Note: Willie D. Wormie was planning on running for President in 1992 and had
just finished and copied his first press release announcing his candidacy when
a human "Slick Willie" entered the race. Because of the problems
human beings have with name recognition, Willie D. Wormie believed that his
high ethical standards could be sacrificed for political gain, he therefore
reluctantly withdrew from the political scene. Mr. Wormie has now made a
miraculous comeback, recently being anointed Philosopher-King of Meyers Falls,
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Question: Is it appropriate for a candidate
for President of the United States to tailor his remarks when speaking on the
stump, if those remarks in any way foster the racial divisions within the human
family?
Response by: Willie D. Wormie,
Philosopher-King, Meyers Falls, Oikosvirtual
I understand that this question may relate to a statement made by one of the
Republican candidates, whom many have assumed to be the next leader of the free
world. I would have liked to ask him directly but, when I tried to contact this
individual, I was told he would only receive comments of 350 words or less and
he didn't have staff to respond to all the questions coming from humans. Can
you imagine what would happen if he got a serious question from and earthworm.
Let me tell you from my experience, humans should, or should have the ability
to hire someone for their political staff, who could read more than 350 words
without suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder or some other anomaly.
As I understand the context of the situation, this person was at a meeting
in South Carolina, with some political supporters, many of whom were of
Afro-American heritage. The comment was made that the statistics state, that
the wealth of white American families is ten times that of black American
families. Those facts I do not dispute, but then he went on to say, that in
order to start a business, to achieve the American Dream, all a white person
needs to do is just borrow the needed funds from his Uncle Tom. Then he further
stated, that the Black person who doesn't have a rich Uncle Tom to borrow or
invest those funds in his business enterprise may then forever be shut out of
that dream. I believe that statements of this type foster racial prejudices
that all white folks, are born with a silver spoon in there mouth.
What his naive statements illustrate, is not really a racial divide in this
country, but a class divide. This divide is between the wealthy educated elite
with access to capital, and the rest of the American community. Between the
haves in abundance, with the stock portfolios, and the just getting by. When he
then goes on to state that he wants to give a tax break to working people he
again misses the point, because it doesn't take a rocket scientist to
understand that for a majority of working Americans, the income tax is not
really an income tax at all, but a revenue tax. They are taxed on their gross
revenues, not on incomes. But again, this tax break issue is really an argument
from elitism.
The greatest tax burden in this country is really the Social Security -
Medicare Tax, which is probably as it should be. There is also the corporate
health insurance tax, though we don't call it a tax, as such. But call it what
you wish, it is still a payment by employers to their employees, amounting at
least to a couple of hundred dollars a month for individuals and much more for
families. Just as politicians are willing to tinker around the edges of the
income tax system, so they can only tinker around the edges of the health
insurance issue, because special business interests of the social elite want it
that way. In the mean time forty million Americans are without health insurance
of any kind.
Much talk will be said in this upcoming election about maintaining this boom
of the United States economy. We will hear spin, we will see smoke and mirrors,
and more promises. But we shall not see any substantial change unless someone
comes up with an alternative, to MOS (more of the same). Someone who also has
the where with all and the political security to take a stand. As an earthworm,
a Red Manure worm by race, politically secure in my role as Philosopher-King of
Meyers Falls, Oikosvirtual, the world's oldest virtual community, the buck
stops here. As perhaps one of the last great American presidents said.
With my ears to the earth's good soil, I once heard of a man from Odessa,
Washington. Many people behind his back called him BS Henry. I never heard of
anyone who could talk down Henry. As Henry talked and talked sometimes he would
mention some pearl of wisdom. The only problem was, Henry was too busy talking
to listen to himself and mostly he missed the application of his wisdom. But a
few humans new that when Henry walked into the room you might as well listen,
for one thing, you couldn't do anything else, but also by listening carefully,
you could sometimes through the stories, pick up some great insights about life
and the opportunities it presents. Henry passed on a few years back, but
perhaps that same gift was present in the presidential candidate mentioned
earlier. That gem relates to the formation and access to capital as the real
key to maintaining this economic boom and allowing it to be planted and grow
throughout the world.
