You're the Poet!

Fill in the below blanks with the following words

or use your own words.

Arise, be, bless, die, flies, fly, gain, green, me,

opportunity, pain, see, seen, tenderness.

Seeds of the Unwanted!

By L. Don Oliver

Snow melts and the rain falls,

Turning the fields to a lustered _____;

The life giving sun says good night,

And the flickering stars are ____;

A seed is planted,

Young shoots _____;

An egg shell is broken,

A young songbird _____;

Alas, the unwanted in the womb,

The future is not their's to ___;

They call out in great despair,

"Who will cry for __";

For those of whom,

Would not kill a ___;

Have no real pity,

When the unborn ___;

With every loss,

Is someone's ____;

With every success,

Is another's ____;

For all that once was,

And then ceased to __;

They will never receive,

Another new ___________;

Thank you Heavenly Being,

For your words that _____;

That welcome the unwanted,

With love and __________;

Previous Poem!

Co*k Robin's Untimely Demise!

By L. Don Oliver

Who killed Co*k Robin,

So the old story goes;

No one can really say,

Cause, no one really knows;

The sparrow said he did it,

But there is room for doubt,

He was always a  braggart,

And just wanted to spout;

I did said the Alligator,

And I want it understood,

I clamped him into my mouth

Then chomped him up real good;

The soaring bald eagle,

Remarked as he flew by;

I clutched him in my talons,

Then I watched him die;

The icky sneaky snake said,

While crawling through a hollow;

I wrapped myself around him,

Then took a great big swallow;

Oh! No! said the wren,

You've got it all wrong;

He expired right after,

I crooned him a song;

Oh! Oh! Oh! screamed the big tall bear,

He was where he wasn't supposed to be;

So I rendered him a great big swat,

And knocked him from my honey tree;

When a person is self centered,

Everything they do is in fun;

It was I who did in Co*k Robin,

With my trusty "Red Ryder" BB gun;

You're the Poet!

It has been said that confessions are good for

the troubled mind. I've been living with this

dastardly crime all of my life.  It feels great

to get it off of my chest!

Fill in the below blanks with the following words

or use your own words.

Be, by, die, doubt, fun, goes, good, gun, hollow,

knows, song, spout, swallow, tree, understood,

wrong.

Cock Robin's Untimely Demise!

By L. Don Oliver

Who killed Cock Robin,

So the old story ____;

No one can really say,

Cause, no one really _____;

The sparrow said he did it,

But there is room for _____,

He was always a  braggart,

And just wanted to _____;

I did said the Alligator,

And I want it __________,

I clamped him into my mouth

Then chomped him up real ___;

The soaring bald eagle,

Remarked as he flew __;

I clutched him in my talons,

Then I watched him ___;

The icky sneaky snake said,

While crawling through a ______;

I wrapped myself around him,

Then took a great big _______;

Oh! No! said the wren,

You've got it all _____;

He expired right after,

I crooned him a ____;

Oh! Oh! Oh! screamed the big tall bear,

He was where he wasn't supposed to __;

So I rendered him a great big swat,

And knocked him from my honey ____;

When a person is self centered,

Everything they do is in ___;

It was I who did in Cock Robin,

With my trusty "Red Ryder" BB ___;

Previous Poem.

Begin the Beguine!

By L. Don Oliver

A flight of scavengers,

Circling above my house;

I Can't smell any odor,

Perhaps an unlucky mouse;

Their choice of my abode,

This I may never know;

Soaring in their little circle,

As around and around they go;

Slowly they begin descending,

Espying their apparent wrath;

Realizing upon their approach,

It's time to take a bath;

You're the Poet!

It has been said that confessions are good for

the troubled mind. I've been living with this

dastardly crime all of my life.  It feels great

to get it off of my chest!

Fill in the below blanks with the following words

or use your own words.

Be, by, die, doubt, fun, goes, good, gun, hollow,

knows, song, spout, swallow, tree, understood,

wrong.

Cock Robin's Untimely Demise!

