Friday, September 29, 2006

The President and all the Presidents men


COST OF DOING BUSINESS IN THESE UNITED STATES, WHERE NOW YOU, THE AMERICAN CITIZEN MAY BE HELD IN JAIL WITH NO CHARGE FILED.

Payroll 5,000.00
Taxes (state and fed) 2,000.00
Fed employer liability 1,900.00
Comp Ins (iron worker) 50% 2,500.00
Liability Insurance 25% 1,225.00
Unemployment Ins 14% 700.00
Health Ins @ 5.00 per hour 120 hrs 600.00


Payroll cost for 5,000.00 = 13,920.00

Employee net from 5,000= 3,000.00


Insurance companies and the government take 11,000.00
The employee takes 3,000.00

If you ever wondered if this country is in big trouble, wonder no longer, it is.

Iraq cost 2 billion a week
Big dig cost 14 billion total

In seven weeks the cost of the Iraq war could pay for the total upgrade of a major American City.

Iraq war 3 years cost: 300 billion
Number of American cities which could have been re-built: 20
Number of jobs generating tax revenue from these re-building projects generates another 200 billion, allowing for the re-building of 15 cities infrastructure, creating tax revenue to re-build another etc, etc, etc.

33% of Insurance Company profit goes to taxes, Make the companies non profit, or socialized and the cost of insurance makes the American work force competitive. The total insurance cost for the 5000 payroll above is; (comp, liability, health care) $4,325.00, Almost as much as the employee’s gross wages.

OUR GOVERNMENT IS BROKEN, ITS MAKING AMERICA BROKE!

Friday, September 22, 2006

theatre


Theatre, what a word, for life is a theatre, a seed head of grass is a theatre, a car parked on a street is a theatre, a ketchup bottle is a theatre. For life is a constant reaction to environment, as the saying goes life is for living, for being part of the theatre. If you open a news paper and look at the pictures, the pictures chosen are chosen precisely because they contain theatre, look at the advertisements; they are chosen because they contain theatre, even a simple clothing ad for lets say Macy’s. The woe is me mentality just doesn’t cut it, the external theatre has nothing to do with the internal, for there are oh so many who’s external theatre is much more “complicated” than many others, and on, and on, and on. Today, the pharmaceutical companies, the governments, wish to create a “one” stage theatre, where the individual stage is made to be one. Today, we have an enormous substance abuse problem with people wishing to escape their theatre. Now, you may not like my theatre but to say theatre in general is for only when I must experience it is, ignorant, an escape. To wish for a blank wall is frightening. What I find interesting in all of this, and have for years is that forms of minimal art in their effort to create a simplified theatre instead create one of great response, of great reaction. For life is reaction after reaction, reaction caused by the action before which immediately changes to reaction from the moment preceding, to give way to the next reaction, there is no getting around this even in a blank wall, for the external theatre really has nothing to do with the internal. What I was saying about this piece is it doesn’t create enough theatre, (how wrong I was), I forgot that even a silent room can’t hide from being a stage.

Friday, September 15, 2006

spirit of mankind


Lost to mankind is the spirit of life, the search for meeting the soul and recognising its self.