What do I see as the biggest obstacles for Russia to overcome? Obviously, the first and most pressing, is the need to settle the situation on her southern borders. The emerging Islamic republics are a threat to the entire western world not only Russia. Chechnya is a manifestation of the emergence of Islamic insanity worldwide. Russia needs to join the civilized world to destroy this spreading barbaric dark sickness -a full commitment to the US effort in Afghanistan and Iraq would be a good beginning. (Don't hold your breath)
Russia secondly, has to create an atmosphere of respect for government. The rascals and ex-KGB criminals in the government at all levels of state and civil government have to be arrested and /or otherwise disposed of. A simple test of ethics, morality and decency has to be set up that anyone running for office has to pass to be on any ballot or appointed to any civil office. Such a standard would insist on transparency and honesty. Those with inexplicable foreign bank accounts have to be arrested and dealt with in open and fair courts. Any with contacts in the criminal underworld would be unable to pass this examination. After a few years, the citizens would begin to gain faith in their elected officials. The point of this is that the country has to collect fair taxes from all who prosper and work in the country. As it is, all feel that, as their leaders cheat so should they.
The third area that needs to be overhauled is the Russian court system. The judges have to be free of political influence completely. Russia has, on the books a reasonably good constitution, a body of laws that appears adequate to protect the interests of its citizens. Currently, however this is being subverted by the heavy influence of the “organs of government.” The result is that Russian courts today are merely rubber stamps for whomever is in power This is much as things were under the worst days of the Soviets. Russia will never reach its potential until this situation is corrected.
With a fair rate of taxes actually being collected the government could pay the police a living wage and increase pensions to a livable level. As it is today, the police routinely shake down motorists and passers-by. Pensioners are desperately trying to survive with ever-increasing costs of living on a miserable pittance after 40 years of work. This is intolerable and has to be changed. Those least able to fend for themselves in this robust new Russian economy have to be cared for by those best able to do so. This is a social obligation of the first order and thankfully, the Russian government seems to be aware of how critical this need is. Russia could train 50% of its police and militia as tax collectors and have them establish offices and contacts throughout the Russian business community. These personnel would be encouraged to work with the employers and business men toward the common good. Once the Russian people see the results in improved civil government all will be willing to participate.
A forth area that needs fixing yesterday is the criminal element. Russia is rife with “bandits” who operate with seeming impunity, robbing, extorting and murdering at an alarming rate. The militia is unwilling or powerless to stop this gathering crime wave and often are being well paid to cooperate with the criminals. One lady caught two bandits stealing her brand new car in broad daylight and was told to “back off or she would be killed on the spot.”
The requirements for Visas for businessmen and tourists who are known to the Russian authorities from previous visits need to be eliminated. Those who pose no possible threat should be encouraged to visit as often as possible with no artificial and counter productive paperwork barriers. This will take a tremendous burden from the visa offices and let them focus on screening out the real risks. While on this subject, all western countries with increasingly interlocking and interdependent economies have to do the same. We all have to be encouraged to eliminate as many barriers as possible while still protecting ourselves from Islamic terrorists. Of course, to do this, the politically correct western government weenies have to face the fact that 100% of terrorism is Islamic and define the enemy in realistic terms.
Communism is dead and, in fact, was born dead- it never had a life - it never provided an uplifting inspiration to humanity. Lenin and the rest of them never thought past the revolution- grab power and then what? They never had an idea of what to after consolidating power. Probably, this is because their violent methodology left them all awash in the bloody remains of their victims- up to their armpits in gore and rotting flesh, creating a stink that, like Lady Macbeth, they could never wash off. Having illegally seized the reins of power, murdering and imprisoning all who spoke against them, they could not ever join the civilized world. They made themselves pariahs and outcasts. The free world looked on them as dark vicious killers from hell who had imprisoned and made slaves of their own people.
All of them, this gang of murderers, were constantly judging others by their own criminal standards and spent their time looking over their shoulder, wondering which of their fellow travelers would be the one to stick a knife in their backs. Seeing the civilized world as being forever against them the Soviet criminals withdrew further into themselves. This “bunker mentality” developed into the “iron curtain” behind which the plotters of revolution imprisoned their people and spent decades trying fruitlessly to spread their particular brand of hell. They never matured, never went beyond the revolution. There was no workers paradise and never could there be. In this way, Communism was born and, in this way, after 70 years of terror and economic disaster, it died… having achieved nothing whatsoever of good while spreading great darkness and evil, finally, sputtering out in 1991 with not a bang but, instead, a very inaudible whimper.
CHAPTER 5: Opportunity vs. Entitlements
OPPORTUNITY & ENTITLEMENT
“Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty” Samuel Adams
No one is entitled to anything except an opportunity
Want to know why your job went to India? The entire concept of diversity training is pure bunk! The idea that one hires people and then has to train them on company time to understand the nuances of the other employee’s culture is pure B.S. The idea that to produce and market a service or a product one has to conduct sensitivity training classes for the employees is hogwash for artistic left brain idiots with misguided and hare-brain ideas that must have originated in Canada.
Any company can hire people from mixed backgrounds and races for whatever position they may be suited and qualified- from working in a grocery store to a management position in a complex manufacturing organization. There are only a few considerations that are of any importance whatsoever; Can the person do the work, do they have the education, do they want the job, is the compensation agreeable to both parties. Nothing else is of any importance at all, period !
Once hired, the employee does as he or she is told. They show up on time and do the work or they get fired ! End of story! The idea that one has to institute special sensitivity training program to make the minorities or religious wackos “feel good” is absurd! For Gods sake, have we all gone completely nuts! Don’t believe it, watch the Trump dump the chumps on the popular TV show “The Apprentice!”