Congressional Vertigo at the Fiscal Cliff

Because it's there the U.S. government hasn't so far found a way to ford the fiscal cliff regardless of presentation as a vertical or horizontal challenge. A cliff viewed from below is a wall to climb while viewed from above it's the mouse in the elephant's tent. When the nation was on the way up it overcome challenges, and while a decadent establishment is on the top (establishments implicitly become supremist) it is paralyzed with fear of budget cutting vertigo.

The military cost in a personnel pay bloated era is a good example. It could easily use a 25% budget reduction and become more efficient. Since L.B.J. and Brown and Root developed a cozy relationship Texas and military contractors have profited from protracted, expensive foreign wars. In times past though the soldiers weren't paid much unlike today.

The Department of Defense should not deploy the Army or Marines to bizarre locales with dubious national interests. They should be reduced in size and train to fight one large conventional war against China in a decade or two, as they are the realistically single substantial possible general war foe. The United States cannot afford to splurge on a bloated military budget now when it isn't necessary and be broke and incapable of fighting in the future when it may be necessary.

Money diverted from development of the U.S. economy and scientific research to pay for an overpaid military and legions of military contractors weakens the United States in its global economic competition and status. Since so many of the establishment (implicitly supremist) have deemed the United States to be a declining economic power comparatively they seem unconcerned about wasting tax dollars on a presently badly deployed military instead of developing the U.S. economy toward a new era of global high efficiency, advanced tech ecospheric syntegrity with liberty and justice for all citizens.

The Marines should be reduced in size by 25%, as should the Army. The Air Force research budget should increase and the Navy should develop a next generation of ships able to survive the plethora of drone mach assault platforms below and above the surface. A new corps of special force fighters numbering 50,000 should be created as a rapid deployment force able to work anywhere globally needed very swiftly to relieve the oppressed such as they are until a U.N., African, Asian or other interim occupation force arrives for sedentary security.

The vertigo of the budget cutters at cutters seems to preclude the reorganization of anything so that it would increase efficiency. Soldiers can receive lower pay as they used to yet they deserve far better veterans health and hiring services after service. Obamacare should have expanded the V.A. hospital system and included all veterans as well as the poor of the nation for free, quality reliable service.

The poor have 50 state bureaucracies to go through for 'insurance' as they travel around the nation seeking work to deny they are have a domicile in Fargo, Houston or Anchorage where they might seasonally look for a job. Establishments are implicitly supremist and badly serve veterans not uncommonly after their active useful value date stamp term of service has expired.

Proportional tax incentives should be created to employers to hire those without a job for the greatest length of time. Keeping people working and off relief will be necessary in the new economic era ahead. Keeping soldier out of protracted unnecessary troop deployments such as Afghanistan and Iraq will reduce public medical costs for generations as well as public payments to military contractors for luxury deserts and foods in restaurants former palaces of dictators. A little good intelligence is a leavening needed in political leadership to use a military effectively. Quality C.I.A. field operatives are one method of learning of terrorist planners from madrassas to laboratories. Like the chess pieces on a board politicians have the choice to use knights to play a good game or for cracking nuts.

The chiaroscuro political landscape of the nation in a twilight era of alleged decline suffused with a thousand points of starlight and more receding to the beginning of light in the Universe presents the paradox of sweet and sour pork politics, unused rice dishes of invention and hopes for a new ecospheric renewal economic foundation with low entropy, conservation of endangered species, wild habitat and full employment without global warming.

Plainly the Congress is not up to the challenge of fording the fiscal cliff or of finding a way to overcome their own contentedness in material wealth and comfort, security and power. Legislating more of the same fiduciary input with clever legalistic tricks is the congressionally preferred method even if that way leads to more national comparative decline as if taking a stroll on moss covered boulders in rain and cold wind downhill was less difficult.

