Wrangell Alaska Assembly Approves of Bounty on Sea Otter

 

At a city/borough meeting in late March 2012 the Wrangell assembly voted unanimously for a resolution of support for a $100 bounty on sea otters introduced in the Alaska State legislature this year by State Senator Bert Steadman. The Alaska State Legislature recently voted unanimously to condemn the Obama administration F.D.A. approval of genetically engineered salmon made to grow twice as fast. Super-sizing clunkers grown in Panama in a tank that will be sold to American consumers could be the larval stage of a nascent industrial vector of genetically super-sizing animals people want to eat.

  Inconsistent Alaskan political opinions regarding marine ecology intervention is a consequence of scientific ignorance and greed as usual-fundamental human economic traits supported with empiricist antinomy.

Sea otters eat echinoderms that eat shellfish harvested commercially yet killing sea otters because they also eat shellfish is the homo loquax way of moderating the environment for narrow self-interest. It is an ineffective approach that sets off a cascade of ecosystem trophic alterations generally reducing the size and number of top-level predators.

The Obama administration approval of genetic engineering for fish raises the possibility of creating fast grow giant piranha for sports angling excitement, 1000 pound crabs, hybrid carnivores on land and sea sports hunting reserves, 3000 pound cattle riding computer driven platforms to feeding fields and so forth. With no boundaries on the use of bio-engineering the sky's the limit for inventions- maybe 10,000 pound catfish can swim in the south, or fast-growing giant squid 300 meters long could be ranched in deeper areas of world oceans or ten foot tall turkeys raised in the Midwest as products of mind-plan evolution changing dining habits at Thanksgiving through New Years with leftovers going on till President's Day.

 President Obama has repeatedly said that only native Americans are from here and that anyone else came from somewhere else. That implicit denial of the native home of all Americans born in the U.S.A. that didn't arrive here before St. Brendan, Columbus or Leif Erickson is a common rationale for redistributing wealth from the poor and working class to globalists and the rich. Hence those born in Chicago are not from Chicago, really, they are from Turkmenistan, Siberia, Lesotho, Britain or wherever. For President Obama racial, tribal origin is the sole criterion for nativity.

 Though no human beings evolved in the Americas and all American ancestors originated in the Eastern hemisphere within the past 30,000 years, the President's special class of citizens is a divisive political lever to support illegal immigration as normative. The Presidents exploits the term 'native' in reference to America First Peoples-not an illogical slip of tongue for the globalist first politico.

It is 'native Americans' that are being encouraged to kill otters for a $100 bounty in Alaska. Understanding the problems with genetically engineered wildlife (otherwise why not tweak all Alaska wild salmon to make them grow twice as fast and ten times as large) the political class wherever they are from (some migrate here from the Georgia State Legislature to serve in the Alaska State Legislature) provide maladroit advice with wrong marine biology knowledge to goad on crass editing of the balance of nature.

 Observing the shoreline the past couple of months along Wrangell Island I saw no otters at all where in the past I saw them routinely floating on their backs munching on echinoderms or whatever. The senseless, brutal taking of sea otter life seems to support a profusion of echinoderms and the loss of kelp beds, muscles, barnacles and clams from near shore and intertidal regions. In the photos below you may see the intertidal layers where echinoderms have picked clean the rocks covered most of the time by water, as well as photos of some echinoderms stranded on rocks above the low tide line.

In a decadent era politicians may seek to bribe America First People to do their dirty work for them for the practical reason of plausible deniability for martinets. 

There is a federal exception on the fundamental ban on taking sea otters for certain North American aboriginal clans. The Alaska State law would tramp on the line of Tlingit legal self-interest and bribe Tlingit hunters to kill sea otters with a $100 dollar pay off for each otter slaughtered.

  Federal courts decided recently in favor of the right of aboriginal clans to have their own criminal law cases with non-clan members charged with rape on the reservation. That bit of legal independence granted to aboriginal tribes was counter-cyclical to the traditional bribe and corrupt tribal legal status perpetrated over centuries. One never forgets that General Sherman brought restoration of some Navajo land to a people that had been exploited by pre-civil war local politicians and even dispossessed of land.

