Obama's REAL Birth Certificate Problem

Obama wasn't born in Kenya.  That much is certain.  But he wasn't born of the Democratic Party either!  Not the RIGHT way, anyway.  Sure, he worked as a community organizer, slogging through those muddy democratic trenches in Chicago, and he even ran for office as a state guy and was elected.  BUT.  He did not work his way up through the political and economic power groups.  He did not take those secret vows and make those binding commitments that are required by the American system.  He did not agree with the Powers That Be that he would hold a Great Truth to be his (ostensible) goal, and then work to achieve Something Else, something more privately acceptable to those secret power groups.  

Those great power groups did not worry.  No need.  They knew a secret.  They knew Obama was black.  They knew he couldn’t really win, but it would make them look good to have a black man run a good race.   So they met with him, smiled and grinned with him, patted him on his back and extolled his virtues.  And he accepted them as equals.  And they pretended that was OK.  After all, he might come in handy from time to time, even in the future.  

But then came Big Tuesday and everyone gathered around to see the great Egg of Promise open and Hillary emerge to take the mantle of the party.  Instead, Obama stepped out !  (God!)  “We are so happy.”  (What do we do now?) “Congratulations!”  (We can’t run a black man!). . . and so on.  And so on.  

The Democratic Party is prone to this type of malfunction.  Look at their last three presidents.  First came Carter.  He couldn’t win because he didn’t have the experience, but he was good press for the party they wanted to “help” him run.  Then he accidentally got elected president!  Second came Clinton.  He couldn’t win because he was such a Good Ole Boy, but he was a lot of fun, and they wanted to get him out of the way.  “Let him have his turn, now that we all know George HW Bush is going to be elected in a landslide!” Then came Oops.  Now enter Obama.  He can’t win either because he is black, but it will make us look good to show support for him.  

So.   Carter insisted on doing things the Right Way.  He didn’t buckle down to the power groups.  His first two years were miserable and no great forces came to his aid in the following two.  Clinton also had two miserable years to begin, but then things mysteriously began to improve, got shiny and even brilliant.  If his zipper had stayed up instead of his penis he might still be president.  And now, Obama.  Obama has played the middle.  Normally, this is a safe pathway.  But you can wind up making EVERYbody disappointed IN you and mad AT you.  That’s about where obama is now.  The choice for America was between a guy who had never pleased the Powers That Be, AND who hadn't tried to please the people who will be voting either, and then there was Romney,  who had promised to please them all!

Remember, this election was the end of the line for Obama.  His popularity rating after almost four years in power was about 40%.   ANY republican could beat him.  Any Generic republican would be a walk-in victor, all the republicans had to do was just fill in the blank!  

Well, that turned out to be more than just a problem.  Back then, the republicans were pretty smug.  They knew they had an easy win coming and they could choose ANYbody.  But.  Well I won’t go through the sad list.  I couldn’t do justice to what actually happened.  Shakespeare, oh Shakespeare, where are you when we really need you?  Look at what you did with druggy old King Lear, now just think what you could have done with the Republican Party in 2012!  So it was just like last time when McCain was a shoo-in for president, until he put lipstick on a pit-bull-pig and chained himself to her.

So now Obama still isn’t a bone-fide member of the Democratic Party – or – has he actually become IT?  Don’t ask the republicans, they’re out combing through their own ruins and shooting at each other.  Meanwhile the bosses of the power groups are looking like a YouTube clip of those early flying machines trying to take-off.  Stay tuned.

For a look at the book, "Capitalism: Servant or Master?"  click here http://www.johnhwomack.com/John_Womack/Capitalism.html

Subjecting Nations to Their Economy

Nations are composed of many elements.   They are created out of their own education systems, their religions and art, their sports, and architecture, their economy, military, transportation systems, sciences, literature, natural resources, government, and perhaps many others.

A great nation blends these elements into an interrelated pattern of contrasts and beauty with each supporting, enhancing and helping to define the others.  One component may lead for a period of time with others providing strong support, then another may come forward with the support and help of the people.

But in a capitalistic nation, ALL of the its components must become secondary to its one lead item which is The Economy.  In the words of James Carville, “It’s the economy, Stupid!”  ALL other components of a capitalistic nation have to give way to the Economy.  

And the value of all other factors are judged only in economic terms.  The value of the nation’s education system is determined by how well it prepares its students to get a job and make money, the value of a work of art is determined by how much money it is worth, the value of a sports team by how much money it made and the players by how much money they are paid, scientific explorations are judged by how much money they might make.   In every case the value of any endeavors is rated by how much money it might return.  

The defining characteristic of capitalism is its constant and accelerating accumulation of capital.  The wealth of an organization or a city or a state or a nation, if it is capitalistic, will continue to be gathered together into fewer and fewer hands.  The workers will still be paid, but their pay will be determined only by their employers.  They will receive less and less a percentage of the money their project earns, will be required to worker longer hours for less pay, and will have less and less input in that matter, and begin to assume many of the characteristics of servants.

