The Pattern of Dictatorship

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75. The Pattern of Dictatorship

History shows that self-made despotic rulers follow a standard pattern:

In gaining power:

1. - They exploit, consciously or unconsciously, a state of popular dissatisfaction with the existing regime or of hostility between different sections of the people.

2. - They attack the existing regime violently and combine their appeal to the discontent with unlimited promises (which, if successful, they fulfill only to a lomited extent).

3. - They claim that they want absolute power for only a short time (but find subsequently, that the time to relinquish power never comes).

4. - They excite popular sympathy by presenting the picture of a conspiracy against them and use this as a lever to gain a firmer hold at some crucial stage.

Upon gaining power:

1. - They soon begin to rid themselves of their chief helpers, "discovering" that those who helped them bring about the new order have suddenly become traitors to it.

2. - They suppress criticism on one pretext or another and punish anyone who mentions facts which, however true, are unfavorable to their policy.

3. - They enlist religion on their side if possible, or if its leaders are not compliant, foster a new kind of religion subservient to their needs.

4. - They spend public money lavishly on material works of a striking kind, in compensation for the freedom of spirit and thought which they have robbed from the public.

5. - They manipulate the currency to make the economic position of the state appear better that it is in reality.

6. - They ultimately make war on some other state as a means of diverting attention from internal conditions and allowing discontent to explode outward.

7. - They use the rallying cry of patriotism as a maens of riveting the chains of their personal authority more firmly on the people.

8. - They expand the superstructure of the state while undermining its foundations:

a - by breeding sycophants at the expense of self-respecting collaborators,

b - by appealing to the popular taste for the grandiose and sensational instead of true values and,

c - by fostering a romantic instead of a realistic view, thus ensuring the ultimate collapse, under their successors if not themselves, of what they have created.

Ed. Note - I do not recall where I originally obtained this. I believe it was written in the mid 1970's.

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The Strategy of Peace

Copyright 2005 by Perry Jones

The Strategy of Peace is not a pacifist policy. The Strategy of Peace is an assertive strategy based on military and political power. Nations which employ a pacifist stance act the role of victim and soon become victims of more powerful nations. A nation employing a policy of strength has greater potential for ensuring its security and longevity.

Underpinning the Strategy of Peace is a military truism: War is not about opposing armies, it is about the will of those who would send armies to war.

Utilizing this principle, the Strategy of Peace targets the will of the enemy leadership, convincing them that their initiation of hostilities would not only fail to attain their objectives, but would, in fact, be counterproductive to those objectives, to the entity or organization from which forces would be drawn and even to the leadership itself.

The Strategy of Peace is a simple strategy and consists of several steps:

1. Identify the enemy leadership - those who have decision-making power on whether or not to go to war.

2. Identify the organization. This could be a nation-state, political faction, regional coalition, a networked organization, terrorist pact or local gang.

Each organization seeks survival and respect. There is no organization whose objective is self-destruction, although the destruction of the individual for the sake of the organization may be a valid principle for that organization.

3. Identify the motives and objectives of the organization. What philosophy does the organization adhere to and/or seek to promote?

4. Identify the reasons and objectives the enemy entertains for hostile operations.

5. Search through all the data recovered and prepare a strategy which identifies the enemy's strengths and exploits the enemy's weaknesses while magnifying your strengths and neutralizing your weaknesses. This plan, the Strategy of Peace, will highlight and leverage Steps 7 through 9 below.

6. Prepare a fully orchestrated campaign utilizing all available channels of distribution to reach the enemy leadership and ensure that they receive your message.

The mass media, political analysts, think tanks, college students, broadcast networks and talk shows, letters between corporations, husbands and wives, parents and students; multinational organizations, intelligence organizations, sports authorities and teams, et al, all may be contacted and/or employed (openly or surreptitiously) as a means to convey the terms of the Strategy of Peace to the enemy leadership.

The message to convey to the enemy leadership must include the following points:

7. Convince the enemy leadership they cannot achieve those objectives if they do go to war.

8. Convince the enemy leadership that the material and psychological (to the mass body politick)costs of war to the enemy will simply be too great to recover from.

9. Encourage the enemy leadership that they may be able to attain the objectives they seek by going to war against some other entity.

Step 9, if successful, will serve to diminish the enemy's military capabilities, reducing its ability to prosecute a war in the future. This may also serve to fracture the political infrastructure of the state and any such fractures must be exploited.

The Strategy of Peace is as applicable with guerrilla warfare, terrorist operations and gang activities as it is with nation-state operations.

Irag & Vietnam; Unjust War

A commonality exists bewtween the war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq: An unjust war will soon lose the support of the people and demoralize the troops fighting it.

Don't believe the hype that the US Administration, military officials or the media are trying to feed us. It's all lies. For the truth, watch the series "Off to War" on the Discovery Times channel on Saturday nights.

Spending Us Into Bankruptcy

The President and this current Administration seem intent upon spending the US into bankruptcy.

A slash in taxes, followed by war and hurricanes and the President's promise to spend all that was necessary to resolve these issues without increasing taxes all seem fundamentally naive.

The economy remains sluggish and Americans are not comfortable with the economy regardless of what the numbers may say and especially regardless of proclamations by the President or other officials. People know what they feel in their heart and what they feel - what they sense if a potential weakness in the economy.

In this case, people's feelings and the reality are at odds. The economy is slow and sluggish but surprisingly stable, strong and resilient.

It is strong because despite attempts by the White House to undermine the economy by a "spend, spend, spend" philosophy, the nation has not yet succumbed to a recession.

The Administration seems desperate to induce a recession and possibly a depression in order to increase its power over the rights and liberties of the American people.

The goal of this Administration all along has been to increase its power over the people and deny the essential liberties and rights this nation was based on and further degrade and erode the morals and ethics of a formerly moral and upright people.

Tragedy in New Orleans - FEMA Drags Its Feet

Tragedy in New Orleans
FEMA Drags its Feet

Copyright 2005 by Perry Jones
All Rights Reserved

We all see the horror on the nightly news. Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. But that isn't the real story.

The real story is the lack of federal response.

Where is the government? Where is the Red Cross? Why aren't there air drops of food and water if it is too unsafe to get people on the ground? Where are the tents, the convoys of air and ground vehicles carrying food, water, clothing, tents and medical supplies?

Such things have happened in every other natural disaster in US history. But these things are not happening in New Orleans today.

Why not?

The President, FEMA, the Red Cross and the federal authorities have all refused offers of aid from many sources. Why? I offered to lead a volunteer group to go in and deliver food and water, but my offer was turned down. Why? Why was help from Russia, Israel, Venezuela and other countries refused? The President may have changed his mind now, or maybe he will in days to come, but in the first few days after this disaster - when it was most critically needed - all help was refused, turned down, denied. Why?

If my understanding of history and politics is correct, its all a setup.

The failure of authorities to act in New Orleans following this disaster, the refusal to allow people to go in so lives could be saved, the gut-wrenching, heart-breaking lack of response by the government allowing people to die, be raped, murdered and beaten is all a setup.

The setup is this.

It's to create the atmosphere for something else to happen further on down the line.

Exactly what, I don't know. It won't be to ban all guns across the country because looters and hoodlums are shooting at rescuers and rescue helicopters. That would be too extreme. It won't be to establish martial law across the country. That also would be too extreme.

But it could be to preposition "emergency supplies" in "critical locations" across the country. These "emergency supplies" would - of course - include military ammunition, ordnance and equipment, in order to "protect the people" in the "affected areas" from "rioters, looters and rampaging gangs of hoodlums and desperate criminals".

