Some Welfare is Good for the Economy

Welfare has a very tarnished reputation. In a society with a work ethic it symbolizes urban ghettos and repressed minorities that spend generations in rat-infested public housing projects. The well being of a society does include the standard of living of the worst-off individuals as well as the best. Some theorize that the stimulus of poverty and its negative reinforcement drives the poor to seek work if they don’t have the alternative of living on welfare. The criterion is maladroit.

Political economy lacks sufficient positive mechanisms made through law to enable people to escape poverty readily and work. Without food stamps, some employers would use starvation as a lever for lowering worker wages. It is a social insurance program in that respect to prevent corporations from using starvation as a tool of extortion to force people to work at low wages in harsh conditions. People are not all really wonderful, and would enslave others if they could, if not eat them.

The Democrat Party does not know how to reform a capitalist economy in a democracy. They try to get as many people as they can on some government pay-out in order to implement socialism through the back door. That problem differs a lot from trying to make a free enterprise foundation workable for every citizen. Democrats will even flood the nation with illegal workers in order to subvert the wages and labor-side of employer-worker wage value and negotiations. There is another benefit of flooding the USA with illegal aliens for Democrats; it degrades the ecosphere faster creating environmental emergency and additional Democrat leverage for socialism through government environmental powers.

It would be practical to pass a law that provides tax breaks to employers in relation to hiring and employing people that were out of work longest. Putting the hardest to hire people to work would relieve welfare rolls. Democrats have no interest in that.

American youth had to pay a sort-of-tax for Obamacare. Now the Democrats would like to force youth to pay for Medicare for everyone not presently qualified. Today people over 65 qualify for Medicare. If those under 65 get Medicare too then the worker contribution for that might rise ten or twenty time. Democrats might say they would tax the most rich to pay for that, however the tax if passed- and that would be very hard to get done, would bring money to the general fund and perhaps instead pay for the soon to be trillion dollars of interest bill dues annually for the 22 trillion dollar U.S. Government debt.

Democrats should have expanded the V.A. hospital system and joined it with community hospitals and clinics for the poor and simply provided free direct medical service to those that are screened by the federal Government to actually be too poor to afford medical treatment. Such a non-profit is the least expensive way to bring medical coverage to all citizens. Single payer systems are a further support to enslave the public and bring corporatism and socialism in a world government into being.

Present administration of the V.A. hospital system may be somewhat inefficient at delivering quick, quality health care however reform is always possible. One issue may be the problem of tenured government employees without production incentives. That might be corrected with contractors to provide services in the V.A. equivalent to contractors employed in the military, motivated for production. Some leaders are incapable of improving organizational efficiency and effectiveness while others rise to the challenge.

Reducing the period of patent exclusivity to three years with 10% royalties to inventors after three years when anyone produces profit from using the idea would accelerate economic innovation and progress and give a better chance for poor inventors to profit instead of reinforcing the trickle-up system now in effect. The entire patent process as well as defending it is simply not something a broke, intelligent American can reasonable afford. Poor people often don’t prefer to gamble 300% of their life savings on speculation, yet they may have good ideas.

A Synopsis of Why Russia Fell to Communism

Russia was weakened by war. Its political immune system was suppressed and disease was free to enter the body politic.

The Russian revolution was the first success of several revolutionary movements of the late 19th and 20th centuries seeking to bring about communism. The institution of the Tsar was oppressive. The table of ranks of elites rendered ordinary people nobodies beyond the first 50 ranks. An international movement sought any place available to revolt. The revolutionaries moved about. Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and others journeyed from nation to nation as the royal establishment kicked them out or hunted them. Russian royalty made a fatal mistake in the social contest between revolutionaries and aristocrats; it got involved in a war with Germany and the Tsar was not a good military leader. His pre-emptive attack on Germany led to great German advances against Russia. Germans sent Lenin in a sealed train to lead a revolution and sign a treaty with Germany that gave away most of the Ukraine and other land.

Russia had anti-tsarist revolutionary movements for a very long time before the October Revolution. There had been experiments with democracy a little, briefly. It was possible that a constitutional monarchy might have evolved something like that of Britain given enough time, yet the pressure of the first World War that reorganized much of Europe was sufficient to bring more force to the fault lines in Russian leadership.

The Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset wrote a book named The Revolt of the Masses-published in 1929–30 that anticipated the restiveness of European society because in part, of technological changes and mass communication, transport etc. The work anticipated the 2nd World War, though not exactly concise in anticipating the rise of Hitler and the 3rd Reich.

I believe it worthwhile to mention that several nations did join the communist camp through force after the Second World War. War is a traditional means of bringing communist-socialist systems into being. Usually the desire is to remove an oppressive ruling elite. Then at the conclusion of the war the choice of the leadership is for communist dictatorship rather than democracy not only for ideological reasons, but for practical reasons too; suppressing counter-revolutionary werewolves is easier with dictatorship than ballot boxes.

In places like Vietnam and China communism prevailed yet later moderated itself with some evolution toward market political economy. The perennial war of ordinary people to rid itself of oppressive ruling elites never ends. Democracy and free markets seem the best remedy.

U.S. Political Economy and Potential for Collapse; Seriously?

If Democrats retake the House and the Presidency in 2020 there is a good chance recession may follow. Democrat policies concerning the economy are very weird and there are innumerable serious spending plan increases in the party for a variety of programs that would tend to be recessive. Collapse is a strong word though.

The U.S. economy has always grown with brief times of recession or depression occasionally. It always recovers after periods of irrational exuberance, too rapid and unsupportable expansion and collapse and recovery as in the 1929–30 crash. It is because the basic structure and resources of the United States are strong.

When the federal government fails to adapt in time to empirical challenges internationally that can bring about economic problems requiring rectification of means. Several challenges face the United States today that seemingly are not being adequately addressed.

One is too much illegal immigrant population. The U.S.A. has about 320 million people presently. That may be regarded as about 100 million too many for ecospheric health. If another 20 million illegals arrive, and though the population growth rate for American citizens living here is zero, the birth rate increase for the next illegal generation could drive the U.S. population up to 400 million very quickly, and that would require a large increase in the cost of government.

Another challenge is simply globalism and the desire for Democrats to ensnare the U.S. in networks of global treaties for ecological reasons. It would be better and more effective to simple direct U.S. economic policy toward constructive, synergistic environmental economic infrastructure changes.
Global trading competition, global corporations and multinational ownership and finance along with global electronic currencies present challenges that are fairly complex for national political economy to correct. because the majority of Americans have only a small percent of national income and so much goes to the 1%, economic collapses can be regarded as sometimes intentional or acceptable readjustment losses that might harm ordinary Americans but profit the 1%. That is, the nation does not experience economic shocks together. The specialized nature of employment occupations has also reached the economy of the nation. One business on Main Street may close down while another across the street expands. That principle applies to the entire planetary economy now.

U.S. public debt appears to be a problem. At the least it is offensive to those citizens that do not want debt in their personal accounts. Public debt seems to indicate incompetent management in U.S. Government policy. I have no idea what can be done to repair the damage of 22 trillion as it is presently.

When the British financed the revolutionary War defense costs of the battle against the United States their government debt borrowing wasn’t repaid until near the start of the First World War. The effect of financing the debt was to cost the people of England reduced social benefits for a very long time, and taxation to pay for it. The U.S. public debt may have the same effect. It may not bring about an economic collapse. Instead, with global electronic currency and multinational corporations the economy of the United States may with away as global financial systems transcend it. That development would be unfortunate yet should require a decade or so to fructify.

A few good researchers have suggested the carrying capacity of the world is two billion people at the present rate of consumption. The United States seemed good enough when it had 200 million people. With 320 million it seems overpopulated and going through the ecosphere at an alarming rate.
The nation mostly has zero population growth voluntarily except for a few minorities and the notable exception of Hispanics and illegal alien. A few million more illegal aliens with the large birthrate could fairly rapidly drive the national population to 400 million. That seems somewhat crazy, although the new normal phenomenon and brainwashing media would make it seem o.k.

