Economic
policy analytic is necessarily political. Global economics isn't
democratic. The most rich are best able to exploit it. An economist
may be talking on American radio or television with comments that may
be completely anational and empirically global . The
economist may be irrelevant to national concerns of citizens.
It
is the poor and middle class that stand to benefit the most from
nationalist economics. Yet because of the Clinton's Yale-Oxford
Boston takeover of the Democrat party and the Bush-Romney ultra-elite
hegemony over the Republican Party the United States may be said to
have a no-party system with Donald Trump possibly trying to upset the
status quo.
Back
in the day when the U.S.A. was a somewhat isolated power economists could reasonably talk about economic policy without concern for the
globe except for matters of tariffs on trade goods and the
value of foreign currencies based on their gold holdings. Today of
course that has all changed and economists may default to planetary
economic criteria concerning labor available globally, planetary
transport costs of distal manufactured goods, tax rates in various
nations on currencies in other nations, etc. Manipulating
international politics and supporting various conflicts abroad directly effects economic criteria exploited by global
economists for the benefit of investors in international
markets comprising holdings of the plutonomy (the upper 5% of the
1%).
Economics
for the benefit of U.S. citizens differs from economics for the
benefit of plutonomy or economics for the benefit of the dar al
Islam. Economic policy for the benefit of Russians differs from
economic policies designed to benefit Argentinians or Mexicans.
National economic policies are the sole direct approach to
intentionally benefiting national citizens yet many may benefit
indirectly, sometimes from regional politics.
Presidential
candidate Ted Cruz is a natural Canadian citizen. If elected
President of the U.S.A. he would also technically be a subject of the
British Empire and complicate ancient ideas about the legality of the
American Revolution against the King. He might also enable the United
States to consider a legal annexation of Canada through a
consolidation procedure involving business transcendence of
boundaries. As a Canadian citizen and subject of the Queen Ted Cruz
could exploit NAFTA from both sides of the border and possibly get
elected President of Canada simultaneously and agitate to make Canada
the 51st
state. Economic policy necessarily is political.
Environmental
issues are another factor determining economic definition and
relevance to national citizens. There is an entire academic
discipline concerned with the objective state of natural resources
and human economic interaction with them that objectify the value of those
resources and the real cost to society of degrading and/or depleting
them. Environmental economics is not just a preference for green or
renewable resources that don't pollute.
An
economist may be global, regional or national, she may be an
environmental economist or not, she may be a socialist, a
corporatist, an unlimited existential capitalist or a reformer with a
preference for a new synthetic economic method of her own invention.
One could make a table to show some of the varieties or combinations
of economic viewpoints and recognize some of the confusion that goes
abroad through the broadcast media and publishing world when various
economic analysis and remedies are advanced to the public.
There
are many short-term existential economists it seems concerned with
short-term phenomenal changes to various disingenuous
government measured statistics of inflation, employment, value of
bonds, treasury notes, public debt, tax rate and so forth with
various theoretical filters for interpretation also based upon their
own choices for economic viewpoint. Many of those are what the public
gets in the U.S.A. today. It is a sort of possession is 9/10ths of
the law sort of economics, rather than one of cold, rational
objectivity for the good of the people and environment.
President Vladimir Putin is an admirable historical figure. Well, that settles that. Putin is comparable to the Tsar Boris Godunov who led Russia during a serious 'time of troubles in the latte 16th century Boris Godunov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Godunov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_rulers Some presidential candidates such as Marco Rubio have criticized Donald Trump for saying Putin is an admirable guy, yet Trump is right. Of course Americans have made it a knee-jerk requisite patriotic necessity to have Russia as at least a sort-of foe since the cold war. It is difficult to teach an old dog new tricks and American politicians love to hate Russia or at least its leaders if they don't kiss hut of the U.S. government. Putin has needed to keep Russia strong and rebuild it during its time of greatest weakness. defend Russia against the west seeking to take its historically Russian lands and threats from Muslims, terrorists and of course China, and deal with the the Russia mafia as well. There were more threats and a requirement to keep people from starving too. No American President since F.D.R. have faced a fraction of the challenges and overcome them without complete failure. Instead, given all the opportunity in the world and immense military power after the end of the cold war in january 1990 the United States has built its public debt to 20 trillion dollars, continued to mess up te environment and get engaged in protracted foreign conflicts directly and indirectly that were avoidable. They also let the world economy nearly crash with banking and mortgage horseshit through deregulation and political stupidity. A somewhat Tsar-like President is not a good thing except in comparison to what might have been instead to take an idea from Churchill. One hopes the U.S.A. evolves some competent leadership one day ad that Russia evolves a perfect democracy with a good environment however I think that may take some time.
