The USA has immense wealth in natural resources. The oil and natural gas under our land belong to our citizens, and we could nationalize the treasure instead of continuing to deal it off to mega corporations.
We might use the revenues to finance free health care and free education through university for the people. Saddam Hussein did that for the Iraqis beginning in 1972. And why not? Citizens depend on the federal government to defend them from danger, foreign and domestic - protection is a right.
How about health care?
It's all so simple.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
OUR NATURAL RESOURCES
In the month of March, 2009, the President of the United States cancelled 77 drilling leases in the oil-rich shale of Utah because the sites were within a mile of national park land.
Pffft...a 200-year-or-more-supply of oil...pffft.
Our U.S.A. is one of the most self-sufficient nations with vast treasures of natural resources, but we choose to meddle everywhere on Earth, preferring importing to exporting, while our pushy corporations pull the strings.
We are able - if not willing - to mine and drill and sell ourselves back into prominence - "the City on the Hill."
It's all so simple.
Pffft...a 200-year-or-more-supply of oil...pffft.
Our U.S.A. is one of the most self-sufficient nations with vast treasures of natural resources, but we choose to meddle everywhere on Earth, preferring importing to exporting, while our pushy corporations pull the strings.
We are able - if not willing - to mine and drill and sell ourselves back into prominence - "the City on the Hill."
It's all so simple.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM
The National Law Center for Homelessness estimates there are three and one-half million homeless people in the U.S.A. Many are bums who prefer living that way, some are mental cases, alcoholics are well represented, but many others are recently unemployed workers who were evicted from their homes.
One-third of the homeless are children.
When you are homeless, it is very difficult to find a job because you can't afford mobility, good clothing, and clean grooming. Also, you lack the required address demanded by employers.
These people are cold at night, hungry, psychologically wounded, and fearful of criminal attacks in the spooky places where they try to sleep. This is torture.
America is not equipped or motivated to help them, it seems, while a communist tyranny 90 miles from Florida shelters and feeds its down-and-out citizens. That's right, according to all international media accounts, there are no homeless Cubans.
There must be way to correct our homeless situation without resorting to socialism, communism, fascism, etc.
Why can't America be a "humanitarian superpower" as historian Howard Zinn suggests?
One-third of the homeless are children.
When you are homeless, it is very difficult to find a job because you can't afford mobility, good clothing, and clean grooming. Also, you lack the required address demanded by employers.
These people are cold at night, hungry, psychologically wounded, and fearful of criminal attacks in the spooky places where they try to sleep. This is torture.
America is not equipped or motivated to help them, it seems, while a communist tyranny 90 miles from Florida shelters and feeds its down-and-out citizens. That's right, according to all international media accounts, there are no homeless Cubans.
There must be way to correct our homeless situation without resorting to socialism, communism, fascism, etc.
Why can't America be a "humanitarian superpower" as historian Howard Zinn suggests?
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
PROPHETS INCREASE AS PROFITS DECREASE
We've all noticed the Great Depression Two prognasticators on every street corner, on radio shows and at the checkout counters. For some reason, most forecasts are negative. People talk of hoarding essentials, cutting back on their activities, America disappearing, famine, pestilence, and the sun turning to ice. Why doesn't anyone say that we'll all be better off after the corrections in the market place?
The guvmint, that's why! They caused this "apparent setback"* by pushing banks to make risky loans. Now they tell us that only they can save us, and the situation might become a catastrophe. So they mess up the system with trillions of el cheapo dollars made of recycled paper and ink that's still wet. Now instead of coming out of the downturn within 12 - 18 months, as usual in a recession, we might have soup lines foreverrrrrrr.
The economist John Maynard Keynes answered when asked what happens in the long run if we try to spend our way out of a depression: "In the long run we'll all be dead."
"I's regusted."**
*Brother Dave Gardner
**Kingfish on Amos and Andy
It's all so simple.
The guvmint, that's why! They caused this "apparent setback"* by pushing banks to make risky loans. Now they tell us that only they can save us, and the situation might become a catastrophe. So they mess up the system with trillions of el cheapo dollars made of recycled paper and ink that's still wet. Now instead of coming out of the downturn within 12 - 18 months, as usual in a recession, we might have soup lines foreverrrrrrr.
The economist John Maynard Keynes answered when asked what happens in the long run if we try to spend our way out of a depression: "In the long run we'll all be dead."
"I's regusted."**
*Brother Dave Gardner
**Kingfish on Amos and Andy
It's all so simple.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
ISN'T IT IRONIC?
Big-spending-budget-slasher President Obama, who recently signed the largest package of expenditures in written history, promises to cut the budget deficit in half before his term is up. Right there, you have change. Hope will have to wait.
Capitalist America sends Secretary of State Clinton to Communist China to beg them to buy more of our Treasury bonds (they already own more than a trillion dollars worth), and assures them that human rights violations don't mean a thing. It's the economy, comrade.
