Does Oregon Get too Much Federal Funding?

Rich states like Oregon may get too large a share of Federal revenues while powerless states like Alaska with only Don Young representing them in the Congress don't get enough. Doesn't the University of Oregon get a lot more than the University of Alaska-Juneau in absolute federal revenue sharing and support for various programs?

One wonders why states that pretend to be ecologically progressive like Oregon get more in support for public transport busing that still use fossil fuels, why there is no coordinated ecological scorecard not only for Oregon but the entire nation equivalent to the public debt registers on the Internet? The national and world ecosphere status salient feature numbers should exist and continually be upgraded. CO2, amount of deforestation, reduction of ecosphere area, corruption of oceanic health, amount of new asphalt and concrete sq feet poured, remaining species (not yet exterminated) etc.

Progressive states that are rich should be on a from each according to their ability tax basis while poor red states should be on a to each according to their needs basis in order to let blue states feel good about themselves. 

A Philosophical Approach - Six volumes of recent posts

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New Greens to Congress in 2018?

With Republicans accomplishing little except to assault ecospheric health so far in Congress even with a friendly Republican President in the White House the public may look toward the Green party more so than historically in 2018 as an alternative third party possibly interested in getting something positive done for the U.S.A.

Republicans passed bills ten times to get rid of Obamacare while Mr. Obama was President, and yet with complete control of two branches of government (Democrats largely control the Supreme Court of the United States) they cannot pass an Obamacare reform bill even once.

The Democrat Party obviously lost public trust after the Clinton era started that still seems as if it will never end. They became a celebrity party concentrating wealth for the rich and running class tokens while cutting taxes for the rich. Their primary appeal to the masses was debauchery in some form or other prioritized instead of reasoned legislation to economically better the poor and middle class. Republicans don’t have much incentive to be creative or reformist when Democrats enrich them so well.

The public for several election cycles has looked toward various combinations of Republicans and Democrats to get the nation working right eliminating debt, restoring the ecosphere and building quality life for all U.S. citizens without satisfactory results. The Clinton effect was like a gas giant planet sweeping and clearing all the little planets out(other candidates of quality like Bob Kerry in 1992) of a solar system leaving nowhere for poor and middle classes to live. The rich can afford to buy up exclusive space station property around gas giant politicians-not the poor.

The Green party may realize that national environmental legislation and strong border security are requisite for having sufficient sovereignty to lead the U.S.A. toward and ecologically sustainable economic policy using free enterprise with direction. Though the Greens would find it challenging to win even ten seats in Congress, where else can the public look?

With no limits on campaign spending contributions via PACS that are heavily corporate and that perhaps don't support less corporatism or ecological economic transformation it may be inherently challenging for Green candidates to afford the 2 or 3 million dollars it costs to run a successful House campaign.

No Hay Nurolink-Avocado da recha Por Favour!

No Hay Nurolink-Avocado da recha Por Favour!

Riding an articulated bus a gentleman wearing a king kong suit suddenly jumped up and grabbed the handles to the back exit door shouting to the driver way up front ‘abogado avocado la recha cha pork favort!”. Plainly he had not only missed his stop, additionally his newrot-link battery had malfunctioned.

Brain implanted links to controlling corporate-communist central processing units began early in the 20^th century as it freed the people from external devices and thinking. Computers programmed the public with nice voices and pictures moving them about society sometimes just in their imagination and sometimes in the real world. Unfortunately much of the technology became obsolete rather quickly and people such as Kong were left with the equivalent of vacuum tubes implanted within their brains.

http://www.pcmag.com/news/352685/elon-musks-neuralink-will-connect-our-brains-to-computers

Flatterland and Hilbert Space

   Reading Flatterland by Ian Stewart (2000) I encountered a chapter about dimensions-a topic I am interested in. That led to information about what dimensions are described as (in physics it has traditionally been 3 directions plus maybe time). With non-Euclidean math and algebra it was possible for mathematicians to evolve the notion of extra dimensions. If one has a 2-dimensional quad/grid one can use that square or power of 2 notation. Eventually one finds cube roots or 3^rd power and I guess extra, higher powers although I seem to recall something about Abelian algebra issues with some higher powers.

   Regular shapes from geometry can thus be described with natural and real numbers algebraically, although the product of such constructions can be fiction or consistent just in mathematics. Some physicists created the idea of dimensions as being a kind of set theory criteria apparently redefining what a dimension is. So any number of dimensions with what are in effect defined as a given set might coexist with Hilbert Space.

   Hilbert Space is a given area with four dimensions inclusive of time wherein any number of dimensions defined as behaviors of motions could exist. Nevertheless the dimensions tend to all exist within the boundaries of Hilbert Space rather than is alternate Universes made of different dimensions of the other kind of definition.

  Maybe Multiverse theory does not extend dimensions beyond real (Hilbert) space of necessarily within the implicit construction of its math. Obviously I am not a mathematician. Clever dimensional modeling remain simply theoretical constructions that physicists might infer something about reality with. Maybe Multiverse theory does not extend dimensions beyond real (Hilbert) space of necessarily within the implicit construction of its math. Obviously I am not a mathematician. Clever dimensional modeling remain simply theoretical constructions that physicists might infer something about reality with it. Some regard space of the Universe as expanding. Like upwelling ocean currents nothingness is thought to upwell into pre-existing space making evermore of nothing. Nothing times nothing equals nothing? The square root of minus one equivocates the reality of nothing? Maybe it is easier to regard nothing as omnipresent except where something is existing or made to exist. Rather than space expanding it is the Higgs field expanding or being active in some way. It might be some other more primary field of the Universe that is subject to change that gives rise to the appearance that space in-itself; nothingness, is expanding. The effects might be the same, although possibly not in present mathematical models.
What description encompasses the entire Universe of economic action? Multi-dimensional economic models would provide no finite and simultaneous infinite, accurate set descriptions of actual states of affairs. Economics is a purpose, an antinomy to art yet the flip side of it simultaneously. Economics is a clump of precision engineering of wishes to bring in a harvest of potatoes before the season's shadows grow long and frosts descend upon the fields. It is a complete world of opportunities and ideas interacting with material, finite material, of which planets are made of.
Economics of Wall Street physics can construct external reality such that if the theoretical models don't crash immediately they may crash later after dimensional cosmonuats have extracted a suitable profit-for-sponsers (ref. 2008 crash).

U.S. Congress Lacks Intelligence, Will & Leadership

Republicans as half of a dialectically bifurcated one party system lack the will and intelligence to get rid of Obamacare since it is Richard M. Nixon's old plan to enrich Wall Street. Democrats advance tax cuts for the rich or vice versa and the other party confirms them. president Trump has no capacity to get the one party elephant mule to move when it is too comfortable as it is.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/325738-obamacare-defeat-caps-difficult-week-for-trump

Trashing Obamacare and replacing it with an expanded V.A. Hospital system that includes poor civilians and those that have exhausted their insurance coverage and are poor and uniting that with community clinics for the poor is plainly the cost-effective way to go, however congress never advances intelligent legislation. Instead they send Clinton-Obama-Bush II style junk to Presidents that never veto anything and the poor state of national public affairs continues.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-research-identifies-a-sea-of-despair-among-white-working-class-americans/2017/03/22/c777ab6e-0da6-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html?utm_term=.895e220add39

A good congress with intelligent leaders could actually pass good legislation that benefits the nation so its affairs are in good order and health. Republicans could advance ecological economics and lead the world to a better way of business. Instead congress wants to delegate social responsibility for public concerns to the private sector and corporatist social structure. Capitalism however isn't dummy-proof and can't substitute for intelligent, thoughtful, creative public leadership in public affairs. Neither communism or capitalism can automatically produce good political works if the leaders are the idioso.

Around the nation people are holding vigils as seriously as ever the Klan did to assure their policies continued in the Jim Crowe south. The difference being for some the object of good government and for others simply having their way toward progressive socialism and national failure with losing being regarded as a virtuous, feminism characteristic leading to domination. Convoluted criteria for vigils do have political value in the media though and support ad hoc sedition of benefit to various special interests. The Congress should try not to fail.

The Strange Growth of Orthodox Atheism

Orthodox atheism supports content that was for prior generations of Americans and reproves content that does not acknowledge the orthodox line. It’s quite a change. Maybe Bill Clinton was a strong early element in its national development and president Obama was something of a tool for heresy and blasphemy in high political office with his homosexual marriage agenda that he said ‘evolved’. That is a blast from the past now though of course, and have been programmed toward heresy as a laughable, regressive turtlish sort of excrescence of dogmatism in video games such as HALO. Evolution theory and physical cosmology are ends-in-themselves for the orthodox without even philosophical thought.

Thomas Brooks in 'Precious Remedies to Satan's Devices' examines one particular satanic device to snare the soul that has wide-spread use today. One use of the device occurs in the attack upon Genesis in order to make just-worldly cosmology opulent and desirable in comparison to parchment of Genesis.

“DEVICE 1: By presenting the WORLD in such a dress, and in such a garb to the soul, as to ensnare the soul, and to win upon the affection of the soul.”

Satan seems to use confusion about the construction of the Universe today as a way to draw people to faithlessness and frustration with the Bible. Those that wouldn’t know a proton from a quark leap to faith in electrons and football to disdain Genesis. The media love that. There is no need for frustration.

The orthodox atheism line doesn’t want to think that anything is true besides its own point of view on creation and the Universe as well as the social relativism of morality. It also tends to assume they are well-informed and have exhaustive understanding of the worthlessness of non-orthodox viewpoints and would even censor them in the corporatist way of they could.

I have thought that there are two basic forms of government; those that are voluntary and those that are coercive. Coercive governments require minority rule, and that is why communism breaks down into the sort of oligarchic-party-elite tyranny that corporatism has too with each form also having a dictator form if required to continue coercive social governance. The orthodox atheist way of thinking and acting leads toward the government by coercion direction even if it from the left.

U.S. Senate Bungles Alaska Wildlife Conservation

The U.S. Senators that voted to end hunting limits on wolves and grizzly bear on Federal Lands in Alaska may be frightened of encountering such creatures in the wild if they were ever to visit the state in the middle of summer when they might not experience frost. The vote is completely profligate and will cost the public a fortune in the future to recover the lost populations much less the damage to the genomes that will end up in-breeding if they can survive at all.

Human beings have extirminated so many large mammals. It is unfortunate to have such low-information and reasoning content politicians spend the common heritage of mankind as if they were just loetting Daniel Boone off his leash.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/21/senate-votes-to-lift-limits-on-hunting-alaska-grizzlies-and-wolves-on-federal-land/?utm_term=.f83e3d2fc71f

Alaska should be the natural state featuring its better-than-communist-polluted-Russia northern ecosystem that's a good example for others to emulate. Instead it has people like Don Young gut the guts out of the wild ecosphere for the benefit of people that like fur coats and silk.

Will Sect. Tillerson Dance for Chancellor Merkel to Defuse Euro-Tension?

Plainly German-American relations are reaching a serious enough stage of decay that President Trump may need to send Sect. of State Tillerson over to Germany top dance-down the escalating crisis. When President Clinton needed to end North Korea's nuclear weapons development program he sent Sect. Albright to dance before Dictator Kim and that was the end of that.

Chancellor Merkel of course isn't yet a dictator. Getting Germany to relinquish their designs on wherever such that crisis can be averted and the media that can focus on important things like president trumps unwillingness to shake hands or high five foreign rulers with complete trust that they have washed their hands after going to the bathroom or kept nano-particles from laboratories form interfering with any potential toxic substance invented by chemical experts that might have accidentally been introduced by subversives to the Chancellor's person unintentionally or otherwise.

Formerly the important bumper sticker of Envision World Dance evolved the OPEC oil crisis into peace at the end of the tunnel that blossomed with a great leap forward into a spring of limitless fracking so the world had lots and lots of oil to help global warming, avert communism in Germany and create a holiday statue of Crown Prince Ruprecht.

Media focus on the important things gives ordinary people confidence that they can be forced into early retirement even without adequate savings, that the environment will continue its decay and that public debt will increase while the majority political intellect is largely dispersed.

Obama Admin Doubled Debt from 10 to 20 Trillion $ (Appx.)

So the salient question is should President Trump continue the Obama method and double public debt for-himself from 20 trillion dollars to 40 trillion over the next eight years? Maybe Congress would save a dime here and there of course with austerity as a cruel yet necessary concept held out there with as asceticism at a distance.

Of course the poor and shoulder the burden of austerity for the rich as the middle class fades away into retirement. The poorest are most used to hardships and are believed by insiders probably to deserve it.  Insiders and the most rich need tax cuts perennially in order to make free enterprise work and allow trickle down to properly function; goes without thinking even if the environment is another nagging concern of mal-contents. What if that's not enough though?

U.S. public debt is nearing 20 trillion dollars while U.S. gross domestic product is somewhat more than 18 trillion dollars. The public debt is apparently increasing faster than U.S. economic growth-and most of that is going to the richest. Because the Clintons and Obamas did not address the structural issues for the benefit of the poor and middle class first, and as the discretionary part of the federal budget comprises just 7%, I wonder how the economic picture of the nation can be reformed.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Actually I think that real economic reform that actually benefits the poor and middle class isn’t likely. Human greed and original sin saturate government, the media and Wall Street to the point that even the environment suffers so champagne and fine booze drinking elites can have cashmere shag carpets or whatever and cars that pollute the atmosphere with tons of carbon emissions each year.

Actually socialism, communism and corporatism end up with the same oligarchy-like monopolistic bureaucracies running the world because of the nature of human social organization. Free enterprise actual dies within advanced bureaucratic-wall Street stock owning wealth concentration though good product continues to be produced for some time. Individualism and free enterprise as well as real democracy are actually the endangered political forms now.

Government with the consent of intelligent masses could actually make vast practical reforms toward sustainable ecological economic infrastructure limiting the percent of capital anyone may have in order to keep democracy rather than plutonomy ruling. With guaranteed minimum income and pragmatic social support services it would be possible for inventions and clever, efficient free enterprises to be developed theoretically first and those meeting environmental low impact and synergy goals best allowed to go ahead. That is desperation for jobs wouldn’t be the only political moderator on the electorate. Capitalism itself selects naturally for more capital rather than for a better environment or equitable distribution of wealth to all people equally within basic criteria even while allowing people to profit and save from their labor and inventions above the baseline.

Plainly the United States and most world political systems today are maladaptive to the present environmental and demographic facts of life. Political theory tends to be at least a century behind along with governing environmental theory. The natural default to thoughtless minions supporting concentrated wealth and saluting the dollar sign fuhrers that are money rather than reason will continue even being reinforced by waves of senseless commercial brainwashing. A financial philosopher today developing political epistemology might write “I think, therefor I am broke”.

It will be amazing to see what President-elect Trump can do with a fundamentally crummy national economic outlook that has found it to easy to develop overseas, exploit cheap foreign labor, run up public debt and avoid any sort of national leadership responsibility since the end of the cold war. Capitalism itself is in need of reform as well as the nation’s infrastructure. Infrastructure could be transformed into a new ecological economic form rather than wasting resources in old style, existing establishment, yet of course the establishment resists that.

President elect Trump should prioritize green transportation with electric cars, buses and rail drawing power from green sources. African development should be influenced toward green electro-magnetic power too, rather than fossil fuel cars-and that means new mass transportation.

Wherever possible developed land should be returned to a natural condition replacing existing buildings with smaller, cheaper better monolithic domes occupying less space. Border security could have a trans-continental salt-water canals and solar evaporation-condensation for desalinization infrastructure to make water for the parched Southwest. Many things are possible. A return to making patents affordable would help. Inventors should be given exclusive patents for just 7 years and after that a small royalty percent from anyone using the patent for production (for 50 years) before its public domain. Its rather difficult materially to manufacture things in the U.S.A. after getting an idea that is patentable making it doubly difficult for poor yet intelligent and inventive people to cash in on thought-as it is presently-ideas have to be given away to trickle up to the rich or well-placed, so why be inventive at all?