WAR

Since the first man hit another, there has never been a time that there wasn’t a war (or conflict) on this planet. There always have been wars and there always will be wars. The first recorded (writing hadn't been invented prior to that time) war was around 2700 BC. Most wars are over an ideology or belief system, economics, fear, necessity, etc. which are used as the excuses.

The main negative for war is loss of life and property.
Life is easily replaceable as we see with our population expanding, despite war, disease, natural catastrophe, etc.; and there's no problem replacing property.

So this leaves us with the positive for war.
Other than a simple device for brewing beer, every invention of man has been for, or related to war. After a war is over, the inventions made for that war are then used for other things. As an example; stirrups were invented so a warrior could hold a shield in one hand and a sword in the other while attacking on horseback. The buttons on sleeves were originally designed for Napolean's army's uniforms. WWII gave us jets, atomic energy, ball point pens, rayon, nylon, radar, computers, etc. The replacement and rebuilding of destroyed destroyed property is always for the economic good of all.

Since man figured out that his existence depended on war, he has always found reasons to participate in it. We even use religion as an excuse to wage wars. Whether you want to believe it or not; today, the entire world is engaged in a religous war , defending against islam. Some countries have already lost (even though they don't know it) while others are losing because of their political correctness.

Only those that are either too frail or too complacent, object to war.

War is necessary and our survival has always depended upon it.

Of course, this is not the most popular point of view, but it is the way it is…

The next President

Over 200 years ago, a group of men came together, and after much debate and conflicting views, wrote the governing document (the Constitution) for establishing the rules by which this country (the United States of America) would be run and managed.
Every President of this country has done grave damage during his term(s) in office. Since most of us were schooled in the government schools (the public school system) and the liberal colleges and universities, we are never told of the violations of our constitution or the atrocities that these Presidents have initiated. We are only told of the merits of their administration(s).
However, without their deviating from the Constitution and the original intent of our founding fathers, we could not have made the progress that has made us into the great nation that we are today.
I am not condoning their breaches from conforming to the Constitution, but rather just explaining that we got to where we're at, as quickly as we did because of their errors.
During the term of our seventh President (Andrew Jackson), both the Democratic and Republican parties were formed and exist to this very day. Each of these parties have separate and conflicting agendas that produce some good but mostly counter-productive laws.
The great experiment called democracy has served us well. As with all experiments, one has to know when to stop. We have not paid attention to the abuses of this experiment and have let our representatives and leaders go way beyond that which serves the people best, to a point where our government has become so large and repressive that it is no longer serving the people of this country, but rather the corporations, banks and super rich only.
We are about to come to an election of one third of our senators, many of our representatives and a new President. Unfortunately, your vote for the President DOES NOT COUNT. Only the vote of the Electoral College counts in electing a President. A large percentage of the few of you that vote base your vote on things that have nothing to do with who will really represent your interests best. An example of this is that women tend to vote for a woman, regardless of her qualifications or agenda; blacks will vote for a black person without knowing anything about that person other than the color of their skin. These are not reasons to vote for someone that has your best interests in mind.
This year we are going to elect what may be our last President. The person may or may not place the final blow in our democracy and finally destroy it to the point that it cannot be returned to what was originally intended. Due to the liberalism that has grown over the past 50 or 60 years, our country has inched away from a democracy and more and more to socialism with everyone's income and efforts being shifted to the elite few. Your apathy and lack of attention to what takes place on a daily basis in Washington D.C. has permitted our democracy to gradually slip away.
Most of our Constitution has been nullified already with laws that contradict it that go unchallenged.
You must not permit this to go on any longer. In order to preserve your way of life and your "freedoms" to continue, it's imperative that your voice and concern be heard. You must write to your representatives with your complaints and concerns as well as any suggestions to correct the things you find deplorable. If you fail to vote, you deserve to watch the eradication of your freedoms. It's up to you to preserve this democracy for yourself as well as your children and even their children. Do not vote for anyone that is already in office at any level because they are the instigators of this decline in every aspect of our daily lives. We need new people representing us with fresh new ideas to help heal the damage that their predecessors have done.
Please, please become informed and vote...