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Good Jobs, Higher Pay. Thank You, Joe Biden. Common Sense Economics: Instead of the Republican Plan: More Money For the Super Rich, Biden is Working for the American People... Not the 1%

Let's Repeal and Replace tRUMP's Tax Cut for the Rich Law... That Madness Has Harmed the USA...

Common Sense Economics: Thank You, Joe Biden. Good Jobs, Higher Pay.

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Common Sense Economics: Thank You, Joe Biden. Good Jobs, Higher Pay that Bubbles UP throughout the Entire Economy!


Bubble UP! Economics. LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans and Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... The Total Will Remain the Same! We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy. All Boats Float in a Rising Tide!

Even if Billionaires Pay Taxes, They'll Still be Billionaires! With Increased Sales Due to the BUBBLING Economy, Profits Will Increase... Making Stockholders Happy... EVERYONE WINS! Including Jeff Bezos Because We'll be Buying Stuff at Amazon!








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How Does Bubble Up Economics Work? Raise Wages and People Will Spend the Money at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Everyone Wins! Raise Social Security Checks TOO!


With a $15.00 an Hour Minimum Wage people will have money to spend on things that they cannot afford to buy now. The Money will BUBBLE UP Through Out the Entire Economy. Corporations will get more sales... More Profits... and they will have to HIRE more employees to handle the increased business. More Stock Clerks, More Cashiers, More Truck Drivers... and those people will spend their paychecks at American Businesses... all boats rise on a tide... Employers Win, Employees Win, Stockholders Win...



So, what can one person DO to get this Economic Plan Enacted?
Well, Like and Share this Post... Copy and Paste the images and Ideas... Write your own Blog... Rant on Facebook and Twitter...

What we need to do is spread valid ideas in order to counteract the propaganda spewed by Corporate "Think Tanks" like The Cato Institute or The Heritage Foundation... They will make up any story to enrich the Upper Class.

They work on the Backwards-World Scientific Principle... Write conclusions first then find "Facts" to support what they want to sell.

Real Science collects Facts first, then looks at them to find conclusion. The exact opposite to Cato & Heritage...










What IS Bubble UP Economics and How Does it Work? Simply LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans and Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... The Total Will Remain the Same! We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy. All Boats Float in a Rising Tide!

Then Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour and Raise all Social Security Checks 15%. All Those people will spend the extra money at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never!

Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady...



Somebody on FaceBorg Said:
I went looking for a quote and could not find it, however it works like this. If you give assistance to the little people they will spend it in the local stores, thereby keeping the stores open and those folks getting paychecks. The stores will order supplies and keep the suppliers and the delivery drivers in business, thereby paychecks flow to those workers and so on and so on. The money keeps working it's way up and finally gets to the mortgage lenders, business lenders and finally to those who profit by all that consumer activity. In the end, the wealthy finally get their hands on it, but in the meantime all others have also benefited.




ARE YOU SAFE? Expect Mass Arrests if Trump Elected. Thousands of Democrats, RINOS and "The Deep State" will be Sent to Concentration Camps for BOGUS Criminal Charges. #InvetigateIvankaGate #Jared2Billion #LockHimUp #DumpTrump

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Everyone that isn't a ULTRAMAGA Trumpanzee will be Attacked... Arrest, IRS Audit, FBI Phone Confiscation, Deportation... Not to Forget a Civilian Army of QAnon Freaks Harassing Trump's Supposed Enemies and their Families!


Organizations that are Likely to Be Shut Down: ACLU, Planned Parenthood, League of Women Voters, ALL Non Christian Churches...


Presidential Pardons for ALL January 6th Insurrectionists... and MAGA GAGA GOO GOO Loyalists will have all Crime Declared Legal!
How to Defend Yourself From #TrumpAttack - Delete all of Your History from the Internet...
Ho will the MAGA Madmen Know About You if They Can't Find You By Doing a Google search?
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If Elected, Trump Will Cause Global Economic Collapse. He Plans to Declare Bankruptcy for the Entire USA... So We Won't Have to Pay the Interest on the National Debt. BUT...

Then The Entire World will Go Bankrupt and MASS STARVATION will happen... The Only People that will survive are Hunter/Gatherers and Subsistence Farmers...

"The Debt Ceiling is just one more thing Trump doesn't know very much about." - Said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/investing/jamie-dimon-trump-banks-debt-ceiling/index.html?utm_source=business_ribbon

Former President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers to let the United States default on its debt if Democrats don't agree to spending cuts. MAY 10 2023
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/11/trump-endorses-debt-ceiling-default.html

Trump plays down consequences of a US default: 'Could be maybe nothing'
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plays-down-consequences-us-default-could-be-maybe-nothing-2023-05-11/

Trump is Old and in Bad Health. Will He Survive Until Election Day? The #RUNAWAY Movement is Gaining Momentum as Millions of Republicans Abandon the Party. "Too Much Crime." - "Endless Corruption" - "They REFUSE To Make America Great! What's Up With That???"


