This is the third in a series of articles dealing with what is not right in America in our humble opinions. We are calling it in fact WRONG in that it is not beneficial for the country as a whole. These articles are not presented in any particular order of importance but merely as they might be timely.

It is a sad commentary when the President of our country celebrates the 39^th anniversary of the Supreme Courts decision in 1973 to legalize abortion, the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision. This law is falsely heralded as a victory for women’s rights to choose! It is estimated that between 15 and 20 million abortions have taken place since then. The exact number is not important, but what is important to our way of thinking is the incorrect reason for this law. It is NOT to give women the right to choose but instead to give women a means to correct a prior mistake.

Had a woman not gotten pregnant in the first place, an abortion would not have been needed. And how did she get pregnant? By spreading her legs and having sex! Those of us understanding how a woman gets pregnant should not have to explain anything more on that subject. The abortion law is nothing else, it’s that simple.

Again, this deceitful way of stating something falsely, i.e. calling abortion a women’s choice is a part of what’s wrong in America. To add insult to injury, the people who oppose abortion are being ridiculed by the opposite side, being called terrible names and belittled. And that is definitely wrong! At the same time, we are being lectured that actions (even just words) have consequences. We ask: Is abortion not a consequence of an action taken place prior to it?

To us here at Common Sense University, the strongest argument against abortion just could be stated in two words: STEVE JOBS. As we know, Steve was not aborted by his birth mother but given up for adoption and we all know what he contributed to the world. This brings us to the next question: How many geniuses like Steve Jobs were aborted as a result of ‘a woman’s right to choose’? We will, unfortunately, never know. How many doctors, scientists, chemists or pioneers of new discoveries in medicine and other fields were killed by way of abortion?

When one considers the available ways for a woman to protect herself from becoming pregnant, we can only condemn the lackadaisical attitude women have when it comes to this. There are exceptions to our argument, things such as rape, incest and also the health of the mother could easily be excerpted and dealt with by passing appropriate laws but we do not need a Roe versus Wade pro- abortion law. We believe it is shameful that we do have such a law.

            This is the second in a series of articles dealing with what is not right in America in our humble opinions. We are calling it in fact WRONG in that it is not beneficial for the country as a whole. These articles are not presented in any particular order of importance but merely as they might be timely.

There were times in America when the people could trust information passed on to them by the Federal Government or even State and local governments. This is sadly no longer the case. At the same time, it is ironic because computerized information technology has improved so vastly that data collection by government should be so much more reliable and timely. We stand corrected, it is timely. It does only take a few days for updates on unemployment filings nationwide and other such information being made public. The problem is, it is unreliable.

We could list several examples of this but instead will concentrate on the employment picture in America. The Department of Labor of the Federal Government comes out every week and shares with us the number of people who have filed for unemployment benefits. On a monthly basis, we get the overall unemployment rate in the country. This statistic includes a number of things such as new unemployment filings, new jobs created and also the number of people who simply ‘left the job market’ or do no longer receive unemployment benefits. This changes the base constantly and results in some truly weird numbers. There can be no doubt that some element of manipulation is involved and this is at times so apparent that one has to question the accuracy of the reports.

We will try and state our analysis in simple terms: We are, for the purposes of this view, assume that the approximate number of full employment in America is 150,000,000 (one hundred fifty million), can we not deduct that 15,000,000 equals ten percent of the total? We believe we should, it’s simple math! When the total number of people reportedly not working in America is somewhere between twenty to twenty-five million, why is the unemployment rate not at least thirteen to sixteen percent? Is this a stupid question? We do not think so! But the Government apparently believes this and the media is accepting this and reports it as such.

When the Feds in Washington report that the economic growth in the country during a given quarter of a year is 1.2 percent, how can we accept and trust when it corrects this number down to 0.5 percent three months later. This is wrong and to our way of thinking a clear sign of report manipulations that should be challenged by everybody and not at all accepted as fact. We could present many more such examples of immense inaccuracies when it comes to what the Government tells us. We are convinced that this type of reporting could easily have a political element to it. President Obama would of course like to see the unemployment go down this year and he is willing to setlle for a downward trend instead. It’s referred to as “moving in the right direction” but it is based on number manipulations that are vastly inaccurate and it should not be accepted.

Is it any wonder that Americans are increasingly suspicious of what the government tells them? To us here at Common Sense University it is not! Only the ignorant are happy and do not care what they are being told and that is a shame. Trust in government should be a goal pursued by everybody who is serving in whatever capacity the population of this country.

            This is the first in a series of articles dealing with what is not right in America in our humble opinions. We are calling it in fact WRONG in that it is not beneficial for the country as a whole. These articles are not presented in any particular order of importance but merely as they might be timely. This is the main reason we begin with this year’s primary election cycle which starts tomorrow in Iowa. The very beginning reflects the idiocy encumbered in this.

Iowa is a state in the middle of America, also referred to as ‘fly-over’ country. The state has a population of about three million, very similar to the population of San Diego County. Yet we hear that Iowa has 99 counties and some Republican candidates tell us with pride that they have visited all 99 counties. We say to this: ‘Whoopee‘! Now then, we are also being told that the Iowa caucuses on January will probably see a participation of one hundred to one hundred twenty thousand folks. That’s four percent of the population. Again, we say ‘Whoopee’.

The caucuses will determine which candidate will get how many of the 28 convention delegates. While we do not know any exact numbers, we estimate for purposes of presenting the absurdity of it all that the candidates combined spent altogether since last summer approximately twenty-eight million dollars in Iowa in campaign related expenses. This equates to one million bucks for one delegate. Now then, if this is not ridiculous, we don‘t know what is and we therefore say for the third time ‘Whoopee‘. Even if only twenty-one million were expended, it would still be ridiculous. From poll results in recent weeks and months, we know that no candidate has a share greater than thirty percent of the votes, this translates that the winner will walk away with about nine delegates and that is our last ‘Whoopee’.

If this does not show the idiocy with this primary election system, we do not know what is. We refuse to understand the importance of the Iowa caucuses. This is absolutely ridiculous and totally absurd. To boot, we are being told that there is a good chance that candidate Ron Paul could be the winner in Iowa. He has reportedly a great number of loyal supporters who will work hard to turn out the participants in the caucuses. And who is Ron Paul? He comes across as the disgruntled and grumpy old uncle who knows everything better than everybody else and his ideas and proposals are so whacky, Hollywood would not even make a funny movie out of it. He tells those who come and listen to him that he will when elected President cut one trillion dollars out of the annual federal budget. No details, no specifics just one nice round number! Since he hates the country’s military, can we assume that he will just abolish it? That would get him about two-thirds to his trillion dollar goal. Yet some people in Iowa must believe this absolute nonsense or else they would have run him out of the state a long time ago. Ron Paul espouses positions of such an extreme nature without any basis of reality or rationale, we can only conclude that some people in Iowa are truly backward hicks and hayseeds.

It is our hope that a victory by Ron Paul in Iowa will result in some serious re-thinking and review of the current primary election system. Tradition is nice but stupid is stupid and a continuation of stupid reflects just that, stupidity! We can do better than that in America.