Though Alaska First People were the last in the land area of the present United States to relinquish slavery- stopping only after the purchase of Alaska in 1867 by the Federal Government and arrival of Union Brevet Colonel Jefferson Davis to enforce military law in the new territory, corrupt politicians have never quit trying to co-opt, corrupt, dump drugs, gambling, alcohol, and even sundry evils upon aboriginal clans and moieties. At some point one hopes for moral political leadership with wisdom and justice for all including the right to life of sea otters amidst the natural realm of wild and free biological life.

 Politicians may be a sort of people that say 'kill the fish eating ducks' in the belief that reducing competition would increase commercial fish harvests. Killing sea otters they believe would increase commercial shellfish and sea urchin harvest without thought to collateral damage.

Efforts antipathetic to protecting the entire ocean and saltwater archipelago ecosystem disregard conservation of the entire complex compresence of life including sea otters. Scientifically uniformed politicians believe females and males are the same, that marriage occurs between members of the same sex, that marriage is not in reinforcement of the procreative phenomenon and that killing sea otters would increase the overall health of the marine ecosphere of S.E. Alaska. Politicians that believe a couple of men or a couple of women are the same as a man and woman forming a couple regarding procreation might believe in the tooth fairy and the endless abundance of ecospheric resource if managed by scientific illiterates.

 An abundance of sea otters might provide a food source for endangered killer whales starved from the general decline of healthy whale populations in the North Pacific. There are so few land mammals in the forests of S.E. Alaska that it is stupid to cull one so well adapted for land and sea as the sea otter. Perhaps the real reason the Wrangell assembly hopes for a bounty on sea otters is so local trappers can have more of a take since everything else including mink and sable were preponderantly trapped out long ago reduced to minimal numbers for species continuity.

Since the closure of the Alaska Pulp Corporation mill in 1994 the city-borough of Wrangell has followed a long, challenging course of economic adaptation to the new facts of life without a logging mill payroll that employed 200 people in a city with a population of just 2000. A golf course was built as well as a new small boat harbor at cemetery point. Bike trails and beautification went slowly ahead while the state government pumped in occasional cash. Even so there remained a backward looking anti-environmental sentiment without much of an economic industrial reason. Vestigial illogical, unscientific political opinion continued to molder in the populous and occasionally surface such as in the 'Kill the sea otter' resolution.

The better source of relocatable capitol for Wrangell is eco-tourism, eco-science and eco-education. Wrangell is a kind of optimal pristine environment in the remnant of true wilderness in the U.S.A. With a population of fewer than 2000 souls situated on an island near the mainland, glaciers, a mighty river flowing from the Canadian interior, several saltwater straits and innumerable islands in the most accessible region of Alaska the prospects for development of advanced regional ecospheric economic synergetic and ecospheric studies is optimal. A vacuum of leadership exists at the local, state and federal level on ecospheric economics. So though locally a return to the 19th century industrial outlook is possible, state and national prospects are not better. The late Jacque Cousteau was probably accurate when he extrapolated that the human species has fewer than 200 years to go before they bring a crashing ecosphere and human extirpation down upon themselves.

President Obama Evolves Beyond Good and Evil in D.O.M.A. Destruction

In what evolves like an immoral draft of corrupt planks President Obama's queer gentrification expropriating marriage movement fogs more important financial issues with new age evolution of moral nullification beyond good and evil. Homosexuals would get federal benefits while unmarried women would get nothing besides maybe, abortion.

 The Obama administration intention to evolve expropriated marriage in benefit of the corrupt is consistent with their history of redistributing economic opportunity from the poor and working class to the rich, promotion of illegal alien economic power in the U.S.A. over those of citizens and approval of destruction of traditional morality and national economic health. In the drive to immoralize and degrade U.S. culture foisting Neitzschean values and economic practices subverting heterosexual marriage is for that acceleration of slopocracy just a bump on the road to eternal doom.