With the lawyers attacking Donald Trump in and out of the debates and establishment Republicans calling Donald Trump a 'fraud' and a 'phony' it is worth recalling that it is politicians themselves making the claims, and politicians habitually make phony and fraudulent campaign promises. The disingenuous insinuation of political veracity of the accusatory candidates makes for a chuckle. Candidate Trump standing amidst two lawyers that are professional arguers and polemicists too in a sense enjoys an experience something like being attacked from two pit bulls while riding a bike with them biting at each foot, and Trump has the prospect of the Democrats lawyer team of the Clintons ahead. It is somewhat amazing to me that he can actually enjoy the challenge. Yet as serious as are sins of commission in making false campaign promises are, equally bad are the sins of omissions such as candidate Obama made in concealing his willingness to legalize homosexual marriage. If he had made that known in 2008 it is doubtful that he would have been elected, and neither would Hillary Clinton have replaced Obama since she too supports the abomination. I should explain that I have heard a couple of jokes recently. One is the perennial one of 'What is the difference between a hippo and a zippo? One is heavy and the other a little lighter'. The other joke was on the radio. it was reported that a school board candidate believes President Obama was a homosexual prostitute in his 20's. In order to earn some extra cash I would guess. Yet I wonder where people gt that kind of idea or if it is just made up out of thin air. Iit may be that most candidates are so daft rather than disingenuous that they have no idea about the potential for implementing policies that will cost unforseeen trillions. Such guesswork and blindness to national economic situations is considerable it seems. I especially like the idea that the candidates other than Trump are competent on foreign policy. They may be able to tell Botswana from Argentina or Peru from Canada, yet they generally support incompetent Middle Eastern policy and Ukraine policy too that costs the nation a lot and Europe too in lost potential. None have solid Mexico policy that would stop all illegal immigration yet help develop Mexico quickly with a green and sustainable economic assistance and full employment policy. Instead they seem to prefer the decadent (literally) policy of corruption.
Mitt
Romney like his late fellow Massachusetts political cult leader Ted
Kennedy who attacked Democrat front runner President Jimmy Carter in
the 1980 election, appears to be trying to divide his party and let
the opposition take the victory in the fall Presidential election. It
seems an example of the Republicrat corporatist kickback network at
work in Congress in recent times.
Romney
was the elitist loser of the 2012 Presidential election and
apparently cannot relinquish the spotlight. He may hope that someone
will suggest he enter the race to save the party. His may be a
back-door plan to run for President again on the cheap since the Cruz
and Rubio campaigns aren't as popular as cold wet noodles with mildew
and rotten tomato sauce.
Romney
is expected to serve up some live escargot nuggets of political
banality today in a speech claiming Trump is a fraud and a con
artist. When the establishment convicts people without due process of
law it is especially onerous to hear. Rubio should know better since
he has a law degree. The law is generally a sufficient tool in
high-profile cases to arrest perpetrators. When officials of the
court convict by decree without resonates in fascist harmony.
The Republican and
Democrat party establishments fear Donald Trump. Those parties are
preponderantly insider special interest kickback collectives heavily
invested in the globalist financial networks. Trump is largely
self-financed and not sold out to favor-traders nearly so far as
career politicians that haven't an original thought in their
double-spaced and appropriately marginalized minds..
The United States
today is something of a declining bureaucratic power servo unit to
the ultra-rich. The party establishments seek preferred positions at
the teats of financial power and look upon Trump who can afford to go
buy milk at a store as a threat to the complex social hierarchy of
fiscal sucking.
The
2008-2009 Federal and Federal Reserve financial bail-out of Wall
Street cynched up Mussolini-Hitler's political hybrid invention of
corporatism. It is not ultimately an efficient system as government
theory corrupts free enterprise and political liberty.
I've
invented a hybrid political philosophy myself based on ecological
economics that remains free enterprise based yet has a guaranteed
minimum income and low-entropy criteria for review of business
developments. Corporations would also be limited to 5000 employees.
The most rich could only have 300 times the wealth of the most poor.
Civilizations needs to tighten up. Business that restored lost
ecospheric health would be prioritized. A no-net loss of ecosphere
policy would be applied to business zoning. Different value theories
would replace the one with simple excess consumption and indifferent
regard for social and environmental harm in order to get more
hamburgers or cash than one could consume in millions of lifetimes.
