Robots Are Coming For Our Jobs

This is not an April Fool’s Joke!

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders may say that they want to help the blue collar, working class, and middle class income Americans but neither has a solution for the oncoming displacement of most laboring and office jobs as wells as many technical jobs.

Japan is number one in the world in operational robots with 310,508 units. There’s even a hotel staffed almost entirely by robots that opened last year in Nagasaki, Japan, according to BAML (Bank of America Merrill Lynch). The United States is in second place (168,623) with Germany in a close third place. This was reported just today on Business Insider.

Coincidentally the Los Angeles Times had an opinion piece in today’s paper that starts with the words “A viral video released in February showed Boston Dynamics’ new bipedal robot, Atlas, performing human-like tasks: opening doors, tromping about in the snow, lifting and stacking boxes.” That article refers to a White House report that says “Most occupations that pay less than $20 an hour are likely to be automated into obsolescence.” Powerhouse consultancies like McKinsey & Co. forecast that 45% of today’s workplace activities could be done by robots, AI or some other already demonstrated technology. Truck drivers and baristas will be replaced too. Some professors argue that we could see 50% unemployment in 30 years.

A rare peak inside Amazon’s massive wish-fulfilling machine

We think we have problems now but a coming so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring changes to society that most of us have yet to imagine.

Americans Are Struggling with Behavior that Contradict with their Beliefs

Ted Cruz and Donald Trump understand Americans real beliefs and hatreds and are playing on those viewpoints.

Strictly religious Christians and Jews have very rigid laws about human behavior. They really do not want any behavior by anyone that conflict with their beliefs

Thus we see laws proposed (and some signed into law) in Arkansas, Georgia, and Indiana that would protect the rights of people who choose to discriminate. Specifically these laws give people the right to discriminate against homosexuals and gay marriage. Similarly many states have created laws that limit the right to an abortion.

All of these laws are a response to evangelical Christians, orthodox Catholics and Jews.

However, Muslim beliefs are not to be tolerated by those religious Christians and Jews.

It now appears that money may impact their willingness to tolerate those that are different. The Walt Disney Co. would stop film production in Georgia if they sign into law their right to discriminate law. It is estimated that $106 million is spent in Georgia by Disney. Other companies are contemplating similar action in the three states I have identified. So far, lawmakers in Georgia haven’t heeded those concerns. Legislators in Indiana and Arkansas passed similar bills last year.

What does this situation tell us about Americans? The answer is sadly obvious.

March 28, 2016

Good news! Under increasing pressure from major corporations that do business in Georgia, Gov. Nathan Deal announced Monday he will veto a bill that critics say would have curtailed the rights of Georgia’s LGBT community.

Bernie Sanders at L.A.’s Wiltern Theater March 23, 2016

Fresh off of wins in the Idaho and Utah caucuses, a rally in front of more than 10,000 people in San Diego and an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Bernie Sanders urged supporters in Los Angeles to stay strong through California’s primary in June.

The Vermont senator arrived at L.A.’s Wiltern Theater on Wednesday night. Sanders, in front of a boisterous crowd at the historic Wiltern, issued a reminder to thunderous cheers.

Secretary Clinton did well in the South,” he said. “We’re not in the South. We’re in the West now.”

Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign rally at The Wiltern in. Los Angeles, CA. March 23, 2016. (Photo by John McCoy/Los Angeles News Group) — Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign rally at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, CA. March 23, 2016. (Photo by John McCoy/Los Angeles News Group)

Hillary Clinton is for … Hillary Clinton

At the outset I must write that Hillary Clinton as president will most likely replicate the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton. The latest polls indicate that she will be president if the GOP nominee is Donald Trump.

Working class Americans should be concerned about how Mrs. Clinton will act towards them. We need only to look at Bill Clinton’s presidency to learn what to expect.

Bill Clinton signed a law that ended the Glass-Steagall Act. That law passed in 1933 prohibited commercial banks from engaging in the investment business. The consequence was the 2008 Great recession that brought about the collapse of many of America’s largest financial institutions. Some of those institutions were saved by The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. On September 19, 2008 President Bush announced his financial bailout plan, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to confront the financial crisis. This plan was initially rejected by the U.S House of Representatives on September 29. After a great deal of public lobbying, on October 1, the U.S. Senate passed an amended version of the bill, which was subsequently accepted by the House two days later. This legislation created the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP).

NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement. It was envisioned at least 30 years ago to reduce trading costs, increase business investment, and help North America be more competitive in the global marketplace. The impetus for NAFTA actually began with President Ronald Reagan, who campaigned on a North American common market. Prior to NAFTA, Mexican tariffs on U.S. imports were 250% higher than U.S. tariffs on Mexican imports. In 1991, Canada requested a trilateral agreement, which then led to NAFTA. NAFTA was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on December 8, 1993 and entered force January 1, 1994. Although it was signed by President Bush, it was a priority of President Clinton’s, and its passage is considered one of his first successes.

