Monday, March 23, 2026
Reflection
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Why President Donald Trump is Hesitating on Off Ramp Deal?
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Whole Package of American Blackmail
Average Income in the USA by Family and Household
Saturday, December 7, 2019
This only a old reproduction.
The economic crisis is going to be the worst in a century.
I have to make few comments about Ceylon.
We do not have people starving (relatively in the South) or eating from bins.Our food is cheap and there are plenty of alternatives and variations.
Our immunization program is good enough but not up to the International Standards.
Often the imported items are substandard.
Dengue is a ploy used by doctors both in private and government practice to hoodwink the poor patients’ relatives to abscond liability in courts of law.
No proper diagnosis in most cases and no postmortems!
Clothing industry is robust and cloths are cheap.
Public and private transport is in dilapidated state.
I have a saying that if we “Abolish The Post of Presidency” (real white elephant) for 10 years, we can improve the transport system including introducing few domestic air lines, for people in the North, instead of giving India our air space to drop Mysoor dhal (Parippu) in crisis.
Never trust Indian Politicians.
They bring AIDS (kidney donors, etc), Malaria and exotic diseases from their own hospitals.
I love Indian cricketers including Kholi, so do not take it as an Indian slur.
Our monks are fabulously rich and now devote more time on politics than the spread of Dhamma.
They, more or less spread hate on minorities and Islam (phobia)!
Learning second language especially English is poorer than Bangladesh, if not India.
Television / Media are owned by partisan individuals.
There is no balanced reporting.
Political parties have NO democratic ways and are almost owned by individuals.
They are hegemonic.
Latest is religious hegemony.
Election commissioner has failed to admonish religious and astrological hegemony in spite of blatant violation of the election law.
He only talks.
NATO.
No
Action
Talk
Only SHOW.
We applaud him for his failures.
This is a very good article.
We in Ceylon manipulate these figures to hoodwink the WHO and UNO.
Average Income in the USA by Family and Household
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Income per person is the income for each person at age 15 or older. It's more commonly known as income per capita.
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Family income is average for a family of two or more related people living in a household. They can be related by birth, marriage, or adoption.
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Household
income is the average income of all people living in a housing
unit. It doesn't matter if they are living alone, with a family, or
with a group of unrelated individuals.
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Real
income removes the effects of inflation. To compare income levels
over time, you must use real income. Nominal income ignores the
changing cost of living. That's also the difference between real
versus nominal GDP.
2017 Average Income
At first glance, it was a new record, but the Census warns that it modified its questions. As a result, the household income was about the same as in 2007 and 1999. The Census reports household income in Table HINC-01.
U.S. Average Income Has Caught Up
Historical Real Median Household Income, Economic Growth, and Unemployment
| Year | Income | Change | GDP Growth | Jobless Rate | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | $55,218 | 2.1% | 4.4% | 4.7% | |
| 1998 | $57,248 | 3.7% | 4.5% | 4.4% | LTCM crisis |
| 1999 | $58,665 | 2.5% | 4.8% | 4.0% | Y2K scare |
| 2000 | $58,544 | -0.2% | 4.1% | 3.9% | NASDAQ bubble burst |
| 2001 | $57,246 | -2.2% | 1.0% | 5.7% | EGTRRA, 9/11 attacks |
| 2002 | $56,599 | -1.1% | 1.7% | 6.0% | War on Terror |
| 2003 | $56,528 | -0.1% | 2.9% | 5.7% | JGTRRA |
| 2004 | $56,332 | -0.3% | 3.8% | 5.4% | Business growth |
| 2005 | $56,935 | 1.1% | 3.5% | 4.9% | Incomes improve |
| 2006 | $57,379 | 0.8% | 2.9% | 4.4% | Fed raised rates |
| 2007 | $58,149 | 1.3% | 1.9% | 5.0% | Subprime crisis |
| 2008 | $56,076 | -3.6% | -0.1% | 7.3% | Financial crisis |
| 2009 | $55,683 | -0.7% | -2.5% | 9.9% | ARRA |
| 2010 | $54,245 | -2.6% | 2.6% | 9.3% | Obama tax cuts |
| 2011 | $53,401 | -1.6% | 1.6% | 8.5% | Austerity measures |
| 2012 | $53,331 | -0.1% | 2.2% | 7.8% | See US 2012Asian crisis |
| 2013 | $55,214 | 3.5% | 1.8% | 6.7% | LFPR drops |
| 2014 | $54,398 | -1.5% | 2.5% | 5.6% | Strong dollar |
| 2015 | $57,230 | 5.2% | 2.9% | 5.0% | Natural jobless rate |
| 2016 | $59,039 | 3.2% | 1.6% | 4.7% | Presidential race |
| 2017 | $61,372 | N.A. | 2.2% | 4.1% | See note below |
Poverty
Capitalism requires U.S. companies to employ these lower-cost, skilled employees. Otherwise, they will lose market share to international competitors.
