<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106012884186310612</id><updated>2016-09-29T03:47:07.938-04:00</updated><category term="atlantis sunk"/><category term="collectivism is good if... individualism is biblical"/><category term="deluge"/><category term="diluvio"/><category term="free will at the tree of knowledge of good and evil"/><category term="homer poems"/><category term="individualism in the Garden of Eden"/><category term="men"/><category term="men of renombre"/><category term="middle class"/><category term="poor"/><category term="renown"/><category term="wealthy"/><title type='text'>MY VIEWPOINTS</title><subtitle type='html'>Articles with lots of sense, lots of provocation. They are refreshing with some humor, but overall they are nutritious. We cover world economics, the financial world, capitalism, freedom, socialism, fascism, communism and where the world seems to be heading to.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9106012884186310612/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ralph Martin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-38qN3_CODBo/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAF74/gkv3hFBnwNI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106012884186310612.post-5968632377525403270</id><published>2015-10-10T07:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2015-10-10T07:01:43.951-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Extreme Importance of The Middle Class</title><content type='html'>The middle class is the hope for the poor and the cushion for the wealthy. For many years progressives have erroneously taken care of the poor while neglecting the middle class. It is the middle class that can take care not only of the wealthy as they slowly come down to stay as a middle class or go back up, or maybe hitting the bottom but also the poor as the poor prosper. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keeping the middle class strong through low taxes and low regulations will create the right environment for the middle class. It will end the tax break for the rich rhetoric. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides,  poor people need opportunities that can only be found not too far away as they can take baby steps toward a better future. It is not as if there is only the rich and the poor. A strong middle class will make the poor dream since they will be able to visualize a future achievable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Providing the poor with what they need by taxing the middle class to give to the poor is beside immoral, handicapping. The rich are getting richer and the poor poorer is a good slogan for today. The middle class is des appearing. It is like the poor is receiving a free ride for a little better life and the middle class is going down to meet the poor in a new class with the lead of the new upper elitist class. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/5968632377525403270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9106012884186310612&amp;postID=5968632377525403270' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9106012884186310612/posts/default/5968632377525403270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9106012884186310612/posts/default/5968632377525403270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-extreme-importance-of-middle-class.html' title='The Extreme Importance of The Middle Class'/><author><name>Ralph Martin</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/104349132551326354565</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-38qN3_CODBo/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAF74/gkv3hFBnwNI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106012884186310612.post-1004339676890139536</id><published>2015-07-21T18:10:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2015-07-21T18:10:17.122-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Tomi&#39;s Red, White, Blue &amp; Unfiltered Final Thoughts the Slaughter of 4 M...</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;270&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y8Q0MMHwx4k&quot; width=&quot;480&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/1004339676890139536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9106012884186310612&amp;postID=1004339676890139536' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9106012884186310612/posts/default/1004339676890139536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9106012884186310612/posts/default/1004339676890139536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/2015/07/tomis-red-white-blue-unfiltered-final.html' title='Tomi&#39;s Red, White, Blue &amp; Unfiltered Final Thoughts the Slaughter of 4 M...'/><author><name>Ralph Martin</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/104349132551326354565</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-38qN3_CODBo/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAF74/gkv3hFBnwNI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/Y8Q0MMHwx4k/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106012884186310612.post-2068110247364284353</id><published>2015-07-19T23:30:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2015-07-19T23:30:09.611-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/2068110247364284353/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9106012884186310612&amp;postID=2068110247364284353' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9106012884186310612/posts/default/2068110247364284353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9106012884186310612/posts/default/2068110247364284353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/2015/07/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Ralph Martin</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/104349132551326354565</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-38qN3_CODBo/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAF74/gkv3hFBnwNI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106012884186310612.post-1222216385990758210</id><published>2014-03-10T12:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2014-03-10T20:00:21.248-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="middle class"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="poor"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="wealthy"/><title type='text'>The Middle Class</title><content type='html'>The middle class is the savior of the poor and the cushion of the wealthy when they are falling down. A strong middle class keep the flow of poor becoming middle class and continue some to be wealthy. The middle class allows wealthy people to slowly come down down while they make changes to whatever they do to go up again or go down to be poor again depending on their wise or not very wise choices. It is not very wise to have government focusing on the poor while neglecting the middle class. It is focusing on the middle class and making policies that will benefit the middle class, which is mostly small businessess, which will automatically The middle class is the savior of the poor and the cushion of the wealthy when they are falling down. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A strong middle class keep the flow of poor becoming middle class and continue some to be wealthy. The middle class allows wealthy people to slowly come down while they make changes to whatever they do to go up again or go down to be poor again depending on their wise or not very wise choices. It is not very wise to have government focusing on the poor while neglecting the middle class. It is focusing on the middle class and making policies that will benefit the middle class, which is mostly small businesses, which will automatically take care of the whole society. It is the middle class that opens the door for the poor by giving them opportunities to make little efforts and using some imaginations in order to start moving upward as little by little the try while some times failing but learning in the process through triar and error.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When government start giving the poor their basic needs, their motivation is destroyed. It is so true that pain is the best motivator. Politicians usually write legislation to take money from the working class and give it to the poor. Of course, it is not their money so the don&#39;t think twice to do it and gain some extra votes in order to keep their remunerated job while present themselves as compassionate. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/1222216385990758210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9106012884186310612&amp;postID=1222216385990758210' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9106012884186310612/posts/default/1222216385990758210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9106012884186310612/posts/default/1222216385990758210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-middle-class.html' title='The Middle Class'/><author><name>Ralph Martin</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/104349132551326354565</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-38qN3_CODBo/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAF74/gkv3hFBnwNI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106012884186310612.post-7856501064300142593</id><published>2011-03-21T05:06:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2015-07-13T20:22:18.745-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="atlantis sunk"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="deluge"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="diluvio"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="homer poems"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="men"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="men of renombre"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="renown"/><title type='text'>MY VIEWPOINTS: Homer Poems, Atlantis And Noah&#39;s Flood</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most people believe Homer poems, Atlantis and Noah&#39;s flood to be a work of fiction or a combination of facts and fictions. In regards to Noah&#39;s flood there might be a greater majority than the previous two who believe Noah&#39;s account to be real. But the fact is that most people don&#39;t believe this trio is not in any way related to each other. Circumstantial evidences tell another story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Genesis there is a portion of history that seems to be lost without any other events, writings or&amp;nbsp;archaeological&amp;nbsp;discoveries to connect with this particular narration in the Bible. Here is the narration goes in the Bible:&amp;nbsp;1 And&amp;nbsp;it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,&amp;nbsp;2 That&amp;nbsp;the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.&amp;nbsp;3 And&amp;nbsp;the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.&amp;nbsp;4 There&amp;nbsp;were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sons of God and the daughters of men suggest a difference between both groups. There are different approaches in the interpretation of who were these two groups and I am also taking sides. We know angels were males in those days. They might be asexual today but in those days they were males. Even after the flood angels appeared to have a male appearance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, Adam once looked like an angel. Adam had one male body but had a female living inside of him, Eve. Let us examine Genesis 5:2: &quot;Male and female created He them: and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day they were created.” God called their name Adam, not Adam and Eve. “male and female created He them.” Do you see the point? Adam was male and female at the same time and&amp;nbsp;couldn&#39;t&amp;nbsp;have children so he was all alone while the animals were able to multiply. Adam was alone and without help. So God decided to take the female side of Adam and place it in a female body God made from Adam’s rib.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now we see why angels are males. It could be that they weren&#39;t divided like Adam was. Maybe Satan, an angel, was jealous of Adam. (I shall continue)&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel="related" href="http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/2011/03/homer-poems-atlantis-and-noahs-flood.html#links" title="MY VIEWPOINTS: Homer Poems, Atlantis And Noah&#39;s Flood"/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/feeds/7856501064300142593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9106012884186310612&amp;postID=7856501064300142593' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9106012884186310612/posts/default/7856501064300142593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9106012884186310612/posts/default/7856501064300142593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ralphpoint.