 For those that support D.O.M.A. inclusive of House and Senate members that passed it in to law President Obama's unwillingness to defend it from legal challenge before the U.S. Supreme court is a defining moment in embrace of moral and intellectual sloth, and wickedness with selective and discriminatory enforcement of the laws of the United States by the Chief enforcement executive. In a moral era that would be regarded as an impeachable offense, yet today in the era of global networking finance it is regarded as cool evolution.

 No honest individual would consider a couple of guys or a couple of women the same as a man and a woman coupling to procreate and raise their genetic offspring. After decades of illegal drug use and imports from Mexico the Democratic Party reasoning is too corrupt to discern night from day or truth from falsehood. They have corrupted their time in political power pursuing idiot economics twitting trillions of dollars with no interest for the rich instead of constructing restorative ecological economics with full employment and deficit reduction.

If George W. Bush had ordered Chairman Bernanke to twit over trillions of dollars at no interest to banks so they could buy distressed mortgages or Wall Street stock while downsizing payrolls and outsourcing jobs Democrats would have been critical rather than models of quietism while Democrat President Obama is plundering the economic future dumping debt obligations harming non-prosperous Americans. Democrats have destroyed hope and trust in even vaguely moral government confident that the poor and working class would not be comfortable being yes men to Goldman-Sachs neo-Republican Party Wall Street politicians or global warming, anti-environment iced Tea Party neo-libertarians.

Marriage is historically an institution for procreation. Several institutions, laws and traditions were developed to make marriage and family raising as humane as possible.

The Democratic Party economic leadership is paradigmatically senile, repressive and economically otiose. Instead of advancing ecospheric economic genius and reform it sucks and promotes homosexual expropriation of marriage for predators unwilling to innovate new social structures suitable for their queer establishment of homosexual relations instead of disestablishing and perverting existing cultural structures. Taking away guns, twitting trillions to rich banks, queering up marriage-those are not the acts of intelligent new leadership of benefit to all Americans, but a front for the peonization of the people and operant destruction of democracy for an ad hoc global imperial class of importunate greedy predators in-themselves.

The trouble with queer coupling lies with non-heterosexual behavior rather than in society. As in Sodom and Gomorrah queers want to enable access to all of society for renormalization unto queering so they do not feel queer for-themselves. Yet even if that corrupting transformation of society were to occur the homosexuals would still feel queer while society would be in ruins. In the west matrimony largely developed in support of women's rights. If women no longer require civil support for procreation and it's consequences the institution should be abolished rather than enlarged to include Curlie, Moe and Larry. Some of the Clinton and Obama court appointees seem to act as if discriminating between sane or insane and corrupt or uncorrupt applications of law is wrong. Recent federal budgeting is consistent with that practice. None of the founders of the United States would have supported homosexual relationships being regarded as marriage. Neither would they have allowed permanent vast public debt held in part by foreign nationals and governments. The founders were smart enough to know that marriage is an establishment created to produce and support children rather than a ploy for queers buggering one another to get government benefits through expansion of a realm of queer power to expropriate marriage, and that economic independence is requisite for actual social independence amongst nations.

If civil marriage were abolished as an institution while religious marriage still existed, American homosexual demand for marriage would probably be minimal except where homosexuals expropriate Christian or other churches corrupting the Biblical message of necessity in order to move over churches from the red to the blue side of town.

If marriage is no longer about procreation and child support, but about any two adults even of the same sex having sex or a permanent spousal relationship without regarded to the procreative paradigm it is not requisite that the federal government expand its roster of benefits given to heterosexual marriage partners to the new criterion. As in the state's rights issue of slavery where the federal government can choose to intervene and make federal law supersede state law, it is agreeably constitutionally for the U.S. Government to defend rational citizen and taxpayer interests by passing laws that prohibit recognition of states laws that are frivolous, unfair, unjust, corrupting, decadent or against reason passed in order that citizens of several states might lever financial contributions from the federal Government, especially if they place an onerous burden upon single citizens.

