to a judge sued for ten million dollars compensation because his trousers were misplaced by a Laundromat owner. As a judge he knew American laws well. If he did not have a chance to win he would not start the case. Being watched by the whole world U. S court did not let the judge get what he wanted. Another case was related to a woman who had a high position in Madison Square Garden NYC. She sued for being harassed by Knick’s ex-couch, Isaiah Thomas and got 7 million dollars reward in that case.
The annual salaries for these two “victims” must be more than one hundred thousand dollars. In that kind of positions they suppose were tough enough to take pressures. They believe they deserve the compensation must be because they were suffering mentally, suffered for the trousers was lost or suffered for being considered beautiful. In my opinion, if they felt hurt psychology for those small reasons that means they are not qualify to work in their position at all. They should go home and should return salaries that we over paid them all these years. Our so call free system over considers an individual’s feeling and over protects an individual’s human right but ignores the publics’ benefit. All the rewards those “victims” got are eventually paid by the masses through insurance bill or basketball ticks. I mentioned my opinion in front of the judge that day.
American court insists on small things and ignores big principle -masses’ benefit. Our judges should take courses about that before making decisions. Mean while we should limit the influences of people who are on jury duty. They are from different classes, have different levels of understanding and might not know American laws that well. Having regular people judge the court cases could not prove that this country has a democratic system. If we so much depend on them what do we need laws and judges for?
October 17th, 2010 / Author: Pia Fields
Drink more meat soup
A survey shows that cancer patients who took medical treatments did not have longer life than those took just placebo. However, cancer patients who did not take medical treatment have higher life quality. The result of this survey backs up my opinion that I dare not announce all these years.
My astrology research shows that people who have two typical planets located in the eighth house of their horoscope tent to have cancer. Planets’ movement created energy in our universe and influence our fate. That influences are too powerful to be rejected. It just like tide in ocean is pulled by the moon and cannot be resisted. The energy in the air has their traits changing according to the movement of planets. The traits at the time of our birth penetrating into our body and exist as our personal aura. The impacting between the changing universe energy and our aura determine our luck. Conflicts create bad luck and harmony interaction creates good luck. Basically changing fate is just like reversing the magnitude in our universe. We cannot change the moving direction of tide there for we cannot avoid death and before the time come we would not die even though we have cancer.
Another statistic said that in 1950’s American’s life expectancy was ranked in 5th in the world and today it was ranked at 49th. Meanwhile our medical cost for average person is about 250% higher than the other developed countries. It means that the more medical treatments we get the shorter our lives are. My question is if what happen suppose to happen why don’t we simply enjoy the rest of our lives? If we cannot live longer anyway, why do we suffer from the treatments and waist the money? In my opinion in the beginning stage, take out the tumor is might help. After that most of the treatments are actually not works. We have been spent too much money to V.S the magnetic field created by the movement of planets. It is because we don’t have the concept of predestined of our fate and we do not know what determines that.
Recently, I read a book written by Liu Hong Zhang and Liu Bo, father and son in China. It suggested patients 30% rely on medicine and 70% rely on nutrition. Liu Hong Zhang is a doctor who accepted well Western medical education. Beside that back to 34th of their ascenders are doctors and some of them are very fames doctors for Chinese empires. Their opinion is: the best medical method is preventing sick but not providing treatments. Their family researched for a few hundred years prove that if people have good nutrition our bodies can overcome the illness and recover themselves.
How to match this to my predestined theory? We cannot change the magnetic field and the only thing we can do is to strength our own aura. If our aura strong enough to sustain the pressure from the magnetic field in a critical moment when the planets move away we can continued survive with cancer cells in our bodies. ( I just mean if the magnetic field you encounter is not that destructive.)
They have a very interesting discovery. Once they dissected a cancer patient who committed suicide by drinking a lot of pesticide. They found out that all the cancer cells in that body were disappearing as well. That means not just the cancer medicine but many poisons can kill cancer cells. The problem is should we consider killing cancer cells and killing ourselves meanwhile is a medical treatment.
Liu’s family prefer to give nutrition to cancer patients instead of giving them poison to kill cancer cells. They noticed that absorbing nutrition will increase the pressure for our digest system. For that reason he suggested patient to drink meat soup and drink fresh fruit juice. Their way is to cook meat soup for seven hours with small fire. Disregard the meat and take all the oil away before drinking soup. It is said many cancer patients live longer when take care of themselves in that way.
I do not have chance to practice what they said but just feel that sounds right. Big piece of meats did create problems for our health and we did need nutrition. The best way is to drink soups with nutrition without bothering our digesting system. The father was attacked in The Cultural Revolution for he promoted this idea. They promote the idea again for they believed that things might change today. Even though their idea does not work as what it says patients at least can enjoy the rest of their lives by drinking delicious soups. Besides, cancer patients drinking meat soups might help us to save a lot of medical expenses. The authors get no benefit from their suggestion – at least it is not like doctors who get commission by recommending medicine to their patients. Unfortunately the father and son were accused as crooks in China again. I heard that there was an author, Kevin Trudeau, in The United States had the same experience. It looks like we will have troubles, no matter in what kind of social system, as long as our opinions are at variance with the Modern Medical theories. This is another tragedy for mankind.
