Debits on the Left, Credits on the Right

Any accountant or bookkeeper knows that debits are on the left and credits are on the right. On any balance sheet, debits usually denote “Assets” and “Credits” refer to liabilities in one way or another. You should think about this. Our national debt, a $20,000,000,000,000 credit on the balance sheet of the United States of America is, collectively, a debit on the balance sheets of others—someone, somewhere else, in someone’s balance sheet, in the Cayman Islands perhaps, or Ireland, or etc. The spending of our nation, constitutes the profits of others—the Corporatocracy and Power Elite of the world, the military industrial complex, the 1%, the 0.1%. You get my drift. I understand that my statement is a generality; but, essentially, the inference is true. Again, think about it. After all, in the end, it’s your debt—your obligation.

Ronald Miller

www.sageobserver.blogspot.com

Knowledge

It seems to me that all we really know about anything is what we have seen, heard, read, felt, or been told by someone else, i.e. what we have experienced and/or studied. Even then, we still don’t know it all. Only God knows it all. There always remains something else for us to learn which is why we should never cease to keep an open mind.

On July 25, 2013, in my blog, I published the story of the Six Blind Men as it portrays the essence of many of the opinions we form in our deliberations today. Many of you have seen this before, but many have not. I think the lesson is worth the reading:

John Godfrey Saxe's (1816-1887) version of the famous Indian legend,

There is an old, old story of long, long ago of the blind men and the elephant, you know

It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.

The First approach'd the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
"God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!"

The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, -"Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me 'tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!"

The Third approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a snake!"

The Fourth reached out his eager hand,
And felt about the knee.
"What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain," quoth he,
"'Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!"

The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: "E'en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can,
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!"

The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Then, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a rope!"

And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!

MORAL.

So oft in theologic political wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!

I think this says it all—a potent message to all of us. What do you think?

Ronald Miller

www.sageobserver.blogspot.com

Lemonade

It has been said: when someone gives you a lemon, make lemonade out of it. If anything can be said of the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of The United States of America, if he has accomplished anything to date—anything—anything at all above and beyond the further division of a people already the most divided since the Civil War, above and beyond a nation on the verge of nuclear conflict, above and beyond a nation that has sold its soul to the Power Elite and Corporatocracy of the global order, it is his living testimony to the sloth and ignorance of those who voted for him, to the demise of our great nation. How the hell can anybody make lemonade out of that?

This is my view. I would like to hear yours. If you will, pass this on to others, on Facebook or whatever. In the meantime, this is Ronald Miller.

www.sageobserver.blogspot.com