I suppose these things Could be going on in New Orleans. But I'm not there, so I don't know for sure. I have heard on the news, as you have no doubt, about helicopters and rescue workers being fired on by snipers and "hoodlums". Although I suppose that is possible, it doesn't make sense. But perhaps the gravity of the disaster has made people lose their common sense or caused them to forget moral values. Perhaps. It does seem certain that at least one case has occurred (that of a National Guard troop being shot in the leg while in a struggle for his gun), so maybe there are a few others as well. Maybe.

I feel a more likely scenario - regardless of who is doing the shooting - if there is any - is to allow the federal government to set up these staging areas so they will be able to move troops around the country with ease and without alarming the population, such troops to include the US Army (Federal, not National Guard), in order to control large areas of the country when, and as the federal government sees fit to do so.

Another possible reason for this "setup" - if there is one - only time will tell - may simply be to enable or allow the government to dispatch federal troops (US Army - not National Guard) to wherever it may deem appropriate as it deems necessary. The US Army is currently prohibited by law from any domestic law enforcement role.

As we see in New Orleans, the National Guard is "overwhelmed", for the first few days it was nowhere to be seen. Only now, 5 days after the disaster - are National Guard troops arriving on the scene in sufficient number to make an impact and establish control over the situation. The Administration may use this as an excuse to permit the federal use of the US Army and/or federal control of the National Guard anywhere in the country as it sees fit; in order to control the people.

Why?

Because this fits in with the long range goal of the federal government ESPECIALLY this administration. To take control of the people and the country, dispense with civil rights and establish a totalitarian police state controlled by the likes of Cheney, Rumsfeld and cronies thereof.

Is this just another "conspiracy theory" or does what I say have some merit?

If what I claim is correct, then the federal government will invent a "solution" to the lack of federal response in New Orleans which will further erode the rights of the people - as the 9/11 attacks did - increase the power of the federal authorities and serve to further their goals of establishing a police state in the US.

All this will be done in the name of "public security", or of protection, or some other Orwellian phrase that will sound good, have some idea of "common sense", "seem right", but that in fact will have the direct opposite goals in mind.

So we have 4 reasons that this could be happening.

1. To create prepositioned staging areas of supplies, especially military ordnance.

2. To allow the federal government to freely move troops around the country.

3. Some combination of 1 and 2.

4. Some other reason that promotes the agenda of the federal government in eroding the Constitution, establishing a police state and controlling the people so that they won't protest against the federal government or raise alarms against the further intrusion into private affairs by federal authorities.

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Truth is all that matters. Where it comes from and how it happens to appear is immaterial. Truth is truth. Lies are lies. Who is telling the truth? Who is telling lies? The truth may be difficult to be believe, but those who are ready for it will recognize it when they receive it. All I am seeking is the truth and I know that the biggest source of lies in this country right now is the White House.

A brave American once said: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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I am a patriot in the classical sense. I believe in life, liberty and free speech. I believe in small government and the freedom for each individual to conduct their affairs as they see fit as long as such conduct does not unduly influence any other individual in the conduct of their affairs.

The present US government seems to disagree with me.

This administration is despicable, vindictive and filled with hate, greed and dissension. It will cheat, lie and steal to enhance its own power and perhaps even kill to protect the power it now possesses. All I can do is pray and spread the truth through blogs and websites.

I am only one person, but as a nation we are many. The Spirit of God goes before us, against such, who can prevail? None. For no one is stronger than God. Though many of us who believe in truth may perish, victory is certain, and those who seek to deny the power of the people will themselves be defeated.

Praise God! And long live the United States!

The Cause of the War in Iraq

The war in Iraq continues and President Bush and the Pentagon are nonplussed as to the degree, intensity and size of the opposition. What they don't understand is that a war of low intensity conflict - as this war is (LIC - Low-Intensity Conflict is where at least one side has no regular standing army but instead uses irregular forces drawn from the population or other sources to conduct limited but deadly strikes against their enemy), has no relation to military power. Rather, a war of this type is dependent upon ideology.

Although every war is based to some degree on ideology, a LIC form of war is primarily based on ideology. In the case of the war in Iraq, this ideology is religious in nature.

To quell the opposition in Iraq and prevent American troops and Iraqi citizens from dying, the American military and political leadership must understand the cause of this war. Ideology is the driving force, not military force, not size of the opposition, not the number of Muslims ready to die for their cause.

When 1 Muslim dies in a suicide bombing, this only encourages others to take his or her place. If a combatant Muslim is killed or captured before they have the chance to commit suicide, others will rise up to complete the mission left uncompleted.

This war cannot be won by number of dead. It cannot be won by capturing a region and then releasing that region back to the local populace. It cannot be won by generals or presidents throwing arms, equipment or someone's sons or daughters into the meatgrinder. It can be won by defusing the situation through understanding of the motive for war.

This war is based on a religious ideology. The enemy leadership feels threatened by the American presence, by Western values and a shift of power into the hands of the people and out of the hands of the religious leadership.

To win this war requires convincing the combatant Muslim leadership that continued hostile action on their part will be detrimental to their organization and create a disservice to their religion.

If we do not achieve these objectives, there is a possibility the war will grow, spreading around the world, with new strikes in Europe, the US and nations the enemy believes are providing the US with assistance. This could mean strikes in Japan or Australia which are Western in philosophy but have little or none in terms of military support in Iraq. They support the US by nature of their culture and it is this culture the enemy fears.

The enemy believes that the West has attacked their traditional values and so they are just defending in the only way they believe they can.

We must convince the enemy that their traditional values, their religion and their religious values and their culture will be preserved by the West. We do not seek to "Westernize" them, but rather to accept them into the world community as equals.

We must convince the enemy that their continued attacks do not serve them but rather only provoke us to greater action and greater incursion into their values. We must convince them that the more the enemy strikes out at the West, the more the West will harden its resolve to win this conflict at any cost. As the US sought "total victory" and "unconditional surrender" by the enemy after Pearl Harbor so also will we seek totality in this conflict, even if such a position is not true. We must only convince the enemy that it is what we believe. To win this conflict, the US must find a place that the combatant leadership can aspire to without conflict and this will take greater intelligence anaylsis on the part of the US and the western powers than has thus far been experienced.

We may seek to win on the battlefield, but that cannot occur until and unless we have killed or captured every individual who would make war against the US, (which could be millions), or forcing the entire population into camps or preserves where the whereabouts and activity of every individual is known and closely monitored or displacing every individual to a location where they can pose no threat to the West.

These are unlikely options and serve to highlight the obvious; this war probably cannot be won by conventional means - force against force, because force is merely an outbreak of a deeper condition. We must address that deeper condition to end this war, without doing so, the most likely probability is that this war will just go on and on.

The Purpose of Life

The Purpose of Life - Copyright 2005 by Perry Jones

I won't dance around the bush, the purpose of your life is to express yourself.

If this sounds too simple, that's because great truths are almost always quite simple.

So how do you do that? That's where things get tricky.

You express yourself by doing that which you were born to do. Everyone is here on Earth for a specific purpose. Everyone has a perfect work they are supposed to be doing. Not following these leads us to despair, heartache, tragedy, illness, cancer, anger, addictions, accidents, et al. All the negative things that occur in our lives are a result of us not doing those things we are supposed to be doing.

Generally, all of us (almost all of us) have this backwards. We think that in order to be happy in life we need to be successful. Sounds good so far, right? Ok. And in order to be successful we must go to school, go to college, get a degree, get a job in a well paying field, get credit cards and buy those things - the big house, the fine car, the nice clothes, the vacations and all those benefits that come with a high paying job that mean success.

That's what we've been told. That's what we have come to believe. But nothing could be further from the truth.

We can't be happy by doing what everyone else has done. If everyone in the world was doing what they were born to do, then we wouldn't have wars, we wouldn't have hate, we wouldn't have crime, we wouldn't have anger, we wouldn't have pain, we wouldn't have racism, we wouldn't be confronted with a world that is experiencing crisis after crisis.

