swing to communism to create jobs?

Cheryl is concerned about the rise of welfare and nanny states in response to the global financial crisis and massive immigration and unemployment, and believes that there will ultimately be a swing to communism in order to create jobs for all.

"For all its faults, communism had one good point," says Cheryl. “It's mantra was no work, no food - and that should be our mantra, too."

"Germany was the first of the European nations to crack down on welfare - forcing people to work for less than regular wages - and good for them," says Cheryl. "Forced labor might stick in the craw of native Germans but it is a measure that will surely stop a lot of freeloading immigrants and refugees from wanting to live in Germany."

"In time the rest of the EU and the rest of the western world will have to follow Germany's lead," says Cheryl, "because the welfare cash cow is drying up. Given the choice of forced work in the cities for low wages or return to the land and fend for themselves, I'd expect a lot of people - including the refugees -- will decide they are better off being peasants than slum dwellers."

"I believe welfare - except for the genuinely needy - should be abolished because it attracts freeloaders from other countries and promotes a 'soft', dependent population," says Cheryl. "Responsibility should be sheeted home to families to take care of their own - making people think twice before having a third, fourth or fifth child, and far more encouragement and facilitation should he given to unemployed people to start their own businesses, to create their own jobs, even if it is just street entertainment or car washing."

"There may be very few regular jobs these days, but there is always something that people can do if given a hard enough incentive -- such as no more welfare," explains Cheryl. "Give these people the use of a block of land with a few chickens and a real cow - rather than a cash cow - and force them to take care of themselves!"

Read more from Cheryl on this subject:

the welfare cash cow

immigrants and cash cows

ideologically driven education

Myra remembers angrily how her education was blighted by compulsory religious instruction spewing out anti-communist propaganda and that of her daughter's with compulsory hygiene instruction spewing out anti-smoking propaganda. Now, she is hopping mad that her grand-children's education is not only going to be blighted by similar political agendas -- this time global warming -- but also by a complete curriculum change.

"Was education ever intended to educate children -- to stretch their minds and inspire them?" asks Myra. "Or was it always intended to be ideologically driven by whatever political agenda was in vogue?"

"I've heard that a complete curriculum change is being proposed -- to replace subjects such as geography and mathematics with more politically relevant subjects such as global warming and financial planning."

"Hello? Since when has global warming been established as an undisputed fact?" asks Myra. "And, although I like the idea of slanting subjects towards a practical application I am not happy about my grandchildren being force fed propaganda and being denied a rigorous academic grounding in time-honored subjects."

"Who are the gnomes responsible for proposing these changes?" asks Myra. "And how dare they dumb down our children more than they have been dumbed down already."

"Grammar started going out of fashion when I was at school -- along with classical Latin and Greek," sighs Myra. "My mother still corrects me for my grammatical errors and wonders how an ignoramus such as I ever gained a university education!"

"Likewise, spelling and the times-tables went out of fashion when my daughter was at school," sighs Myra."Nevertheless, she gained a higher degree than I did and not wanting to be like my mother I never dared correct her or take away her calculator."

"I truly believe that academic standards are dropping with each generation," says Myra. "I would never have passed an entrance examination of my mother's era, and similarly my daughter would never have passed one of my era."

"And, I believe that for every political agenda pushed into schools, some vital academic knowledge is being pushed out."

"Is it the aim of our educational gurus to churn out a bunch of politically correct idiots or what?

"I remember being scared out of my wits by Reds under the beds and the wrath of God when I was at school," says Myra. "And my teachers achieved this politically inspired instruction by dropping grammar, Latin and Greek."

"Similarly, my daughter was scared out of her wits by the evils of smoking and did so at the expense of a thorough grounding in spelling and mental arithmetic."

"So, what are our political masters going to drop from the curriculum in order to indoctrinate the next generation into being good little green environmentalists?"

"Oh, I know, it's going to be history, isn't it?"

"We're going to exchange history for current affairs so that the next generation never gets a chance to learn from the mistakes of previous generations, right?"

"Of course, past events significant to the political agenda being pushed will be mentioned," says Myra, "but all of the blood and guts, the heroes and the villains that we learned about will be dropped, and children will never be able to form their own opinions about anything."

"When teachers push political opinion rather than education and become more concerned about political correctness than academic excellence, we are doomed," says Myra. "Children will be indoctrinated, not educated."

"Okay, I survived my indoctrination -- there never were any Reds under the beds and God was never watching me with an eagle eye -- and my daughter survived hers to become a smoker of all things," laughs Myra, "but did we really need to learn this rubbish and do so at the expense of academic learning?"

"In years to come, global warming like everything else will have lost credibility," says Myra, "and I shudder to think of a world populated by grammatical dunces, bad spellers and people without any grounding whatsoever in mental arithmetic, geography, history, Latin or Greek."

"To be totally cynical," says Myra, "it's as if our political masters want to take us back the Dark Ages of illiterate masses and despotic rulers."

why do modern societies follow ancient religions?

The English Civil War of 1642 and the American Revolution of 1770 set a precedent in modern history by sweeping aside a dissolute aristocratic form of government and giving power to the people, but the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 went further - sweeping away not only a dissolute aristocracy but also a dissolute religion.

The French and the Russians succeeded in ending the ancient rule of kings, but they did not wholly succeed in ending the worship of ancient religions. The French Revolutionary Calendar of 1793, for instance, was intended to be aggressively new and anti-Christian, but it so confused the people that Napoleon abandoned it in 1806 - and the French, like the Russians a century later, lapsed back into their old religious ways.

Neither the free revolutionary humanist spirit of the French nor the communism of the Russians could supplant the people's belief in their ancient religions - and this is hardly surprising because all of the ancient religions themselves were based on an accepted need for human beings to worship a power outside the realms of mundane human existence.

Before Judaism, Christianity and Islam came into being there was Paganism - the worship of many gods - and having accepted a belief in one god, Jehovah or Allah, there was no way people could revert to Paganism. Neither communism nor humanism satisfied the wretchedly poor masses. They needed the spiritual comfort of the wonderful life after death that Christianity and Islam offered.

Unlike western civilization - which has sought at various times to sweep away not only ancient systems of government but also ancient religions that have little relevance to modern times - the other civilizations have, by and large, not dared to deny their people observance of their religious beliefs.

Democracy was adopted in India, but Hinduism - and its totally undemocratic caste system - carried on regardless. Communism was adopted in China, but Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism also carried on regardless. Some Islamic nations have also adopted democracy, but Islam is stronger now than it ever was.

It is true that only a small percentage of western populations actually believes in and faithfully practices the teachings of their ancient religions. Many more, however, would claim to be Christian, Jewish, Moslem or whatever. The continued existence of ancient religions is largely related to rites such as marriage, christenings, comings of age and funerals - and celebrations that owe more to Pagan festivals than anything else - and without the opportunity to perform these rites most would flounder in a void.

Those who examine the ancient religions - and the wars and abuses they have perpetrated over the years - and turn away from them in disgust or despair, are similarly suffering a void that is either being filled by kindly eastern religions - such as Buddhism - or New Age beliefs, some of which lead them right back to Paganism.

It is, without doubt, very perplexing that ancient beliefs and laws pertaining to what god supposedly told - or did to - mere mortals thousands of years ago should remain believable whereas other ancient beliefs and laws in respect to medicine or astronomy, for instance, are universally shunned as ignorant rubbish.