The uncompetitive broadcast media has saturated the nation with fantasy politics and fantasy economic reality. Chess at chess.com is competitive-the broadcast media is not. Like the Congress it is used to being a silly elite lecturing the public who are not peers of power in any way. That conditioning by the media is permitted by the congress that could reform it if they could reform anything positively and as during the Clinton era it just keeps getting dumber and dumber with concentrated wealth.

A nation or civilization on the rise finds new ways to overcome challenges that a contented society at the top does not. They may be concerned with standing tall and looking good while they crumble as social cookies baked by hostesses of the legendary past of which the recipe is lost. Tomorrow's economic leadership twits can bring a new message to the masses that a ford beyond the terrible cliff at the edge of the world has been found. Those visionaries work simply in faith to transcend the temporal challenges by ignoring them and hoping they go away, they work tirelessly to overcome the perennially emerging establishment of new supremacies in opposition to a healthy, recovering ecosphere, full employment and freedom of religion trusting that God will bring the end game on his own schedule. It is the role of the Congress to find ways to generate a balanced budget and full employment without public debt while the citizens wait on God and take care of the planet that is his footstool, as it were.

Hamas Attack on Israel & Egyptian President's Move Toward Authoritarianism Follows Obama Re-election

Such coincidences make me wonder a little about the under-the-surface motivations for the Muslim Brotherhood's season of organized power enhancement across the Middle East from Syria to Israel, Gaza and Egypt. I guess they might have believed that Mitt Romney would have taken a different stance on the issues than President Obama. N.P.R. reporters have called the Hamas missile attacks those of 'resistance fighters'. Romney might have closed down N.P.R. One can discern which way the cookies crumble even while they are standing tall.

http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.4465801/k.972/Timeline_Terror_Attacks_by_Hamas_Since_Israel8217s_Gaza_Withdrawal.htm

http://www.idfblog.com/facts-figures/rocket-attacks-toward-israel/

Hamas has increased its rocket range to reach most densely populated regions of Israel. With the open border between Gaza and Egypt since the Muslim Brotherhood took over the security situation has become more complex for Israel. Not only is Iran a potential nuclear threat-so is Hamas in then future with short hop suitcase nuclear package launched from Gaza to air burst at a thousand feet or so over Tel Aviv if Pakistan, Iran or Korea convey such a device clandestinely to the wicked ones.

One might argue that Israel can't look to the U.S.A. for much help since from some perspectives Republican and Democrat Parties are parties of death. The Democrat party support abortion and partial birth infanticide and the error of homosexual 'marriage' in disregard of biological realism while the Republican Party supports the death of all life on Earth through global warming and species extirpation in their blind quest for concentration of wealth. So both parties are under the authority a little, of Satan.

Yet Satan is inherent in original sin of us all and only through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ might humanity be washed and freed from the ignorance of Washington D.C. political elites. Unfortunately there is not a priesthood of believers ecclesiastical structure preponderantly for Christians (and paradoxically the Muslims are closer to that) so most churches resemble a shadow of the commercial and feudal business model that serves commercial priesthoods and their families. That conflict of interest means the non-development of a Christian church that works for all equally well in America.

Israel is then in a tough spot today with a Muslim Brotherhood leader and President of Egypt Morsi taking steps toward theocracy a day or two ago. He is now called 'Pharaoh' by many.Pharaoh will be able to better supply the Gaza strip (the Obama administration must like that name a lot) and informally bring it into the Egyptian annexed status useful for generating a sustainable low level conflict of attrition against Israel

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/23/egypt-mohamed-morsi_n_2176978.html?utm_hp_ref=world

Recently I started reading Reston's book 'Defenders of the Faith' about a time in the 16th century when Suleyman the Magnificent and Charles V eyed down one another over the future of Europe. One wonder today if the future of environmentalism and of morality too may not be wrapped up in an equally significant struggle for the Israelites to survive against overwhelming demographics (I think they can). The lawyer President Obama seems to approach political leadership in a reactive lawful way rather than materially inventive son the quantitative easing of macro-social economic and social issues isn't likely to develop through innovation.