We would have peace. We would have love, we would have joy, we would have happiness, we would have fufillment and we each would be experiencing all that individually.

How is this possible?

We need to take another look at our purpose.

Another way of coming to our purpose in life is this: Our purpose is

to seek
to serve
to create

First, we seek out the reason we are here. This is our dream, it is the perfect work we are supposed to do, it is that which fulfills us. It also means to seek God in whatever way we recognize Him/Her/It.

To serve means to serve humanity. In this way we serve God. Serving God is serving humanity. We achieve this by creating.

Creating is how we express ourselves.

Creating will be different for each person. It could mean being the best janitor we can be, it could mean being the best doctor we can be. It could mean we are supposed to be a missionary, or an accountant, an attorney, a homemaker, a taxi driver, a warehouse worker, a factory worker or an office worker.

Creating could also mean something artistic - as in being a musician, writing songs, writing books, painting, designing websites, doing tile work or becoming an architect, a sculptor or fashion designer.

Creating could also mean someone who develops crafts such as tile work, handbags, jewelry, floral arrangements, etc.

Or it could mean doing all of these.

To seek, to serve and to create means that we must turn our lives into a masterpiece, a work of art, it means to live in the fullest expression of who we are.

How do we do this?

We do this by following the FFSSS Plan.

FFSSS is an acronym for Family, Financial, Self, Social, Spiritual.

These are the five facets of life that we must address in order to achieve fulfillment and in order to fulfill our purpose in life.

Family

Family means learning to build a good family. If we don't have one, then our family is our neighbor, the homeless person on the street, the people down the street, in the next town, the next state, the next country, the next continent.

Courses at churches, colleges and other locations can help us to build a better family. Books at bookstores and tv shows like Oprah and Dr. Phil can all help us to learn how to build better relationships with our immediate and extended families.

Financial

Financial is understood by all. But what it means here is to learn those principles that will lead us to financial independence in the shortest possible time period. In this period of human history we have perhaps the greatest opportunity to learn these principles.

Books such as the Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, The Rich Dad series by Robert Kiyosaki, the Multiple Streams of Income books and others by Robert Allen, and the works of Suze Orman as well as others can all help us to learn those principles we need to achieve financial independence.

Courses and seminars, some taught by some of the above authors, are available and can further our education in financial matters.

Self

Self stands for self-development. We aren't going to achieve anything until we learn to leave all our pains behind. They weigh us down like an anchor holding us into the current pattern of our life.

Again, numerous books and courses are available that will help us to learn more about ourselves and take personal charge and responsibility for our lives.

Advanced technologies such as Avatar taught by Star's Edge, NLP (look online) and Dianetics taught by your local Church of Scientology can provide us with skills to use to get the past behind us and retrain our minds to achieve the success for which we are truly worthy.

Self also includes your body. Our bodies are the temples of our souls. We need to learn more about nutrition, exercise regularly and find quiet time just for ourselves. These things may not be so easy in our fast-paced world, but they are critical to our success.

Social

Social is how we deal and interact with other people. In order to achieve the best for ourselves, we will need to build an effective team. This can only be accomplished by understanding the nuances of personality and what makes people tick. It means developing our communication skills and our thought patterns to develop persuasive presentations that will positively affect our environment and those we interact with. A course like the Dale Carnegie course and programs offered by Guthy-Renker can help in this area.

No one achieves anything on their own. The United States has the myth of the lone entrepreneur - the man or woman who built their hugely successful company up from nothing with no one helping them. That is an old and dangerous myth.

The most successful people in any age are those who have built the most effective teams. This takes leadership, courage and humility. It requires courage and humility because in order to be successful we need to ask for help.

Spiritual

Spiritual deals with God, religion and spirituality. There is no reality without spirituality. Every physical law and principle has a like metaphysical (or spiritual) law or principle undergirding it.

Our world is in turmoil now, but it is because we have lost our focus. This focus needs to be on the spiritual. We need to develop a relationship with God.

Our religions of the past have barricaded us from the relationship we need to get to know God better. Our religions have taught us that only certain people can have a direct relationship with God. They have also taught that only certain people at certain times can "talk" with God or receive communication from God. But that is not true.

God is speaking to all of us, each of us, all the time.

We simply have been taught that that is not true.

We need to retrain ourselves that God does speak to us all the time. God is speaking to you and through you. We just need to find out how to come to this understanding, and then the voice of God becomes clearer and clearer.

Tomorrow's religion is not about religion. It is about relationship. Each of us needs to build an immediate and personal relationship with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

These terms may mean different things to different people. But the most important thing is to begin that relationship in whatever way you understand it.

Another thing to realize is this: You and God are one. We all are a facet of God. Each person is just a part of that ultimate Oneness we call God. Whatever we do to another is what we do to ourselves.

I'll expand more on the spiritual in the future.

Following the FFSSS Plan will help us to fulfill our purpose in life. We also need to follow the Principles of Success.

I'll write more about the Principles of Success in another blog.

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Education: Institutionalized Stupidity

It's easier to lead and to dominate those who have been taught to follow and who have been taught not to think. This becomes an institutionalized doctrine of stupidity and of follow the leader for the undertaught masses when the entire educational system is designed to teach people to not think on their own, but instead to naively and blindly follow the leader. This has been the brand of American education since the beginning of the 20th century.

There is nothing wrong with American teachers. There is something wrong with the system they teach within.

American teachers are as much at the mercy of the system as are the students they teach.

We continuously bemoan and criticize teachers for putting out a shoddy product yet we refuse to provide them the tools necessary to do so.

A maxim states "the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results." Isn't this what we are doing with the system? Isn't this what we are doing with students? Isn't this what we are doing with teachers?

If we truly seek to graduate individuals able to think, decide and act and take their place responsibly in society, we must address the reasons why this isn't happening now. It was happening, it did happen - in the one room schoolhouse.

This may be an extreme example, yet it worked. Perhaps we should study what made it work and bring those elements and concepts into the present. At the turn of the century, calculus was being taught to 7th grade students. The text they were using was by Silvanus Thomson; "Calculus Made Easy" which, regardless of the title, certainly wasn't easy.

If this advanced education could be taught in small little schoolhouses across the country a hundred years ago, why can't we do it today? It's not the teachers who are at fault. Nor, in a sense, is it even the system. Those who know the truth know better. Our schools are turning out dumbdowned individuals intentionally because those who have power want to keep it and an educated population would threaten their hold on power and perhaps even change the world for the better - for the good of all. It is possible, it can be done, but those who hold the reins of power won't permit that to happen.

Iraq & the Decline of America

In the middle 1970's, a top Soviet general defected to the United States. In a book he published a few years later, he stated that there would come a Soviet Spring - when the winds of democracy would blow across the Soviet Union. This occurred as he stated. He next stated that this Soviet Spring would be followed by a global war on terrorism. We now know the truth of this statement. Next, he said, would be a war on asteroids and meteorites to be followed by a war on aliens. All these he said would be false. Deceptions and misdirection perpetrated by those in power to obtain more power and wealth for themselves while stripping people of their rights and turning the world into their own slave labor camp.

Although this General did not foresee the fall of the Soviet Union, everything else he stated has occurred, almost to timtable. We see the war on terrorism going on and growing worse while our freedoms are stripped away by the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security.

The Discovery Channel and other vanguard cable channels report that the threat from space is growing; that meteors and asteroids could wipe out life on Earth if they were ever to crash into the planet.

Power is consolidating into the hands of a few at the expense of the many. To determine who is behind all this we need only "follow the money" as Deep Throat once stated.

