After some personal changes, realizations and betterment through some work on myself through a number of methods, I found myself feeling pretty good. Having that as a foundation, I desired to reach out beyond my own needs and desires for my self and family, to an even stronger desire to be among those helping to improve this world and those that live in it. Now before I proceed further an important statement must be made: I do not think that I am any better than any other inhabitant of this world FOR caring to be part of those helping to improve it. It is simply my personal goal to try and leave this world in somewhat better shape than when I arrived in this life in 1952.
At first, dealing with this strong desire to help, I thought I might be interested in going into politics. Luckily, before taking any steps down that path very far at all, I realized that given the unethical agreements unfortunately in control of most of our Senators and Congress members and in Washington, I with a strong set of values from my up-bringing by a Father who had been a Boy Scout leader for over 50 years and a Mother with equally “old-school” values – I would be like a “drop of chocolate syrup in an ocean of milk” and the values I would bring to Washington, if I even ever got the chance to be a Senator or Congress member, would quickly be “homogenized” and my efforts to help would, well…disappear. That scenario, all may not agree with, but that is the reality I felt and feel is truth.
But then what to do with this still present desire to help? I came to the realization that writing a book would be the path which might allow me to help a large number of people and to play a role in correcting the improper course this world is heading in, on a number of fronts and in reference to a number of issues, we as a society are dealing with currently. And I would be totally free to write about what I feel ARE the most dangerous and destructive problems that need to be addressed immediately. In writing a book, I would also be free of the pressure of any vested interests, as too many of our elected officials are currently under and monitored by and controlled by.
So that is what I did in writing my first book titled: Plan for America and the World. And in it I detail what I believe to be one of the most destructive elements to the Freedoms and Liberties we all cherish in this country. That is the amount of money which swirls around and controls, for the most part, who gets to the position where we can vote for these “chosen” individuals and then afterwards, the same huge amounts of money control and influence those that got elected. And this situation, right here in Las Vegas. The amount of campaign funding which will be needed for anyone who would like to replace Nevada Governor Sandoval, will be in the millions. And with that “price tag” , ONLY those candidates who can raise that sort of money, make deals with the special interests they will have to make in order to get that amount of cash and promises to who knows who else…those will be the candidates that we will have to pick from. Basically, for the most part…controlled “zombies” that are NOT working for our interests…BECAUSE…the amount to run and win offices at the higher levels is grossly…obscenely…bloated, only as a means to serve vested interests and special interests groups – and mostly NOT in alignment with what we the public need and not, most probably, what our society needs to fix the array of problems our communities are facing.
In my book, I address both the need for a name change for our elected officials, as a way to remind them EVERY TIME WE ADDRESS THEM, that they are supposed to be working for us! And a way to address the problem of huge amounts of money in politics today. I will detail this tomorrow in my next blog…