October 13th, 2010 / Author: Pia Fields
IN GOD WE TRUST
A piece of news saying that our big businesses are raising fund by creating loan in the low interest environment that government provides but not create Jobs. A rail road company, Norfolk Southern Corporation issued 2.3billion dollars bond with a term of one hundred years and pay only 5.95% interest rate. Michal Soft issued 47.5 Billion dollars three years’ bond by paying 0.875% interest rate only. In 2010 business loan are 488 billion dollars, 7% higher than figures in 2009. Companies raise fund in this way to buy back their stocks and that is why the stock market is going up. The cash they are holding now is 6.1% of their asset, the highest rate since 1964. Even though funds that they invested in the equipments and soft ware increased 20% than 2009, the amount was still lower than what they spent before financial crisis. Businesses now have 1.6 trillion dollars cash in hands and American short of 15 million jobs. The low interest environment government creates actually sacrifice publics’ benefit, particular those senior people who living on their interest income. Banks give loan to big businesses that are not intent to create jobs and wouldn’t give hands to small businesses that need funds. The whole picture shows our government’s 0% interest policy is actually failed.
Without the trust and co-operation from our businesses U.S government’s forcing RMB up cannot bring jobs back to the United States. If Chinese RMB is too strong to create profit our businesses will move their factories or place their orders to India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippine. It is obvious that U.S Government cannot force all the countries in the world to raise their currency rate to meet the United States’ requirement.
Forcing other currencies up is rude. All we need is having our jobs back. Other countries can ask why you don’t reduce your salary to meet the competition. At the time we signed contracts, we allowed developing countries gain only 5%-10% profit from their productions and take advantage from their low price products. RBM has gone up more than 20% all these years. That means their profits actually are all gone. Forcing their currency up is just like we reducing our debt by paying nothing. Robbing people in this way cannot solve our unemployment problem because many other countries are waiting to import their products to the United State. We cannot force all of them raise their currency rate.
The only way to reduce our trading deficit is to increase import tax. That will bring in income for our government directly. If it creates Wars in Trading we will prepare for that war. Free trade is not fair in the beginning. We are so dependent on market consumption. How can we open our market when currencies rate and people’s living standers are so different in this world? Free trade is business people design for gaining more profit. The end result is that poor countries being exploited and the consumers being fooled. Developing countries have their bottom line for the price of their productions. Increasing import tax mostly means decreasing our business companies’ profit and creating inflation in the United States. We have no choice but tie our belts. Government cannot rely upon private businesses do something for our society. We have to directly collect funds from them by increasing importing tax. We can announce proudly saying that we do this for preventing dollars down. We will tie our belt instead of creating debt because create debt means printing dollars. Such a policy will benefit the whole world. We take our responsibility for we remember what we print in our bills—IN GOD WE TRUST.
October 11th, 2010 / Author: Pia Fields
Little by little we realize that we can do nothing in this so call free society. Bush launched wars for transferring tax payer’s funds to warmonger’s bank account we cannot stop them. CEO in Wall Street takes huge bonus from the stock businesses that actually went bankrupt and we cannot stop them. Government’s welfare system supports those so call poor people and we cannot say no. When government tells us that all our social security will be used up soon and we have to postpone our retirement age we cannot say no. When health insurance companies charge more premiums than we should pay we have no choice.
Cannot stand all those messes we jump up to select our own president and the new president did not do what he said. I chose Obama when I voted. Although I am not certain he can deliver, still I hope more or less he will do something for the public or for he stands for. Until one day I saw his answer in an interview. A correspondent asked what would be his ultimate wish. He said he hoped all our children will have high tech jobs and get high paid salary. At that time I concluded that this man does not know what he is doing. He doesn’t know that American’s high salary make our jobs gone and make us no longer competitive. He doesn’t know that having high salary do not mean that we will be happy.
I then hope he might get smart people help him. When I saw important members that he choose in his economic team either have sharp jaw or without a jaw I knew that his economic policies will fail. (I believed in astrology and we can tell people’s abilities and luck from their face structures.) I then hope he can have some youth to back him up. I once read a youth from his team mentioned their life in White House. It said most of them were born after 70’s and life there was just like in school campuses. When their boss Obama came, he gave out an assignment related to write lecture. They start to work. Sometimes they closed their doors for a few days. They believe the greatest sentence they made was “Yes, we can!” That is how they run American’s politics.
I do not mention these to downgrade anybody. I just remind people that it is wrong to put our expectation on politicians. They might be not clean at all and was control by some evil powers. They might have high ideals but do not know how to fulfill them. Can this country have smart and unselfish leaders? When I was desponded about all those happened I heard that Warren Buffet, Bill Gate and a group of wealthy people will give most of their fortune back to our society. They are not only donating their money, they are showing their concerns to the helpless publics. They use their wisdom, their power and their influences to back up this world and bring hope to it. They are creating a trend telling us that mankind does not have to a greedy animal. They stand there as giants, say nothing but make those warmongers and Wall Street CEO Look ugly. The bloody money they made will give them no benefit but bad reputation. All we public can do is to show contempt to them and wait to see how they are buried by those bloody money. We have to change our standards of measuring successfulness. In that way we can back the trend that Warren Buffet and other wealthy people create.
Before Sep11, 2010, a pastor announced that he will burn the Koran on Sep, 11. His plan caused protesting and worries worldwide. On Sep, 11, the town he was located had a sport game. Ninety thousand people got into the town where there is a population of one hundred twelve thousand. Those sport fans did not care the Koran will be burned or not. They simply enjoyed their favorite game. Another survey shown there were more Americans voting for American Idol than on some political elections. That is how a trend is created and how powerful a trend is.
In our new trend, we will not run after for money and that can make greedy people’s money turn to be insignificant. We will not respect doctors and lawyers particular when they provide unnecessary treatments and create unnecessary law suits. In our trend we only care about how to consume the least resources and obtain the greatest happiness. For us only that kind of approaching is considered successful. We can build up that kind of life in our new trend. Yes, we can!
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