U.S. Public Debt Increasing Faster than G.D.P.

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 most rich. 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?

Wild Turkeys (video)

Wild turkeys enjoy thanksgiving.

Darwinian Skinkery and the Orange Wave

A recent Gecko ad featured a critical orange cheese-puff jamming the gears of the machine. Cloud leftists from India to Albuquerque derided Trump the candidate as a political pop-Cheeto. Yet the orange sherbet wave-cut is the trend of the future. Orange comb-over-do may crush remnant opposition.

What became of the Democrat party of the 60's with its focus on the middle class economic portion of the nation's wealth? It transitioned into the antinomy of M.L.K.'s I have a dream criterion. The flaw with M.L.K.'s content of character criterion was the evolving idea that character doesn't matter and neither does mind. The left regard each to be emergent evolutionary phenomena.

Some scientists have said that only D.N.A. matters. Deweyan pedagogical paradigms largely negating truth, character subjectivity became a Democrat Party lubricant to subvert existing social structures of the U.S.A., media and politics. Black Lives Matter is politically about no more than a class physical characteristic. Content of character as character was erased along with ideas about classical virtue from party planks. Character could be redefined subjectively to mean anything. Liberal dope use or homosexuality, skin color or lying were regarded equally well with or even preferential to altruism as good character. Character within Christian or even classical virtue as M.L.K. might have envisioned, was dead.

Statistically objective, class economics were important to both major party's during the last 70 years of the 20^th century. Beginning with the post-Vietnam conflict era though, deregulation of Wall Street and a dollar no longer tied to the value of gold and gold reserves let a kind of financial phenomenalism creep in. The administration of Bill Clinton liberated Wall Street with deregulation founding the home mortgage/derivatives/banking crisis of 2008. With Bill Clinton the Democrat Party entirely lost its economic moral bearings. It evolved through the Bush II years to produce Barrack Obama via Harvard to become the entirely race/gender/sex perversion nominal party with voters electing candidates solely on the basis of race/gender/perversion physicalism. Race may be regarded (wrongly) as character, as can gender and with an element of truth; perversion.

President Obama gave the most rich of the elites everything they wanted in tax cuts. The 1% supported homosexual marriage through corporate opinion and media. President Obama was something of a Scarlett Pimpernel rescuing the rich from economic blame or consequences of the 2008 derivatives crisis. He also supported fully the corporate global agenda and flooding of the U.S.A. with cheap illegal immigrant labor. Donald Trump benefited from the Democrat Party's abandonment of defense of U.S. labor and jobs. Since the Democrat party leadership was already fully committed to defense of the interests of the 1% and their policies, Donald Trump with largely his own financing had a fairly low threshold of resistance to overcome to become the President elect. Trump, a member of the elite wealthiest individuals in the world, drew support from what Richard Nixon once called the silent majority -since no one else represented them any more.

The age of celebrity politics thrives on superficiality and sound bites. Race, gender and perversion are more important than class economic analysis. National debt doesn't matter as much as football scores. Environmental decay doesn't mean as much as new cars. Global heating is not as meaningful as quality asphalt streets in Phoenix without potholes. National democracy must be some sort of racism and sexism in comparison to globalism and evolution theory political actualization while mind doesn't matter as much as credit. If democracy dies a silent death and viewers want celebrity leaders to entertain them while promoting all Democrats in a bureaucratic social utopia expanded to take over or at least unite with global corporations in fulfillment of Hitler and Mussolini's ideas about corporatism well, that can be tolerated with legal dope and nice imperial skinks.

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Simplified Political Economy for Alaska Legislature

A simple governing political philosophy for the state of Alaska ought to be easy to make. Barking at the half-empty pipeline isn't good enough. Bark until it refills and government is funded fully again.

The state should not develop any fossil fuel pipelines- let free enterprise do that as it did for TAPS if and when the market looks that way. Alaska's natural resources shouldn't be just given away to global corporations and/or mismanaged at rock bottom prices.