Meanwhile, the state department plans to send a billion dollars to rebuild Gaza after the Israeli invasion wantonly destroyed apartment houses, mosques, schools, hospitals, and a United Nations food warehouse with missiles, bombs and bullets that we gave to them. There's been no mention of aid for relatives of the 1,300 Palestinian civilians who were killed by the Israelis, while we stood by in silence.
It's all so simple.
Capitalist America sends Secretary of State Clinton to Communist China to beg them to buy more of our Treasury bonds (they already own more than a trillion dollars worth), and assures them that human rights violations don't mean a thing. It's the economy, comrade.
Meanwhile, the state department plans to send a billion dollars to rebuild Gaza after the Israeli invasion wantonly destroyed apartment houses, mosques, schools, hospitals, and a United Nations food warehouse with missiles, bombs and bullets that we gave to them. There's been no mention of aid for relatives of the 1,300 Palestinian civilians who were killed by the Israelis, while we stood by in silence.
It's all so simple.
Friday, February 20, 2009
PROMISES ARE LIKE BREAD, MADE TO BE BROKEN - V. LENIN
'Hope."
"Change we can believe in."
"We are the ones we've been waiting for."
How do the above match up with the CIA Predator raids in Pakistan, which killed 32 children and aged? Do the slogans fit with sending an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan? Were we waiting for a return of the Clinton Adminstration and retention of Bush's Secretary of Defense? And how come so many lobbyists are invited into the new administration?
So yesterday.
It's all so simple.
"Change we can believe in."
"We are the ones we've been waiting for."
How do the above match up with the CIA Predator raids in Pakistan, which killed 32 children and aged? Do the slogans fit with sending an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan? Were we waiting for a return of the Clinton Adminstration and retention of Bush's Secretary of Defense? And how come so many lobbyists are invited into the new administration?
So yesterday.
It's all so simple.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
AN OLIGARCHY IS AN OLIGARCHY IS AN.........
By any name it's the same. The form of our government is no longer a democracy or a republic. We basically have a quasi democratic republic, but strong control-freaks took over the wheel. We let them, you understand. We allowed them ( by our ignorance and neglect ) to seize our ship and chart our course. America is an oligarchy.
The super rich and powerful often use corporate lobbies to peddle influence. Bribery, of course. James Madison warned us about corporations back in 1801. Thomas Jefferson spoke up too, as did Andrew Jackson. This is nothing new - but it is something else, and the oligarchy controls are wider and deeper today. Corporations can always find a congressperson - such as Duke Cunningham, now in federal prison - to take a couple of million and do tricks.
The corporation is an amoral animal which gets away with actions which would land you in the slammer. Jefferson told us to look to newspapers to protect the integrity of government. With the predicted demise of all newspapers, we will probably watch more CNN, MSNBC, CBS, and FOX. Oops. Major corporations - such as General Electric - own most of those.
There must be methods still untried ( outlaw the corporate structure? ) that can help us to expose the oligarchies who indirectly rule us. If we can expose them, we'll weaken their hold.
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said to political adviser Colonel Edward House: "As you and I know, a financial element in the largest centers has owned the government since Andrew Jackson was president."
From California to the New York island, this land belongs to you and me. Aren't we meek and mild, apathetic and pathetic if we don't resist the oligarchies?
It's all so simple.
My book: NO LIBERTY, NO PEACE illustrates how the Sons of Liberty played an important role in establishing liberty and independence in 1776 and we could do it again. I might be able to find the time to mail the book to you for $10. You probably need the book, at least for a doorstop. You can email me at jpaskeroth@yahoo.com or call 1 (435) 656-0263.
The super rich and powerful often use corporate lobbies to peddle influence. Bribery, of course. James Madison warned us about corporations back in 1801. Thomas Jefferson spoke up too, as did Andrew Jackson. This is nothing new - but it is something else, and the oligarchy controls are wider and deeper today. Corporations can always find a congressperson - such as Duke Cunningham, now in federal prison - to take a couple of million and do tricks.
The corporation is an amoral animal which gets away with actions which would land you in the slammer. Jefferson told us to look to newspapers to protect the integrity of government. With the predicted demise of all newspapers, we will probably watch more CNN, MSNBC, CBS, and FOX. Oops. Major corporations - such as General Electric - own most of those.
There must be methods still untried ( outlaw the corporate structure? ) that can help us to expose the oligarchies who indirectly rule us. If we can expose them, we'll weaken their hold.
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said to political adviser Colonel Edward House: "As you and I know, a financial element in the largest centers has owned the government since Andrew Jackson was president."
From California to the New York island, this land belongs to you and me. Aren't we meek and mild, apathetic and pathetic if we don't resist the oligarchies?
It's all so simple.
My book: NO LIBERTY, NO PEACE illustrates how the Sons of Liberty played an important role in establishing liberty and independence in 1776 and we could do it again. I might be able to find the time to mail the book to you for $10. You probably need the book, at least for a doorstop. You can email me at jpaskeroth@yahoo.com or call 1 (435) 656-0263.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
RELAX, THE FED CHIEF IS WATCHING OUT FOR INFLATION
That's what the man, Ben Bernanke, said today. By definition and by traditional understanding of the term inflation, it means "an increase in the money supply."