It isn't easy to find an inventor President obviously, one could write a book on Reagan & Roosevelt and why they were successful macro-social changers of the way things were and probably all it would accomplish would be to create even more support for dogmatic followers of the way it was already done. One must be cautious about using the idea of change though, for the present Democrat party that seems to mean to make everything as queer as possible and little else. The lawyerly way of following the decadent upper class concerned with getting more wealth on earth concentrated and flooding the U.S.A. with cheap labor that won't vote for them in thanks for letting them in to the U.S.A. to keep wages done for poor citizens isn't going to invent new political reforms of material evolution.

I wish I could find something to be optimistic about in this post. I guess it is that God is good-so that goodness exists even while people are stupid as sin politically speaking.

LUX Dark Matter Detector in S. Dakota Gold Mine May Open February 2013

A new detector of dark matter built deep in a South Dakota Gold mine may go active in February of 2013 since it's construction is done. No one knows what dark matter is though-it could be brown dwarf stars and planets with heavy elements made from baryonic matter and if so those probably won't show up.

http://phys.org/news/2012-11-dark-detector-nearing-sd.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/dark-matter-insights.html

The Large Underground Xenon experiment (LUX) may show the scintillation of incoming gamma rays in liquid xenon gas surrounded by a water shield. The tank in the Gold mine then would show neutrons and weakly interacting massive particles (W.I.M.P.S.) as a secondary product  if WIMPS exist and are the strong bulk of mass.

http://lux.brown.edu/experiment.html

 A number of specially engineered particle detectors have been used for neutrino observatories. neutrinos are difficult to detect because they are nearly without mass and pass right through the Earth and people living on it only rarely colliding with other subatomic particles. The Icecube Neutrino Observatory is located a mile below the surface of Antarctica.


image credit: Danielle Veevea national Science Foundation & Jamie Yang N.S.F.


http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy/


image credit: NASA/STSci/Ann Feild 

The mass of the Universe that is visible is believed to account for just 5% the stuff of the Universe with missing 'dark' matter being another 25% and dark energy being the remainder at 70%. Matter and energy are convertible one recalls as Einstein's formula E=MC2 shows.
It is possible that dark matter in such quantity may not exist, and instead, quantum probability entanglements may 'warp' space conformably to criteria of General Relativity.

Unemployment Increases Risk of Heart Attack-Dopers Lght Up in Colorado and Washington

The BBC ran a story reporting that for people in the 50s and 60s unemployment, redundancy and stress increase heart attack risk 25% and up. That isn't a very controversial observation tough-reasonable people are aware of the link between poverty and health insult.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20391529

Perhaps that's a reason why voters in Washington and Colorado amongst other states voted to legalize marijuana -to reduce stress without the physical consequences of alcohol. One can imagine that with raving radio broadcasting lunatic empiricism these days as if even economics and environment were existential phenomenalities one should ignore the option of the electorate to commute to work smoking reefer and arriving in a cloud of blue smoke would cut down on road rage even if they still want a Thomson sub machine gun between the bucket seats just in case.

 http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/colorado-washington-states-legalize-recreational-marijuana/story?id=17652774#.UKvnc2fAu1e

If the broadcast spectrum were reallocated from control by corrupt, prosperous elites that are globalists and government indoctrinating the body politic to a non-democratic form of realpolitik the electorate could have their own podcast-rebroadcast locally opportunities to decide their own political organization and interests letting thousands of political philosophical opinions bloom locally as it should.

That's a better way to go then for the citizenry to just inhale their own soma and to be dopers acquiescent in the idiot control of elites.

Taxing Carbon to Bridge the Fiscal Cliff

There is a good argument for making a carbon tax to help bridge the fiscal cliff. That Bailey Bridge over the January 2nd 2013 chasm could be made with help of a $20 per ton carbon tax that would raise $1.5 trillion over a decade.