Inevitably after the rational procreative and child rearing purpose of marriage is legally set back and regarded as a coincidental and secondary paradigm for its existence, and when same sex marriages are established by Federal and state governments, the abolition of marriage altogether will advance as an issue to renormalize all citizens on an equal legal footing. There is no reason why two queers should be entitled to federal benefits denied to single Americans for instance, who might just go out and have casual sex now and then, or not. If heterosexual procreative marriage is not what marriage is about, then perhaps benefits formerly given to marriage should be reallocated to impregnated women until progeny reach adult status with contractual relationships filling in any other obligations individuals require of other individuals as an evolution from lost social support provided in anachronistic artifact of marriage. Federal benefits that flowed to married couples in the era before queering of marriage ought to transfer just to pregnant women and their children for it is the unmarried mothers raising children alone that would be screwed financial losers by gentrification of queers in the elite hostile takeover of marriage by the homocrat government axis of new soviet infrastructure.

 It is appropriate that quasi-federal agency NPR uses the word 'evolution' liberally in describing public opinion changes. A godless, atheist evolution toward federal ignorance on what marriage is well serves a decline of political reason. In the brave new world of globalism and global networks there may be little room for dissent from politically correct opinions in a world in which the same corporate employers exist everywhere. To be banned from Big-Box employment on the North American continent might be to be banned anywhere on Y'Earth from the big PX. With the increase of global employer networks political dissent may eventually decline, wealth concentrate and the avant guard of homosexual corruption swell to further undermine personal civil liberties and independence as it did for Adolph Hitler and his Roemer led S.A. As in the corruption of political dissent through networking global employment the independence of national legal systems may be corrupted such that one legal system evolves to allow the simplifying of planetary legal corruption by the corrupt and regressive establishment of concentrated wealth and power globally.

Interestingly enough, the Biblical book of The Revelation seems to present paradigms echoed by such reprehensible evolutions of maladroit public policy. The times ahead may be interesting and insolvable by just sending Stealth bombers to blast the poor once more.

Directed Evolution of U.S. Political Economy Stimulates Debt

The U.S. economy headed for more than a decade down a financial development chute of Elton John entertainment emulating political economy with the zeitgeist in an age of fracture of existential narrow-mindedness. As if public debt doesn't matter anymore and bad public policy causality has no effect that cannot be ignored the Federal Reserve became an accomplice to the biggest bank boost ever proacted sending out two trillion dollars of electronic cash with zero interest and restoration of wealth from the top down. Like the initial pyramid scheme the money never trickles down to those long-term unemployed or those with homelessness.

 In the inside economic job school of wealth creation capital is concentrated and the world is goaded toward a godless, atheist, homosexualized scientifically illogical post-modernist Anglo-American Neo-Habsburg evil empire synthetic template.

 I wouldn't want to be misunderstood. Original sin affects all human society and ontological evil empires are common enough amidst an historical parade of evil empires led by leaders lusting with pure greed as the highest virtue. Intelligent political design is ever a challenge to nations failed. They tend to opt in time for the low hanging frit of global trade and leveraged labor forsaking invention and perpetual exospheric improvement for all of society in the process. I simply wanted to point out that capitalism following just self-interest in a totalized geophysical environment brings social ruin amidst ecosphere collapse when the word 'enlightenment' is taken out of the concept of the pursuit of enlightened self-interest.

 Capital is nothing more than concentrated wealth and power and may be an element of any sort of political or economic system. Capitalism with enlightened public self-interest directing it can no more evolve a best-case ecosphere-benevolent economy than a culture of amoeba as it pursues pure personal greed as the highest social good.

 One might wonder if God has allowed the U.S. political leadership to become daft and decadent in order that the world might be readied through its leading decadence to the harvest of Armageddon. One recalls the words of the Lord to the prophet Ezekiel about Oholah and Oholibah.