What is of little help is the wrong eschatology theory popular with some fundamentalists that there will be an Armageddon and apocalypse to usher in a new age. The Bible actually, read correctly, in my opinion, provides more evidence for an end-times apocalypse occurred in the first century A.D. as Jesus said it would before the end of that generation. After that the kingdom of God was supposed to slowly increase, and it has with more than a billion believers today. Muslims share the wrong pre-tribulation theory- even Iranians with their Twelvers that believe a hidden Imam that disappeared in a well will reappear after Armageddon.


Establishing sustainable, discrete national economies with zero net loss of biota is a very good idea.

Shouldn’t There Be National Freeways Just for Electric Vehicles?

Electric vehicles are clean. Zero emissions to add to global warming. President Eisenhower began the federal interstate system for defense purposes. A modern President could justify construction of a few Interstate dedicated solely to the use of electric vehicles. Electric power lines for recharging would be embedded in the highways.

Global warming is truly a problem. Humanity puts 37 billion tons of Co2 into the atmosphere every year. Last year- 201, was the worst ever. Making sure that state-of-the-art electric vehicle technology is prioritized would help reduce the expansion of one of the most grave threats to human life; the fossil fuel powered vehicle.

Thee north-south and three east-west freeways designed for electric vehicles would get the new infrastructure started. The highways might be designed to have a high albedo reflecting sunlight back into space. The highways might also convert sunlight into electricity, and even superconductors in liquid hydrogen filled pipes might store electricity not being used.

Electric vehicles including self-driving cars and trucks, should have a system enabling the use of the best features of electric powered platforms including rapid acceleration and cool running high speed.

Both major US political parties present bad choices to voters. Democrats are lunatic globalist neo-treasonous, quasi-socialist queer developer feminists and Republicans appeal to an electorate that is supposed to be stupid as stone, ignorant hillbilly yippies that believe fossil fuel Co2 damage that anyone with a lick of sense knows to be a huge human-caused problem is a fiction made up by Democrats. So the choice voters have is between ignorance or stupidity and corruption. Americans can do better than that, and should. Building a few green highways for electric cars is practical and difficult to f..-up. for pork and odd political derivative spending.

Economic development can be intelligent and not use fossil fuels and greenhouse gases generally. That requires economic leadership rather than government spending, except where government spending on useful programs are just adapted to a purely green ergonomic foundation efficiently. The free market with some direction is the best tool for reforming the economic infrastructure of the United States. Build it and others will follow.

Why Not Open Artemis Moon Program to Outside Investors

I am all for U.S. nationalism generally. On the return to the moon program and build a base I have a different take; allow outside investors including China and Russia, Saudi Arabia etc. to buy into the program to a level that at any time would comprise 49% of the cost.

The United States has a history of hot and cold on manned space missions, as well as converting basically good programs into union pork that go on forever without producing much after the start. A manned lunar research and relaunch base could use input from other nations from the start. It makes little sense for redundant Russia and Chinese programs for the moon with all three nations ending up with smaller bases not well enough funded.

Human efforts to establish permanent and productive manned space colonies within ecologically rational criteria will cost a lot of money, though with the potential of returning orders of magnitude more than the investment over time. A lunar port near the base should be planned for landing commercial spaceships. Maybe it should be named the Trump Space Facility. https://gizmodo.com/spacex-s-starhopper-makes-its-first-free-flying-leap-1836727226

The Democrat Party is likely to cut the guts out of the U.S. Space program in order to have higher wages, Medicare and drivers training for illegal aliens on the Pelosi vineyards plantation and so forth. Investment from Europe, India and etc would keep the moon base sustainable economically.

If the Nadler hearings and impeachment services could redirect some of its work to the new lunar base, in 2024 the first Lunar inquiry into impeaching the President could transpire with exciting video for all on Earth with Rep Nadler starring again.

Democrat's Goon Squad Does Seem Racist

The House of Representatives' Democrat Majority Goon Squad of Four does seem consistently racist. As self-described 'colored women' they represent an external proletariat of Muslims and non-whites that hate the straight white male President for being white and male. The Goon Squad belligerence represents the face of the world to come as a result of Democrat Party politics. The interests of women seeking to expropriate male wages in the United States, the interests of global proletariats and the interests of the most rich that wanted to cap and degrade middle class male wages in the U.S.A. since women got birth control pills and entered the work force in larger numbers have aligned. Saul Alinsky had some theory that has inspired the Democrat party too-

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-%E2%80%98-squad%E2%80%99-screams-%E2%80%98racism%E2%80%99-69042

With the Democrace solid in its existential will to sprawl, expropriate, redistribute and empower the future for a few generations probably will be more Orwellian with vague elites of 1%ers in communist and capitalist casheconomic infrastructures manipulating their daily haters from afar with technology.