At some point energy producers must be made to stand on their own two or more corporate feet and stop dumping carbon into the world atmosphere as if it were a trash bin for greenhouse gases. It is remarkable how little oxygen is in the atmosphere presently -just 20% with nitrogen being the majority at 78%. Carbon dioxide is a fraction of 1% and human dumping of far more than is natural evidently has a substantially adverse effect raising the planetary atmospheric temperature.

Carbon dioxide comprises 0.039445% of the gas of the atmosphere. That is 394.45 parts per million of the volume. If that p.p.m.v. goes to 500. has substantially more effect on atmospheric temperature increase. The oil and gas fossil fuel industry needs to stand up and become accountable for their product's effect on the world's breathable atmosphere and temperature as the Tobacco industry did with some encouragement decades ago. With some support they can take their first steps along the beach of change toward a brighter tomorrow.

Here is the article in Nature on the Carbon tax:

 http://www.nature.com/news/america-s-carbon-compromise-1.11793#mce_temp_url#

Twinkies Bite the Dust

The collapse of Hostess producer of Twinkies and Ho Ho's brings the loss of thousands of jobs and a silent spring without Twinkies. What will the world be like in the New World Order without the wholesome Hostess?

Twinkies were part of the American way of life along with Dr. Pepper Dr. Strangelove, torpedoes that ran straight, hot and true and The Green Monster. Experiencing terrible competition and probably cheap imposter Twinkies made in sweatshops across the border saturating the market, Twinkies and Ho Ho's also faced the unwillingness on its Union Bakers to labor at a lower wage. Extended unemployment benefits may be available of course, and the bakers have the secret of making Twinkies at home to satisfy themselves and their families.

A world without Twinkies may be more politically unstable as workers must pack their lunches without the confidence that they have something good even if the sandwich is plain baloney. Some of the dollar stores and supermarkets have entire sections of pseudo Twinkies in myriad flavors, sizes and color combinations-yet designer pseudo Twinkies haven't the allegiance the champion sponge cake of the 1960s did.

Renter's Amnesty & The Evolution of Capitalist Political Philosophy

Capitalism is supposed to be responsive to supply and demand; an essential premise for the moral good of capitalism is that it best serves the people's interests. Capitalism is not simply intended to be a reflection of the blind forces of  natural evolution for-itself. It was intended by Adam Smith to represent the best way that free citizens of his day could enhance their economic well being. Free trade and capitalism were two sides of the same coin of individual enterprise.

The advantages of free trade internationally were largely those of the British in the late 18th century. Britain was not flooded with cheap Chinese products designed in America. Neither was Britain a land where an ossified petrol fueled transportation infrastructure was overheating the atmosphere with carbon dioxide greenhouse gassing, and it had yet to experience a housing Bubble made with cheap Mexican migrant (often illegal) labor workers putting up pre-fab mini-mansions financed with globally traded mortgage tranched and supported through derivatives. The complexity of an evolutionary approach to capitalism as a phenomenal economic for-itself may outpace rational supply and demand. Consumers may have their demands made for them by the demands of producers of finance packages for cheap, quick and dirty profit leaving unaccountable debt.

The housing Bubble that burst in 2007-8 created a recession that was badly managed by the Bush II and Obama administrations. Little reform developed to change Wall Street procedures. Many of those that profited by creating a housing bubble that collapsed leaving ordinary buyers 'under-the-water' on deflated home value vs home mortgage balance were able to buy up homes at distressed sales prices. Much of the recovery of the U.S. housing market the past year was a result of large purchases of empty homes by concentrated wealth that needs to find renters to fill their homes.

The empty homes may be filled by millions of newly eligible renters and home buyers given legal status through an amnesty program of Senators Graham and Schumer. It does make sense that the ending of Glass-Steagle and home mortgage security for Americans would result in a housing bubble, collapse, acquisition of billions of dollars worth of distressed or lost homes by investors with foreign and/or concentrated wealth followed by an illegal alien amnesty bill to place Mexican renters in the empty  homes Americans lost their shirts trying to buy.