 Instead of 18 states choosing to war upon world cultural traditions and sensibility with legalized homosexual marriage, pouring new vinegar into old wine skins, those malevolent politicians could have legalized legal entanglements that would let any number of individuals legally join their interests as one more personally than corporations without moral judgment. The Occam's razor of legal and economic effectiveness would have determined the numerically optimal size of those entangled.

 Sex and emotion would not be a necessary factor in forming an entanglement. People could do so for any purpose, and marriage and cultural history could keep a semblance of reason about it. Construction of the Brave New World and Eric Blairian 1984 scenarios might be put off, yek so what?

 An Elton Johnification of political economy with mad-hatterish disregard for perpetual Keynesian deficit spending and over-sized egos without social realism or regard for God is a product of the age of fracture and existential transformation of the empirical world, quite irrationally. The move toward macro-economic social and exospheric irresponsibility as normative is an expression of the corruption of democracy by elites that are not as smart at general intelligence or philosophical reason as the are at technology and convoluted financial scams. Scientific savants reproduced a moral and ethically retarded worldview founded in evolution theory and nothing else that nothing matters. The trouble with a little learning sufficient to persuade one that they are the all wise and all knowing is that it tends to preclude intellectual development. Atheistic scientists tend to be guilty of that philosophical error when the make leaps of faith beyond science into language and logic and generate Humean causal metaphysic errors and Kantian antinomies of empiricism dogmatically assertive and wrong. Like Immanuel Kant they should make room for faith as well as octonians, Lie and exceptional Killing groups. B.F. Skinner was not right about human organic behavior. God is right, the pure greed theory is wrong.

Air Force Desire for Fantasy Football

 If the U.S. government leads the people toward new peonhood as one people amidst a world of nations subducted into corporatist-communist global networks of power, or stimulates new wars boldly where no wars have been recently fought, it is only because certain elites believe they know better than the people, and because they control the broadcast media power instead of individual citizens within a democratic access paradigm. For the poor, middle class and the ecosphere it is nothing to prosper about.

 Why didn't the Federal Reserve issue no-interest cash loans to the poor of the United States s they could buy lots and build modest homes instead of puffing up the filthy rich one more time?

Question About Forms in The Philosophy of Space

Certain basic questions exist regarding the physics of space. These might be regarded as philosophical questions though they often are developed upon the basis of physics. Philosophical questions of cosmology and theology (the latter in regard to the metaphysics of God) pertain to the unknown, or at least to other than physically contiguous approaches to regarding then known such as mathematical physicists might develop.

I reread a book on the history of mathematical symmetry in the development of geometry and algebra recently. That topic leads to M-Theory via topology, Lie algebras and exceptional Killing groups. It was learned that there are a finite number (in a sort of Cantorian way) of root forms for non-Euclidian geometries, as Euclid found a limited number of geometrical shapes mathematicians discovered that geometries and forms can be represented algebraically in matrices and groups.

Extra dimensions in these algebras are variables rather than considered as actually in the real world. Yet the equations may actually work in quantum physics. M-Theory draws together several groups that exist in superstring theory. The super in string theory was a progress from supersymmetry.

Standard Orthogonal 1 dimensions SO(1), Unitary 1 and so on refer to forms for quantum structures in 1 dimension. An illustration given was the use of a two-dimensional flat paper with one axis representing space and the other time. If a ring were to make contact on the surface of that paper two-dimensional world it might resemble a one-dimensional point from one angle, or from another angle it might resemble a line segment or string. The ring of course goes up vertically from the flat paper laying on a table into a third dimension that the 2 dimensional dwellers don't see yet might infer exists. The loop/ring in extra dimensions could be considered to be like a drum surface that gives off vibrations, and those vibrations are quantum loops that comprise the mass-energy of the steady-state Universe we live in.