Trump's Just a Knock, Knock, Knockin on Hell's Door...


What Did Trump DO to Make Your Life Better? ANYTHING??? ANYTHING AT ALL??? Go Ahead... Name Something He Actually Accomplished... You CAN'T! He's a Total Failure...

Yes, tRUMP Signed the Help Crazy People Buy Guns Law... HJ RES 40... and Yes, He Signed the Tax Cut for the Rich Law... But Did Either of those Actions Make YOUR LIFE BETTER???



Remember: Trump Signed the Help Crazy People Buy Guns Law... HJ RES 40... and now we have a Madman Murder 18 People in Maine... Where the Laws are Tragic... Insane!

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/40 If a person gets a Social Security Check due to INSANITY They No Longer have to Report That Fact on a Gun Purchase Background Check...


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POP QUIZ! What Do These People Have in Common??? Jenna Ellis=GUILTY, Sidney Powell=GUILTY, Kenneth Chesbro=GUILTY, Scott Hall=GUILTY, Stewie (shot himself in the eye with his own gun) Rhodes=Guilty, Peter Navarro=Guilty, 4 Proud Boys=Guilty, 23 Oath Keepers=Guilty, Allen Weisselberg=Guilty, Jesse Benton=Guilty, Lev Parnas=Guilty, Igor Fruman=Guilty, Steve Bannon=Guilty, Nikolas Cruz=Guilty, John Lambert=Guilty, Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwaan=Guilty, Duncan Hunter=Guilty, Chris Collins=Guilty and Over 1,000 QAnon Freaks that Have Been Arrested for Storming the US Capitol on January 6th and FAILING to Overthrow The US Government and Crown Trump King...
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Trump was Right. Being a Draft Dodger was a Smart Move. Getting a Doctor to say he had "Bone Spurs" might Have saved His Life... Much Better than Actually GOING to Vietnam and Killing People for No Reason.






Trump was right. Hiring a doctor to give a Fake "medical" deferment was a better idea than going to Vietnam... to Kill people for No Reason... my friends that went are still angry about being drafted.

If you had money... you could go to college for four years and get a 2S deferment... THAT'S Motivation to get good grades... If you flunked out... you went to Vietnam... 58,000 Americans died for nothing!

Was the Entire POINT of the Vietnam War Marketing to sell Hughes Helicopters and DOW Chemical Napalm & Agent Orange?

I wish I Had Gone to MORE Anti-War Protest Marches... I'm Glad I Protested against the Vietnam war and I Protested Against the Idiot Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan too. Eventually the US Government Stopped Killing People for no reason... Because of Millions of Us Marching in the Streets!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qPUJhy0Dz4

Tucker Carlson Says: ‘Obviously’ We’re ‘Speeding Toward Assassination’ of Trump. Is Tucker Trying to Motivate a Madman to Pull the Trigger? Revenge for Trump Getting Him Fired at Fox? DO NOT KILL TRUMP. THAT WOULD BE WRONG.

According to Carlson, “both parties have decided that there’s something about Trump that’s so threatening to them, they just can’t have it.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-obviously-were-speeding-toward-assassination-of-trump

Tucker Carlson Says: They Will Do Anything to Stop Trump From Being President Again... "If you begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment and none of them work...What's next? Graph it out. We are speeding towards assassination obviously...

If Someone DID Murder Trump, Then The Cult Followers Would Elevate Trump to a Christ Like Zeitgeist... SEE? He Was So Good He Had to Die... For YOU!

Remember: JFK, MLK, RFK, Gandhi, John Lennon...

an Obvious Alternative to the Assassination of Trump (as predicted by Tucker Carlson) is to Actually Enforce the 14th Amendment.

Expect Mass Arrests if Trump Elected. Thousands of Democrats, RINOS and "The Deep State" will be Sent to Concentration Camps for BOGUS Criminal Charges. #InvetigateIvankaGate #Jared2Billion #LockHimUp #DumpTrump


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President McKinley was Assassinated by a Man Who Lost His Job Due To Trickle Down Economics. Just Like NOW! --- "The History Book on The Shelf, Is Always Repeating Itself." Lyric from "Waterloo" by ABBA

I'm Doing Research for My Book "The Violet Overgrow" - Maybe a PLOT TWIST! Leon Czolgosz was The Man Who Assassinated McKinley... "Trickle-down economics" used to be known as the "Horse and Sparrow Theory" which was responsible for the "Panic of 1896" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

Video of ABBA Singing Waterloo: Could It Happen That ANOTHER UNEMPLOYED MAN Assassinates The President? I Sure Hope NOT... tRUMP Needs to Spend the Rest of His Life INCARCERATED to Serve as an Example for Other Criminals...

