A "CHOICE" or a "TEST"??

Some Old Questions to be Answered

Readers of this Blog know by now that the most vivid memories of my life rest in that period between 1943 and 1945; days of World War II.  One item of memorabilia I treasure is a War Ration Stamp Book with my name on it (age 4, with unused stamps remaining). A question that haunted me as I began my studies in college was how, between the Wars, the German people and the German Jews; neither of whom were considered lacking in intelligence, befell their fates.  The German people lost their Democracy to a virulant demagogue, and the majority of German Jews remained in the country and subsequently faced annihilation, after more than a decade of clear warning.  Somehow, their denial of knowledge of events around them rang hollow. I've learned that anybody living in Germany during those years knew full well what was happening.  In the back of my mind rang the question: "could this happen here?".

Over the years I have met and talked with Holocaust survivors and Nazi immigrants to the U.S. concerning my questions.  None of them had clear answers, or seemed interested in knowing what went wrong.

I'm currently reading a couple of books that provide amazing insights into these questions: Gail Collins' As Texas Goes - How The Lone Star State Hijacked The American Agenda  , and Hitlerland, by Andrew Nagorski.  Nagorski shows, from memos, diaries, and other writings of artists, writers, diplomats, and very famous people, that a lot was known about what Hitler was up to from the early 1920s through his becoming Chancellor.  Collins shows how just about every bad thing that has happened to this country in the last 40 years has the thumbprint of a Texan on it.

Gang-style militias were a constant key to Hitler's rise.  The German Democracy was a Parliamentary System, which made it easier for strong factions to topple governments and spark new elections.  The KKK in the United States, an organization that was used as a model by Hitler, has morphed into underground militias in this country, and to political factions like the Tea Party.  They have adopted what Gail Collins described as "knee in the groin" politics and infiltrated the branches of our government.  There also has been a proliferation of "rogue" para-military elements within the branches of our government that are secretive and un-regulated.  Collins also shows that  close-to-zero-regulation is also a facet of Texas-style governance.  Both Hitler and the current crop in the U.S. successfully linked their activities to "big business" and wealthy donors.

By Nagorski's telling, the German Jews felt they were of a higher class than Hitler's thugs, and viewed themselves as innately German.  One-way affiliation can be a dangerous thing, it seems.

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IS IT "FISCAL" TIME NOW??.

Last Days for the Deadbeats?

Because of John Roberts and Angela Merkel, today is quite different from what the Repoobs expected.  The Markets are raising their rooves, and the President has dodged all that those Hooligans had in mind for him.  The Repoobs and their sympathizers in the Media were getting set for a "lynching" of the planet's most "uppity" black man; on the scale of Paris, Texas, near the beginning of the last  Century.  Their disappointment is quite clear.

They had the world's economies in a slow roll while they were cooking up their shenanigans; riding the "Monetary Horse"  (The Federal Reserve) to stave off total disaster.  While riding that horse  they were making political hay by beating the horse unmercifully and threatening to kill it.  All the time, they did everything they could to keep the "Fiscal Horses" locked up in their stalls.

Our forebears, early in the last century, took control of the "Monetary Horse" away from the politicians because they learned how unstable that bunch could be; thus averting future disasters (they thought), for everyone.  Read Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, by Miton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz, (1963).

Monetary Policy is the control, supply, definition, and management of money.  That is the responsibility of our Federal Reserve System of banks across the country.

Fiscal Policy  is the responsibility of our elected officials in Congress, and is the raising of taxes and the determination of spending, hopefully in agreement with budgets worked out with our Executive Branch (The President).

The Repoobs have started this century off with a bang by screwing our fiscal policy to a fare-the-well.  Our politicians are all rich guys, now and we all know how the rich hate to pay bills.  So they just borrowed and spent for everything and never bothered to raise taxes to pay the bills.  DEADBEATS is the name we used for this type of person in the old days.

The worst run-up of bills came in our health care system, starting somewhere between Liddy Biddy Johnson and Tricky Dick Nixon.  All of this crap has mounted over the years to what we now face as a FISCAL CLIFF.  Read my blog: Pig in a Python.

Sanity will not return until the Repoobs are roundly flushed from the system, and we find a way to start raising money and paying our bills.  Roberts and those Supremes who are not deadbeat-sympathizers, took a critical step yesterday to make this possible.  It's up to the voters to follow through in November and get rid of the Deadbeats.