The math for superstring and M-Theory seems to correspond better toward the real world supposing ten or more dimensions exist. Progress in math useful for those cosmology researches continues. One may wonder philosophically if some of the mathematical theories even if successful at modeling a good level of a unified physics would exhaust the possibilities for what might be known at deeper levels of the Existential Universe 1 and of course of the metaphysics of a Supreme Being that allows anything extensible to exist at all, for one winders with the neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus, why?

There are 238 possible forms of crystal structures and 226 possible forms of syllogisms. Is it entirely a coincidence that human capacity for developing argumentation forms of syllogism are so close to the maximum number of possible crystal forms? It seems entirely coincidental, yet such symmetries in unrelated fields are interesting to consider, as is...

If there is an infinite amount of space, then mass must be comparatively finite.

 or

 If mass and space are convertible then, there may be an infinite amount of space and an infinite amount of mass, yet not at the same time. If there were an infinite amount of mass then there would be no space, and if there were an infinite amount of space then there would be no mass.

Could an infinite amount of space be reduced? Could an infinite amount of mass be diminished?

Is a very large amount of space comparable to an infinite amount of space?

Can a finite amount of absolute space exist? Mustn't absolute space be infinite?

Mass, space and energy as convertibles may require different dimensional structures or configurations. The form or cohesiveness of structures in space-time are epiphenomenal locality...dreams of a universe in-themselves.

Ineffective Presidential Economic Leadership

The President twice had all the negotiating chips on his side and just gave them away. Twice he could have let the Bush tax cuts expire and instead having the strong hand to play. He has allowed interminable procrastation on budgeting to occur as if that's another four year plan. The rational alternative to raising taxes is cutting spending and he refuses to do that. With a little effort he could work with Republicans to cut spending a 100 billion a year-maybe each of the next four years. Why not?

The President could make a list and so could the Republicans-then each side could protect 50% of their list and the other side could delete 50%. That's a compromise approach.

The President may want the Republican leaning Fed Chief Bernanke to continue to print money to fund government. The Fed makes billions and billions of zero interest loans to banks so banks can buy up the houses foreclosed on because of bank bungling at fire-sail  prices and also to invest that cash in Wall Street so Wall Street can create jobs in China. Yeah- President Obama-go team!

High Tech-Pulleys, Fuel Efficiency, Economic Invention; The Uncertainty of Ideas

It seems like a silly idea at first, like something a 19th century car designer or Mike Trogg of cave man days might have imagined: increase the power and fuel efficiency of a car by reducing the workload on the wheels with several turns of car length composite-fiber pulleys before connecting to half-axles that turn the wheels. One might have expected Lance Armstrong to invent recumbent sit down trikes with unfair pulleys to beat the competition yet never the U.S. Postal Service struggling with rain, snow, sleet, hail and perennial deficits.

 Basic physical principles are simple to build up and easy to take down with folly. Does gravity convert mass to energy for warping space simultaneously creating black holes and also accelerating Universal expansion? Does the presence of mass in a Higgs field base when increased affect the shape of the field creating the effect of warping spacetime as proportional perhaps clogging smaller dimensional ties? Aren't black holes empty at the singularity having converted all the mass input mass into warped spacetime energy?

 Inventions and contemplative thought may be synthetic sides of the same process emerging into idea. The economy too is a concatenation of applications of myriad forms of capitalism selected for actualizations and sometimes evolved as an inertial compilation for good or bad. Dictators and kings may have capital and the slaves none. Liberalism at its heart is the denial of the right of anyone to coerce any other to do or be anything. The rectification of names such as north and south magnetic poles, male and female reproductive apparatus meaning particular ideas rather than anything at all, that is discriminating by not giving east the meaning of south or naming a bear an ant, is an essential attribute o the use of words in a coherent description of truth. With words and objects being reciprocally referenced by association it is valuable to keep language meaningful. North and south magnetic poles attract, males and females reproduce and that is socially recognized in marriage, inventiveness and economic construction occurs in a real global ecosphere with the health of each reinforced and conformed through intelligent analytical comprehension instead of explicit, incidental evolutionarily determined sprawl. One may have faith that God will direct one toward the most excellent developments as if the economy too evolved naturally, yet God's purposes are somewhat mysterious and economic determinism seems as uncertain as evolutionary determinism in a given theory of capitalism.