Now President Bush is saying that we are winning a war that cannot be won, that the numbers of troops in country are sufficient to achieve peace and that the threat from Iraq is declining.

How much of this is sheer fabrication we do not know. This may be more of a Weapons of Mass Destruction type excuse. A Potemkin Village to disguise the truth behind paper thin facades.

In South Dakota, a vice president catches a cold while hunting. But this can be a most dangerous game in which a virus can spread to destroy those who would seek to control all.

The United States is in fast decline.

The United States has reached the point of "imperial overstretch" in which our domestic and worldwide obligations outstrip our ability to deliver on those obligations. Our budget is in deficit and our industry is in decline.

A restructuring is upon us, but the powers that be refuse to relinquish the past. The current administration and past administrations have done much damage to the power of the United States and the liberty that once flourished here.

Our colleges and universities, once the envy of the world are now in decline as visas for foreign students become harder and harder to obtain. The brainpower of these students is essential to the intellectual power of our great schools of learning.

Primary and secondary schools are unable to prepare students for life after school. In excess of 30% of students graduating from these schools are almost totally unprepared and unsuited for life after school.

Our moral and ethical decline is evident at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and in the way we kidnap innocent people off the street to whisk them away to foreign countries where they are tortured for months at a time.

American prisons house over 1% of the American population - mostly the underpriviliged and poverty stricken. Those who are released from prison use their new found prison skills to commit even more dastardly crimes.

Racial enmity, once on the decline, again threatens the inner city and urban and rural America. Hate crimes, violence against those who are different than we and crimes of state threaten every American and imperil the rights we have fought to sustain for over 200 years.

The Statue of Liberty should be weeping. For we are no longer a nation of the free and the brave. We are no longer a nation that opens its doors to the huddled masses of the world seeking to breathe free. We have turned our backs on immigration and in so doing, we have turned our backs on our future.

In all this darkness, and this is just a small sample, there yet is light. The American people are bold and brave and when faced with a challenge, we have always risen to the occasion - when led by enlightened leadership. But there is no such leadership in sight - yet. All we have now are partisan politics, power grabbing decisions and wealth accumulating strategies designed to strip Americans of their rights and wealth and voice.

We will win, as a nation, as a people and as idea. For America Is the land of the free and the home of the brave. That idea lives in our hearts, perhaps, as only an idea right now, but it shall return as a fact, as a lived out function of our daily reality - if noble politicians, bold leaders and enlightened individuals speak up and make their opinions known.

A new world is upon us. The economy becomes global and the world village manifests as a fact. Jobs, once the economic engine of the family and individual are passe in postindustrial states.

We need to relearn about finances, education, spirituality, politics and religion, as all of these are intertwined in ways most people are incapable of fathoming. And, those who can understand must teach those who do not. Enlightened leadership is required now more than ever. An understanding of metaphysical reality must meet with the sharp edges and hard planes of materialism and capitalism which have been the mainstay of the western democracies for a hundred plus years.

Now is the time for change, for the threat is great. President Bush is right about one thing - we are in dire and even fatal straits if we are unable to make things right.

America may be in decline. But it doesn't have to stay that way.

Is This the End? God's Coming Wrath

Is this the end? Earthquakes in California. A tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Wars and rumors of wars. Isaiah Chapter 18 says that the nation of "whirring wings" - a nation crossed with rivers, a nation undefeated in war, feared around the world, will send its soldiers to die in the mountains and deserts of the Mid East in a time shortly before the harvest. During this time, this nation will deliver a present to Zion.

What this present delivered to Israel or Jerusalem is we are not told. Above the United States at any one time, over 4000 aircraft are winging their way across the continent. Surely, these are "whirring wings". This will all occur "shortly before the harvest" - the Judgement.

Is this the end? Is God coming soon? There are many who think so. God sends prophets to warn the people of His coming. God also brings earthquakes and other "natural" disasters to help people understand that they need to turn back to Him, to repent. These earthquakes and natural disasters will grow in intensity as the day of God's judgement nears. Are you ready?

The day for this is now upon us. God is warning us strongly to return to Him, to repent, to recognize Him as the ultimate authority. The warnings are here to indicate that if we do not, we will all be lost. Everything will be destroyed.

God loves us so much that He sends us these warnings so that we have the chance to turn back to Him, before it's too late and escape the coming wrath.

People don't understand that natural disasters are not "caused" by God. He has established principles and laws which govern the operation of the universe. When these laws are disobeyed, consequences result. If we step off a 10 story building, we will fall. If we try to cross the ocean by swimming, most likely we will drown. God will usually not save us from our own stupidity, even though it is in His power to do so.

It is we who don't understand that every natural law of the universe is underpinned by a spiritual law. And it is the spiritual law which governs and controls the natural law. When these spiritual laws are broken, the natural law is similarly affected, although it may take months, years or even generations for the impetus of the breaking of the spiritual law to affect the natural law.

This is what we are seeing now. We have polluted the Earth and it is repaying us. We have wars and now earthquakes result. We kill each other for drugs, money or mere acceptance into a gang and morality around the world declines. God says in Galatians 6:7 that He "will not be mocked"; for every action there is a consequence. If we sow to our lower nature we will reap that nature. If we sow to our higher self, we will reap that self.

We have forgotten that we are spiritual beings. We have been taught - deceived really - into believing that we are mere flesh and blood. But that is not true. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. By indulging our physical pleasures we break spiritual laws. Rather than committing ourselves to long term joy and happiness - which come from the soul, we indulge in short term gratification of the body - pleasure.

As we indulge in pleasure of the body, whether physical (drugs, sex, drunkeness, etc.) or emotional (anger, hate, envy, etc.) we build barriers to our spiritual nature and add on to those events which break the spiritual laws. Eventually, these broken spiritual laws manifest as broken physical laws - earthquakes, wars, famines, plagues. And pleasure is habit forming. The more we engage in it, the more we want it.

Satan has tricked us into believing that we can only be happy by engaging in pleasure and materialism. It feels so good and the pleasure is so intense. Yet, everything and anything that does not glorify God is a sin. We can do the same things, theoretically, but doing those things for God will bring us closer to Him, while doing those things for pleasure leads us away and generates Satan's kingdom.

Our time is short. God is and has been patient. But His patience will not continue to endure. There will be calms and lulls before the storm. But eventually the storm will break. We must repent to save ourselves. And God has promised us one more thing.

We can escape the coming storm.

If enough of us repent and turn back to God, building a direct relationship with Him and Jesus through the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, we can bypass the storm.

Churches, religions, doctrines and dogma have had their day. But the day for all such things has passed. Today a new day is upon us. Is is the day of a new direct personal relationship with God through the personage of His Only Son Jesus, guided by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

The Bible and church policy and doctrine may be where we need to start for us to begin that direct personal relationship. But is only a first step. Jesus seeks a direct, immediate and personal relationship with each of us. If enough of us initiate this kind of a relationship, the Earth will not need to go through the terrible day of wrath that is fast approaching.

Nostradamus, prophets, seers, aborigine peoples, New Age channelers, natives of all kinds have all predicted horrible and terrifying earth changes within the next few years. But God has shown me that this is only one possibility. There remains another. Turn to Him, begin that direct, personal relationship with His Son and all these changes will pass us as the avenging angel passed over the Hebrews when they anointed their doorframes with blood of a sacrifice. That angel passed over ("Passover") the Hebrews and went on to claim the first born sons of the Egyptians.

The same time is upon us now. We can die as the Egyptians died or we can accept the Gospel of Jesus in a direct, immediate and personal relationship and escape the coming storm.

What do you choose? I'll explain further in "The Purpose of Life."

Rich by 18?

