You don’t stiff your customers

Candid. Truthful. Ethical. Transparent. Plain-speaking. The true goals of reasonable behavior – the recognized building blocks of self-responsibility and accountability – are the guiding standards for an honorable and just society: You don’t stiff your customers.

What should be obvious is that factual information is essential for voters to make informed decisions about issues, and the result of those decisions.

Recently, the Paris Texas Chamber recognized that TV program re-runs from two to three decades ago were popular for a simple reason:  Mostly, what you see today is progressive ‘woke’ crap, packaged to confused genders in the alphabet world, and unending ads by some of the nation’s largest corporations, which are great at separating money from those who labor for it.

Most ads seem to be selling a “woke” counter-culture, using gender-confused fake-happy “spokespersons” regurgitating words provided by some creative-challenged copywriter employed with an endeavor “too big to fail!”

These monopolies and conglomerates are:

* A few that invent a disease for some drug that was discovered as a side-effect of another drug, and the side-effect of this new drug sold to hypochondriacs – for this newly discovered disease – will kill them.

* A few want to sell you questionable processed food mixed (for taste) with flavored sugar that will make you not just a little dietetic, but will fatten you up before Christmas.

* A few have miraculously put “bushels of fruit and vegetables” in one little-bitty pill.

* A few have pills that will help you sleep; a few have pills that will keep you awake, and all of them guaranteed to make you healthy just enough to live long enough to regret it.

* Eight national Internet Providers and telephone companies openly lie about download speeds; “apps” that you don’t need; and never ever mention the robocalls that pay them billions of dollars for our data and personal information that they sell.

* Then, there are hours of ads for “free” money and “free”assistance by a myriad of programs from government agencies (using taxpayer dollars), which take our money by force and use what remains after political salaries and retirement to try and convince the taxpayers that more government is the answer to all our problems.

Its all a partnership between Big Business and Big Government, leading to pay-TV for sports and Google’s YouTube like-promises of no ads and better quality programming. All for a higher cost. Naturally.

 

The objective seems to be to stiff their customers – playing them as dopes –  by lying about products or services.

Its an idea they got from Government.  

The problem is that there is no accountability for how government does what it does. And evidently, it has recently assured its Big Business cronies that they are not accountable for what they do. Either.

Logic has been buried in the years of lies by big government and its big business cronies.

We all want increased salaries or incomes to improve our lives economically.  Sometimes our greed makes us foolish.

So, totalitarians sell the sizzle, not the steak.

The sizzle of greed is an easy sell. The steak, however, is a conflict with their interest, so they keep the steak.

Because you don’t stiff your customers, taxpayers are – rightly – losing our faith in government. It takes away our power to keep it our servant every time it or one of its “too big to fail” cronies acts against just one of us.  They are, by forcing us into compliance, using that power to become our master.  Examples being Internet providers (IPs):  Each of the three largest IPs in Paris, are redlining their digital service areas, while lying to us about the download and upload speeds.

Each firm has 15-or more carefully small worded pages of their “customer service” and “privacy” agreements telling each customer that they must agree to surrender every right they have as individuals, plus pay for “access” to a free Internet. In short, as the agreements and privacy policies are basically the same at every firm, customers (who must use their services to remain current in the digital world) are forced into compliance – while paying the firms to act as their masters. And government allows it.

While being inundated with issues that appeal emotionally – as logic and Constitutional principles are ignored – voters, are told – lied to, mostly – about glorified political personalities who allow forced compliance – and benefit by it.

Unfortunately, most of us are unaware that we’re being stiffed by a corrupt privilege few.

 

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Our government

Figures don’t lie …  so, according to our government, everything is just hunky-dory; the borders are safe, and there’s no inflation at all – it’s just that prices are rising, which show positive and great economic percentages in growth – and it has all the data to back up the claims. The fly in all this pile of government manure is that while figures don’t lie, liars can figure.

Insanity is believing that inflation is a good thing and that liars can’t figure…

It’s things like those that make people distrust government.

It seems that those employed in or working for more government, including in Paris, seem to believe in the stupidity of voters.

The City of Paris budget has increased over 7-percent during the last two fiscal years, and it has added two new assistant city managers to help give away cash (and other incentive tax dollars), while adding litter, letting the weeds grow, allowing telephone poles to injure and kill citizens, and watching too many neighborhoods continue to succumb to blight and decay . . .

The federal boys and girls report National Retail sales (NAICS 44-45) increased 3.1% from $5,402.3 billion in 2019 to $5,570.4 billion in 2020, according to estimates from the U. S. Census Bureau’s 2020 Annual Retail Trade Survey <https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/arts.html> (ARTS).

Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses (NAICS 4541) <https://www.census.gov/naics/?input=4541&year=2012&details=454111>)// had $888.5 billion in sales in 2020, up 35.2% from 2019. This was the largest year-to-year increase of any industry in 2020.

Other highlights:
* Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers’ (NAICS 441) <https://www.census.gov/naics/?input=441&year=2012&details=441>) sales decreased 2.4% from $1,237.7 billion in 2019 to  $1,208.3 billion in 2020.

* Grocery Store sales (NAICS 4451) <https://www.census.gov/naics/?input=4451&year=2012&details=4451>) increased 9.4% from $694.3 billion in 2019 to $759.7 billion in 2020.

* Gasoline Station (NAICS 447) <https://www.census.gov/naics/?input=447 &year=2012&details=447>) sales decreased sales decreased 16.6% from $513.5 billion in 2019 to $428.1 billion in 2020.