By L. Don Oliver

Who killed Cock Robin,

So the old story ____;

No one can really say,

Cause, no one really _____;

The sparrow said he did it,

But there is room for _____,

He was always a  braggart,

And just wanted to _____;

I did said the Alligator,

And I want it __________,

I clamped him into my mouth

Then chomped him up real ___;

The soaring bald eagle,

Remarked as he flew __;

I clutched him in my talons,

Then I watched him ___;

The icky sneaky snake said,

While crawling through a ______;

I wrapped myself around him,

Then took a great big _______;

Oh! No! said the wren,

You've got it all _____;

He expired right after,

I crooned him a ____;

Oh! Oh! Oh! screamed the big tall bear,

He was where he wasn't supposed to __;

So I rendered him a great big swat,

And knocked him from my honey ____;

When a person is self centered,

Everything they do is in ___;

It was I who did in Cock Robin,

With my trusty "Red Ryder" BB ___;

Previous Poem.

Begin the Beguine!

By L. Don Oliver

A flight of scavengers,

Circling above my house;

I Can't smell any odor,

Perhaps an unlucky mouse;

Their choice of my abode,

This I may never know;

Soaring in their little circle,

As around and around they go;

Slowly they begin descending,

Espying their apparent wrath;

Realizing upon their approach,

It's time to take a bath;

You're the Poet!

It has been said that confessions are good for

the troubled mind. I've been living with this

dastardly crime all of my life.  It feels great

to get it off of my chest!

Fill in the below blanks with the following words

or use your own words.

Be, by, die, doubt, fun, goes, good, gun, hollow,

knows, song, spout, swallow, tree, understood,

wrong.

Cock Robin's Untimely Demise!

By L. Don Oliver

Who killed Cock Robin,

So the old story ____;

No one can really say,

Cause, no one really _____;

The sparrow said he did it,

But there is room for _____,

He was always a  braggart,

And just wanted to _____;

I did said the Alligator,

And I want it __________,

I clamped him into my mouth

Then chomped him up real ___;

The soaring bald eagle,

Remarked as he flew __;

I clutched him in my talons,

Then I watched him ___;

The icky sneaky snake said,

While crawling through a ______;

I wrapped myself around him,

Then took a great big _______;

Oh! No! said the wren,

You've got it all _____;

He expired right after,

I crooned him a ____;

Oh! Oh! Oh! screamed the big tall bear,

He was where he wasn't supposed to __;

So I rendered him a great big swat,

And knocked him from my honey ____;

When a person is self centered,

Everything they do is in ___;

It was I who did in Cock Robin,

With my trusty "Red Ryder" BB ___;

Previous Poem.

Begin the Beguine!

By L. Don Oliver

A flight of scavengers,

Circling above my house;

I Can't smell any odor,

Perhaps an unlucky mouse;

Their choice of my abode,

This I may never know;

Soaring in their little circle,

As around and around they go;

Slowly they begin descending,

Espying their apparent wrath;

Realizing upon their approach,

It's time to take a bath;

You're the Poet!

It has been said that confessions are good for

the troubled mind. I've been living with this

dastardly crime all of my life.  It feels great

to get it off of my chest!

Fill in the below blanks with the following words

or use your own words.

Be, by, die, doubt, fun, goes, good, gun, hollow,

knows, song, spout, swallow, tree, understood,

wrong.

Cock Robin's Untimely Demise!

By L. Don Oliver

Who killed Cock Robin,

So the old story ____;

No one can really say,

Cause, no one really _____;

The sparrow said he did it,

But there is room for _____,

He was always a  braggart,

And just wanted to _____;

I did said the Alligator,

And I want it __________,

I clamped him into my mouth

Then chomped him up real ___;

The soaring bald eagle,

Remarked as he flew __;

I clutched him in my talons,

Then I watched him ___;

The icky sneaky snake said,

While crawling through a ______;

I wrapped myself around him,

Then took a great big _______;

Oh! No! said the wren,

You've got it all _____;

He expired right after,

I crooned him a ____;

Oh! Oh! Oh! screamed the big tall bear,

He was where he wasn't supposed to __;

So I rendered him a great big swat,

And knocked him from my honey ____;

When a person is self centered,

Everything they do is in ___;

It was I who did in Cock Robin,

With my trusty "Red Ryder" BB ___;

Previous Poem.