I don't know if A.I. chess coaches already exist at any kind of advanced level-probably. I don't think they are available at Amazon.com for $19.95 yet. One wonders when the A.I. chess coach will appear with a variety of speech synthesizer voices to analyze one's chess games and provide instruction about the game. With databases of millions of chess games available I suppose, the coach could have the style of Morphy, Fischer and Lasker all in one, and council how to defeat the Carlsen or Kasparov style. It is strange how tech evolves to make the game itself change.
The
Late Dictator Ferdinand Franco Throws Support to Tet Kruz
With
Super-Tuesday Presidential primary elections tomorrow endorsements
and support for candidates is important. The Zillary for President
committee is hopeful of a boosting endorsement by black comedic actor
and educator Bill Cosby. Zillary, whose fame rests largely upon being
the white of former President Sir Edmund Gill Favour Oxford, said she
has done more for American blacks than anyone, even more than for
Benghazzi, and would continue to do so if elected. The Christie Kreme
Donut Good Old Boy said Trump goes best with his latte.
Late
Dictator Ferdinand Franco's super PAC threw support to the Tet
Kruz for President
campaign overnight where it was day. Declaring that Senator Kruz
represents the best Madrid-Seville-Havana-Montreal-Austin axis of
Republican revolutionary espiritu the support to put down
recrudescent communards of the civil war heritage was welcomed by the
Kruz campaign promising to kiss the dictator's sarcophagus when next
in Spain as a true product du Kannaduh
In
other campaign comedic news Senator Markyo Rubes received support
from the Che Guevara memorial PAC and Chicago Ladies Auxiliary White
Submissivist PAC leader Wolfina Blues. Campaign jokesperson Ruby
Tuesday said the hounds of hell would descendf from the heavens on
his political rivals soon. Donald Trump got endorsement from KKK PAC
leader David Duke. Duke, famous for attending a meeting in Tehran
during the Amadinijob era on the fictitious lies and half-truths
holocaust tour concerning Jews is associated with a Super PAC for
Trump. Super PACS may be formed without a candidate's knowledge or
consent. Trump declined to put the Klan hangman's noose hyper-link
symbol on his website in exchange for the endorsement saying he
didn't know Duke.
An
Iranian-Cuban-ISIS Super PAC for continuing President Obama's
policies also formed to support the Zillary Eastwood for President of
Wealthysleague College campaign. She said she is running for
President of the U.S.A., and they said they were awaiting support for
a nuclear warhead development program and deserved them before Libya.
None can see the future with certainty except God for whom all time is present. However the economy of the United States like that of all geographic regions of Earth has tended to increase output over time. With few exceptions productivity increases and environmental health decreases over the course of human history. nations and civilizations rise and fall yet geographic regions tend to be more fruitful as people and technology multiplies. That historical trend is itself not guaranteed.
If globalists one day decide that some other nation would be a better place to centralize, as Constantine once shifted the Roman Empire capital east to a new city, the majority of Americans that would be rather politically ineffective could have little to say about it if they cared to.
The United States has a blessed past in being sparsely populated with rich natural resources. Like a fire given a dry forest the economy inevitably grew over time as did the population. The conditions were natural enough yet the conditions have changed significantly since the end of the cold war in January 1989.
The civil war was an effort of the oligarchic southern states to break free from the United States. Continuing southern inclusion was forced through war. In the future new reasons to end the U.S.A. may arise from actual morally acceptable causes. Likely causes are vast public debt debt and the concentration of wealth and power negating democracy though there are other reasons for political bankruptcy and dissolution etc.
The historian Arnold Toynbee (author of A Study of History) noted that all prior civilizations except for two or three no longer existed. The factors that make the United States what it was may no longer exist in the years ahead. The U.S.A. like an old soldier may fade away to be replaced by an immoral majority loyal to post-national, post-rational ideals.
Maybe a future majority of Hispanics may decide to annex it to old Mexico perhaps as a state of global plutocrats. Maybe oligarchs may change its name to honor a future civil rights control dictator and the nation will fade away. States as a term of pluralism may seem subversive to a one-nation Earth civilization leadership cadre and be replaced with some harmless term like Opsland or Section 3000.
Already cellphones and Internet have subverted national boundaries as the rich do what they can to avoid taxes in business with trans-national gimmicks. Things that held the U.S.A. together before pcs and end of taxes sufficient to stop automatic reinforcing concentration of wealth are fading away.