The Census Bureau has been conducting the ARTS since 1952. This survey included 16,500 employer businesses that sell directly to consumers classified in the retail trade sector in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It does not include data for businesses in U. S. Territories. Firms without paid employees (non-employers) are included based on administrative data provided by other federal agencies and through “imputation.”

The data are published on a North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) <https://www.census.gov/naics/> basis. They are used to benchmark monthly retail sale and inventory estimates each spring used by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and other federal agencies to develop related products.

 

According to this data, national retail sales increased by 3.1%, grocery prices by 9.4%, and a decrease in auto sales (2.4%) and gas prices (16.6%).

While the report doesn’t touch it, isn’t it likely that inflation created most of the increases, not value. And consumers made market choices on just what they could afford, and that much of the online and catalog sales came from the politically-inspired Covid19 shutdown? 

As sayth the national Democrat Party and the RINO’s in it, “there is no inflation.” The Paris Texas Chamber of Commerce is just wondering, (a) what caused the prices to increase? And (b) how much neighborhood improvement could be accomplished annually by half of what the City of Paris is now paying its administrative staff?

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blackmail and bribery

Government habitually works on a basis of personal relationships and a system of reciprocal favors. Basically, blackmail and bribery support an orderly process, widely known “as a good thing” of compromises and consensus, “a reasonable agreement on which both sides can agree . . .” Then, they add exemptions.

Even city councils pass ordinances with no exemptions, then allow local governmental units to excel at the granting of exemptions.

Any policy, regulation or law riddled with exemptions is designed to be ignored or broken.

Its underlying purposes are (1) to reward friends or those who are in a position to do favors, and (b) to demonstrate their power to control and/or deny opportunities for those they see as incapable of doing them harm.

Exemptions are arranged in secret meetings with insiders; developers, industries and other large or inside endeavors. Each meeting is generally conducted in an alternation of blackmail and bribery. Taxpayers are stuck with the bill for each exchange . . .

Earlier this year, the Paris Texas Chamber of Commerce vented about how the weeds and wild grasses of 2021 and 2022 were still standing all over Paris, and the new crops of 2023 were doing well, despite ordinances that existed against such things, even how high they could grow . . .

We’re not happy to report that three years of crops are still standing in several places. Or, that as the crops were growing, our local city government grew an assistant city manager and a deputy city manager to help the city manager to grow more government at a compounded 3.5-percent annual clip; which in ten years adds an estimated 40-percent increase to the taxpayer’s cost for bad government.

Ask yourself: What did Paris need most, weeds cut or a larger city administration?

Now it is what it is, and excuses and misinformation and blaming “the other guy” doesn’t change the changeable process. But government, of all kinds, must have exemptions from its own rules, polices, and public utterances or the exchange of blackmail and bribery won’t work.

 

Government is fertilized by thinking that government is good.

Government claims its purpose is to make our lives better.

Government’s purpose is to grow.

Or there wouldn’t be exemptions.

The very last thing every government wants is a way for the ordinary citizens to improve their lives economically – Oh, right!

We do or once did have the Constitutional guarantee of equal economic opportunity; whereby, each of us had an opportunity to improve our lives economically. But as voters, we allowed those we elected to ignore the Constitution by telling us that only government can make our lives better.

Its the Big Lie.

So, Blackmail and bribery

The only way you can rise above poverty is by acquiring property (assets). But our national banking policy is “cash-flow loans only” – and has been since the early 1980s, when our government outlawed asset-based lending.

When the acquisition of private property (ownership of assets) is no longer available, you’re limited on how you can economically improve your life.

Crooks in big financial institutions and the national swamp, using lobbyists, paid for the exchange from a Private Enterprise System to State Capitalism, the partnership between Big Business and Big Government. One minor reason for outlawing asset-based lending was to provide a way to launder the $150-billion a day cash-flow of illegal drug money, which the government now uses as an excuse to keep tabs on individuals doing $600-and-up transactions in a bank. It also provides those in Nutland, D. C., who keep tabs of such things, a secret list of millions and millions of people, all categorized by income, location, and occupation.

We’ve allowed the con-artists, snake oil salesmen, magic bean promoters, shysters, liars and advocates of Big Government to remove equal economic opportunity from our Constitution, which also effectively removed equal treatment under the law.

Of course, that same bunch of no-goodniks removed many of the Constitution’s constructs and mandates, including the three independent branches of government; one-man, one vote: limiting central government power; each state a separate nation; borders must be protected; privacy in our homes and papers; crimes punished; etc.

They claim our Constitution (a system of lawful principles to live by), is just parchment; a piece of paper where words were written down as an experiment . . .

 

Today, self-responsibility and accountability are just words

Like the Second Amendment, principles are basically gone: Today, IF you try to defend yourself against a gang of armed thugs, you are the domestic terrorist.

We’re told:

  • to close down businesses and to wear a mask
  • you, as a parent, have no right to determine how or what you want your children taught in school
  • “equal outcomes” are more important than Equal Justice
  • support of Constitutional constructs cannot be posted on social media
  • illegals are legal
  • you MUST choose movies, music, and books and your friends based on equity, inclusion, and diversity
  • be ‘nice’ to individuals you wouldn’t go with to a dogfight or allow in your home

As they campaign for more government, totalitarians are dividing the nation, as seen in a corrupt U. S. Department of Justice carrying out blackmail and bribery, while claiming additional exemptions from principles and values.

That we’re also told to allow, just as we’re being told a lot of other things that rate high in stupidity and falsehoods.

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