Begin the Beguine!

By L. Don Oliver

A flight of scavengers,

Circling above my house;

I Can't smell any odor,

Perhaps an unlucky mouse;

Their choice of my abode,

This I may never know;

Soaring in their little circle,

As around and around they go;

Slowly they begin descending,

Espying their apparent wrath;

Realizing upon their approach,

It's time to take a bath;

Ask the Politically Correct!

Question:

What was the Bretton Woods System of Monetary Management?

Politically Correct Resolution:

The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established

the rules for commercial and financial relations among the

world's major industrial states in the mid 20th century.

The Bretton Woods system was the first example of a fully

negotiated monetary order intended to govern monetary relations

among independent nation states (Political Economic Internationalism).

Preparing to rebuild the international economic system as World

War II was still raging, 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations

gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New

Hampshire, United States, for the (United Nations Monetary and

Financial Conference). The delegates deliberated upon and signed

the Bretton Woods Agreements during the first three weeks of July 1944.

(One month after D-Day, 6 June 1944)

Setting up a system of rules, institutions, and procedures to

regulate the international monetary system, the planners at

Bretton Woods established the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

(IBRD), which today is part of the World Bank Group. These

organizations became operational in 1945 after a sufficient

number of countries had ratified the agreement.

The chief features of the Bretton Woods system was an

obligation for each country to adopt a monetary policy that

maintained the exchange rate by "tying its currency to the U.S.

dollar" (Wall Street Bankers) and the ability of the IMF to bridge

temporary imbalances of payments.

The seminal idea behind the Bretton Woods Conference was the notion of

open markets. In Henry Morgenthau's farewell remarks at the conference,

he stated that the establishment of the IMF and the World Bank marked the

end of (economic nationalism). This meant countries would maintain their

national interests, but trade blocks and economic spheres of influence

would no longer be their means. The second idea behind the Bretton Woods

Conference was (joint management of the Western political economic order).

Meaning that the foremost industrial democratic nations must lower barriers

to trade and the movement for International settlements of World War Two

reparations.

On August 15, 1971, the United States unilaterally terminated

convertibility of the dollar to gold. As a result, "the

Bretton Woods system officially ended and the dollar became fully

"fiat currency (funny money)", backed by nothing but the promise of

the federal government. "This action, referred to as the Nixon shock",

created the situation in which the United States dollar became the

sole backing of currencies and a reserve currency for the member states.

A high level of agreement among the powerful on the goals and means

of international economic management facilitated the decisions reached

by the Bretton Woods Conference. Its foundation was based on a shared

belief in capitalism. Although the developed countrie's governments

differed in the type of capitalism they preferred for their national

economies (France, for example, preferred greater planning and state

intervention, whereas the United States favored relatively limited

state intervention), all relied primarily on market mechanisms

and on private ownership.

Thus, it is their similarities rather than their differences that

appear most striking. All the participating governments at Bretton

Woods agreed that the monetary chaos of the interwar period had

yielded several valuable lessons.

The experience of the Great Depression was fresh on the minds of public

officials. The planners at Bretton Woods hoped to avoid a repeat of the

debacle of the 1930s, when intransigent insistence by creditor nations

on the repayment of Allied war debts and reparations, (combined with

an inclination to isolationism), led to a breakdown of the international

financial system and a worldwide economic depression. The "beggar

thy neighbor" policies of 1930s governments, using currency devaluations

to increase the competitiveness of a country's export products to reduce

balance of payments deficits worsened other nation's deflationary spirals,

which resulted in plummeting national incomes, shrinking demand, mass

unemployment, and an overall decline in world trade. Trade in the 1930s

became largely restricted to currency blocs (groups of nations that use

an equivalent currency, such as the "Sterling Area" of the British Empire).