How to Make $50,000 to $75,000 a Year by 18

$50,000 - $75,000 by 18

$100,000 - $150,000 by 22

Everyone should have a passive and portfolio income of $50,000 to $75,000 a year by the time they reach 18 and $100,000 to $150,000 a year in passive and portfolio income by the time they reach 22. No, this isn't rich. But it is comfortable. Getting rich by 18 is possible, but not without exceptional skills and a whole lot of luck.


By the time you graduate high school your income should be at least $50,000 a year and by the time you get out of college 4 years later your income should be between $100,000 to $150,000 a year without you having to work for it.

That you do not is not your fault.

The lack of providing financial education - the education that will provide you the knowledge to acquire those assets to generate an income of $50,000 to $75,000 by the time you get out of high school - is essentially the responsibility of our culture.

It is not our parents fault nor is it the "fault" of our educational system. It is primarily the "fault" of our society.

Because this education is unknown to our parents and it is not taught in our schools it is the responsibility of each individual to acquire this information themselves.

Fortunately at this time in our history, this information is readily available to the masses - perhaps for the first time. Books such as the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series by Robert Kiyosaki, "Multiple Streams of Income" by Robert Allen, "The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom" by Suze Orman and "The Automatic Millionaire" series by David Bach all explore and explain the details of this information.

Working for a living, and by this I mean going to work at a job and getting a paycheck once a week or every two weeks, is a relatively new concept. It's only been around for the last 150 years or so or commensurate with (and as a result of) the beginning of the industrial revolution.

Prior to the industrial revolution, only serfs or slaves worked for someone else. Everyone else was self-employed. And that had been the case for thousands of years of human history.

This is the path we need to return to today. Many people feel they cannot master the details or intricacies or stress involved with owning and running a business. Others feel that owning a business is somehow taking advantage of people. For all these people, they are probably right. The alternative for both groups is to be self-employed.

Essentially, this is what the rich and super-rich in our society are doing and have always done. No one can know everything they need to know to run a multibillion dollar business. Very few could even know all they would need to know to run the laundromat down the street. What the rich and the super-rich do is hire people who know what they do not.

This then leaves the owners of business free to focus on the skills they know best and love doing. They leverage time and resources to accomplish the feats they achieve. No one can be a success alone. All success requires teamwork, from the marathon runner to the star pitcher of a MLB team.

The greatest successes in history did not do it alone. They all had teams of successful people behind them, supporting their efforts, involved with the details they did not understand, could not master or simply had no time to focus on. Leverage your skills to achieve success. Focus on those things you do well leaving those things you do not do well or have no time to do to others.

The book "The E-Myth Revisited" by Michael Gerber is an excellent source of what to do if you own or are thinking about owning a small business. This book will help you understand why 80% of new businesses fail within 5 years and 90% fail within 10. "The E-Myth Revisited" shows us why being self-employed and owning a small busines often becomes worse than a job and working for someone else. Don't make the mistakes most people do when starting or going into business for themselves. Get this book and avoid them.

So. How do you get rich by 18?

The simple answer is that you don't, not without hard work, extraordinary skills, exceptional courage and luck being your close companion.

That leaves me out and probably you too. So what can you and I do?

You can still acquire an income of $50,000 to $75,000 a year without working for it, at least in the sense of going to work at a job and receiving a paycheck. You will still be working, perhaps harder (more hours) than you would for someone else, but you'll be working for yourself.

Working for yourself will provide you with more satisfaction, greater confidence, more prosperity and greater happiness than working for some job.


Not having an income of $50,000 to $75,000 by the time you're 18 or $100,000 to $150,000 by the time you're 22 is not your fault. It is simply because no one told you how.

If you read all the books I have mentioned, you will have a good head start. There will still be a lot to learn, much of it from "on the job training" - the mistakes you will inevitably make, but eventually if you keep at it you will get it.

Those books are a good first step. Next is to discover your passion in life and begin doing it. Even if it leads you away from learning about financial education. As you begin this path, implement the 4 Way Test.

The 4 Way Test was developed by Herbert Taylor in 1932 and is now a credo of Rotary International. The test is this:

1. Is it the truth?
2. Is it fair to all concerned?
3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

Living the 4 Way Test will bless you spiritually, emotionally and materially. The world is in dire straits now, perhaps more so than ever in history. Living the 4 Way Test, implementing it in our lives, in our homes, in business and in politics can set things on the path to a better world. Not implementing the 4 Way Test will condemn us to more of what we see going on all around us. If you have a better way of implementing ethics and morality into your everyday affairs, do it, if not, use the 4 Way Test.

Most of the successful people I have researched and interviewed started their first business at around the age of 9. If you are not one of these, don't worry. It's never to late to begin. But a start at 9 will amass the assets you need to achieve an income of $50,000 to $75,000 9 years later - with the proper education, financial knowledge and mastery of the necessary principles.

Learning these principles will enable you to go to college and acquire additional assets to achieve an income of $100,000 to $150,000 in another 4 years. This is not an impossible dream. It is possible - for everyone.

Sports. What about sports? Or dance? Or art? There is no excuse for not acquiring the proper financial education for only this will free you from the tyranny of work or financial enslavery. However, if sports, dance or some other field is your passion in life, do it. Let the financial education come later.

Fulfilling your passion in life is the only true way to be happy in life. The money will come by following that path. But then, as the money begins to roll in, we need to initiate our financial education in order to hold onto and protect the wealth we have.

America is the most litigious society in the world, and will only get worse. Financial education will enable us to protect our financial assets, minimize our taxes and ensure us an income when we are no longer able to pursue our passion. Financial education will protect us from losing all that we have gained when just one lawsuit can take it all away.

It will require 8 to 10 years of work after you begin this path for you to achieve an income of $50,000 to $75,000 a year in passive and portfolio investments. And that assumes that you're about average and acquire the financial education and master the necessary principles to do so. It will require another 4 to 5 years to reach $100,000 to $150,000 in annual passive and portfolio income. But it is possible. You can do it.

Rich at 18 may be an impossible dream. But never having to work again at 18 is not, if you begin soon enough. Be bold, live your dream, follow your passion and learn the financial education you need to be free from work, and to retain the income that makes living your dreams possible.

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Perry Jones is a successful entrepreneur and work from home advocate. He has several websites including How To Get Rich - http://how2getrich.bravehost.com, Millionaire Books - http://millionairebooks.1afm.com and others.
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How To Get Rich

How to get rich is really quite simple. 1. Generate excess cash. 2. Invest your excess cash in passive and portfolio investments until the income from those investments is great enough to enable you to retire. Of course, most people get stuck on number 1.

Generate excess cash. First, let's define "excess cash". Excess cash means that you have an income coming in that is 2 to 3 times the average for your area. You can create this excess cash in one of two ways.

The first way to generate excess cash is to work 2 or 3 jobs at the same time. The second way is to learn a trade that pays about 2 to 3 times the average pay for your area. What trade? That depends on the area you live in.

Electricians, accountants, carpenters, masons may all make 2 to 3 times the average wage for your area. Also, almost anything in the health field such as nursing, pharmacology, physical therapy, radiology, etc. may generate 2 or 3 times the average income for your area.

How do you determine the "average" income for your area? This also is easy if you don't mine being inexact. Just go to any Wal-Mart or McDonald's in your area. Ask them what their starting pay is. The "average" income for your area will be about one and a half to two times the amount Wal-Mart or McDonald's pays their entry level people. If there's a large discrepancy between what McDonald's and Wal-Mart pays just take the average of what they pay, then double it. This is the average income for your area.

Now that you have excess cash, what do you do with it?

You invest it.

Excess cash is invested in passive and portfolio vehicles. It is not partied away, it is not used to buy a bigger house or a finer car. You do not use it to take better vacations or improve your wardrobe. Use it Only to invest in passive and portfolio investments. When the income from these investments is great enough that you can retire, then go on that nice vacation, buy those fine clothes, purchase that big house or nice car, but for now, don't spend it, invest it. Do this right and you should be able to retire in 2 to 10 years. 2 years will be if you're lucky.