Along with the silliness about an Alaska-Canada gas pipeline and the tar sands Keystones pipeline across environmentally sensitive areas when their are adds boasting that the U.S.A. will surpass Saudi Arabia in oil production because of fracting the housing market bubble and 'This land is Mexican, this land is made for Mexico' singing of the U.S. Government (regarding casual labor along the sun belt) then Obama administration seems to be less than a game changer on U.S. economic development policy. One can hardly wait to see where it goes in the years ahead.

Given the right incentives and criteria for developing a different fuel and transport approach from the energy and transport spectrum capitalism is supposed to serve democratic supply and demand intelligently. With the right governance it ought to be possible to move the center of economic investment effort into environmentally benign transport and energy modes without cramping the economic liberty of any citizen. The Congress ought to start by extending the alternative energy tax credit for a decade this Presidential term, and then work on ending the oil depletion allowance.

Why Republicans Lost the Presidential ELection in 2012 Reason 1.8

Talk radio that blows smoke up the a' of the rich corporate world has a pungent anti-environmentalist odor that paints a popular conception of the Republican Party for Global Warming vs the Democratic Party for Global Survival. That Rush Limbaugh spin on Republicanism is unfair and wrong-not all clever free enterprising Republicans support the heat death of human life on Earth because it will pay good in the short term.

The anti-environmental reputation of the Republican Party must be worth at least 5% loss in a Presidential race since many people really care about restoring a healthy life on Earth ecosphere. If it takes 3 or 4 billion years to evolve a sea going arachnid like a giant crab, why eat them all and then poison the survivors with pcbs or other crud while killing the oxygen in the ocean and pouring in acid from the rainfall and runoff carbonic acid cycle?  There are intelligent people that would vote Republican if not for its reputation as the party for Hillbilly Greed ideology.

Talk radio hosts are a 'twinkie' version of Republican Party theory for the masses. An that is a completely divisive approach that assures the prima facie loss of at least 47% of the electorate that don't qualify for a Scrooge Old Boy's Club way of governance. Ronald Reagan wasn't simply a Westinghouse consumer conservative, he was a populist that made enough voters look toward him as a job creator and economic stimulator that he out-voted President Carter who had survived a tough Ted Kennedy primary challenge.

Faith can survive bad interpretation of the Bible, bad politics and anti-environmmental leadership yet it does present challenges. 
 
Plainly both parties are advocates for a spoiled middle class and rich constituency that is dulled to political philosophy and nationalism because of their drift into secular sensualism that isn't capable of nationalism or of a modernization of democracy that would be responsive to contemporary environmental, species extirmination, economic and demographic challenges. That's the way the cookie crumbles though and the need to transform the waveform politics of the broadcast spectrum into a personal citizen podcast slice that promotes individual instead of corproate advertising and political organization is a minimum step to take for competent contemporary government (impossible veritably).

The Rush Limbaugh anti-environmentalist test for Republican voters is quite unfortunate as it forces those with an I.Q. over 100 that are honest to find some other person to waste a vote upon perhaps in the Libertarian Party. For a Limbaugh conservative one must sign off on Global warming as a hoax and disregard the science, 500 p.p.m. threshold and the effect of fossil fuels as well as disregard the supply-demand demands of many smarter consumers to have carbon pollution free transportation and more that would conserve the world ecosphere.

It is a  misunderstanding of Adam Smith to believe that capitalism should serve the most stupid and nationally destructive way of going about business so that it concentrates wealth while ignoring the demands of the intelligent members of society to adapt and transform capital allocation fairly, renormalize politically control from mouthpieces of concentrated and global wealth to nationalists and modify methods and structures to keep the electorate and all citizens in a modern, secure, productive and free way of life.