No. If you were earning the U.S. minimum wager and you were the only breadwinner for a family of four, you would fall beneath the poverty line. The minimum wage pays a full-time worker $15,080 a year. That's less than the $11.95 per hour needed to keep a family out of poverty.
Middle-Class Income
Rabid Monkey
This an old dream of mine.
Please do not substitute this to present scenario.
It is a futuristic dream.
Rabid Monkey
Dream seven was a short one and bit bizarre.
It was a very short one and I woke up with some anger before I could finish viewing it with normal calm and satirical intents associated with my dreams.
It was a small cubicle with two way entrance. I saw little brat who showed a mirror to a money. The monkey took the mirror in his hand and bashed over the toddler’s head with glass pieces all over the place and it vanished through the side entry.
Before I could summon my senses and get ready to analyze evolving situation, another monkey came in through the same door with something in its hand. It was like a club it bashed the on the toddler again. The child fell down. I woke up with a broomstick in my hand.
I hate children being ill treated, even in my dreams.
Well it was a dream and I put the broomstick where it should be and tried to memorize the story before I could forget.
I go into trance state like getting a fat salary or winning a lottery.
So there you are, I could remember it to send an email to Maha Brahma.
He responded quickly.
He pulled an armchair laid himself for a long interpretation.
I told it was very short one and what was the long of it.
He said good that you woke up.
You would have ended up with a heart attack in your dream.
Me, getting a heart attack dream state?
No Way.
Second part was violent and it was all out war like LTTE and Armed Forces.
You mean to say LTTE won.
No stupid.
Then International Community who backed the terror won.
No stupid.
I was fully confused.
Don't you realize this is a futuristic dream.
I asked him,
What was the time scale?
In evolutionary term it is short.
Significant in human years.
In about 100 years.
Who are they?
Have you seen the Planet of Apes.
Yes.
Then it is somewhat similar.
There were series of nuclear accidents not related to war but equipment malfunction like in Japan. It was spread by a mutation of the Israel virus that hit Iran nuclear facility. It went around the entire world in mater of two weeks and catastrophic destruction ensued.
Millions and millions of people and animals died and the whole world was stinking with chemicals and dead bodies of animals and humans. Almost all dog population except a few wild dogs vanished.
For sometime there appeared no life on earth except few plants. Then there were two mutant species one humanoid and one ape, amongst many others.
Humanoid were short and was of toddler size.
The apes were slightly bigger and taller and were dominating the world. They pushed the humanoids to barren lands or islands where monkeys could not reach.
There were no tree cover except tiny farm lands.
Why are they small?
Food in short supply and that is the way the genes have been designed to last critical periods of evolution on Earth.
Big do not survive but midgets do.
Or I see.
I saw a paper on Palaeontology with the evidence to suggest that when a catastrophe of this nature occurs, the surviving animals fill the niche as it were,
It is the norm.
That is a stupid idea know?
Maha Brahma was not impressed with that theory.
I asked why?
This is not a natural catastrophe but artificial and man made. It affected the entire biodiversity including plants and it does not leave ground for a niche or any opportunity for the rest.
See what happened.
The entire dog population vanished.
What remained really went wild.
They went backwards in evolution and not forward like the humanoids with short stature.
Elephants were decimated like the dinosaurs.
You mean to say end of human intelligence.
I suppose so.
Then he had a very sorry and worried look.
I asked why?
Did the effect filtered to the heaven?
No.
Then?
If this happens who is going to dream for me?