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The economist John Kenneth Galbraith noted that "trickle-down economics" had been tried before in the United States in the 1890s under the name "horse-and-sparrow theory", writing:

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: 'If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.'

Galbraith claimed that the horse-and-sparrow theory was partly to blame for the Panic of 1896.[21]


It appears Possible to Build a PLASTIC GUN that fires PLASTIC BULLETS... Important to know for the Plot Twist I'm Writing for my FICTION BOOK "The Violet Overgrow" -

plastic bullet or plastic baton round (PBR)[6] is a less-lethal projectile fired from a specialised gun. Although designed as a less-lethal weapon, they have caused a number of deaths. Plastic bullets are intended to be shot directly at the subject, causing bruising, or even broken bones when used correctly. They are generally used for riot control. Plastic bullets were invented in 1973 by the British security forces for use against demonstrators in Northern Ireland. They were developed to replace their rubber bullets in an attempt to reduce fatalities. If misused they can still cause fatal injury.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_bullet

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/gunslingers-and-the-mythology-of-making-your-own-weapon/423771/


and then on Facebook we were Discussing #TrumpsFailedEconomy

Mark Dias Said: Deflation Still Present

The debt problem exposes the Fed’s risk and why they have no choice but to monetize the Government’s debt issuance to keep interest rates suppressed. More importantly, the decline in monetary velocity clearly shows that deflation is a persistent threat, and one the Fed is most afraid of.

“It is hard to overstate the degree to which psychology drives an economy’s shift to deflation. When the prevailing economic mood in a nation changes from optimism to pessimism, participants change. Creditors, debtors, investors, producers, and consumers all change their primary orientation from expansion to conservation.

Creditors become more conservative, and slow their lending.

Potential debtors become more conservative, and borrow less or not at all. Investors become more conservative, they commit less money to debt investments. Producers become more conservative and reduce expansion plans. Consumers become more conservative, and save more and spend less. These behaviors reduce the velocity of money, which puts downward pressure on prices. Money velocity has already been slowing for years, a classic warning sign that deflation is impending. 

Now, thanks to the virus-related lockdowns, money velocity has begun to collapse. As widespread pessimism takes hold, expect it to fall even further.”

Ultimately, the Federal Reserve, and the Administration, will have to face hard choices to extricate the economy from the current “liquidity trap” with which we are now faced.   However, history shows that political leadership never makes hard choices until those choices get forced upon them.

and I Replied: I believe People are Buying Less... Who Has Money To Spend? Layoffs Really Make People Stop Buying Stuff. and Many People are Getting Food at FREE Pantries, Soup Kitchens. I Remember Living in Chico on Zero Dollars a Day. Going to The Jesus Center for Breakfast and Dinner and Drinking Coffee at the AA Meetings. Smoking Cigarettes That I Found in Ashtrays. Quite Often People Will Only Smoke Half a Cigarette and Then Put it Out Before Entering a Store. Then When I Got a Job and Could Buy My Own Food, The Lady That Ran The Place Asked Me to NOT Eat There... It Was For PEOPLE IN NEED.. https://jesuscenter.org/


Steve Burke Said: Trump keeps saying that Biden will raise taxes on the middle class, Biden says not on those making under $400,000. Little do we know that there are already, written in the 2017 tax cut, already tax increases starting in 2021 and going till 2027, every 2 years, already written in tax cut for everyone except the upper tax payers. Seems like it's NOT Biden raising any taxes, it's TRUMP. Bet most people didn't know that. What do you say about that, all you tRumpers? Three tax increases in the next 6 years on the middle class.


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Video: What IS Bubble Up Economics? a Short Film Explaining Why Raising the Minimum Wage to $15.00 per Hour would Benefit Everyone. Even the Rich...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kSBGRM3d2s 

Bubble Up Economics... Originally Proposed by Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan in the 1890s... He Lost to McKinley who was Shot by an Anarchistic... and Died... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan

What IS Bubble UP Economics and How Does it Work? Simply Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour. Then all Those people will spend the extra money in their paychecks at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never! 

Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady...