 There was a time in the distant past when people believed killing sea otters and placing a bounty on them would improve shellfish quantity. It turned out that sea otters eat echinoderms that eat shellfish and kelp too, at the roots. A lot of sea lives including some fish start their life in salt-water kelp. When the kelp is gone so are the fish. Thus those sea otters were the defenders of saltwater fisheries and shellfish before maladaptive human interventionist predation. If there are good ways to reduce loss of biodiversity and increase transportation efficiency that can be found it's always a good time to apply them.

 Unemployment should be triaged to create incentives to hire those jobless longest first. Social benefits from eliminating pockets of long-term unemployed would be significant while the process would be merciful and probably productive by introducing micro-capital to sectors of poverty running on empty. Some of those people might think outside the fossil fuel box a little more often than most and that could be productive.          

                                                                  

Federal Debt 1991 and 2013; Digging a Deeper Hole

I wrote a letter on U.S. national debt in December of 1991 to The All Alaska Weekly-a now defunct newspaper. In that letter I reviewed the historical development of public debt. Following are three paragraphs from that letter and a 2013 review of the financial circumstance of the public debt crisis and what is needed to resolve it.

December 13, 1991 All Alaska Weekly

National Debt

To the editor; The Republican Party at the national level, as holders of the Presidential post, have increased the national debt from $900 billion in 1980 to $3 trillion in 1992. For comparative purposes, the U.S. had virtually no debt of permanence until World War II.

 It took from 1940 to 1980 just to reach $900 billion.

 The gross national product is about $5 trillion. Reagan nearly doubled the gross national product of America, but also nearly tripled the national debt. That is deficit-financed growth. Another interesting fact is that since the Korean War, the U.S. national debt has never been reduced. If a politician says he will get rid of the debt, it would be an historical anomaly to do it.

2013-What is Needed to Pay off $17 Trillion of U.S. Public Debt

The federal budget should be brought into balance directly with cuts without raising taxes. There is plenty of room for those cuts using creative efficiency increases including the Department of Defense so services may remain at preset levels. Then federal taxation should be raised enough to bring in a $500 billon surplus directly applied to paying down principle on the federal debt of $17 trillion. That is, $500 million dollars should be taken from the U.S. federal budget and given to pay down the principle on the public debt. Taxation should be increased enough on the middle class and rich to bring in $500 million dollars annually so the federal budget can remain the same after the initial, one-time balancing budget cuts and reformulations.

The U.S. economic health is a different item than the federal debt and budget of the U.S. Government. The state of the economy is not fundamentally reformable by either tax policy or monetary policy. Instead the U.S. economy is a result of empirical economic factors multi-nationally and the demographics of global labor, supply, demand and allocation of capital.

 With the post cold war global economic changes bringing Chinese investment to the Panama Canal and Mexico, illegal alien migration to the U.S.A., foreign investments in China as minority shareholders and internationalization of U.S. public debt there is less direct relationship between American capitalists and American workers than formerly. When the economy is down in the U.S.A. investors may take profits abroad. As 50 million Americans are on food stamps and more than 12 million Americans are unemployed Wall Street has recovered generally and investors have taken record profits. The middle class too has increasingly taken the side of the haves versus American have-nots while wealth has become concentrated. One percent of Americans own about 50% of the wealth of the nation.

Federal economic remedies would include incentives for hiring those longest out of work first, reduction of taxes for building small, energy efficient homes and incentives for hiring workers over age 55 that do not draw social security. Transformation of the U.S.A. to a full-employment, public debt free nation with an effective, comprehensive public welfare safety net concurrent with a robust ecologically rational economic recovery would require intelligent political leadership and the will to act. I suppose it is the political equivalence of the pay 'Waiting for Godot'.