TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart At the age of 16, I became another “Catholic Church dropout.” I had left my Catholic high school because I had many questions but no answers. As I learned more about how people in less fortunate countries suffered, while their leaders enjoyed lives of luxury. I had even more questions when I learned that the poverty rate in my own country was about 21 percent. How could this be true when politicians frequently boasted that “America is the greatest and richest country in the world?” One-fifth of all Ameican citizens faced a daily struggle to simply survive. In 2026, the poverty level is about 11 percent. When added to the number of men, women, and children considered “low-income,” nearly one-third of all Americans are not included in “the richest country in the world.” The addition of families on the lower side of the middle-income population, confirms the fact that about one-half of all Americans find it difficult to maintain an acceptable quality of life. Ameri...

I was in my twenties. I had grown up and was paying greater attention to my country and what lay beyond our nation’s shores. A funny thing about becoming aware and informed is that once you begin, you want to know more and more: your interest grows rapidly. Although I believed then, as I do now, that most human beings are basically good, evil exists, it is real, and it is frightening. It appears to be far more prevalent in the 21st century. It was during that part of my education that I formed a belief which is far more real today than it was in the late 1960’s and 70’s. “God’s biggest mistake was the creation of man. Not a single of God’s creatures destroys what He created for the sole purpose of increasing its personal wealth. This is unique among H H omo sapiens. Animals use our soil, water, and clean air as intended. Animals have never plotted the destruction of another species based on unwarranted anger, hatred, or jealousy. Although our Founding Fathers made mistakes, they were n...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart In every country in the world, most men and women want the same things: safety and security for themselves and their families, and a decent quality of life which allows them basic human rights. However, a small percentage, who have great wealth and power over the masses, have other ambitions. These people want more: what they have is never enough. IF THERE WAS A GOD, HE OVERESTIMATED HIS CREATIONS Throughout history, men who obtain power, along with great wealth, always want more power and greater wealth. These men and women are the destructive forces whose greed and ambition caused all the pain, agony, misery, and deaths throughout history. Long ago, Kings, Queens, and other members of the royal family enjoyed lives of luxury beyond the imagination of their subjects. The separation between the powerful and the many was simply a great divide between the super-rich and the poor. Today, in America, these people are called billionaires, and multi-...