Passive investments or vehicles are investments primarily in business or real estate. However, investments in licenses, patents, copyrights et al would also qualify.

Portfolio investments are more familiar. These are investments in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, T-bills, etc.

With your first bit of excess cash you will need to visit an accountant. Have the accountant prepare 3 financial plans for you. The first plan will be the income you'll receive in retirement at just a sustenance level. The bare minimum to get by. The second plan will be the amount of income you'll need to get by at a "comfortable" level. The third plan will be the amount of income you'll need to retire rich.

Each plan will include not only the outcome - how much income you'll receive in retirement - but also how much you'll need to invest each year to get there and what "vehicles" you'll need to invest in.

A "vehicle" is any investment category or object whether it be real estate, stocks, mutual funds, a business, copyright on a book or a patent. Any of these could be a vehicle - a device you have invested in to increase your current assets and future income.

Your current lifestyle must support your future goals. Acquire no new debt unless it is "good" debt. Good debt is any debt that you obtain which produces income for you. Bad debt is any debt which takes money away from you. This is also the true definition of an asset and a liability.

Contrary to traditional accounting practice and common understanding, an asset is anything you own that puts money into your pocket on a regular basis. A liability is anything you own that takes money out of your pocket.

You must not enhance your lifestyle to the point that you spend your excess cash. Your excess cash is only to be invested. Do not buy the Porsche or the mansion on the green or the designer clothes or the Rolex watch. Wait. With determination, work and perseverance, you'll be able to retire soon anyway. "Soon" being a relative term meaning anywhere from 2 to 10 years.

So that's how you get rich. Simple, easy, relatively quick and almost no risk. You just need to get that excess cash flow in place. And then you're on your way.

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Perry Jones is a successful entrepreneur and work at home advocate. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies and helped these companies generate millions to their bottom line. Perry is the Organizer for the recent Extra-Ordinary Film Festival http://eofilmfestival.goduck.net in Tempe, Arizona, and has several websites including Millionaire 1000 http://millionaire1000.1afm.com and Home Cash Flow http://homecashflow.1afm.com
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A Disease Called Life

What do you love to do the most? This is the most important question you will ever have to answer. Discovering the answer to that question and then doing it will free your soul. Not doing what you love condemns you to hell.


God has given each person a dream that only they are uniquely qualified to fulfill. This is our purpose in life. It is what we love to do the most.


Most people have turned their back on their dream, on what they love to do. They go to school and become indoctrinated into the industrial religion - school, job, family, career. This religion further requires that we sacrifice ourself - our dream - and also our sense of adventure, our love of fun, our innate joy of living to the dicta and dogma of the industrial religion.


Living like this is living life backward. In giving up everything to pursue job, family, career because we think it will make us happy, we eventually discover that we are not happy. Then it is often too late to determine what will make us happy and so we go on getting bigger houses, finer cars, fancier clothes, because we know no better. We think that that is the only way to achieve happiness, when that which will make us happy remains hidden.


We sacrifice our dreams to a religion which promises everything but find instead that everything isn't enough. We wake up one day realizing that the kids are sick, the mortgage needs to be paid and someone we love has died. We say we are living when in fact we are dying every day. We claim to be awake when we all are really asleep. It is only when we finally wake up by the process of doing what we love that we realize how deeply we had been asleep.


Many people follow the prescribed path of the doctrine and through luck, skill, determination and hard work they acquire the big house, the fancy car and the fine clothes. They may even convince themselves they are happy, but something will always give them away.


Whether it is illness, disease or cancer, addictions, accidents or injuries, the tragedies which befall them or the pain which surrounds them, those who are observant will always see that these people are not happy, they are not fulfilled, they are not satisfied. We can identify them because they speak of the world in a way we are all familiar with and often engage in ourselves. We speak of the bad service at the grocery store, how Tom did what to Lisa, how our friends are ill, how our workplaces are full of strife and struggle and our marriage is unhappy. If we wake up and have to go to work - we know we are not living our dream.

All this is because we have a disease the only cure of which is to find our dream and do it. We all have this disease; this disease called life.

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Perry Jones is a successful entrepreneur and work at home advocate. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies and helped bring millions of dollars to these companies bottom line. Perry's online course on home based business and work at home business is available at http://homecashflow.1afm.com More information is available at http://millionaire1000.1afm.com Perry is the organizer of the Extra-Ordinary Film Festival http://eofilmfestival.goduck.net
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Stop Working & Start Living!

Do what you love. Doing what you love produces more wealth than working for a living if we understand the true meaning of wealth - abundance, prosperity, riches, love, joy, giving, sharing, happiness, enthusiasm, success.

The question then is: What do you love? What do you love to do? This is more profound than enjoying what you do. This is deep. This is something way down deep inside. Some might call it spiritual love. What do you love? If that is too deep of a question, you may be able to sneak up on it from the enjoyment side - maintaining the realization that what you love is something deeper, although possibly, but not necessarily, related to what you enjoy. So, what do you enjoy? What do you like to do? What do you have fun doing? Is there anything you can think of that you would like to do that makes your heart leap just thinking about it? Answer these questions and you may begin to discover the love that is hidden within your heart.

The Home Cash Flow System can take you from where you may be - broke, not enough money, just wish you had more - to where you want to be - with enough extra cash flow coming in Every Day to create the life you want. With the Home Cash Flow System you can begin to build those dreams you’ve had of a better life, of something better for yourself, your spouse, your children.

In the book “Unconditional Money”, the author David Cates reveals that when we have connected to the love within ourselves the money will begin to flow. Slowly at first, in bits and dribbles, but ever-increasing if we maintain the connection to our soul. But, in order for the flow to begin, we must connect to the physical world - the world of hard edges and solid planes. And this brings us to faith

FAITH

Faith is half action, half belief. It is one half doing and one half dreaming, thinking, planning. For many years I thought that faith was just believing, just the dreaming part. As a result, many (most) of my dreams and plans never came true. Has that happened to you? The Bible states that faith without action is not real faith - it’s an illusion, delusory, it’s not real faith. The same is true in money, entrepreneurship, running a home business. You can plan all you want, believe all you want, but if you don’t get off your duff and do something, nothing is going to change. Planning is essential, but so is doing.

What do you love? What do you want? Where do you want to go? Wealth, making money, success; all are an internal quest. We’ve been taught by the world that to get rich, to achieve the income levels we desire, we must work hard, save, invest, own a business and make it grow - working your butt off in the process. That works, but often at the expense of families, friends, marriages and health. John D. Rockefeller at 50 looked 80 and lived on a diet of bread and milk. That was all his stomach could handle. He lived in constant worry that someone was going to steal his money or that his businesses would collapse bringing him to financial ruin. John D. Rockefeller was rich, but he wasn’t happy. What is the American Dream? What is the definition of success?

Success and the American Dream

Success in America has usually meant living in wealth. It usually means being rich. Success has meant fame, fortune or the suburban house with the white picket fence, a cat, a dog and 2.2 children. But it may not be my dream. It may not be my definition of success.

Success is an individual thing. To define it we have to refine it. We must search through all the paradigms and templates that society, our parents, teachers, friends and TV has bombarded and suffocated us with, to discover the true “us” we have hidden inside. You will never be truly happy until you connect to that essence which is truly you and which you may have hidden, buried and ignored for so long that you’ve forgotten that it - you - even exists.

