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By: Daniel Horowitz | November 6th, 2015
The Obama administration is gleefully trumpeting the news out today that 271,000 new jobs were created in October and the unemployment rate is relatively low – ticking down to 5%. The problem? All of the decline in joblessness can be attributed to an increase in employment among foreign-born workers relative to their share of the population. In fact, among American-born workers the number of unemployed increased. As you can see from the first table, the number of foreign-born unemployed in this country decreased by 57,000 – from 1.204 million to 1.147 million.Meanwhile, the number of unemployed native-born Americans increased by 27,000. Relative to the population growth, almost all of the net increase in new jobs over the past decade has benefited immigrants. This is why the unemployment rate among native-born Americans remained unchanged in October while the rate among foreign-born workers declined from 4.6% to 4.4%. Remember, although the foreign-born population is close to an all-time high, immigrants still represents only 13.5% of the population. Relative to the population growth, almost all of the net increase in new jobs over the past decade has benefited immigrants. You might argue that this represents good news, at least for immigrant families. We certainly want nothing more than upward mobility for immigrants. But according to Pew, their poverty rate is at an all-time high. In 1970, the poverty rate among immigrants stood at 18%, only slightly higher than the 14% of the native-born population. Now the poverty rate among immigrants has grown to 28% compared to 15% among Native Americans. Concurrently, 87% of illegal immigrant families and 72% of legal immigrant families are on welfare. Increased poverty and welfare usage among immigrants, yet increased employment? What gives? This dichotomy is a clear illustration that the influx of low skilled workers, largely from the third world, is doing nothing to grow the economy and create upward mobility for immigrants and natives alike. It is an open borders scam to reduce wages and employ record numbers of immigrants at wages oriented towards the third world instead of the standard of living Americans are used to. Ultimately, the taxpayers have to foot the bill for the lower wages championed by the business community. This, at its core, is why Milton Friedman warned that you can’t have open borders and a welfare state. - See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/11/truth-behind-the-numbers-foreign-born-jobs-up-american-born-jobs-unchanged#sthash.abNUT9sx.ztYtaELb.dpuf If anyone deserves to pay more to shore up the federal safety net, either through higher taxes or lower benefits, it’s boomers — the generation that was born into some of the strongest job growth in the history of America, gobbled up the best parts, and left its children and grandchildren with some bones to pick through and a big bill to pay. Politicians shouldn’t be talking about holding that generation harmless. They should be asking how future workers can claw back some of the spoils that the “Me Generation” hoarded for itself. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/05/baby-boomers-are-whats-wrong-with-americas-economy/?tid=sm_fb
If anyone deserves to pay more to shore up the federal safety net, either through higher taxes or lower benefits, it’s boomers — the generation that was born into some of the strongest job growth in the history of America, gobbled up the best parts, and left its children and grandchildren with some bones to pick through and a big bill to pay. Politicians shouldn’t be talking about holding that generation harmless. They should be asking how future workers can claw back some of the spoils that the “Me Generation” hoarded for itself.
Before we can talk about what it means to think in three dimensions let us consider what it means to think in a two-dimensional form. Pardon the simplicity of this topic but two-dimensional thinking, I think of as a simple A to B, one to one, linear thinking where one thing is related, caused by, associated with, or the other side of another. These two items exist in an exclusive one to one relationship without any other factors considered significant enough to be part of a larger equation.
In this linear two-dimensional model of thinking people see one thing related to one other thing and nothing else. One example where we often see a natural two-dimensional relationship is in sports. In sports one team plays against another team, one boxer fights another boxer. In one game we see a scoreboard with exactly two teams listed, each team playing against the other. In this example, the one to one relationship is clear to see. We never see three boxers in a ring, or a game between three football teams at the same time. The human mind seems to best understand and recognize dualism in the context of one on one. The one to one relationship is necessary for the integrity of the sport and for the understanding, and enjoyment of this dualism integral to the sport. In sports as in life, it is only after you step back and start to see the bigger picture (ie the playoffs) that you start to think in a higher dimensional manner. The overall greater picture allows for the consideration of more than two teams. Likewise, the American western mainstream media led political propaganda paradigm that exists today operates almost entirely in two-dimensional logic. Republican OR Democrat, Christian OR Muslim, U.S. versus whoever they say the terrorists are (ISIS, Al Qaeda), war between this country and that country, Capitalism verses Socialism, this cause OR that cause. We see examples of this sports-like one to one, linear, A or B, two-dimensional structure in all political issues. The CIA and it's deceptive mainstream media and politicians use the simple-minded, sports-like two-dimensional thinking as a powerful weapon to deceive and keep the masses asleep in the matrix of lies. That's right, this overly-simplistic idea of two-dimensional thinking is often overlooked by most and quietly plays a huge role in mind-control and deception of the masses. Like the back and forth pendulum of a hypnosis specialist or a crowd intensely watching a good tennis match, the two-dimensional model offers the perfect distraction from other realities. The control system knows that maintaining the two-dimensional relationship on politically related narratives guarantees critically important ongoing opportunities to introduce distractions and thus mass deception to the general public. BY Bernie Suarez This two-dimensional thinking is a propaganda tactic and is the perfect tool of deception not so much for what it does, but for what it doesn't do. It inhibits higher forms of thinking, limits the scope of a topic and limits the dimensions of consideration taken in the topic. If this were being compared to medicine one could say that two-dimensional thinking is a type of silent killer. Thinking in two-dimensions only, is to your mind, sense of understanding, critical thinking and intellectual development what having a weak immune system is to the human body. In both cases you are opening up the system- whether it be your sense of understanding and critical thinking or your heath- to be attacked, weakened and debilitated. Now that we have considered what two-dimensional thinking is, let