These blocs retarded the international flow of capital and foreign investment

opportunities. Although this strategy tended to increase government revenues

in the short run, it dramatically worsened the situation in the medium and

longer run. (In that there were no great profits from World War One, the

system would be changed after World War Two to allow for greater profits

and less trade restrictions)!

Thus, for the international economy, planners at Bretton Woods all

favored a regulated system, one that relied on a regulated market

with tighter controls on the value of currencies. Although they

disagreed on the specific implementation of this system, all agreed

on the need for tighter controls of the money supply. (Wikipedia)

The main gist of an International Political Economic System is not about

raising Third World Countries to a First World status; but rather,

lowering First World Counteries to a Third World status. By doing

so, destroying what is left of the current Middle Class!

With destruction of the United States isolationism came the seeds for

another Chapter of Global Economic domination by the International

Financial Interests!

"LUCROR EX BELLUM"

(Profit from War)

Ask the Politically Correct!

Question:

What was the Bretton Woods System of Monetary Management?

Politically Correct Resolution:

The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established

the rules for commercial and financial relations among the

world's major industrial states in the mid 20th century.

The Bretton Woods system was the first example of a fully

negotiated monetary order intended to govern monetary relations

among independent nation states (Political Economic Internationalism).

Preparing to rebuild the international economic system as World

War II was still raging, 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations

gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New

Hampshire, United States, for the (United Nations Monetary and

Financial Conference). The delegates deliberated upon and signed

the Bretton Woods Agreements during the first three weeks of July 1944.

(One month after D-Day, 6 June 1944)

Setting up a system of rules, institutions, and procedures to

regulate the international monetary system, the planners at

Bretton Woods established the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

and the "International Bank for Reconstruction and Development "

(IBRD), which today is part of the World Bank Group. These

organizations became operational in 1945 after a sufficient

number of countries had ratified the agreement.

The chief features of the Bretton Woods system was an

obligation for each country to adopt a monetary policy that

maintained the exchange rate by "tying its currency to the U.S.

dollar" (Wall Street Bankers) and the ability of the IMF to bridge

temporary imbalances of payments.

The seminal idea behind the Bretton Woods Conference was the notion of

open markets. In Henry Morgenthau's farewell remarks at the conference,

he stated that the establishment of the IMF and the World Bank marked the

end of (economic nationalism). This meant countries would maintain their

national interests, but trade blocks and economic spheres of influence

would no longer be their means. The second idea behind the Bretton Woods

Conference was (joint management of the Western political economic order).

Meaning that the foremost industrial democratic nations must lower barriers

to trade and the movement for International settlements of World War Two

reparations.

On August 15, 1971, the United States unilaterally terminated

convertibility of the dollar to gold. As a result, "the

Bretton Woods system officially ended and the dollar became fully

"fiat currency (funny money)", backed by nothing but the promise of

the federal government. "This action, referred to as the Nixon shock",

created the situation in which the United States dollar became the

sole backing of currencies and a reserve currency for the member states.

A high level of agreement among the powerful on the goals and means

of international economic management facilitated the decisions reached

by the Bretton Woods Conference. Its foundation was based on a shared

belief in capitalism. Although the developed countrie's governments

differed in the type of capitalism they preferred for their national

economies (France, for example, preferred greater planning and state

intervention, whereas the United States favored relatively limited

state intervention), all relied primarily on market mechanisms

and on private ownership.

Thus, it is their similarities rather than their differences that

appear most striking. All the participating governments at Bretton

Woods agreed that the monetary chaos of the interwar period had

yielded several valuable lessons.