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-viewpoints-homer-poems-atlantis-and.html' title='MY VIEWPOINTS: Homer Poems, Atlantis And Noah&#39;s Flood'/><author><name>Ralph Martin</name><uri>https://plus.google.com/104349132551326354565</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-38qN3_CODBo/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAF74/gkv3hFBnwNI/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106012884186310612.post-6581663057985244004</id><published>2011-03-12T00:14:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T19:56:00.012-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="collectivism is good if... individualism is biblical"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="free will at the tree of knowledge of good and evil"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="individualism in the Garden of Eden"/><title type='text'>TRUE COLLECTIVISM</title><content type='html'>Collectivism is only good if it start with individualism. If we achieve collectivism through individualism, it promises to be a good thing. If collectivism is not achieved through individualism it will be a forced collectivism where a few control the masses. Individualism allows you to make mistakes and through it grow up in the knowledge of the truth to live by. Individualism also makes you responsible for your own actions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we struggle to find the truth in all areas of life individually some people will find themselves sharing the same principles forming a collective association. It will only happen with free people. Freedom within and freedom without is the recipe for new inventions and new technology. Freedom within happens only with the truth. “&lt;em&gt;And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free&lt;/em&gt;”. But we also need freedom without so we are allowed to express ourselves without governmental control, except of course, if we violate other people rights. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Individualism has its origin in the Garden of Eden when God created man with a free will. You can’t have a free will unless you have choices to choose between rights or wrongs. Adam and Eve didn’t know what the “wrong” part was. God created and placed “The Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil” in the middle of The Garden. God then ordered men not to touch or eat from it. Now, man has a choice to obey and serve God voluntarily or choose to disobey. They disobeyed and you know the rest of the story. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Adam and Eve were thrown out from The Garden of Eden God still wanted man but He will not force them in. Since they started multiplying over the earth many opportunities of little trees of the knowledge of good and evil became available. But since we were already out of justice, meaning that righteousness was lost and we were unable to get it back on our own; God intervened. The only way we are able to return to justice and righteousness is through Jesus Christ and it is a choice. Before Jesus Christ came in flesh there were rights and wrongs still as it is today. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The natural world, although in constant decadence, had laws that when put in practice would bring good results. The laws of nature were there to be discovered and use for the benefit of society. God would use anyone He pleases to reveal His knowledge to. According to the Bible He would use the weakest to shame the arrogant. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1st Corinthians 1:27 “&lt;em&gt;But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him&lt;/em&gt;”. Here is the problem with collectivism; monarchies, communism, fascism and all collectivism. They manage the economy, which is the most important aspect of a society beside many other things. The truth can’t come from the one minority on top in a society. They are so concern with control that they miss the wisdom of God. That is the reason why America had always being on top of all kind of inventions and prosperity. The reason had been individualism and freedom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best comes from the common people. Those on top controlling everything are so arrogant that they think the mass are ignorant and deserve to be told what to do. Franklin Delano Roosevelt hired the most prominent economists from Colombia University to dictate to us what was best for us. They dismissed Capitalism and the Free Market because it was functioning without government directions. This type of philosophy started at the end of the 18th century with the Progressive Movement. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The economy was functioning well but with the Industrial Revolution it got out of control. Since nothing is perfect it needed time to allow the Free Market to settle down again. Woodrow Wilson started implementing governmental policies that started to disrupt the natural flow of the economy. These politicians thought they would be wiser than the free people acting and making millions of voluntarily transactions daily which would eventually re-organize the economy again for the benefit of the people. Because politicians trying to make perfect what it is not and will never be perfect, the Great Depression hit us. But they blamed capitalism as the failure. The pattern had continued and today we are at the verge of economic disaster. We need to go back to rugged individualism. There is within free people the answer for many of today’s problems. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Towel of Babel was a collective system. People ware controlled by Nimrod. Their collective system was done by conquest. God came down to see and didn’t like what He saw and confused the language. By destroying collectivism individualism took over and people could come up with ideas and write about new discovered truths. We also know how the Israelites came to prophet Samuel asking for a King (Monarchy) to rule over them. God advised them through Samuel what bad things were going to happen to them. Well, you know the rest of the story. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bottom line is that all collective systems are bad for people. Individualism is the only way to prosper and make a society, not perfect, but the best you can have depending on how virtue we the people are. Freedom is useful if we practice virtue. But if we take freedom to practice all kind of immoral acts, tyranny is a force that will take over little by little. 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