Confronting the Challenges of Tomorrow
While Cherishing Today
Our world today confronts current economic hardship, which represent both a challenge and an opportunity for us to assert our ability to work together for the good of all. Efforts to combat abuse and waste have fallen short. Many countries around the world suffer from the shortage of resources such as water and energy, which threatens their stability and whose capacity and resources disable them from containing the panic, thus necessitating, in such a situation, assistance for those countries in dealing with the crisis. Our world also confronts numerous environmental challenges such as limited and declining natural resources, climate change, drought and desertification, all of which require the redoubling of worldwide efforts to address them in order to safeguard the right of future generations to a secure life. The scarcity of water and energy threatens the eruption of conflicts in different parts of the world, and the nations of the world are therefore called upon to maximize the benefit from, and the proper management of, available water and energy resources while respecting and protecting the acquired rights of nations to utilize and further develop those resources.
We must work together as a cohesive force to expedite development of natural resources, eliminate the abuse of the environment. Utilize today’s technology to expand the desalinization of water increase and expedite the development of Alternative energy with an environmental balance.
We must learn to appreciate what we have today while protecting and preserving our natural resources for our sake and for future.
YJ Draiman for council
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YJ Draiman for Mayor, Northridge, CA says:
January 7, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Today’s economic crisis is greater peril than World War II
Today we are losing the economic war to foreign nations, hungry people, increased unemployment, housing crisis, Trillions in deficits, various Cities and States on a verge of Bankruptcy.
Worse we cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Our education system is faltering. Values and morality are disintegrating.
This is a bigger war than World War II.
How do we overcome these crises? It is imperative we reverse the trend.
We must work together to overcome the current crises.
We have to be creative and resourceful.
We have to drastically reduce our fossil fuel consumption
Anyone has a logical and profound answer, I would like to hear.
I have a feeling it is going to get worse, before it gets better.
YJ Draiman, Northridge, CA
PS
“It is, regrettably, no exaggeration to say that we are living in an era of irrationality, deception, confusion, anger, and unfocused fear — an ominous combination, with few precedents. There has never been a time when it was so important to have a voice of sanity, insight, and understanding of what is happening in the world.”
The US economy has disintegrated, and with it into the abyss plummet the blueprints of neoliberal economists, whose theories about “the free market” have now gone the way of medieval alchemy.
We need honest government with integrity.
“Good leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion”
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Action speaks louder than words.
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YJ Draiman for mayor, Northridge, CA says:
February 13, 2011 at 11:31 am
A polluted society
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to life, not life to years.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We’ve conquered outer space, but not inner space.
We’ve done larger things, but not better things.
We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less.
We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait.
We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just ignore it.
Is USA a moral cesspool, spiritual polluted, decadent white people?
One child policy is great - first of all, the goal is to not have so many babies that you can not support in the economy. afterall, you don't want to be like those in africa do you? I thought you americans always talked about why those welfare moms have some many babies that they can't support and instead eat up all your taxes and milk up your social give away funds? So I guess the one child policy is actually a smart and responsible thing to do right? of course. Now, there are 56 minorities in china, they can have two children or more. And, if a family has a girl and they live in the rural communities, they can also have an additional child. they can have two. Also, soon, this policy will change to accomodate 2 children as long as they are six years apart. yes, this is an ongoing policy by the commies, its like planned parenthood but done by adults, not sex craze irresponsible females like in the usa who just likes to get horny after getting bangged up in group sex after an alcohol binge with white frat boys. next, the commies have improved the economy of tibet and made their living conditions much much better. China does better with moving people from poverty to the next level up, better than in the USA. Next, it is interesting to me that in the USA, that Jesus guy with that bible of his. it is interesting that people don't have a problem with following the dictates of whats in the bible. it is interesting that they follow this jesus guy like he is a god or something. Well, you don't seem to have a problem with following the Jesus Dictator do you, so why you have a problem with the Communist CHinese Government? You know, you guys are screwed up. It does not matter what type of system you have for government, it is what people you have in it that matters. do you have good people that operate with the best intentions to make society better for all, or not. That is the only question you should ask. now, in USA, do you have the right people in government working for you? if the answer is no, then all your processes like voting, elections, parties, have all failed to put up the type of people that will make a difference in improving society. I think USA has failed miserably. That have 200 years of the same system of government, and their country is still a freakkin mess. So don't preach to us about running our country here in CHina, you white people all talk alot about how you have good values, but your people don't fit the bill, your people don't operate with morals, nor have integrity in running businesses, you talk about corruption? well you guys have legalized it and put pretty words to make you do bad things acceptable, just look at your wall street mess. all your top ceos from wall street financial firms should go to jail or be burned at the stake, but no, they are more rich than ever and none of them suffer as a result, in fact, your fed and treasury protects them to this day. Human rights? you guys don't have it, so stop preaching it to china. fuckwhitie.
Since I went to China in 88, I have been very impressed with the progress of the country.
At the time I believed that the people lived under a very repressed society. But I did
not see signs of the repression. People seemed happy even though the standard
of living was not so good at the time. Hong Kong was way ahead at the time. But
your leaders are quick to adapt to changing conditions and the improvements there
are mind boggling in the past 25 years.
You do allow various religions to operate in your country, but you do not allow them to
interfere in government. An excellent plan. We have all sorts of religions trying to
act as voting blocs to influence our policies. Most of them are busy bodies trying
to tell other people how to live.
In 1989 when there was an uprising in red square, your government showed great restraint.
They tried to get the rebels to leave peacefully for several days before sending in the army.
I had breakfast with a police Lt. at the time and we were talking about it on the news.
So I asked him how would he handle a situation where a million unruly people refuse to
obey orders for two weeks.
At Kent state university we opened fire and killed six students on the first or second
day of a demonstration. We don't like to remember that.
The political parties do maintain a powerful propaganda machine.Fox news is a big part of it.
Very little they say is truthful, they just fog the airways. It is hard to see in fog.
So much has come to light in the past few years about the short comings of congress.
Only about 10 or 12 Percent of the country is satisfied with their job. They become
very important people and their only concern is getting re elected.
It would be great if we could exchange the lot for people who were willing to work for the people
rather than just feather their own caps.
A polluted society
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years.
We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We've conquered outer space, but not inner space.
We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less.
We've learned to rush, but not to wait.
We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just ignore it.
YJ Draiman