The United States after the revolution was spared kings and dictators. Democracy has been the fact in the past. Generals that fought in wars such as Washington and Jackson became Presidents. Rather ordinary men like Lincoln and Grant responded to the call of the age and rose to greatness. Homesteading allowed a man to work with his hands and build a place he could call his own without much financial trouble. manufacturing could be done in the nation itself. It soon became a world leader at manufacturing and transportation. Opportunity existed in the U.S.A. in a variety of ways. The United States was a do-it-yourself nation with a democracy that would find that in the Spanish American war recruiting offices were swamped the first day volunteers were called to serve in the Army.
Today little of the heritage remains. Production of new inventions and innovations requires a convoluted and costly patent process that may cost millions annual to defend just one patent. manufacturing at a competitive price must be done in China or Mexico-overseas generally adding to cost and difficulty. Homesteading is long dead. It perished in Alaska by the 1990s were some land in the late 80s was still available. banking and business is global and great advantages go to concentrated wealth and power. While the tax rate was at 90% on the top class Americans prospered in the 20th century right through the 1960s. As the tax rate was cut the difference between rich and poor increased.
I believe it was recently reported today the middle class is no longer a statistical majority. Like Mexico wealth is being concentrated at the top. The richest 10% take 90% of the annual income of the nation each year. That is runaway wealth and power. With such extreme imbalance the U.S.A. may evolve into being a democracy in name only. The media is a bought and paid for tool of the 1%.
The U.S.A. has no guarantee that it will continue to exist as a somewhat egalitarian society with the differences in earnings between the most wealthy, the middle class and the poor not being very great. Environmental reports indicate that the low latitudes are desiccating and food production will shift north without great desalinization canals and new fresh water production in deserts. The inventor of the Gaia Hypothesis James Lovelock said that the American midwest may be a desert in 200 years.
The U.S.A., like the ancient Roman Empire, has no guarantee that it will continue to exist or prosper. Even until the invasion of the Goths some Romans probably believed the good life would never end. With right environmental and social reason the U.S. could improve its prospects. As things stand it doesn’t look terribly sound.
The next global derivatives and mortgage banking swindle scheme invented at M.I.T. (where the Monte Carlo algorithm was hatched) or academia elsewhere transferred to Wall Street may bring the dollar crashing down too. There has been so many hundreds of billions and even trillions of loose dollars made up by the Federal Reserve in recent times to keep the rich economy going and wealth concentrating that one views the value of honest physical labor as dubious. Dope dealers and bankers might regard physical labor as cheap units to exploit working for chump change.
When the poor and middle class lost homes during the 2008-2009 economic crisis, the rich corporate world would eventually buy up those homes with free Federal Reserve zero interest loans transferring wealth upward again.
When ordinary nations like Argentina and Mexico cannot pay their foreign and public debts they cannot just run the electronic currency presses and make more cash without hyper-inflation. Euro-nations no longer even have the option. The U.S.A. as the world’s leading financial power has been able to get away with increasing money supply in recent years from thin air. The dollar value is tied to nothing except American power, prestige and the impractical choice of crashing a currency where so many abroad are invested in it. No guarantee exists that the dollar will always be regarded as sound by investors.
If the U.S. were to collapse and be phased out by Americans to liquidate their debt, the continent itself probably would continue to prosper. Race is no longer a reason for war domestically. Foreign nations however may view the U.S.A. as a target for racial takeover. Mexico has a President who views the U.S.A. as a chicken dinner without a right to be free from foreign demographic illegal President Fox has a your house is my house disposition even after NAFTA created a huge number of new economic opportunities for Mexico. Maybe the wealth in Mexico is being networked to trickle up as it has in the U.S.A. Mexican poverty drives workers into the arms of predatory American cheap labor exploiters undermining domestic labor value.
Obviously the thousands new technologies for democide through covert bio-war design and so forth that have been added to the post-industrial world could end the U.S.A. overnight. It is environmental and finance reasons that are the clearest present dangers followed closely by low taxes on the rich and the great gap between poor, middle class and the rich that makes freedom practically a patronized fact until the powers decide to finesse censorship, or ruin on citizens deemed less than ideal to the security of the 10%.
If the U.S. were to lead Lunar development in an environmentally conservative way, support private enterprise moon manufacturing of structures and true space-ships it might enjoy some kind of financial benefit within a half century that might also be of value to a humanity troubled by global warming. High tech solutions to new problems may arise from new fields and technologies presently unknown.
The inner solar system might be developed for human habitation on planets, moons and new forms of zero-G structures with the Earth's moon being a primary base for the effort to invent new living and working spaces in a variety of decentralized approaches. The Earth too should experience U.S. leadership beginning in the U.S.A. with sustainable transportation and living infrastructure that works inexorably to conserve biota and sustain natural habitat health for the wild and humanity.