The state needs to keep a stable tax rate for oil royalties from state reserves so any global corporations knows a priori what the cost of development would be from year to year. Global oil prices, supply and demand, fluctuating reserves etc make cost calculations a special game for the major players. Legislative cargo cult adjusting tax rates down are inefficient. The Gov. Sarah Von Palin tax plan should return and be the normal condition.

If the state government decides to invest in energy it should be in commercial fuel cell power plant incentives and wind farms. Reducing the size of government and making it more efficient along with a state income tax would pay for government as needed. The state shouldn't destroy natural resources selling them cheap to Japanese pulp, British Petroleum or Exxon-Mobil. Neither should it ruin fisheries with too much commercial harvest (half should be for sports and subsistence) and no fish free zones to let fish recover from the attack.

Alaska has lots of natural resources and conservative, fairly taxed commercial use if necessary will keep them intact and valuable for centuries. As it is presently unwise use at giveaway prices by the state legislators intent on kickbacks to themselves and special interests are bad government. Good government is very simple.

Humanity as Product in the Age of Corporatism

Do you have the right meta-tags on your life most pleasing to advertisers? In the corporatist union era where humans are regarded as product for the market the right tags are requisite if you are to get that big paycheck. Although slavery was outlawed, with a world surplus of highly unskilled labor market forces can put a price-value premium on humanity as product. Quality human product for market distribution emphatically rises.
Corporate networking and the totalization of global communications with twits reaching the farthest crenelations of formerly free niches of the world make political correctness for advertising immediate, integral is ;the rule. Government serves corporate power. Ad hoc collectivism of elites united in a common goal of inputting wealth and power reduce free enterprise and individual non-conformity to the dictatorship of market correctness. With stock share ownership inbreeding from preferred insider locations capitalism transitioned to an ad hoc business as effective as pure monopoly; degrading and co-opting non-conformist enterprise.
Changing the system to better serve individual free enterprise, invention, environmental sustainability and national self-determination would require an electorate well-educated in contemporary political philosophy-quite an impractical matter where the ruling government and business classes controlling media of all forms are proverbially a mile wide and an inch deep in streaming ancient capitalist and communist theoretical paradigms as if they reflected the present state of affairs.
What is corporatism they ask, and isn't state socialism a clear and present danger. Won't Wall Street and British royal evolution make smart lizards out of everyone eventually anyway? Didn't a pied piper scientific atheism lead Boston to reason? Isn't money a fiction dope emanated from the Federal Reserve to the Treasury and big banks for the pleasure and progress of the masses?
In the total goo  paradigm where astronauts need to be held in sealed diaper-slings with negative pressure evacuating excretions of the human condition while descending from orbit political philosophy thought is set aside for demands of the machine. Reform to new and better ways to live aren't developed with the pressurized fluid through-put of the market. Evolution of the machine transporting seven billion souls to their destinies is arrested with atmospheric market forces where the dictatorship of the proletariat as democracy-in-itself was burned up as a heat shield for the dictatorship of the ecologically unreasoning market. Sales of human products. Pretty labels. Superficial political philosophy sailing the economic world ship through shoal water aesthetics risk environmental and social, sudden, sharp disaster.

Trump and the Nuclear Option

To some observers U.S. national politics may seem like a soap opera named The Dumb and the Wrong. So then, over the years, before the Federal Reserve started giving billions and billions of zero interest loans and buying up T-bills to finance the federal budget of annual vast deficits ($20 trillion and counting), what went wrong?

When President Obama got Harry Reed to use the nuclear option to pass Obamacare with a bare majority, and when he was the primary cheerleader making Bush II tax cuts for the rich permanent, he effectively neutered the Democrat party’s power as a minority in the future. With the election of Republican Donald Trump taking office with a full majority in the House and Senate the Democrats will be effectively powerless to resist whatever legislation the Republican party chooses. Donald Trump will be the most powerful President since F.D.R.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option

It is a fact that Republicans and Democrats have run wet firecracker candidates for the White House following the end of the cold war. Bush II, McCain and Romney are not regarded as mainstream ecological economist, nationalist candidates at all, for that matter neither was the venerable Bob Dole whom would have been a far better alternative to the Oxford attorney Bill Clinton.

