Alaska's State Government; Finance Issues

Nations that rely on oil revenues to pay for government usually are backward, authoritarian leaning corrupt phenomenalities opposed to reason and equal protection of the law. So many Alaskan sycophants of big oil seek to be the most flattering minions of those globalists. They have no interest in the historical facts that government must be paid for by the people and users if democracy is to exist meaningfully. An income tax is part of the equation of opportunity. It is a kind of user tax inclusive of those that simply visit the state, extract income and leave paying nothing.

The usual practice for a kleptocracy is to plunder whatever it can (oil, Permanent Fund etc.) while it can before leaving the state finance and diversification plans in ruins when the money runs out. Then of course they prefer selling government to the highest bidder.

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2017/05/25/alaska-needs-a-fiscal-solution-in-2017-thats-now/

Can President Trump Restore International Order?

When Barrack Obama left office he had brought chaos to the Middle East and a slow-burning conflict to Europe in Ukraine. Terrorism had increased more than at any time since 911 for Europe and the U.S.A. Illegal alien immigration had established networks of sedulous 'sanctuary cities in the U.S.A. scoffing at law, democracy and self-determnation of the electorate over immigration levels and work training. President Trump needs to correct all that mess.

When President Trump delivered a stern message to N.A.T.O.. to take their defense obligations seriously. He failed to say that if Russia is perceived as the main danger to Europe then a rapprochement with the Russians such that peace and harmony again develop as it started to under the Reagan-Gorbachev aegis, would allow reduced arms expenses (a threat to arms manufacturers) and increased European economic health. What Europe doesn't need is stress with Russia instead of love and understanding.

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/25/530051945/as-trump-slams-nato-allies-obama-defends-international-order (a leftist audio rag)

President Obamao spoke in Germany with our former bitter and bloody enemies about Americans 'hiding behind a wall' in a speech ridiculing national job security. Maybe growing up in a Muslim nation he doesn't think much about American efforts to liberate Germany from Hitler and the Nazis during the 1940s. Americans weren't hiding behind a wall then nor would be now if they built a viable national defense barrier against illegal immigration.

President Trump is faced with as great of a challenge as was Hercules in correcting the deficiences to U.S. and International interests created by the leadership vacuum after Reagan-Bush in 1992. Cleaning out the stables of mountains of bureaucratic policy poop would make any non-sycophant of just spend and Fed Reserve roll out the money policy flinch a little considering the size of the deficits environmentally and economically.

The President's budget isn't so bad, yet he should eliminate and cuts to the Department of Energy's advanced and non-polluting tech research. That's the increasing way of the future. The Government needs to work with change in order to work with corporations and individuals producing items that bring it.

President Trump should leave ANWR alone because it will be a big fight creating enmity forever and making Republicans seem like retarded neanderthals trying to enrich Exxon-Mobile/BP primarily without any sense of public service or leadership or a remnant of integrity.

Walls are built at prisons to keep convicts in, yet the Welsh leader Offa built a great dike that kept savage, troubled Brits from invading pastoral Wales for some time. The Romans built a wall to keep vile, rapacious, ugly Scot warrior-hordes from attacking the lovely and bucolic southern parts in the primary British isle. Mexican hordes of job-plundering international anarchists wreaking havoc on the value of labor in the U.S.A. can be kept at bay with a salt-water desalination canal (condensation from evaporation) on the border while making water if the administration has a little good sense. The water can be piped in from the Pacific ocean using solar powered pumps.

Cheap labor is damaging to the efforts to treat all lawful Americans fairly and even to change the economy to a sustainable atmospherically benign activity. The U.S.A. could show Mexico how to build a health and sustainable ecospherically cool economy if it had a clue about how to do that itself.

Republican Health Care Bill D.O.A.-Victimizes the Poor, Weak, and Old Yearning for Pain Relief

Republicans need to get real with a good health care paradigm that isn't just a crooks ideal transformation of Obama-Corporate-Burocratocare into cheap-o-care for the benefit of the rich.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/05/24/republican-health-care-bill-indicted-again-editorials-debates/102117716/

The sole affordable health care would be for the government to invest in upgrading and expanding existing V.A. hospitals and poor peoples public health clinics...I will modestly name that Trump-Care. Every poor American would be eligible free treatment for walking in.

The government should offer very low-interest short and moderate term health care loans for people that need some sort of blue-moon surgery or emergency treatment yet have jobs and solid annual income since money is so cheap from the Federal Reserve now. The loans would be up to $30,000 with favorable repayment terms.

Pre-existing conditions and chronic illness care should be in another program if insurers are reluctant to cover that.

Its fairly simple to ad hoc and piece together a better coverage paradigm for all Americans-even bringing fuel cell and electric vehicle transportation networks to synergize patient transportation to authorized low-or-no-income treatment outlets. There are numerous ways to delivery free or affordable health care that aren't even considered by the U.S. Government because big corporate and big governemnt are their primary ways of thinking about anything.

