A Nod To The Gods

Now I am pissed, this political correctness has gotten way out of hand.
Dixie College, a small educational institution in St. George, Utah is being pressured to change the name from “Dixie” because of the racial overtones the name carries from the confederate south.

Are you shitting me! St. George is on the Utah/Arizona border. The climate was conducive to growing cotton, so that is what the good folks of St. George did, raised cotton. St. George was dubbed “Utah’s Dixie” due to the warm climate and the early cotton farms. THERE WERE NEVER ANY SLAVES IN ST. GEORGE…EVER!

Dixie College may have a .05% African-American student population. But one of the black students decided the name was racist. The Alumni are furious and are considering dropping funding if the name is changed.
30 years ago an artist was hired to make a statue that symbolized the college name. Last week due to the controversy school officials had the statue removed. Because of one black student. Who is supposedly speaking for the entire student body. A student body who is ambivalent about the controversy.

The artist is also fit to be tied. He can’t believe the school administration would take the statue down without any debate or discussion.

“The Rebels,” by Utah sculptor Jerry Anderson, depicts a mounted soldier holding the South’s famous Civil War battle standard and helping an injured comrade. For the past 25 years, the life-size bronze statue has stood in front of the Avenna Center, where it is now fueling the argument that the college’s name ties it to the racist traditions of the slave-holding South.

But Anderson, who has produced numerous statues on display outdoors at Dixie and Southern Utah University, was disappointed.

“It looks like they have succumbed to the adversary,” Anderson said. “They are a bunch of wusses. That’s the first action taken to get rid of it?  The other people are winning. That’s the way it is in the world. We are giving in to people who really aren’t Americans.”

The rallies have been organized by critics who say the Dixie name should be retired. Last week, someone threw a sheet over the statue’s Confederate flag.

The statue’s removal is the latest development in a campus discussion that is becoming increasingly confrontational, including a warning from Dixie’s leading benefactor that donors will cut off support if Dixie is dropped. 

Legislation is in the works to elevate Dixie to university status as early as next year, prompting the need to come up with a new name.

This is the young man who has been pushing for removal of the statue and also with the name change, his quote after they took it down:
“This is one of the main things I have fought for. It’s a great day.” Roi Wilkinson said. “It’s not like this is promoting anything other than negativity, and when students see it from that perspective they will agree with us.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“If they look at it from that perspective they will agree with us” is the telling part of the quote. He knows a majority of the students don’t have an issue with the name or the statue. It is just him and whatever liberal lefty minded students he can round-up.

I don’t know how old the young man is but slavery was abolished 147 years ago, so approximately 125 years before he was born.

 

I’m sorry but this shit is more about making noise and stirring up controversy than it is about personal feelings. I can’t believe for one second that this kid loses any sleep about the name or the statue. But he certainly gets his name in the paper and get’s the satisfaction of destroying a beautiful piece of art that he deems to be a symbol of white authority/power or whatever.
This is what is wrong with our country nowadays. Liberal minds are making the rules.
With the media, university professors, politicians, and bizarro lefties, they are pushing buttons and officials, in whatever capacity, are crumbling. They cave like a cheap tent so as not to be considered racists. IT WAS 147 FREAKIN’ YEARS AGO! Even if you want to play the ’50’s and ’60’s segregation argument hell that was over 50 years ago.

Don’t you think that as a race you have been given preferential treatment in the last fifty years. Affirmative Action is everywhere. You have your own television network, (which if it was WET instead of BET shit would hit the fan), the NAACP, The Rooney Rule,….blah, blah, blah ,blah, blah.

Mr. Wilkinson I don’t know why you chose to come to Dixie College, but when you get your degree, would you please go back from whence you came and leave our history the fuck alone. That is all.

I received this from an Investment Firm detailing the realities of the world we live in. I assumed that social security was a retirement benefit, (albeit a small one). If it was never intended to be that, then it was a tax.

Retirement Outlook for the 20-Somethings

In the 1930’s Franklin D. Roosevelt set up Social Security as part of the New Deal.  Most people are unaware that age 65 was picked as the retirement age because life expectancy in the 1930s was just under 60. In other words, most people would be dead before they were eligible for benefits. As a result, Social Security would not cost much to fund.

Then Social Security morphed from Social Security to Social Retirement. How did this happen? The answer is simple: someone forgot to increase the eligibility age.   As life expectancy increased, the eligibility age should have increased too. Applying the 1930 rules, the true retirement age today is shockingly age 89.

Here are the stats from the governments own tables:  

Year	Number of Recipients	Dollars Spent
1937	52,236	$1,278,000
1940	222,448	$13,896,000
1950	3,477,243	$961,000,000
1960	14,844,589	$11,245,000,000
1970	26,228,626	$31,863,000,000
1980	35,584,955	$120,511,000,000
1990	39,862,125	$247,796,000,000
2000	45,414,794	$407,644,000,000
2008	50,898,244	$615,344,000,000

In the 1930s, giving money to a handful of older survivors was a great idea; today, it is most likely going to break us, unless something is done.

The remedy is quite simple: gradually increase the retirement age to where it truly belongs -in the late 80s.  

The older generations had little reason to doubt the strength of Social Security. They graduated from college with little or no debt, joined a company with a great pension plan, and saved for a rainy day.

For the 20-Somethings it is different. Most likely, this will be your reality:

• You are probably on your own!   Nobody is going to take care of you! Retirement is your problem, not somebody else’s!
• Social security will probably always be around, in some form, but you will need to be older to get it.
• Employer funded pensions might be a thing of the past.
• Here is what you might want to do:
• Get into a good and rewarding profession that pays well.
• Practice frugality – you don’t need all that stuff.
• Save! It is fun to have money – it’s tough to be broke.
• Take full advantage of the many tax deferred ways to save: IRAs, Roth IRAs, 401ks, Annuities, Cash Value Life Insurance, etc.
• Don’t try to get rich quickly. “Hail Mary” passes usually fall short. People get rich slowly. Small investments over long periods of time make all the difference.
• Remember: money has to do with freedom – without it you are in bondage