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Perry Jones is a successful entrepreneur and work at home advocate. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies and helped these companies add millions to their bottom line. His free online course on home business and small business is available at http://homecashflow.1afm.com Information regarding a unique home based business is available at http://millionaire1000.1afm.com Perry's many ventures now include the recent Extra-Ordinary Film festival in Tempe, Arizona. Information is available at http://eofilmfestival.goduck.net
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Social Entropy

Each advance in science, politics, culture, etc, is considered progress. But this progress will tend to be negative in effect unless counterbalanced.

We see the results of this negative effect each passing day as the breakdown of our civilization seems to accelerate. Crime increases, gangs rule the streets, terrorism and wars rage on while the world seems to get smaller and smaller via the global satellite network.

These advances will continue to be negative in effect if they are not tied to an equivalent advance in our higher selves. To compensate for the entropic influence of advancement we must counter it with equal advances in our spiritual selves, in our morals and in our ethics and values.

Each technological advance, each item or step in terms of progress must then be counterbalanced with advances in our higher selves. Only through such commensurate and equivalent advances in technology and spirituality can civilization progress in a stable manner.

Without an equivalent moral advance in spirituality or morals for each technological or social advance, civilization will tend to deteriorate and self-destruct as we can clearly read and see in our daily papers and news broadcasts.

Pery Jones is a successful entrepreneur, work at home advocate and sponsor of the Extra-Ordinary Film Festival - http://eofilmfestival.goduck.net His online course on small business and home business is available at http://homecashflow.1afm.com More information is available at http://millionaire1000.1afm.com

Congratulations! You've Won a Million Dollars!

Now What?

Hi, my name is Perry Jones. First of all, let me say I don't want any of your money. And I won't accept it if you offer it to me. Of course, I'll be tempted - who wouldn't - so don't do it. The purpose of this is to help you keep your money.

Let me tell you a little about me so you'll know I'm qualified to tell you about this. I've studied finance and investments for over 25 years. I began preparing taxes for other people and small businesses when I was 15 years old. I have been a mutual funds advisor obtaining a Series 6 Federal Securities license just 3 weeks after I began studying for it. Most people require 1 to 3 to 6 months or more to study for a Series 6. I followed that up by studying for and obtaining a Series 63 State Securities license just a week later. I was co-founder of an investment club we called the BBC - Billionaire Boys Club. In our first year we obtained a 54% rate of return. The average at that time was around 18%. I've managed portfolios for wealthy individuals, been an incorporator for businesses, prepared business plans, started and sold my own business, invested in and managed my own portfolio and I was a trust and non-profit tax accountant for KPMG - a Big 5 accounting firm. Over all, I feel my background, education and experience will help you hold onto your money.

Over the last few years I've been studying money, wealth and those who've obtained wealth. My research has revealed that people who suddenly come into wealth, such as in an inheritance or a lottery winning, - like you for example - often go through all they've received within 2 years. During these two years they are often subjected to an unusually high amount of stress and have friends and relatives they never knew they had come asking them for money.

Many people often feel guilty. "Why me?" "What do I do with this?" "Who do I turn to?" "Who do I trust?" Hopefully, you won't experience any of these feelings and everything will go smoothly for you. But if you find yourself feeling this way, you aren't alone.

To help, I've developed some simple rules or guidelines. Accept those which feel right to you or which seem to make sense. If it feels wrong or just doesn't make sense, don't do it.

1. Wait. This is already what most people do. Wait a few days until the excitement dies down before claiming your money. This gives you time to calm down and relax and look at the situation a little more rationally. Winning a large jackpot is a big responsibility and you need time to get yourself used to the idea.

2. While you're waiting those few days, find yourself a competent attorney and a good accountant, CPA or financial advisor. How do you find such people? Trust your friends. Yeah, the word may leak that you've won, but it is more important to get an attorney and financial advisor in place rather than not trust your friends and go to the lottery office without such a team behind you. Who would your friends recommend? Ask them, ask around. Maybe you could consult the mayor of your town - if its small, or ask your doctor, tax preparer or someone who owns a small business. You could also just go through the Yellow Pages and select a few financial service firms at random and then call them for an initial appointment. When you appear for the appointment, be honest, tell them you won the big jackpot and ask them what suggestions they have on how you should invest the money. Meet each of the advisors you select and then wait at least 24 hours after meeting with the last before deciding which one you'll be working with. Then call that one back and give them the good news. Trust me, they'll be very happy.

3. While you're waiting, you may want to change your phone number and/or get yourself a new mailing address - a post office box or a mail box at a nearby mailing service. Otherwise you'll be inundated with phone calls and proposals in the mail to help you part with your money.

So you go to the lottery office and collect the big check. You get your smiling face on all the local (and maybe national) media. So what's next?

4. Take 10% and blow it. Yeah, this may not seem like sound investment advice, but you've just won the lottery for pete's sake! Have fun! That's what winning is all about. Take that vacation you've always wanted. Get that sports car you've always dreamed of. Throw yourself the biggest party you can imagine. Rent out the nightclub or restaurant or theater for you and some of your best friends. Have a good time. Have fun. But don't forget:

5. Be yourself. Don't be someone you're not. Don't assume "airs" just because you're suddenly wealthy. Your friends will resent it and sooner or later, so will you. This really hasn't been much of a problem for most people and shouldn't be with you, so just keep it in mind.

6. If you don't go to church or believe in God or a Supreme Being of some kind, now may be a good time to reconsider your position. You're going to need all the advice, wisdom and support you can get. When friends and family you never knew you had suddenly begin calling you and showing up on your doorstep, you may start to wonder who you can trust. Who will you turn to? God is infinite love and wisdom and this may be just what you need right now.

7. Relax. Don't feel guilty. Praise God. This money is a gift. Lightning has to strike someone sometime. This time it just happend to be you. You may now have enough to retire. If so, go ahead and retire. Quit your job, or at the very least stay away for a few days. You'll probably be too excited to concentrate on your job anyway. So take a vacation and maybe it'll become permanent.

8. Be careful who you trust. All the people you knew and were friends with before you won are probably safe. Any "friends", "relatives" and others you may have encountered since you won may not be.

9. Talk to your family, lawyer and financial planner and set up an investment plan. Discuss what you would do with this money. Don't make any rash decisions. The longer you keep this money in a safe place - even if its just a regular bank account for now - the longer you'll be able to consider all your options, plan for the future, and dream of what could be. Consider capping your donations to church or charities at a maximum of 10%. If you're receiving your money in annual payments, keep your donations at 10% per year. After the first year you may want to increase this percentage, but for the first year, keep donations to a 10% maximum.

10. Don't give money away to just anyone or for any reason. People may start coming out of the woodwork with news of relatives needing lifesaving operations, to pay bills, to start a medical clinic, pay for an abortion, save the whales, feed the hungry, to pay the rent so they won't be evicted, to start a new business which is "guaranteed" to turn their life around, etc. Don't do it. Refer them all to your attorney. Even the United Way, Girl or Boy Scouts, your local church, Red Cross and even your favorite Uncle Billy. Ask them all to submit a written proposal to your attorney. And tell them he'll take it from there.

11. Take a vacation. Get out of the country. Or just get out of the area for a while. You may need a few days, you may need a few weeks. But now is the time to think and relax. You've been given a great gift. What are you going to do with it? To figure that out, take that vacation you've always wanted. Go away. Go someplace where no one knows you. Take your immediate family (or not) and bring along a trusted friend or friends or relative(s) if you wish. Go sailing. Go to Europe or Asia. Take that cruise. Go to Las Vegas (but be careful if you go there)(the casinos have many years experience of helping people part with their money), or Cancun or Fiji. Whatever vacation or place you've always wanted, now is the time to do it.

If you take your family, they may impose too greatly upon your conscience. You don't want that. You want to be able to rationally and logically figure out what to do with this great gift you've been given. Having your family around may not allow you to do this. Or it may. Only you can make that determination.