Space exploration is at least becoming a bright spot once again, with hope not yet occluded even by Muslims of the Goon Squad.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/25/nancy-pelosi-said-squad-was-just-four-people-heres-why-they-might-succeed/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.44181a905e89

It is funny about the latter. Muslim civilization was the primary rival of western civilization. It was contained in the Iberian Peninsula and driven out in 1492- the same year Columbus discovered America and aboriginals living there. Through the sheer Democrace existential hate of straight white males and global redistributionist theory the Muslim society is being imported into what was founded as a Christian nation of western civilization to become an implicit threat after 500 years. The kind of incompetence that required to get done is breathtaking.

https://msmagazine.com/2019/07/19/feminist-faves-instagram-gets-in-formation-behind-the-squad/

Philosophical Issues With Darwin's Theory

 Philosophical problems with Darwin’s theory might be taken to mean generally that people don’t support the evolution paradigm. Some believe the Bible and Genesis especially are in opposition to evolution. I don’t see it that way having learned science and Christianity together from early youth.

So one might want to explain more fully to people why one can find everything natural- not created by humans, as created by God, in default. God, after all, has lots of time. All of eternity is a lot of time to create a Multiverse or Universe and set it working. If every last atom and quark was foreknown by God, and planned, that would include evolution too.

Really it's quite an interesting topic and the better one is informed of the Bible and of Cosmology the more interesting it becomes. God is a lot smarter than humans. It's good he left the Bible for a guide and sent His Son to the world to help out.

I wrote a lot of brief essays on the topic and published two books- free to download with those essays. They are here…

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/god-cosmology-and-nothingness-theory-and-theology-in-a-scientific-era-garrison-clifford-gibson/1122557877?ean=9781365539107

http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/creation-and-cosmos-the-literal-values-of-genesis/ebook/product-23246271.html

I have learned more and thought more about cosmology and creation since I wrote those. Maybe sometime I will add a third collection.

I have read the KJV more than a half century and believe God evolved the world, and the apocalypse occurred in the first century A.D. when Jerusalem was destroyed, Christians scattered and martyred, and the building of the Kingdom of God was then new for the passing generation of the old era. Some believe it wise to repeat the pre-tribulation philosophy and to believe their own interpretation of Genesis is infallible. 

 I would say that evolution theory is natural, and God created all natural things. Scientific atheists and some reactionary Christians are just wrong about things. Making a dialectical opposition of evolution and the Bible is wrong- it misleads many souls and government decisions.

A fine-tuned Multiverse is implicitly a little contradictory- every possible Universe that could exist does exist in some form is the theory. Each Universe should be fine-tuned for it to be what it is. That's nearly a principle of identity. The Universe has a built-in Occam's razor compelling it to lack a surfeit of alternative variables and constants. Yet God is spirit and the constants and variables of any given Universe aren't really germaine. They are downstream in a manner of speaking.

G.W.F. Hegel believed the Universe was the world spirit trying to realize itself through history (paraphrase of someone- I cannot recall). He thought the German state of his time was the highest evolution of the intelligence. Dialectical evolution loosely would have been the Universe trying to be and become interacting with itself. 

An analogy might be that the world-spirit began its material paradigm self-awareness program as a tiny seed at the big bang and evolved through interactive change into something larger and more pluralistic with sentience being the highest phase achieved within a government and society that was Germany. That was a practical way for a philosopher to get some approval from the Aristocrats of his nation, though I doubt that Hegel invented the theory just to kiss a of the most rich rulers.

Hegel was rightly called an idealist; all of this dialectical progress was working of Spirit. Hegel wrote a nice, smaller version of The Phenomenology of Mind titled- Realms of Absolute Spirit (in a version I read).