Even animals and humanoids do dream know?
I said.
That is besides the point.
Their dreams are not futuristic like yours.
Give me a break.
Are going to extend my agonizing stay on earth?
Would you?
I may have to do that till the sun shines.
Please don't.
I will consider a proposal to the President in his dreams to have a say and increase your salary.
Would you?
I will try the dream method first.
If it fails I will try the Dr. White's oil method.
Thank you Sir.
Then he vanished.
Biggest Conspiracy Hatched by Americans
Dubai the Concrete Jungle-The Transformation
Friday, March 20, 2026
Space Encounter
Space Encounter
This was an interesting dream episode.
I was deep into sleep and I felt like, if somebody was scanning my thoughts and emotions.
It was just like the close encounters of the alien type.
Whatever, thought moment that had arisen in my brain was as it were hijacked or stolen or scanned, to see what I was thinking.
For instance, if the thought of a dog came into my mind, the scanning was not for the picture of the dog in my head but in what context, the thought moment had arisen in my brain.
Say, fear or caring or possession.
If the thought was say about a cricket match.
It was not the current state of the match or the ball by ball commentary, the scanner was interested. It was the state of my mind and the emotions that were aroused that were scanned.
It was not the text but the context or the intent that the scanners were looking for. It was bit of a science fiction of Freudian type.
I got a nice feeling about it and at the same time felt this scanner was linked to a super computer. It was not scanning individual subjects but it was global in nature and the group of people, as whole was scanned.
Say, it was scanning the Bodu Bala Sena outfit in action, it was scanning the entire lot for the motives stated and the ulterior motives and emotions of the designers were scanned. Say for instance, those upfront and those behind the scene, the plotters far away from the scene of action were monitored.
Freud would have been happy, if he had this super computer for his psychoanalysis. It was, as it were, all human emotions were scanned. It is as it were, the prospective aliens beings wanted to know what would happen, if they landed on this planet without any advance communication.
The moment this alien thing came into my mind, I was woken up abruptly.
In the back of my mind, I wanted to record, the first alien encounter and get the full credit in my name.
Alas, I realized that it was only dream.
This was 2.30 A.M in the morning and I went back to my sleep for further sojourn in the dream world.
I was not left stranded. I was in the dream world again as it were the continuation of the previous episode.
This time the scene was strange but somewhat similar to a street market of the ancient type. But on this occasion, I was the one who was doing the scanning from above, not the aliens. In fact, I was hijacked by the aliens to do the dirty spy work without any payment.
I had to interpret the emotions.
I had volunteered to work free to strike another first by a human, in a real close encounter. There was a group of guys collected together and the elders were removing cloths out in the open in front of their kith and kin. They hardly had any cloths but wearing vestiges or rags, not worth wearing. They looked like our forest people (Veddhas) of ancient time.
Then in the same group some were assembling behind, what looked like a Giant Arrow in preparation for combat.
Its shape was similar to a rocket in preparation of ultimate launching.
Then as I was scanning, at a little distance in a higher plane there was a group clad only covering their bottoms with bare tops, somewhat similar to priests in a Tamil Hindu Temple (Kovil).
They were in whites were parading up some giant steps that led, as it were to the heaven.
Then there was another group which looked like traders trading some precious metal hidden in ornamental baskets and oils of leaves of medicine, in tiny bottles.
It did not look serene.
This was like the dark side of Colombo port where traders are dealing with illegal stuff.
In other word they were involved in smuggling.
Then there was another group which gathered on the embankment of a river struggling to get on board. It looked like a hastily constructedferry but poorly equipped.
The fifth group was in a large airport with few air planes ready to board passengers. In fact, thousands of fleeing subjects waiting in the queue to get on board the few seats available. A large contingent of security personnel were checking their travel documents.
Only a few were allowed to board.
This dream came in before, I had some understanding of Buddha, Dhamma, Rebirth and Uncertainty of existence.
I need Maha Brahma to interpret these events in motion.
Interpretation
This looked a unique situation related to Ceylon.
Somewhat similar to tsunami but of a bigger magnitude.
Maha Brahma's explanation was mandatory.
He was quick to respond with a broad smile.
You are getting more and more dreams.