As my ancestors and I have observed human beings over all these thousands of
years of the progression of human culture, we have come to the belief that the
whole human family is united not only in biological unity (have you ever tried
to mate with a night crawler) but also with the desire to be free. This desire
really is made up of two parts. The first part is to be free from the
oppression of others. This is something quite difficult for those from the
class of cultural and financial affluence to understand. The second part is to
be free from the individual preoccupation with themselves. These desires are
common to all of the human species. If they could understand like my ancestors
have always understood, all gains in life are achieved only by improving the
quality of the soil. Left to our own devices, we become just a shallow can of
worms. So let's look at these attributes as they relate to the pursuit of
happiness, as Americans have defined it. Notice before we begin, pursuit is a
trip, not a destination.
Last week I heard about a young woman, from North Idaho. Her description was
as a "Julia Roberts look alike with a couple of more prominent
assets". I find it amazing that humans (regardless of sex) for some reason
look at those types of assets in women as more important than brain power and
integrity. This admiration seems to cross all cultures, social classes, races
and nationalities. Julia as we will call her, was a dancer in those clubs where
those assets are definitely an asset. But Julia, read Barrons and one day hoped
to raise enough capital to start an internet cafe and use a little more of her
eternal, internal God given gifts. The question of freedom is, if there were
another source of capital, for a young good looking woman from North Idaho,
other than showing off her physical assets, would she avail herself of that
opportunity. The point is without an Uncle Tom more interested in Julia's
higher development and not just her physical attributes, Julia is stuck making
lemonade with the lemons she has been given.
The more common means for humans to achieve this freedom however is to work
for "da man" for thirty years. After that early retirement, freedom
is then achieved at fifty percent of base pay. So then you can say, "Take
this job and shove it you lying SOB!" That statement is an abbreviated
summary of another situation I learned of last week. This person on their
thirtieth anniversary of teaching, caught their principal in just another lie,
fostered to improve his own career. It is amazing how this method of achieving
some personal freedom really is the foundation of the American social state.
This too is really not racist in any form, the amount of money involved needs
to be addressed by political means, but as a country without much of a social
safety net, limited other opportunities other than hanging on until you can
retire, exist for common people.
Taking it overseas, I'm sure a lot of Russian women really don't like the
opportunity of becoming prostitutes in various European countries. But the
facts of life point out just as with Julia, the need to eat and the possibility
to produce enough capital to break the cycle of poverty, results in using the only
gift of assets that they have naturally been given. The same is also true in
Thailand and the Philippines. This exploitation of some by the social
establishment is only different, in different countries because of economies of
scale and a very limited social morality.
So what can be done to alleviate such forms of bondage? Starting here, in
America, this freedom can be exported along with the technology of this new
global economy. As in the last century, after the imposition of the income tax,
the only way to bring this about is through modifications to the tax system.
Uncle Sugar has to point Uncle Tom in the right direction. First of all,
essentially all new jobs are created by small business. All current business
incentives including tax rates are pointed toward maintenance and growth of
wealth from existing sources. Investing in mutual funds, the stock market etc.
Much of that is through, tax deferred routes. Because of our current low
marginal tax rates, there is really absolutely no reason to take any risk in
investing in any risky startup, or early rounds of financing with Julia's
internet cafe. After all if Julia was not so good looking, she would have had
to go to college to get a good job.
Also, in America anyone who has the internal assets to create and maintain a
job producing enterprise has access to more debt, through bank cards, equity
loans and the like, than they can reasonably hope to service, should some
unforeseen event happen. Starting a business by taking out an equity loan on
the house is asking for trouble. Uncle Tom has worked all his life on the job,
and he really isn't to keen on hair brained schemes either, its just that his
wife Julia was once. . . and she understands risk.
That leaves all of us, Black, White, Yellow, Brown, Red, or Red Manure Worm
to come up with some sort of equity financing for start up businesses. In many
countries of the world, as once was true in the United States, marginal tax
rates are so high that you might as well take the risk, because the government
is going to take it anyway. That will not happen again in America in my
lifetime. One other Republican candidate recommends abolishing the whole tax
system and replacing it with consumption taxes, like we have here in Meyers
Falls, Oikosvirtual. But that is way too idealistic for 21st century America.
There are too many entrenched political interests in the American democratic
system. While I, as Philosopher-King, speak and it happens here in Meyers
Falls.
What needs to happen is for Uncle Sugar to tell Uncle Tom, that his
investments, up to ten thousand dollars per year, will forever be free of tax
burden. Uncle Tom invests ten grand in niece Julia's internet cafe, Julia
manages the business and it grows until it has the cash flow for Julia to go to
the bank and truly service that debt. She buys out good old Uncle Tom for
$100,000. Just think for a moment, what would happen if Julia somewhere along
the line developed this great, even better idea, and eventually Julia became
the next Martha Stewart and Uncle Tom's ten grand went along in the public
offering, still tax free. Uncle Tom is so happy he really retires early, or he
hears of this great opportunity that this "Worm of color" has to
create a new world.