The experience of the Great Depression was fresh on the minds of public

officials. The planners at Bretton Woods hoped to avoid a repeat of the

debacle of the 1930s, when intransigent insistence by creditor nations

on the repayment of Allied war debts and reparations, (combined with

an inclination to isolationism), led to a breakdown of the international

financial system and a worldwide economic depression. The "beggar

thy neighbor" policies of 1930s governments, using currency devaluations

to increase the competitiveness of a country's export products to reduce

balance of payments deficits worsened other nation's deflationary spirals,

which resulted in plummeting national incomes, shrinking demand, mass

unemployment, and an overall decline in world trade. Trade in the 1930s

became largely restricted to currency blocs (groups of nations that use

an equivalent currency, such as the "Sterling Area" of the British Empire).

These blocs retarded the international flow of capital and foreign investment

opportunities. Although this strategy tended to increase government revenues

in the short run, it dramatically worsened the situation in the medium and

longer run. (In that there were no great profits from World War One, the

system would be changed after World War Two to allow for greater profits

and less trade restrictions)!

Thus, for the international economy, planners at Bretton Woods all

favored a regulated system, one that relied on a regulated market

with tighter controls on the value of currencies. Although they

disagreed on the specific implementation of this system, all agreed

on the need for tighter controls of the money supply. (Wikipedia)

The main gist of an International Political Economic System is not about

raising Third World Countries to a First World status; but rather,

lowering First World Counteries to a Third World status. By doing

so, destroying what is left of the current Middle Class!

With destruction of the United States isolationism came the seeds for

another Chapter of Global Economic domination by the International

Financial Interests!

"LUCROR EX BELLUM"

(Profit from War)

You're the Poet!

Fill in the below blanks with the following words

or use your own words.

Breeze, could, cry, eye, floor, goes, more, old,

seise, should, toes, told.

Lindsey!

By L. Don Oliver

She's the beautiful ballerina,

Pirouetting around the ____;

A crowd of one stands and cheers,

Then he screams for ____;

Dancing the Swan Lake,

Like no other _____;

Performing all the movements,

That a lovely ballerina ______;

Her arms fluttering gently,

As she glides upon her ____;

Marveling at the magic,

As around and around she ____;

Her tiny little skirt swaying,

Like a gentle morning ______;

The glory of the moment,

Is all she wants to _____;

Excuse me for a moment,

To wipe a tear from my ___;

Her performance was so beautiful,

That it may me ___;

Of course there's pride within me,

Pride to always be ____;

This beautiful ballerina

is my grand-daughter,

Lindsey is seven years ___;

Lindsey is now seventeen.

Previous Poem.

Wasted Chances!

By L. Don Oliver

Sacrificing, of the heart,

Flowered gardens, far apart;

Wilting down, to vacant row,

There again, to never grow;

Superficial, life has been,

Wasted youth, that was misspent;

Fertile fields, to my dismay,

Never again, to come my way;

Memories, none to share,

When there is, no one there;

You're the Poet!

Fill in the below blanks with the following words

or use your own words.

Breeze, could, cry, eye, floor, goes, more, old,

seise, should, toes, told.

Lindsey!

By L. Don Oliver

She's the beautiful ballerina,

Pirouetting around the ____;

A crowd of one stands and cheers,

Then he screams for ____;

Dancing the Swan Lake,

Like no other _____;

Performing all the movements,

That a lovely ballerina ______;

Her arms fluttering gently,

As she glides upon her ____;

Marveling at the magic,

As around and around she ____;

Her tiny little skirt swaying,

Like a gentle morning ______;

The glory of the moment,

Is all she wants to _____;

Excuse me for a moment,

To wipe a tear from my ___;

Her performance was so beautiful,

That it may me ___;

Of course there's pride within me,

Pride to always be ____;

This beautiful ballerina

is my grand-daughter,

Lindsey is seven years ___;

Lindsey is now seventeen.

Previous Poem.

Wasted Chances!

By L. Don Oliver

Sacrificing, of the heart,

Flowered gardens, far apart;

Wilting down, to vacant row,

There again, to never grow;

Superficial, life has been,

Wasted youth, that was misspent;

Fertile fields, to my dismay,

Never again, to come my way;

Memories, none to share,

When there is, no one there;

Ask the Politially Correct!

Question?