How then can capitalism be made to work for us?  First, capitalism has many points of value.  It is necessary to fund large operations, like maintaining ports, building airliners, automobiles and in many other important aspects of modern society.  But it must be contained by at least two other forces.  First, there must be room for a vibrant, strong and powerful Free Enterprise System.  This provides an outlet for people who may be dissatisfied with the corporate culture, or who have an “idea”, or just want to create a product or service to sell.  Second, government must control capitalism – not by controlling the corporations, or the industries, or the workers, but by controlling the capitalist market and prevent it from becoming a cannibalistic market.  And governments must also protect the free enterprise market from capitalism.  Finally, there must be room for Common Areas.  This is not a page from communism, but from our founding fathers who provided for common areas in all towns.  Central Park in New York, National Parks in many nations, early villages in America had the court house in the center of town with a large square of land for the people.

http://www.johnhwomack.com/John_Womack/Capitalism.html

This won’t be easy, it will never be a “finished” and “completed” project.  It will always be a continuing procedure requiring input and communication between the factors involved.  New technologies and new problems will constantly appear and need to be integrated and built upon.   

For more information on the book, click here:  http://www.johnhwomack.com/John_Womack/Capitalism.html

Cut Government Spending?

This in response to a comment by a Facebook buddy about just cutting government spending by 2%  across the board.

Just cutting spending by government 2%, or any other amount, would put us back in recession.  This happened in 1938, when we were finally coming out of the Great Depression and Roosevelt agreed to spending cuts and we fell back in deeply until the greatest stimulus program in the history of the world (aka WWII) put us into the greatest economic expansion of any nation any time.  This lasted for almost 30 years until Reagan began removing some of the government regulations of the capitalistic markets.  From that time (late 1970s) the  wages of American working people have actually SHRUNK while the income of the rich people have gone through the sonic marker.  What trickled down was not prosperity - let’s just say that Trickle Down has Petered Out. What we really need right now is a massive governmental spending spree – let’s begin with our infrastructure.  Rebuild some of our crumbling bridges, repair some of our highways and run light rail through major cities and between them.  Then watch our nation really prosper.

Promotion of Economy under Capitalism

Nations are composed of many elements.   They are created out of their own education systems, their military, religions, art, sports, architecture, economy, transportation systems, sciences, literature, natural resources, government, and perhaps many others.  Most nations blend these elements into an interrelated pattern of contrasts and beauty with each supporting, enhancing and helping to define the others.  One component may lead for a while, with others providing strong support, then another may come forward with the support and help of its people.

However, one of the determinant characteristics of capitalism is that ALL of the components of that nation must become secondary to its one lead item:  The Economy.  In the words of James Carville, “It’s the economy, Stupid!”  ALL other components of a capitalistic nation have to give way to the Economy.  

Furthermore, the value of all other factors are judged only in economic terms.  The value of the nation’s education system is determined by how well it prepares its students to get a job and make money, the value of a work of art is determined by how much money it is worth, the value of a sports team by how much money it made and the players by how much money they are paid, scientific explorations are judged by how much money they could make.   In every case the value of any endeavor is rated by how much money it might return.  

In a capitalistic nation the money always rises to the top.  The purpose of capitalism is the accumulation of capital.  The wealth of an organization or a city or a state or a nation, if it is capitalistic, will always continue to be gathered together into fewer and fewer hands.  The workers will still be paid, but their pay will be determined by their employers.  They will have less and less input in that matter and begin to assume more and more the status of servants.

How then can we use capitalism?  First, it has many points of value.  Capitalism is necessary to fund large operations, like maintaining ports, building airliners, automobiles and many other important aspects of modern society.  But it must be contained by at least two other forces.  

One, there must be room for a vibrant, strong and powerful free enterprise system.  This provides an outlet for people who may be dissatisfied with the corporate culture, or who have a brilliant idea, or just want to prepare and sell products or services they can produce themselves.  

Second, government must control capitalism – not by controlling the corporations, or the industries, or the workers, but by controlling the market.  Government must protect the operation of free enterprise people, the real entrepreneurs, and keep the corporations from constantly devouring each other in a "Cannibalistic Market".    

This won’t be easy, it won’t ever be “finished” or “completed”.  This will always be a continuing procedure requiring constant input and endless communication between the factors involved.  New technologies and new problems will constantly appear and need to be integrated and built upon.  But this is the only way to develop a vibrant and growing economy into the future. 

Health-care Marketeers.

A sad but instructive story about how poorly the current American health-care system uses the "Market" to "regulate" the costs of providing care to "consumers".  This was recently shown on PBS.

http://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/uninsured.html

More Problems With Electronic Trading

Was this a result of High Speed Trading issues?  Probably not, but it sure is suspicious.  One can't really find the fingerprints of market manipulation there yet, but still the feeling persists that "adjustments" are being performed by someone.


http://www.nasdaq.com/article/4th-update-exchanges-route-away-from-nyse-as-issue-affects-trading-in-216-stocks-20121112-01280#.UKGN7aX9J5g

A Little History of High Speed Trading

Thomas Peterffy, originally from Austria, apparently was in on the beginning of High Speed Trading.  He now says it is doing more harm than good, and would like to see some regulation.

Here is a comment on him from NPR, and it is an introduction to a forthcoming book  "Automate This", by Christopher Steiner.   http://www.amazon.com/Automate-This-Algorithms-Came-World/dp/1591844924       ". . .in this fascinating, frightening book, Christopher Steiner tells the story of how algorithms took over – and shows why the 'bot revolution' is about to spill into every aspect of our lives, often silently, without our knowledge."



http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/27/159992076/a-father-of-high-speed-trading-thinks-we-should-slow-down?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20120827