Now, who's been sending orders to the Treasury Department's printing presses to speed up? The Fed, of course. The Fed and Congress have been creating trillions of new fiat dollars and credits and spreading it just about everywhere. (Some to secret recipients here and abroad.)
Yes, we'll have inflation - we already have it - and it's multiplying. Next will come the price increases, as sure as night follows day. You can expect wages falling and prices rising in a new version of stagflation.
When will they ever learn?
It's all so simple.
Now, who's been sending orders to the Treasury Department's printing presses to speed up? The Fed, of course. The Fed and Congress have been creating trillions of new fiat dollars and credits and spreading it just about everywhere. (Some to secret recipients here and abroad.)
Yes, we'll have inflation - we already have it - and it's multiplying. Next will come the price increases, as sure as night follows day. You can expect wages falling and prices rising in a new version of stagflation.
When will they ever learn?
It's all so simple.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
REWARD THE WINNER
The economic news today included General Motors and Chrysler. They asked for an additional $21.6 billion to get them out of reverse. All that does for this Ayn-Rand-free marketeer is remind me of The Ford Motor Company, those heroes of industry who turned down beau coup billions in taxpayer assistance. What a dazzling display of character, integrity and principle.
Let's reward the good guys at Ford. They are playing on the same rough field as GM and Chrysler, with never a whimper or whine. Ford is different in a patriotic, American way. Give them about $10 billion and tell them not to spend it all in one place.
We can't stop loving Ford. Every loyal American should promise to buy a new Ford. The auto-maker should come out with a new model called: "The Ford Patriot."
The new Stimulus Plan reminds me that when the late President Ronald Reagan took office he said he wanted to change the Washington policy of treating business, which was:
"If it moves, tax it.
If it still moves, regulate it.
When it stops moving, subsidize it."
It's all so simple.
Let's reward the good guys at Ford. They are playing on the same rough field as GM and Chrysler, with never a whimper or whine. Ford is different in a patriotic, American way. Give them about $10 billion and tell them not to spend it all in one place.
We can't stop loving Ford. Every loyal American should promise to buy a new Ford. The auto-maker should come out with a new model called: "The Ford Patriot."
The new Stimulus Plan reminds me that when the late President Ronald Reagan took office he said he wanted to change the Washington policy of treating business, which was:
"If it moves, tax it.
If it still moves, regulate it.
When it stops moving, subsidize it."
It's all so simple.
Monday, February 16, 2009
HISTORY NEVER REPEATS ITSELF
As the late Brother Dave Gardner loved to say: "You can't do anything again. Once it's done, it's done." History doesn't repeat.
We might have similar circumstances brought on by identical actions. For instance, printing fiat currency leads to inflation which causes prices to rise, predictably. But there will always be ample distinctions to differentiate various periods of history.
What historical value or purpose is served by declaring that "history is repeating itself" when the distinctions of events and eras are unique and fundamental?
We are in a business down cycle which has become international because of our insistence on building a global economy. (No history repeats there.) The governments of the world's biggest economies meet to decide on joint actions to do something to make the blues go away.
So many bright signs have appeared, even before the Stimulus Bill passed. A major auto-maker, Ford, politely rejected the federal million$ which were quickly grabbed by Ford's domestic competitors. The retail sales figures for January were up. Intel announced plans to expand its facilities to the tune of $2 billion over the next two years, using THEIR money. The real estate market in Florida is coming alive, according to the real estate association. Our gloomy president doesn't point to those cheery news items. You don't hear him repeating FDR's words about fearing fear.
Today's down cycle doesn't resemble the leadup to the weak U.S. economy of the 1930s. This is no Great Depression, no matter how hard they try to promote it and nationalize or internationalize everything that moves.
It's all so simple.
We might have similar circumstances brought on by identical actions. For instance, printing fiat currency leads to inflation which causes prices to rise, predictably. But there will always be ample distinctions to differentiate various periods of history.
What historical value or purpose is served by declaring that "history is repeating itself" when the distinctions of events and eras are unique and fundamental?
We are in a business down cycle which has become international because of our insistence on building a global economy. (No history repeats there.) The governments of the world's biggest economies meet to decide on joint actions to do something to make the blues go away.
So many bright signs have appeared, even before the Stimulus Bill passed. A major auto-maker, Ford, politely rejected the federal million$ which were quickly grabbed by Ford's domestic competitors. The retail sales figures for January were up. Intel announced plans to expand its facilities to the tune of $2 billion over the next two years, using THEIR money. The real estate market in Florida is coming alive, according to the real estate association. Our gloomy president doesn't point to those cheery news items. You don't hear him repeating FDR's words about fearing fear.
Today's down cycle doesn't resemble the leadup to the weak U.S. economy of the 1930s. This is no Great Depression, no matter how hard they try to promote it and nationalize or internationalize everything that moves.
It's all so simple.
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