#RaisetheWage #ActOn1010

#RaisetheWage and #ActOn1010

As consumers, we all have received one of those letters where businesses tell us that they have to raise their prices and rates, and why. It's usually because their overhead and cost to bring us the product with continued good quality, has gone up, such as rent, gas/electric, water and other utilities; all necessities and costs of doing business.

Well, consider the current #RaiseTheWage bill and proposal in Congress now. Consider it as a letter from We The Consumers and Employees to inform you that we have to raise our rates because our overhead and costs to live; rent, food, utilities and water has also gone up, JUST LIKE YOURS. For us to continue to live a humane quality life, and bring to your establishments a quality product, our hard and/or honorable work, you must #RaiseTheWage.

The necessities of business and the costs of QUALITY living are one and the same. We are all in this together.

A few days ago I replied to a tweet, "let the private money flow". Raising the wage is one good way. It allows government money to be better spent, while Capitalism does one of the things it was designed to do which is to circulate money and fund whole communites through Business Ownership, Employment, Fair Competition, and Consumer Choices. All of these lead to a great economy, and more tax money for the government to spend on infrastructure like schools, roads, and bridges, and also begin to pay down our enormous national debt, instead of funding more welfare programs and things like TEMPORARY Federal #UnemploymentInsurance (I speak to my brothers and sisters on the Left) to make up the difference and gaps that the private sector should be filling. More tax money by volume because of choice and not higher rates, is preferable by all. Consider, especially you, I say to my brothers and sisters on the political Right.

I pray that all employers will be fair to employees when evaluating their own financial abilities and projections and pay them with much generosity. But as for government responsibility to ALL the people's general welfare per our Constitution; employer, employee,the unemployed, or may one day need to be employed, $10.10 per hour is about right. Much higher forced upon them would work against businesses, and trickle down to work against employees and employment and all our economy. Anything higher should be left for owners to decide and their choice.

A living wage is one that covers the basic necessities to live, and improve one's lot. It is one that covers survival. I do not believe in redistribution of wealth at all, or #RobinHood. Equality must come by way of work, favor and opportunity, not robbing the rich. But it is all and everyone's responsibility in any good civilization to be humane, and ensure that the least among us has the least, especially the responsible, willing to work that are proven, and some that are not proven.

With all this said, I hope that business people themselves will come out strong in support of the #RaiseTheWage bill, and not let it die. It is not looking to make anyone rich off another's back. It only addresses fairness, decency and humanity per the current circumstances and math. Do the math of this economy and all the elements, yourselves. $10.10 is about right. #ActOn1010 and #RaiseTheWage.

After this raise, and before another is needed, it would be wise to address and attack the high costs of living and doing business, or else we will have a continued vicious cycle. And also, we must continue to #ActOnJobs and as hinted above begin to #ActOnDebt.

God Bless America. Raising the wage would truly be a manifestation of the Blessing for so many.

Yulanda K. #GoodPolitician #Humanitarian #NotLeftorRight #TrueAndJust

Our Mind and Our Thoughts

Our Mind and Our Thoughts

So much to say, especially about words and thoughts. Are they in control of us or are we in control of them; the real and inner most us? A matrix, no doubt.

Answer: Whichever you allow to be in control, is in control. And what is the real us, anyway?

Freud's dissection of the mind comes into play. The mind/brain is indeed the last frontier. It has many layers we have yet to tap in to. And we have yet to fully perceive its connection to what we call the heart or affectionate emotions, either.

Just as, of my own will, I can speak contrary to my thoughts or feelings; misdirect or lie, I can also with my full will and control, think one thought and believe another. Imagination, for example, falls into this category.  It's the belief that's important and it takes a strong mind to keep your beliefs isolated and strong, while at the same time being able to open it up to all experiences.

Where can't I go? What can't I see and touch, or hear and not remain as I will, even as it is for the Omni-Present God, who's image and likeness I was made in, and recreated in? I exercise my senses daily. This is where we are to be now, in the age of this media on slaught and information deluge.  If you have to taste not, touch not, see not etc, to spiritually survive and remain who you are, you are in trouble. When there's a flood, raise the standard.

Do all fantasy writers believe in witchcraft, like Harry Potter for example? Or, do those that write about aliens, and all things space, like Star Wars or Star Trek for example, necessarily believe in all they write? Will it or must it manifest? No. But it is still their thoughts. It may possibly be a manifestation of a desire and openness to a possibility that the things they write were true or could be, in some ways, if not exactly.  Yet, these thoughts specifically are not so, and have not become so just because they thought it. If the things were true or possible, but they didn't know it, a path to make it so can be created, however. Look how many inventions came as a result of the imagination of Gene Roddenberry and how it aided social progress and equality over our differences.

These things that I write are true for good and evil. It takes a strong mind and heart to make it believe and flow to where you want it to, by believing that only. Without an inner strength, every thought will control. Without that strength, as adults, the only other option is some kind of pseudo parental control, or self enslavement. Neither is an option for me. Self control is the way and God's goal. It can only be judged by freedom. This doesn't mean you HAVE to do every thing, only that you HAVE to decide what to do or not do for yourself, can reason that decision, and have to leave very few things off the table. Here, even in servitude, you are free. With that said, it is important to note, that the good, do good, and seek that out, and DO NO HARM to others.

Time to address all. How can we address mental health, and why people do bad things, unless we go here and understand these things. This ain't a religious thing. It's a human thing.

Yulanda K. - Good Pastor and Public Servant - #FillingInTheBlanks