Through the Border (poem)

Chiaroscuro skies pasted onto fragments of time
precious impressions of being and nothingness
shadows overtaking silence
so cold is the darkness its crystals
settled forever

Crude remembrances of shed blood booked in history
its waves of classes going for the gusto
overtaking ideas flowing through skeletal structures
important decisions of morality and eternity
with the piquant powders of noodles

Spacetime with electron jets across thousands of light years
reversing the flow of mass-time to the space compacting toward infinity
an infinity of its own construction
its event horizons and ergosphere something trendy
-nifty like warps of reality apportioned correctly.

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The mind is a phenomenon in the body. Like a rainshower it passes. The overcoming of evolution with intelligent design is a challenge for humanity today as well as for-oneself. The Ultimate intelligent designer requires faith of the elect.

Middle Class & Rich Inalienable Right for Cheap Immigrant Labor

The Schumer-Graham bill to provide cheap labor for the middle class and rich classified 'immigration reform' as started again. While there are tens of millions of unemployed American citizens the first thing on the Senate agenda is an effort to foist tens of millions of cheap foreign workers into the U.S. labor market. In a way, the corruption of Washington D.C. never changes.

The middle class and rich seem to believe these days that every American has an inalienable right for cheap domestic labor. On the contrary, every citizen has only the right to do his own work and should exploit the work of other citizens only where it is clearly in the mutual interest of the employer and the hired. 

There is no moral or environmental argument for any foreign immigration at all these days. The United States probably was at the right population level at 200 million souls and having surpassed 300 million the agitation for more is simply the inertia of the corrupt. While a single American is unemployed not one foreign worker should cross the border.

America is not a nation of immigrants as the drunks might have it. The foreign born population is about 40 million. In the past immigration with an unpopulated frontier was rational-today with global demographics it is stupid and reckless. Some would argue that unlike a lifeboat that best seats a limited number the population of the United States is of no concern and an unlimited number can be input without destroying the national ecosystem or subverting the wage negotiations of poor and unemployed Americans and that is simply wrong.

Like a lifeboat that has hundreds and hundreds piling in way beyond carrying capacity the United States in its short sighted opportunistic policies on immigration and fossil fuel use is heading for disaster and leading the world down the village idiot's path. It may take a village idiot to be President of the United States since Ronald Reagan to show no concern about the unemployed or atmospheric and biospheric decline, yet that doesn't make it desirable to elect one.

The boasting of America returning to world leader in oil production is not a good sign. Filling out the rest of the decade with ecospherically decadent technology, pimping the poor and unemployed and importing foreign displacement workers, selling out the nation's independence with trainloads loads of foreign entanglements and taking a godless course towards national perversity with large government and corporations competing for totalized organizational controls effectuating a de facto empirical economic totalitarianism of by and for the communes is a recent trend. One hopes that it changes.

-afterward

 One can increase jobs with immigrants and by-pass the U.S. unemployed and also keep wage demands down that would rise with a tighter labor market. Cheap immigrant labor is one of the the best way to subvert wages that exists.

The Obama administration's first term hardly reduced the unemployment rate and it is a real insult to the unemployed to put the cheap foreign migrant worker program on the agenda. Yet the advantaged are really cold-blooded and ignorant on the concept of long-term unemployment and poverty in the United States. They really haven't the motivation to make things work or let free enterprise survive the transition to corporatism, globalism and class-based communism.

The pyramid scheme of expanding Wal-Marts and increased consumption always leaves lots of unemployed and ghettos when the next new thing hits the economy. The desire for increased material wealth that is well-sated at a certain level of millions then desires increased and concentrated power. The rather environmentally stupid pursuit of unnecessary amounts of material wealth simply destroys the ecosphereic viability of the world. Its very very stupid.

Even in the best of times the national unemployment rate seldom drops below 4%. The wages then at that low level may increase a little bit before those used to cheap servants demand more cheap labor. The powerful and spoilt don't want to be closer peers with the poor or self-employed. Instead they need a never ending supply of servants.

The mass society and contemporary economics have a theoretical minimal unemployment level (named NAIRU) that is believed natural and irreducible. That idea is pure bunk.