What was FDR's Second New Deal?

Politically Correct Resolution:

During the depression years while the United States had a 25%

unemployment rate, the government was paying the larger farmers

not to grow crops to creat a world wide demand for agricultural

products. While many Americans were starving, the international

financial community was investing in Germany's (Nazi) rearmament.

In fact one of the investors, Henry Ford, was instrumental in

having a factory in Germany that built tanks for the Nazi's.

In the 1930's while Americans starved, the German people,

under Hitler, with Investments (seed money) from the international

financial community suffered little from the Depression years.

The "second" New Deal (1935-40s) aimed at restoring the economy

from the bottom up (History 1302)!

The "second" New Deal attempted to end the Depression by spending

at the bottom of the economy where government funds attempted to

turn non-consumers into consumers again.  Many of the programs lasted

only until World War II while others became permanent fixtures in

American life. The Works Progress Administration was a huge

federal jobs program that sought to hire unemployed breadwinners for

the purpose of strengthening their family's well-being as well as boosting

consumer demand.  The jobs varied but consisted of mainly of construction

of public roads, buildings and parks.  Over the course of its

life (1935-43) over eight million Americans worked on WPA projects.  

This was "counter-cyclical demand management" on a huge scale.

The 1935 Social Security Act set

up a modest worker-funded but federally-guaranteed pension system.  Not

on the princely scale that had had advocated, nevertheless, Social

Security (at the time) did act as a safety net for a few older workers,

promoted increased some consumer demand and earned a place as a fixture on

the American political and social landscape.

Finally, another significant component of the "second" New Deal was the

National Labor Relations Act of 1935.  Usually called the Wagner Act after

its sponsor, Senator Robert Wagner of New York, this law attempted to prevent

employer's use of intimidation and coercion in breaking up unions.  It set

up the National Labor Relations Board to guarantee the right of collective

bargaining for American workers.   The results were immediately discernable: 

the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations whose auto worker

and coal miner units soon saw their wages increase significantly.  Again,

higher wages among the masses of the working class is an example of the

"second" New Deal's attempt to restore the economy from the bottom up.

Assessing the legacy

World War II ended both the temporary New Deal programs and the Depression

they were attempting to cure. Keep in mind that many facets of the New

Deal--Social Security, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the

Securities and Exchange Commission to name only three--have remained

in American life from the 1930s until the present. 

War ended the Depression simply because of increased government spending,

an intensified version of what Roosevelt was already doing with the WPA

and similar programs..  Responding to the external threats posed by the

Axis Powers (Germany, Japan and Italy) Roosevelt and the Congress threw

fiscal caution to the wind and spent what was necessary to win the war. 

In so doing, they also achieved pre-Depression levels of employment and

prosperity.

What then is the legacy of the New Deal as a whole?  Would it have ended

the Depression? The best answer to that is that it went a long way toward

alleviating the worst suffering of the Depression while still being captive

to the conventional thinking (political, fiscal, racial) of the day. One

cannot answer the question of whether it could have ended the Depression

based on historical facts.  World War II interrupted the process.

What are the other long-term consequences of the Depression and New Deal? 

The rise of the "Roosevelt Coalition" of farmers, union members, working

class people, Northern blacks and liberals made the Democratic Party the

nation's dominant party for almost sixty years.  Further, the political

consensus that developed after World War II held that never again should

the government allow another depression to take hold.  Thus, there followed

an unprecedented level of federal economic intervention.   This huge

expansion in the role, size and power of government in American social

and economic life is aptly summed up in Republican President Richard Nixon's

famous 1971 remark, "We're all Keynesians now." (History 1302)

Basically the "Keynesians Theory" was spend your way to prosperity. The

same theory that is being used today! It didn't work then and it won't

work now! That is, if the special interests are allowed to get their

sticky fingers in what is left of the "American Pie"!

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer to don't

think"! (Adolf Hitler)

"MEMORES ACTI PRUDENTES FUTURI"

(Mindful of what has been done, aware of what will be)