The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which ensured that over-the-counter, or OTC, financial derivatives would remain almost entirely unregulated and which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in December 2000, just before he left the White House. Thanks to the 2000 act, according to 2010 Congressional testimony by Michael Greenberger of the University of Maryland law school, the “multi-trillion-dollar OTC derivatives market was removed from almost all pertinent federal and state enforcement to which trading markets had been subject since the New Deal….In effect, almost no law applied to this market.”

As reported in the New York Times on February 9, 2016 Mrs. Clinton’s top donors:

-George Soros, Billionaire philanthropist and investor. $7.0 million

-Cheryl Saban, Philanthropist and wife of Haim Saban, an entertainment mogul.
$2.5 million

-Haim Saban, California media investor, major Democratic donor and husband of Cheryl Saban, philanthropist.
$2.5 million

-Herbert M. Sandler, Founder, with his wife, Marion, of Golden West Financial, the giant California savings and loan bought by the Wachovia Corporation in 2006.
$2.5 million

-S. Donald Sussman, Founder and chairman of Paloma Partners LLC.
$2.5 million

-Laure Woods, Bay Area philanthropist. $2.3 million

-Barbara Lee, Philanthropist in Cambridge, Mass.; founder of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation and the Barbara Lee Political Office. $1.7 million

-Patricia A. Stryker, Heir to a fortune from a medical supplies company. Owner of the Stryker Sonoma winery. $1.3 million

-Jeffrey Katzenberg, Chief executive of DreamWorks Animation. $1.0 million

-Stephen M. Silberstein, Co-founder of Innovative Interfaces, a company that develops automated systems for libraries, in 1978 and served as its first president. $1.0 million

-Steven Spielberg, Filmmaker and chairman of Amblin Partners. $1.0 million

-Bernard L. Schwartz, Chairman and chief executive of BLS Investments.
$1.0 million

-S. Daniel Abraham, Billionaire philanthropist and former chairman of the company that created Slim Fast diet products. $1.0 million

As Donald Trump pointed out the big donors are not giving those millions of dollars for nothing. They expect to be remembered. Their interests will come before the American people. You can expect the TPP and the TAP to be signed into law if Hillary Clinton is elected president.

My conclusion is there really is no one running for president to protect the American people.

The Lady Plumber

Irena Sendler
Died: May 12, 2008 (aged 98) Warsaw, Poland

During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive.
Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried. She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids.

Irena kept a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.

The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.

During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.
Ultimately, she was caught, however, and the Nazi’s broke both of her legs and arms and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled out, In a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and tried to reunite the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

Later another politician, Barack Obama, won for his work as a community organizer for ACORN.

In MEMORIAM – 65 YEARS LATER I’m doing my small part by posting this message. I hope you’ll consider doing the same. It is now more than 65 years since the Second World War in Europe ended. In memory of the 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated!

Now, more than ever, with Iran, and others, claiming the HOLOCAUST to be ‘a myth’, It’s imperative to make sure the world never forgets, Because there are others who would like to do it again.

A Historic Event in Cuba

This is a historic day in U.S. Cuban relations. It has been reported that the last president to visit Cuba came there 88 years ago. Clearly the president’s visit will be part of his legacy. The question should be how will the restoration of diplomatic and economic relations between the two countries really make a difference?

Permitting airlines to schedule flights to Cuba and opening hotels in Cuba will result in an economic impact. Can McDonald’s, Starbuck’s and Kroger Foods be far behind? This action initiated by the president contradicts those that say President Obama opposes America’s free enterprise society. You remember, there are those that say Obama wants to change the United States into a socialist/communist country.

It is impossible to predict the future but there is a possibility that free enterprise will come to Cuba soon. American businesses are the likely beneficiary of the opening of Cuba. Can this be a bad thing?

A Supreme Court Nomination Scenario

Donald Trump’s lead to win the Republican Party nomination could easily provide a path to Judge Merrick Garland’s ascent to the Supreme Court.

Here is my logic. Donald Trump has been behind Hillary Clinton in all the polls showing their likelihood to win in a general election. As of now the Clinton lead is relatively small but as the calendar approaches November and Clinton is still leading, the GOP leadership in the Senate may soften. For sure after an election of Clinton the Senate may rush to approve the Garland nomination because they might fear a more liberal nomination.

Garland has an impeccable record and at 63 his time on the Supreme Court is probably limited.

Donald Trump is Don Rickles in Disguise

Donald Jay “Don” Rickles (born May 8, 1926) is an American stand-up comedian, voice actor, and actor. Best known as an insult comic. Donald Trump (Does anyone call him Don?) seems to think Rickles is someone to emulate. Trump would be a great replacement in Las Vegas for the Rickles insult show.

Do you really want this man to be president of the United States?

Dec 22, 2015 – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump used crude … He said schlong is a more specific and dirty word than schmuck.

February 8, 2016: At a rally on Monday night in Manchester, New Hampshire, Donald Trump repeated a woman’s shouted remark that Ted Cruz was a “pussy” for his comments about waterboarding during the previous Saturday’s Republican debate.

Following are quotes from Donald Trump.

“Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog & will do it again – just watch. He can do much better!”

Clearly Donald is a Team Edward kind of guy…

“Ariana Huffington is unattractive, both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man – he made a good decision.”