Alzheimer's Dead Up 50%-Probably From Auto Exhaust and Clinton Era 'Dumbing Down'

People dying from Alzheimer's are up 50% perhaps as a result of a worse social environment to live in rather than from an influx of immigrants from a part of the world thick with the disease. People forget that Dumb and Dumber movies wern't always held to be the pinnacle of art.

http://www.livescience.com/59261-alzheimers-deaths-increase.html

Loud music, dope and profuse automobile exhaust may be exacting there grim toll in those exposed to cars, bars Clintons and global warming. Television could also be a contributing factor as people become dumbed down and encourage to disrespect intelligence, reading, philosophy and thoughtfulness general. Even before the disease manifests they have been trained to be victims.

Maybe Americans really should have worn tin foil hats to protect them from cosmic rays and cell phone microwaves. Nothing can stop fatty foods and obesity from clogging up the brain and letting swiss cheese disease develop,

I will try to write another pseudo-scientific article some other time. One needs to worry about what to write before the capacity to think disappears watching the broadcast media.

Seattle Should Trade Richard Sherman to Dallas for Zeke Elliot

One would need ESP to know how the Seahawks will do next season. Richard Sherman is restive and wants to move on and Coach Carroll should find a way to let him go,

Herb Adderly-Hall of Fame image credit

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19446657/seattle-seahawks-cornerback-richard-sherman-let-go-problem-nfl-2017

WIthout a great runner on offense to keep opponents honest Russell  WIlson has fewer opportunities to complete passes. Coach Carroll shoud expect Elliot and a receiver in trade-maybe even old Jason Witten (who will probably make the hall of fame).

Sure reasonable people would like the Broncos to win the Superbowl yet their quarterback problems don't seem close to being solved; actually they have three that all could use seasoning yet aren't ready now. And Russell Wilson probably could use R.G. III or Johnny Manziel as an alter-ego and trainee rival to encourage excellence.

Theremgiht be some sort of quality cornerback waiting unsigned working as a Mongolian cowboy on the high plains somewhere that Seattle could get to work cheaper than Mr. Sherman. who would make less of a splash and more tackles.

How to Body-Slam the Media

Candidate for U.S. Congress in Montana Greg Gianforte reportedly body-slammed one of the media papparrizi that got in his face. Though the term may be more media hyperbole, or disinformation, here is a video with a minute of instruction on how candidates could really body slam (the media) when they get too invasive.

Congress should body-slam NPR and remove their funding from the Federal budget.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/a-transcript-of-the-greg-gianforte-body-slam-audio/528102/

The Self-Positing Ego and Dr. Ben Carson's Romanticism

The self-positing ego may easily be misunderstood. A=A probably should have a bi-conditional logic operator rather than an equal sign, or rather, it might be noted that 'I' is implicitly tautologous.

Fiche's paradigm seems incorrect, yet to various degrees those that have experienced life swimmingly without too much adversity may regard society itself as a kind of tabula rasa they can transform as readily as they might learn another language. I wrote a brief essay on a comment of Dr. Ben Carson serving in the Trump administration l will include below.

It might be useful to compare the point of view of Fichte with Bishop Berkeley and his 'ideamism'. Fichte sought to actualize his subjectivity as a transcending fact while Berkeley left it as an academic argument. In Berkeley's Matrix like paradigm the construction of reality is heterodox rather than solipsistic.

Kierkegaard was right on many or most of the topics regarding the balance required to use irony as a life-tool rather than to allow subjectivity to lead one to delusion. His 'Sickness Unto Death' can be summarized in the phrase he used that 'despair is the unwillingness to be oneself'. A clinically useful insight.

HUD Sect. Ben Carson in an interview recently said that ‘poverty is a state of mind’. Yes the remark had a context in which it appeared such as a given ‘mindset’ inertially exists as a cultural characteristic, however it is a useful comment for illustrating the point of view of certain German romantics of the mid-19th century.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/24/ben-carson-calls-poverty-a-state-of-mind-during-interview/?utm_term=.3e20a7fcad4a

Those romantics exploiting the concept of irony or subjective detachment from the objective social world-establishment to the point of abnegation and nihilism regarded social conventions as of little worth. There is another way to use the detachment or subjective perspective associated with Socrates and his saying ‘know thyself’ that isn’t nihilistic. Instead it is analytical-critical of society and culture while introspective and moving on to comprehend what is right and wrong, good or bad, true or false about society upon reflection rather than just dismissing it all.

It is somewhat ironic that the conservative Dr. Ben Carson personified the relativism vilified by conservatives who prefer objective facts and established empirical reality over subjectivity and detachment favored by the left. Obviously the truth is somewhere mid-way between the two extremes. The extreme subjectivity reaching unto solipsism favored by Schlegel and somewhat less so by Goethe can dismiss objective reality and say that for the individual everything is just a state of mind-even when it is pouring cold rain it would be nothing more than a state of mind for the romantic being drenched. The coefficient of adversity keeping one in poverty is not just one's own thought; it has reciprocals in the thought of others.

Poverty like slavery is not just a state of mind. When wealth concentrates and plutocracy controls and totalized the economy and when computer quant programs control 70% of Wall Street transactions at least in part, or when a city burns down with incendiary bombs dropping in from the sky it is more than a state of mind experienced or even constructed by an individual.

Saying that poverty is a state of mind reflects the poverty of naive realism drifting in as a cloud of optimism around the heads of those who have made it good rather easily with insufficient experience of social resistance to making things better.