Considering the economic decline of the United States since the cold war one may wonder if better Presidential leadership might have made a difference in modernizing and upgrading the post-cold war economic environment of the United States. I suppose a Democrat Party that had the economic priorities of the 1960s was in order where it was still a tough economic negotiator with Republicans and the difference between the most rich and poor was not so great. Following the Jimmy Carter administration the Democrat Party lost its bearings and forsook tight fiscal responsible for the poor and middle class in negotiations in Congress. What apparently occurred was the takeover of the Democrat Party by former anti-war activists, many of whom were not poor at all, that had far more concern for sundry social issues than prior generations, and that further were inured with counter-cultural values. A celebrity driven, rather spaced and even vague principle of identity, Leninist ‘and no religion too’ greased politics where money didn’t matter as much as power, dope, homosexuality and feminism party emerged. For a time Democrats drew in environmentalists only to discover their interests were given just nominal regard as the party continued.

The Clinton administration presented an Oxford-Arkansas synthesis of counter-culture values for-the-establishment with smoking-yet-not-inhaling /depends on what the meaning of is, is, disingenuity and admiration for Wall Street. Democrat Party yuppification would take homosexuals and feminists to the top. Lost was an interest in good paying jobs for those unemployed and underemployed at the bottom and lower middle class. It is doubtful that President Obama used the word ‘poor’ more than a handful of times over the course of two administrations.

In the absence of Democrat party economic sobriety, nothing would keep Wall Street in check. The Clinton administration brought sweeping deregulation to the market with all the problems brought to light in the 2008 mortgage and derivatives/finance crash. With the Clinton foundation’s solicitations of contributions from the rich and speaking fees from Wall Street for both Bill and Hillary the Democrat party became a loud race and sexuality advocate for the special interest groups of the party with little concern for ecological economic reform that would be in fundamental conflict if poorly applied with the street. Instead, the Democrat Party and Republican insiders like the Bushes moved toward a unified corporate-government synthetic one-party fusion.

The 2010 Battle of Seattle with protesters confronting a World Trade Organization meeting there showed the fundamental loss of bearings by Democrat Party leadership and special interests with a schism between nationalists with economic concerns (shared in many nations) and high-flying globalist Clintonista-Obamanites. That schism remains and will so long as the Democrat Party remains aloof from objective class and social economic statistical facts such as who and how many earn the least and the way it goes right to the top and the 1% and works to flood the nation with cheap foreign labour instead of repairing the environment while stimulating economic positive change for U.S. citizens of the lower 50% income bracket.

The Trump administration would be wise to realize that fuel cell, wind and solar power are part of the energy sector and in fact the better place to stimulate investment with tax credits and federal support. High tech energy generation and storage is the way of the future. Is it not better to train people in emergent high-tech fields for economic progress than to retard national energy education and become coal extraction industry recidivists decreasing the human prospects for survival on Earth? Need the U.S.A. follow Chinese solar panel leadership in the future and be thought of as an energy Neanderthal yippee nation of air and environment CO2 emitters? The failure of Republican leadership after the Nixon administration to address national environmental concerns with competence is a great wound Democrat apparatchiks exploit tirelessly each election cycle. There is no need, for example, to quit the Paris agreement since it is a toothless dog of legislation that won’t trouble polluters much if it bites. To quit the agreement will freshen the wound for the next election cycle unless a newer, more effective piece of CO2 reduction work takes its place. Opposition to global warming reduction politically is the equivalent of doing swan dives from a high board into two feet of water...if environmental crimes against humanity trials ever take place the Republican Party may have a few top ten finishers in the docket.