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Awaken Americans! The Talking Heads on TV Keep on Saying that the Economy is "Booming" - BUT - That's only true for the SUPER RICH... We the People are Hurting BAD!
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Former GW Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson
"President Richard Nixon demonstrated that the GOP could win with a message of White grievance. That dubious achievement somehow got lodged in Donald Trump’s brain as a political ideal. But this time it will lead his party toward eventual and deserved failure.
Amid the social turbulence of the late 1960s and early 1970s, many White people were convinced that American identity was being assaulted, diluted or corrupted. Some tried to blame African American rioters, radicals and “agitators.” Some placed the main responsibility on hippies, weak-kneed liberals and pointy-headed intellectuals. Nixon took such resentments and sent them into political battle.
The strategy made political (though not moral) sense. When Nixon announced the existence of a “silent majority” in late 1969 and employed the “Southern strategy” in two presidential elections, he had two things going for him. First, about 88 percent of the U.S. population was White. Second, the social disorders that Nixon decried were widespread. In July 1967 alone, there were riots in Newark (where 26 people died), Plainfield, N.J.; Minneapolis; Detroit (where 43 people were killed); and Milwaukee. After the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in early 1968, violence spread to more than 100 cities. In that demographic and social environment, appeals to “law and order” were often disturbingly effective.
It sometimes seems like Trump has just emerged from a time machine — fresh from a delightful strategy lunch with Vice President Spiro Agnew, an instructive discussion on campaign ethics with Attorney General John Mitchell and an editing session with speechwriter Pat Buchanan. Trump stokes fears that minorities will invade the suburbs, that migrants will steal jobs and rape women and that Muslim refugees are “Trojan horse” threats. He attacks journalists as “enemies of the people.” He tries to lump peaceful protesters with violent provocateurs. It is all very much like Nixon — without the intelligence, military service, governing experience or geostrategic insight.
Trump’s advocates cite some factors in their favor. They claim that the dislocation caused by globalization is the dry underbrush for their populist wildfire. And among White evangelicals, Trump has taken full advantage of the fear and resentment fueled by lost social status.
But this is not Nixon’s America. About 72 percent of the American population is now White, and more minority children than White children are being born each year. Even given recent events in Portland, Ore., and Chicago, the level of social disorder does not compare to the late 1960s. A solid majority of Americans supports the aims of the Black Lives Matter movement, rather than fearing (as Fox News’s Tucker Carlson charmingly put it) that it will “come for you.”
It is absurd to talk about White grievance politics as the wave of the political future. Republicans are now determining if the 2016 presidential election was the last time this message worked, or the second-to-last time. The stakes are high between those two possibilities. But the direction of American society toward greater diversity is not in doubt.
This recognition (or its absence) matters greatly to the immediate future of Republican politics at the national level. One faction of thinkers and prospective presidential candidates (such as Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton) believes that the Trump wave is the new, permanent level of the ideological tide. They seek to practice Trump’s grievance politics minus the crazy. But they underestimate how discredited this type of politics has become because of Trump’s cruelty and deadly incompetence — and how complete the public repudiation of the GOP is likely to be in November.
The Nixon/Trump practice of White grievance politics is just one Republican ideological option. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Ronald Reagan reorganized the GOP message around the principle of economic opportunity, arguing for the moral achievements of democratic capitalism. Reagan disciples such as Jack Kemp turned a message of economic empowerment into an instrument of outreach.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, George W. Bush attempted to reconstitute the Republican message around the theme of community. Since human beings are shaped in the context of social institutions — such as families, neighborhoods and charitable organizations — compassionate conservatives sought ways to strengthen civil society.
These are the three elements of the modern Republican ideological triad: identity, opportunity and community. Contending that the last two are discredited or irrelevant is a ploy by Trump supporters and Trump’s liberal opponents to reduce Republican ideology to identity alone.
The appeal of opportunity is never spent because it is the economic expression of human creativity and institution building. The appeal of civil society is never finally exhausted because it emerges from our need for belonging and love. You might as well declare that the human kidney or liver is outdated.
The Trump occupation of the GOP is an intellectual and moral disaster. But there are paths of intellectual recovery beyond the ruins."


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*Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero to Infinity and Beyond... For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!

*"Conspiracy Theories" that are ACTUALLY TRUE. MKULTRA, Cointelpro, CIA-Contra-Cocaine, Donald Rumsfeld Selling Weapons to Saddam Hussein, UFOs are Real... Sometimes people dismiss Truth as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" because they Don't LIKE THE TRUTH.

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own! --- "Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial, Error and Survival Yielded These Words of Wisdom...

My Biff Rose Trip: Driving To a Cabin in the Woods - down The Coast of California from Arcata thru Ft Bragg to Mendocino... An Excellent Adventure!

How To Remove Smoke from Indoor Air. Tape a Filter to a Box Fan. During Wildfire Season the Air Indoors is Bad to Breathe...


Pretty Soon the Filter Turns Brown
from Smoke, Pollen and Dust.

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...


Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
Peace Sign Pie Chart
History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

Military Death Chart USA

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once.

Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.







Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics