The Democrat’s present Big Big Really Big spending plan has set the value of environmental problems including green habitat loss, species extinction and global atmospheric heating at $500 billion dollars. They could force through any amount they want, for example %5 trillion dollars and a pack of regulations such as new zoning laws that conserve vestigial wild spaces, yet are more concerned with day care so three-year-olds can be properly indoctrinated. They boast they can save $5000 for couples struggling through life on $100,000 annual income while aspiring students and others living on fewer than $8000 income yearly get nothing including free community college tuition.
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11/22/21
Democrats Value Global Environmental Problems at $500 billion
George Washington was a White (not whites only) Nationalist
George Washington was white and a nationalist, therefore he was a white nationalist. Muddying logic works quite well to serve the concentration of wealth socially with any dissidence to globalism and plutocratic interests disqualified in some way or other as a racist or general foe of the placid democrat persons in the corporate acceptable set for receiving views or even publishing in mainstream social media.
Will Crypto Currencies Further Flim-Flam U.S. Dollars and Government Policy?
Since the Reagan administration began running vast federal deficits under the Rubric of Lafferian supply-side economics the dollar has developed a dubious, curious nature of being valued on the basis of the full flim-flam of the U.S. Government that relies on the wealth of public and private resources to give the dollar value. That is, since the end of the gold standard in the Nixon administration the dollar has value simple because people believe the government can make good on it through taxation if it needs to. Taxation on the rich though has progressively been reduced since 1981 having the effect that wealth is concentrated like unto that of the gilded age before the great Wall Street crash of 1929-30. Crypto currencies are an alternative to the dollar. Crypto values may be set by the market.
11/13/21
Inflation Just Might be Good for the Rich
I should have been an economist and learned all about ways to make money with theory and speculation. Inflation could just be good for the rich, including economists. The entire topic of what prospers the rich while seeming to be harmful to the poor and lower middle class isn't as simple as finding a diamond ring dropped into a muddy lake .
Inflation drives up prices. The rich own the things being sold and pass on the costs to you. Real estate goes up in value, and the rich own those rental builds that working people try to pay for. Lesson one; it is better to own a building rather than renting an apartment. The rich collect rents from about everything besides owning stock shares that might increase in value along with inflation (that is a challenging topic to consider).
It seems to me that if 50 million Americans take home less than a half of a percent of the national income that inflation can be a pretty effective way to skim that 1/2 percent back to the rich. People need to have enough income to work and the rest I suppose is targeted for return to the rich through a variety of means. It might be better to have an ideal society or at least make some progress toward building one rather than just letting everything ho in the most loose, stupid version of neo-capitalism the society can tolerate while it is fueled with theoretical dollars backed only by the full flam credit of the U.S. Government (not exactly the same as the gold standard) or planetary plutocrats. I wonder if Congress will charge more people with contempt of Congress since contempt is almost a common opinion regarding the quality of that August body's works in regard to public debt, social egalitarianism, border security and so forth.
There are many things to capture one's attention if they attention to news. I live in a place that hasn't cell phone service, and hence no internet, electricity or whatever (or a road to a store) so I value the news somewhat objectively when I encounter it, and it seems rather stupid so ordinarily that I am concerned that writing about it might give the impression that I believe that everyone making news is stupid- and that isn't the case at all. Instead I believe that society is uncoordinated rather like the L.A. Lakers when Lebron James is injured, and that people have some erroneous notion that capitalism builds or evolves the best social environment willy nilly without need for competent government and good ideas. Alternatively maybe the politicians and media regard everything that passes like water under the bridge is good retrospectively, simply for being past.
It was said of old Russia that when the Tsar was having troubles he would send someone to foment a pogrom against Jews in some regional capitol. I have wondered if inflation causing incidents aren't also used to keep democracy down and under the thumb of the rich. No one wants to talk these days about raising taxes on the 1% when inflation and Covid 19 are on fire. It doesn't seem like a good idea to be concerned with abstract economic situations that might make the too big to fail Corporate 1%ers think about relocating somewhere else to build their widgets (like China or someplace that is really loyal).
11/10/21
A Capital Tax is a Substitute for Haitian/French Style Revolution
A tax on concentrated capital held by ultra-millionaires and billionaires is a satisfactory replacement for revolts like those of Haitians against slavery and the French against royalty and aristocracy where the masses yearn for a semblance of egalitarianism. With wealth so grossly concentrated in one percent of the people economics and Wall Street are basic threats to democracy, as much as was the British aristocracy in 1776.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-campaign-ties-to-steele-dossier-durham-probe
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41752908
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-dossier
11/8/21
International Forums Substitute for Do Nothing Congress on Global Warming
It is well known that the U.S. Congress isn't capable of decisive and adequate action to radically slow global warming. Fundamentally people aren't bright enough to comprehend the problems facing everyone nearly as well as their own, so they vote for personal pork and run exhaust into the atmosphere without concern. At election time Democrats talk a good game on global warming then do nothing. It would be great if the problem were solved and humanity could move on, yet that just doesn't happen any more than the federal deficit is reduced.
Democrats ran on global warming campaigns even including building a sunscreen at L-5 in space. Now they have set it on the back burner with day care and parental leave for homo-couples and some straights on the front burner. https://news.yahoo.com/obama-urging-governments-action-un-120628866.html
At least former President Barrack Hussein Obama was explaining everyone rowing in the same direction (no mention of oars needing to be in the water though) to get somewhere at the Glasgow conference before chastising Russia and China for being in the eastern hemisphere or something like that (or it might have been for not showing up to confess their polluting natures).
Some people believe the world will end and so nothing is required t repair the atmosphere's health, and they may be correct since not fixing global warming and increasing population and immorality may result in some sort f global catastrophic change. At least bitcoin can be counted on not to crash in value from its near 70,000 dollars for one if the dollar collapses after the internet collapses and EMP blasts wipe out data on computer memories.
It would be interesting to remake James Stewart's Its a Wonderful Life and have Big Bird or the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man replace Harvey the Invisible Rabbit who it is revealed is a global warming denier persuading Stewart (maybe John Stewart could play Jimmy) to join the dark side of the force.
So long as the U.S.A. can blame Russia and China nothing will be required of Congress for the next few years.
Tricycle baby carriage and LA Lakers issues
One might wish it was as easy too invent an LA Lakers line-up and game plan as easily as it would be to manufacture sit-down, high quality tricycle-baby carriages; even electric ones for a reasonably price. With a very interesting team the Lakers seem to lack a cutting small forward like Talen Horton -Tucker who could sharply go to the hoop with a reverse layup; he is injured. Lacking Alex Caruso's tenacious defense since the trade the Lakers have two important elements missing/
LeBron James though very old in basketball years is still in the top 2% of people anyone wants on their team. He does seem to be the sharpest passer the Lakers have, and when he is out of the line-up do to injuries to ankle that recur when opposition yippies target his ankles because they can't compete otherwise with the old fellow, the Lakers suffer.
If the Lakers can hobble through the regular season and the other old fellow Carmello Anthony can on occasion contribute a few twenty points in twenty minutes games off the bench, and if Russell Westbrook can figure out how to pass as well as Pete Maravich, and if Anthony Davis can play good defense without injury an Achilles they have a good chance to win the title. All in all its the most fun team to watch in years with something like an older all-stars with younger going up against mostly sharp younger teams with decent centers and good three point shooters.
Lacking a John Havlicek kind of guy who can use Anthony Davis like Larry Bird or Danny Ainge used Kevin McHail Davis has a little too much coverage on him. When LeBron was five years younger he drew defense to him like flies and that would have worked. Unfortunately James in now probably perceived as an equal threat to Davis and when James is on the bench there isn't another forward shooting threat. maybe Dwight Howard's offensive skills could be dusted off and used more on special occasions close in.
11/4/21
Democrats’ Social Pork Technology Failed to See Lisa on the Horizon
Like ships passing in the night echos of prior political eras (41 and 46) the triple B’s pf Presidents past and present juxtaposed aspects of dubious temporal zeitgeist deleteriously. The build back better plan arrived like a cloud of flies on dead meat; the corpus delecti, of the green environmental reform movement that floated President Biden’s boat a year ago. When the word green or environmental show up in contemporary affairs around election time Democrats arrive to take the issue unto-themselves as a spearhead for social programs.
While honesty is lacking in the use of global
warming and green economic reform to camouflage social spending bills that
appear suspiciously like pork for constituents, if the build back better
(or back biting bitch as 41 bit-coined the triple B term) putsch for
inadequacy had poltical ergonomic efficiency it would have dwelt allocating 5
billion bucks or so to buy a single Republican vote in the Senate. That should
have been easy.
Of the initial 3.5 billion dollars in the BBB
plan just 500 billion was (appx.) for green tech investments to slow global
warming acceleration. That five billion invested in purely green projects for
Alaska might have brought Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski around to support
the triple B plan in its present reduced size. Select insider politicians have
a Boston-Harvard-DC axis of investment kickbacks that sometimes is blind to
common sense politics that essentially are alien and external to it. DC politics preponderantly are a dull
kickback of power pork.
Alaska is divided between those that hate
government regulation and want to actualize under the pursuit of happiness
article of the constitution, the right to launch car to car missiles whenever
rodent scholar rage motivates them (as well as getting rid of traffic signals
that impede happiness and freedom (like seat belts do too), and those that love
government regulation and regulators and want to compel every home owner to
have a uniform tori/spirit gate regulator perch on his/her or its property for
the happiness of visiting regulators to land upon.
Alaska has a population of fewer than a
million people and many live scattered over a constellation of roadless rural
areas. High arctic air pollution might have a stronger effect than mid-Earth
air pollution proportionately acting as a catalyst for permafrost melting and
release of vast quantities of methane gas into the atmosphere. Investing five
billion dollars in fuel cells, wind, solar and geothermal energy production for
every Alaskan city with more than 100 people living there might have attracted
the Senator’s vote because she is facing an election.
Her constituents could regard her choice to kill
plentiful low cost green energy unfavorably when the temperature is forty
degrees below zero and oil stove fuel is running low with exorbitant prices only
Boston and San Francisco millionaires and billionaires could find trivial.
Five billion dollars of spending on home energy
with green refueling locally is preferable to some paying oil companies cash forever
that would be better spent on food and warm boots.
Alaska’s government following Jay Hammond,
with the exception of Steve Cowper, was usually uncreative and reliant upon oil
sales revenues to fund itself. One could write suggesting energy and business
diversification for decades and Alaska politicians would be like cold stone
walls of disregard falling back to their natal streams of reliance on oil
revenues to fund state government spending.
The
kind of people elected to government at the state and federal level serve
corporatism far more than democracy is at any rate generally toady to
corporatism these days. One gets elected to share the rem of oil revenues,
public debt, and Wall Street percs.
10/27/21
Hyper-sonic missile is 'transformational; once in a generational for war progressives
New hypersonic missiles that travel from mach 6 to mach 17 have taken center stage recently in the global race to annihilate itself. Fortunately the Chinese have joined the Russians in owning the fast and nearly direct fire missiles that can shoot under the radar to hit sitting duck targets defending by anti-ballistic missiles.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/27/us-general-china-missile-test-very-close-to-sputnik-moment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Range_Hypersonic_Weapon
https://www.military.com/equipment/weapons/why-russias-hypersonic-missiles-cant-be-seen-radar.html
These hyper-sonic weapons are a great advance over the old, slow, mirved, marved ballistic missiles of your dad's day that merely delivered high trajectory packages of city incineration and global winter. The hypersonic items can be launched soon from a number of platforms such as submarines and any old sort of surface ship traveling the oceans and possibly even dropped like cruise missiles from an airborne platform in the near future. Thus plenty of boom is promised for everyone without any sort of supply shortages.
Once more global political leadership is making great strides of progress to kill everyone thus saving money and bitcoin on the problem of global warming that has taken a minority portion of the comfort food economic budget of the Democrat party. One can't tax those millionaires or their poor relative millionaire kindred and keep the economy going.
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