Trump always has charming things to say about successful, prominent women – but he stooped particularly low with this comment about Huffington Post founder.

“You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.”

Trump proves (again) that he views a woman’s looks over anything else…

“I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”

Oh for goodness sake.

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best. They’re not sending you, they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bring crime. They’re rapists… And some, I assume, are good people.”

Just another casually racial slur, then…

“Our great African-American President hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore.” Don’t worry, his racist outbursts aren’t just directed at Mexico.

“If I were running ‘The View’, I’d fire Rosie O’Donnell. I mean, I’d look at her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I’d say ‘Rosie, you’re fired.’”

Trump has infamously hated on Rosie O’Donnell, making crude, sexist and misogynistic remarks about her on multiple occasions.

“All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.” Because of course, no woman can resist Trump’s charms. [Throws up on keyboard]

“One of they key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don’t go into government.”

Well at least he’s showing some self awareness.

“The beauty of me is that I’m very rich.”

And not that fabulous barnet of yours?

“It’s freezing and snowing in New York – we need global warming!”

Definitely not missing the point…

“I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”

Possibly (/definitely) one of the creepiest things we’ve ever heard…

“My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.” Ew.

“I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.”

We’re glad he’s so concerned about the obesity crisis.

“I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.”

Women aren’t possessions, Donald. They can’t belong to you.

“You’re disgusting.”

To put this into context, Donald Trump said this to the opposing lawyer during a court case when she asked for a medical break to pump breast milk for her three-month-old daughter.

“The point is, you can never be too greedy.”

Campaign slogan = sorted.

“Sorry, there is no STAR on the stage tonight!”

In his Twitter liveblogging of the Democratic debate, Trump seemed to think he was watching a talent show rather than looking for the next POTUS.

“My Twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth.”

We think Donald may be overestimating the power of Twitter.

“My IQ is one of the highest — and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure; it’s not your fault.”

Don’t worry, we won’t.

“I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.”

What does that even mean?

“The other candidates — they went in, they didn’t know the air conditioning didn’t work. They sweated like dogs…How are they gonna beat ISIS? I don’t think it’s gonna happen.”

Because sweating = the inability to solve a political crisis. Gotcha.

“Look at those hands, are they small hands? And, [Republican rival Marco Rubio] referred to my hands: ‘If they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.”

America’s Royalty

If you did not believe there is royalty in the U.S.A. you are wrong. It was the large group of people who attended Nancy Reagan’s funeral.

Who are the “A list“ people in America? It’s easy to define by seeing who attended the Nancy Reagan funeral. News reports say that there were about 1,000 people in attendance. There is no list of all attendees on the internet. Here is a list that I have found. It is a list of America’s royalty. The road to the Ronald Reagan Library, where the funeral was held, was lined with people wanting to see the royalty.

From politics:

President George W. Bush
First ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Rosalynn Carter and Hillary Clinton
James Baker
Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives
California Gov. Jerry Brown
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and wife Callista Gingrich
Capt. Christopher Bolt, the commander of the USS Ronald Reagan
Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan
Former Governor of California, Pete Wilson
Edwin “Ed” Meese, III
Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich
Barry Goldwater Jr., former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives

From Hollywood:

Mr. T
Anjelica Huston
Wayne Newton
Mike Love
Bo Derek
Actor Tom Selleck
Actor Gary Sinise
Comedian Yakov Smirnoff
Actor John Stamos
Melissa Rivers
Tina Sinatra
Steve Lawrence and Johnny Mathes, singers
Larry King with his wife Shawn Southwick

From the media

MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews
Tom Brokaw
Former TV host Larry King
Sam Donaldson
Publishing executive Steve Forbes
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan
Katie Couric
Diane Sawyer
Steve Forbes

First children:

Caroline Kennedy
President Lyndon Johnson’s daughters Lynda Johnson and Luci Baines Johnson
President Gerald Ford’s son Steven Ford
President Richard Nixon’s daughter Tricia Nixon Cox

Although Nancy Reagan was a former First Lady was she entitled to a military honor guard? She loved her husband and did everything in her power to protect him. So did my mother protecting my father and my wife protecting me. There were no honor guards at my parent’s funerals and probably not at your parents either.

Nancy Reagan deserved a funeral but I see no reason for the royal treatment.

The Final GOP Primary Debate-It Was Civil

Perhaps it was the warm weather of Florida or maybe they all came to their senses and realized that name calling is not presidential. Finally the four remaining candidates had a civil discussion on some of the issues facing the United States. Sadly, like most politicians, their solutions to problems were vague.

Missing from the discussion was an explanation of how they could get along with Democrats. Donald Trump was the only one who said he is flexible and was willing to consider compromise with those damn Democrats.

Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief at The Daily Wire and editor-at-large for Breitbart News Network.
“Trump gets an A not because he says anything of particular value (he never does) or because he has actual solutions (nope) or any basic principles (try again). He gets an A because he’s already winning. All he has to do is keep on winning and avoid a major slip-up. He did that tonight.”

In other words, all Trump needs to do is avoid saying anything foolish, look presidential and play out the clock until the convention and he will have the nomination.