Have you been eating a diet which stimulate dreams?
No, Sir.
I am having a few episodes of memory loss in wakeful state. It is not a good thing in my old age. Memory loss is an early sign of dementia.
I am training myself to remember all my dreams to activate my memory potential. Unlike, in the past, I record them in short form and then try to put the pieces together like a jigsaw puzzle.
Naturally, I forget most of my dreams but send you only the interesting ones for interpretation.
I also discovered a hidden potential.
If I am in a good dream and woken up by mosquitoes or some bodily irritation like wanting to go to the loo, I go back to the dream mode and I continue with where I left.
Coming back to this dream it looks like the dream is related to Ceylon and they are in panic mode.
Is that so?
Yes, it is.
It very simple.
It is related your scientific prediction related to global warming and small islands getting encircled by rising sea water above 4000 feet.
My goodness, my city is under 1600 feet.
Don't worry, you have long gone, this dream is well into the future.
Let me start with the fifth group.
Who are they?
They are the IMF guys and girls who have come on the final round of debt collection.
They want to vanish with all the wealth.
There was a big crowd there, know?
Yes, those who had some connection were following the IMF traits.
Then what was the fourth group.
They were the guys and power brokers aligned to the central bank and the politicians with shoddy deals. They were trying to pilfer whatever left in the country into their own coffers, illegally of course.
They are the counter current to IMF.
The third group is the Tamils of Indian descent trying to reach heaven in a rush.
The fourth group is the Sri-Lankan Muslims trying to flee to Middle East.
The fifth group is the modern Veddhas trying to escape into space in a space craft of their own design.
What was the outcome?
Who survived.
None except the few IMF guys who had private planes and the Indian State Tamils who piled up on the steep mountains survived. Rest succumbed when the sea water hit the land in a flash never seen in the history of this planet.
It was all a mad rush and there was no time.
It was end of the world for most of the Ceylonese.
If they had some airports in the hill region instead near the sea, they would have saved a few thousands. What happened to the animals, especially the elephants.
Unfortunately, elephants had gone extinct by this time.
Birds escaped to higher ground with many of the smaller animal species.
Wilpattu and Yala were under water and there were no animals reserves left.
Can you tell me the time scale.
I am not suppose to tell you.
Why?
Then you would stop dreaming for future and he disappeared in a flash.
Hall of Shame of Indians
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Hall of Shame of Indians
I have created a Hall ((hole) of Shame of Indians
This in no way should make one eyed Nawaurd of Pataudi, the great Indian (they are the ones included in the Hall of Fame) opener from British Era, rise from grave in pain but these greats, followed the footsteps of British Cricket in pristine form, nimble footed and classic in style.
I hope Goeff Boycott makes the final phrase in current "Saga of Foul Mouths Indians".
No reprieve for them.
Bash them with what we call "Bu-Walla" or the Octopus skin to squash the Evil Spirits in Cricket.
Their names are put by me in Google's Alphabetical Order to be shamed until the current series is over.
I will neither watch the matches nor look at the statistics.
The Indian antics are nauseating, to say the least.
Australian and English consider Cricket Boards should downgrade the current bizarre ranking elements (at least Withhold the Ranking until the current pandemic is over to respect the young and the old who left us in agony).
This in not time for celebration but laying Wreath for Cricket.
Who is Buddha?
Who is Buddha and what he is not?
BUT;
I will start with the negatives.
In fact, rational investigating mind is a hindrance to mental awakening, which he prescribed for understanding of the uncertainty or the unsatisfactoriness of the greed, ignorance and selfishness within every human being.
What it means is basic understanding of nature is OK but looking for absolutes is a vain exercise of no use except of temporary benefit.
He was part of the cosmos and all living beings are part of this cosmos and not outside of this cosmos.
Simply put God is outside of this cosmos and the God is not part of it.
I have excluded some difficult areas of Pali rendering and unfortunately English is inadequate to explain the "Wisdom of Buddha".
Buddha was never a saviour of humanity but who showed the way of compassion, boundless kindness, sympathetic joy and above all equanimity.
In his world there is no ground for Killing and War whether due to ideology or religious sects or humiliation of a different faith or sector.
Religion by all means a Brain Virus.