us consider what three-dimensional thinking looks like. We suggested the sports example where the playoff overall picture represents a more three-dimensional view of things, in the case of the war on terror for example- we can apply three-dimensional thinking by considering more than just ISIS or terrorists versus America or the West but instead step back and see who might be gaining from the very perceived two-dimensional dualistic picture. Ask yourself, is there really a third much more significant party behind the dual? A puppet master running the show? Elements clearly pulling the string with the deliberate intent of letting the dual play out? Instead of seeing Republicans versus Democrats in two-dimensional linear thinking- with three-dimensional thinking we can again step back and try to see the greater picture by asking who might be gaining from the perceived two-dimensional, linear two party back and forth battle. Three-dimensional thinking allows us to see and reconcile that life in America does not change based on Right versus Left and the exact same domestic and foreign political agenda gets carried out either way with little to no difference. Incidentally at the time of this article being written we remember the assassination of president John F. Kennedy and how two-dimensional thinking was applied as a tool to cover up this murder. Everyone was led to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acting all alone (by coincidence) decided to shoot and murder the president. The CIA and mainstream media's primary goal following the murder of JFK was to keep the public in a two-dimensional state of mind. CIA even went out of its way to create the 1035-960 document in 1967 which took great measures to punish anyone who dares think in three dimensions to think outside the box created by mainstream media with regard to who murdered JFK. Three-dimensional thinking doesn't stop at one-to-one relationships but instead seeks to identify the greater truer picture and embrace the reality of how nature truly works. I argue that seeing the greater three-dimensional picture is a natural obligation of every human being. You have an obligation to see the truth, which is the willingness to see the totality and reality of the physical, mental, and spiritual world around us. This involves removing the illusion that political things (of all things) happen by coincidence in a simple two-dimensional manner. This second factor which I call 'coincidence theory' is another layer of deception on humanity and a powerful force of illusion that many are under. The 'coincidence theory' phenomenon is a belief system if not an overall mental disorder where humans consciously or subconsciously attribute daily events to spontaneous coincidental occurrences. Those affected by this disorder want to believe that daily political, national and global events all happen by coincidence. They want to believe this randomness so badly that they are willing to mock and ridicule anyone who doesn't think this way as a "lunatic" or "conspiracy theorist". The idea that events in our daily life are actually organized is resisted. The idea that countries and politicians would actually plan (or conspire) in an organized manner so as to give themselves the best opportunity to achieve stated political goals (domestically or abroad), is artificially repressed by those who believe political events happen by coincidence; they are discarded, even categorized as wild conspiracies even though all logic and reason points to the fact that there is no greater and more efficient way for government to run. This coincidence theory works hand in hand with the simple two-dimensional linear thinking we've been discussing. In order to continue to ignore the greater picture- that other entities are constantly at play behind the scenes of political national and global events gaining from the perceived two-dimensional reality, one must almost certainly believe that all of these events are happening by coincidence. This is the mental profile of those that we refer to as lost in the matrix, blind sheep, ignorant or brainwashed. Three-dimensional thinking on the other hand offers freedom from the limited two-dimensional linear (coincidence theory based) narrow-minded paradigm. By simply learning to think in 3-D you can easily begin to see the greater picture in all political events thus breaking the chains that bind your mind, paralyze critical thinking and limit the scope of your perceptions and understanding regarding world events and politics. Exposing propaganda can take a while if you try to dismantle it piece by piece and that is part of what we are doing here. There are many layers to propaganda, how it works and how it is effectively implemented and this is but one piece of the puzzle. Effective propaganda relies on the dumbing-down of humanity, the elimination of critical thinking, over-simplified perceptions of political context (Right versus Left), appeal to lower-brain with emotion and physical stimuli, and repeated bombardment of these tactics with daily mainstream media lies and propaganda. It's important to understand the dumbing-down of humanity in order to understand how to reverse this effect. Three-dimensional, elevated thinking improves the intelligence, intuition and wisdom of humanity. Three-dimensional critical and open-minded thinking can and will allow you to see things you never have before. In the days we live in where propaganda has become the norm it is as important as ever to error on the side of caution by striving to see the greater picture. Think of this three-dimensional thinking as a return to the norm. Humans were always meant to think in three dimension, it improves the chances of survival and is a natural form of higher thinking. Try to see how the two-dimensional, naive, one on one structure of thought is engineered by the control system and was part of the plan to enslave you all along by getting you to believe whatever the system throws at you. Remember that all politics is by design three-dimensional in nature. Politicians always manipulate two-dimensional scenarios behind the scenes for personal planned political and often openly stated goals. The manipulation of information is the whole point of politics. None of this should be strange or surprising to anyone. It's time to get over the reality of the (three-dimensional) puppet master and the false two-dimensional dualism-based shows the mainstream media and politicians put on for the public. It's time to make this knowledge about how they manipulate the masses common knowledge. Let's continue to expose tactics like this and hopefully more people will consider this argument and begin to resist mainstream media news all together. I believe getting people to starting thinking in three-dimensions and start looking for the puppet master instead of assuming that the puppet master somehow doesn't exist. This single exercise alone, I believe is enough to wake up humanity and restore America and the world to a free and critical thinking state that will keep the globalists in check and hold them accountable for their crimes. If you agree, help share this message with someone and let's help the masses get off the hypnotic, linear, coincidence-theory based two-dimensional paralytic thinking once and for all. Can you imagine what this would look like? |
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