Now all new companies require more than just $10k to get started, but there
should be a limit of $500,000 of seed capital that Julia can raise from this
venue. Since each investor is limited to $10,000, Julia will also have to hit
up Uncle Dick and Uncle Harry also. In fact she is going to have to badger all
her friends and relatives for money, just as she has to do now. The only
difference is that now her family has a potentially lucrative investment to
listen to. If these investment opportunities were also allowed to corporations,
LLCs and nonprofits, and not only in America but around the world,
entrepreneurship would become the major growth industry. Then perhaps Brother
Loves Traveling Salvation Show, could once again focus on salvation instead of
the show and the fleecing of sheep.
In the current tax structure all that would be required is a line on the
current tax forms for "Nontaxable equity investments". Each year Tom
would report the new companies in which he invested his pretax, nontaxable
equity investments, listing with the companies EIN (Employer Identification
Number), along with previous years investments, limited by that $10,000 per
year provision. Those records, as an IRS filing would be subject to audit
procedures, just as are the rest of Tom and Julia's return. For those business
that went bust, they could still take a loss according to current loss
provisions.
This brings us back to the initial question. The only way that man's racist
tendencies will be overcome is not pointing fingers at some rich Uncle Tom no
matter his color, as the presidential candidate's statement helped others to
do, but to understand that the American dream is not achieved based on the
equality of outcomes, but on the equality of opportunity. While this is not a
perfect world, the freedom to achieve freedom from oppression from others and
to eventually to struggle to give to others more than they deserve, will only
come when those who have, are willing to share their abundance with those who
have not. This is really achieved by allowing for the diverse opportunity for the
creation of capital to foster small business community development.
America has an unique opportunity this first election cycle of the new
millennium. For perhaps the first time in her history, the five remaining
candidates for President are all persons of character, not just characters.
Three have been groomed from birth to the possibly of that election, the other
two are also men of unusual giftings. All have achieved in their own way the
freedom from bondage of oppression of others, and are really their own men. All
seem to be seeking the office for the opportunity to serve beyond their own
self interest. This is truly an unique time in history. But, all of these
humans are men, and as a consequence, they are wired with the emotional wiring
of an earthworm. Therefore it is imperative on the American electorate to
understand when each candidate says, "I feel your pain!", that some
significant rewiring or refining must have taken place for that to be a really
true statement. Remember with men of this stature, understanding of a normal
life's pains and heartaches is an acquired or learned attribute.
Thank you for your kind understanding and God bless you, and God bless
America! Oops, I forgot I'm no longer have to run for any elected office.
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At your service,
Willie D. Wormie
Philosopher-King, Meyers Falls, Oikosvirtual
This article without this prayer section will be posted as stated above and
mailed to a few news sources. We have moved into new ground, as Willie would
say, "Prayerfully good earth!" As with all changes, we most of the
time would rather remain in Egypt than to step forth boldly in faith. One nice
thing there are way too many things hanging out for me to afford much time to
worry about individual actions. One day at a time, sweet Jesus! Please pray for
my understanding, or obedience to His leading and my openness to follow this
path forward.
When you realize just what we have received in the adoption as sons and
daughters in Jesus Christ, why do we find it so hard to take even minute risks,
when people like Julia (this week a real person who's real name I do not know,
nor did I have the opportunity to meet) are willing to risk it all to pursue a
dream for only the temporal pursuit of happiness. Our God is in the business in
changing lives such as hers into a new lives, where temporal assets are just
that, and her desire for freedom from herself is a process, we in the church
call, the progressive sanctification of the saint. Pray for Julia and all like
her you may meet, or if you do not know anyone like that, pray for the boldness
to take the risk, to be in situations where the paths of your lives may meet.
That can be scary but that is the real reason we are here.
Praise ye the Father for his loving kindness,
Tenderly cares he for his erring children;
Praise him, ye angels, praise him in the heavens, Praise ye Jehovah.
Praise ye the Saviour, great in compassion;
Graciously cares he for his chosen people;
Young men and maidens, ye old men and children, Praise ye the Saviour.
Praise ye the Spirit, Comforter of Israel,
Sent of the Father and the Son to bless us,
Praise ye the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Praise ye the Triune God. Amen.
Elizabeth Rundle Charles, 1826-96