If they are not with you, call home. Call your family, pastor or a trusted friend. Talk. And make lists. This is number 12.

12. Make lists. What dreams did you always want to do or achieve? Who did you always want to be? Now may be the time to do that. Or maybe you'll too old. Or not. And don't be hasty. You've got all the time in the world. You can live anywhere you want. Do anything you want. Buy any car you've wanted. Get that big house in that luxury area.

Keep on making lists. Think about all the things you've written. Do you really want this or that? Do you really want to go here or there? Think about these things. It may take some time, or maybe it won't. Maybe you won't need to get away, maybe you've had all this planned out already, if not on paper then in your head. Enjoy yourself.

13. Move on. Your plans are in place. Your family has been taken care of. Perhaps you've bought that nice house or car you've always wanted. Now is the time to move on. Start living your life. Maybe you won't change anything, or maybe you will. Maybe you'll change everything. But life goes on, and so do you. You may be able to live at a higher level of affluence, you may be able to donate to those charities, you may be able to do some good things you never had the time or money to do before. Now you have both. So do them. You may even want to go back to school. You're never too old. Begin implementing the investment plan you worked out. Begin living that life you dreamed of while on vacation and while making lists. And that's it.

There's plenty of competent investment advice out there so I'm not going to offer any. Except for this. If you're going to buy that new house, pay cash. Buy it outright. Same for the car. Get out of debt. Now is not the time to be adding new debt. You're going to need time to learn how to invest wisely. Many people study for years and never get it right. But with the proper team around you, the love and support of family and friends and God on your side, you'll make the right decisions.

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Perry Jones is a sucessful entrepreneur and work at home advocate. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies and has helped contribute millions of dollars to these companies' bottom line. You can obtain more information at http://millionaire1000.1afm.com/ Perry's free online course regarding small business and home based business is available at http://homecashflow.1afm.com and his Master Mind Team group is at http://mastermindteam.1afm.com

The New Economy

Making a Living in the New World


Copyright 2005 by Perry Jones


A million jobs and more are being lost each year overseas. Thousands of people each month are giving up hope of ever finding a job. This is a huge tragedy the effects of which have not yet even begun.


A million jobs lost are a million people out of work. It's a million people depending on an unemployment check to pay bills and feed their families. A million people out of work is a million children whose parents wonder how they are going to feed their children. A million jobs lost.


That's a lot of people wondering what to do next. That's a lot of people wondering if their next job is going to pay as well as their last job. A million jobs lost is a million people bewildered.


We are faced with a great challenge. But the challenge we face in lost jobs is the opposite viewpoint of what is really happening. No matter how politicians may rant about their opponents causing millions of jobs to go overseas, no matter how politicians may promise they will stem the outflow of jobs to Mexico, China and India, no matter how many promises are made; the outflow of jobs cannot be stopped. Nor should it be.


Jobs are flowing toward those areas where the economics prove the most effective for that job keeping the cost of goods and services affordable for the most people. Productivity gains in the areas of job loss keeps inflation from rising. But these things are meaningless if you're the one who has lost your job.


A great restructuring is upon us. It is painful and it is arduous. It is challenging. But it is also necessary. For those whose jobs have been lost things could hardly get any worse. But the loss of jobs is a good thing. The loss of jobs to China and Vietnam, Mexico and Korea means the increase of opportunity where those jobs were lost. It may not look like it if you're the one holding that final paycheck and your heart begins to flutter in panic.


I know. I've been there.


Instead of looking at what we've lost, we must do the hard thing and look at the opportunity that has been presented to us. With some support from the government in the form of unemployment compensation, tuition loans and vouchers for adults and medical, life, vision and dental insurance for those thrown out of work, we can make it.


With these necessities provided, we can now set about ensuring that never again will we be at the mercy of some corporation that doesn't really care about us anyway. By starting over again at 30, 40 or even 50 at some big corporation, we'd only be the first to go at the next economic downturn. There has to be a better way. And there is.


It will be hardest for adults. But I also know that as adults, we do whatever is necessary to get by - to put food on the table for our children and families, to keep a roof over their heads and clothes on their backs. It will be hard. But it is doable. It is also necessary.


A new economy is upon us. The means of production are being handed back to the individual by the forces of evolution, science and progress. No person is doing this. No state is doing this. No religion is doing this. No ideology is doing this. Evolution, science and progress alone are presenting each of us with the opportunity to grab a hold of our own economic future and be totally self responsible and totally self-sufficient.


As our basic necessities for life and living are temporarily provided by the state, we must go back to school to learn a trade, to learn that profession we always wondered about. Our dream of being an architect, teacher or doctor is now forced upon us. And we must take up those reins which have been presented to us - and learn.


It may not be easy. It may not be cheap. But it must be done. As we learn that trade or profession we've always dreamed of, other avenues of generating income wait to be explored.
The standard of living for our future lies in how well we grasp the fundamentals of financial education. We must look to people like Suze Orman, Robert Allen and Robert Kiyosaki, for they represent the vanguard of our economic future. The jobs we have lost will be replaced by jobs we ourselves create.


Trading in commodities, inventions, copyrights, patents, licensing, acting, music publishing, rental income, income from websites we own, are all just a small part of the great variety of streams of income we will enjoy in the future. REIT's, gas and oil income trusts, share-the-wealth and distributed ownership corporations are all just some of the myriad income vehicles we will create and participate in in the future.


Shared ownership of corporate robots, distributed ownership in satellite networks, traditional franchises, internet auctions, affiliate programs, ebooks, software development, licensing a game, product, patent or process are all just a small part of the universe of means to provide us with an income which will eventually be many times larger than any income we would have received had we stayed in that job we lost.


A million jobs a year are flowing overseas. Good riddance. Jobs are passé'. The future is upon us. Financial freedom is upon us. The hope and dream of many for decades is now at hand. We are being released - kicking and screaming perhaps - but we are being released nevertheless from the tyranny of work - from the daily 9 to 5.


It is a bold future and requires that each of us be bold individually. We must set our fears behind for the future is truly bolder, bigger, brighter and better than any future we could have envisioned just a few years ago.


It is a scary future. For we will be cut off from familiar faces and familiar means of employment at offices and factories and stores and warehouses and the McDonald's and Wal-Mart's across the country.


And for now, what those familiar faces and those familiar processes will be replaced with we do not know. But it will be good. Because we are up to the challenge, because we are bold, because we are strong, because we are intelligent. It will be good because we are good. It will be good because when tossed a challenge we always win. I have no faith in big out-of-touch government or big out-of-touch corporations. I have faith in the individual. I have faith in you.


Perry Jones is a successful entrepreneur and work at home advocate. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies for many years and helped these companies generate millions of dollars to their bottom line. You can obtain further information at http://millionaire1000.1afm.com His free online course regarding home based business and small business is available at http://homecashflow.1afm.com

State of the Union

President Bush refered to privatizing Social Security and changing immigration policy in his State of the Union address. He stated that people should have the option of diverting up to 4% of their income into private accounts. This is exactly what I stated in 1996 when I first realized the enormity of the Social Security problem.

Although I recognized the coming failure of the Social Security system within 40 to 50 or so years, my primary motivation in my proposal was to keep my money out of the hands of the government.

I also considered immigration and realized that the growth of our nation is dependent upon a strong influx of immigrants. Therefore I felt that a relaxation of the then current immigration laws was in order.

I have not changed my position on either issue, and indeed, I find my views vindicated (albeit by an Administration with whom I strongly differ) by a government and a President which view the world with a wild wild west mentality.

Perry Jones is a successful entrepreneur and work at home advocate. Additional information is available at http://millionaire1000.1afm.com and his free online course on home based and small business is available at http://homecashflow.1afm.com