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'SUPREMES' REDEEMED??

Repoobs On The Run?

From the top; an uexpected part of the Court, came a ruling today that could be seen as a move toward "atonement" from our Supreme Court.  Could it be that "Bush v. Gore" and "Citzens United" are too much, even for them, to bear?  Not so, evidently, for the hard-core trio of Thomas, Scalia and Alito.  I always thought there was the spark of a human being in Roberts' smile.

Those of you who have read my blog; "Black Graveyards"  (May 29, 2012), know how deeply the issue of medical care has shaped my life.  Even as I shook the dirt of "Misery" (Missouri) firmly and finally from my feet in 1959, the twin factors of race and class were wreaking havoc in the lives of those who found themselves on the wrong side of those lines and in need of serious medical care.  Many say, in the wake of today's ruling that perhaps we will come to see health care as a "national good", the way "defense" is regarded.

Let's hope!

The vote this Fall will tell us more about where the citizens of this nation come down on the subject.

Mitt and the Repoobs are "doubling down" it seems, so the show in on!  Perhaps the Court is beginning to sense that the best of our lives as a nation occurred in the 1940's when we were the least selfish and most united in the face of a foreign threat.  That foreign threat "moved in" following the war.

Because of the life-shattering events that happened to me during the Forties, my memories of that decade are frozen and still vivid.  Lightweights, like Brokaw, herald some portions of our society then as "The Greatest Generation". His writing shows he didn't have much of a clue as to what was going on with those of us on the wrong side of the color and class lines.   I especially remember learning early what a Jew was, because they were so roundly hated by the whites and were forced to live and keep their businesses on our side of the tracks.  The Wassermans would venture outside their store only in the twilight hours of the day. 

McCarthy polluted the 50's, the assassinations polluted the 60's, integration polluted the 70's, and backlash and greed polluted the remaining two decades of the 20th century in the United States.  After a horrible first decade of this century, we can all pray that the Supremes can help lead us back to our better selves.

MASTER MARCO: too cute by half?

Sarah Palin Redux??

Charlie Rose got his hands on Rubio last night, for the hour.  If you missed it, Google it.  Charlie "vetted" the little fast-talker much more than I've seen anyone else do.  Rubio squirmed, ducked, lied a lot, and pretended to speak for "Hispanics" and for "Cubans" and Cuba; speaking very differently about each.  McCain might have been spared a lot if someone like Charlie had done the same with Palin before she was "sprung" on us, full blown, so to speak, by the Yin Yang Media.

When under intense pressure, fast-talking liars and politicians (I sometimes stutter) let strange truths slip out.  Charlie asked pointed questions about when Rubio's parents, and grandparents, enterered this country, returned to Cuba, and then re-entered this country.  When asked when his grandfather returned, Rubio responded "in 1963, just before the Cuban Missile Crisis".

As a young Air Force 2nd Leiutenant, making $2,223.32 per year, my wife and I and our newborn son were stationed at Fort Meade, Maryland in 1962; quite sure we were witnessing our last days.

President Kennedy and his brother, Robert, saved our lives, while countering the pressures of dangerous jerks like Curtis LeMay and others of the Extreme Right.  So, you can see that I take it quite personally that this upstart, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, doesn't know when the Cuban Missile Crisis took place!

Marco danced all over the place, refusing to challeng Mitt's stands on immigration, defending the Tea Party, and pointing fingers in all directions with blame for our fiscal and monetary mess.  He contradicted himself as to whether he does or does not speak for "all Hispanics". 

He seems to think that Hispanics in the United States all "came here" as immigrants.  He defends Arizona's draconian Immigration Legislation.  He doesn't have a clue, it seems, that the original

 "Hispanics" in the Southwest never crossed any borders!  The border was drawn under terms of  the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo in 1848!  Even the Cubans, as he states, differ in party affiliation because of the politics where they settle.  Cubans in New Jersey are Democrats, while those in Miami are Republican. Rubio claims to be a center-right, Constitutional conservative.

I spent two years in Miami, living at the Claughton Island end of "Calle Ocho".  I worked with many groups through their separate Chambers of Commerce.  It is a highly complex and divided political territory.  It would be interesting to find someone in our Media who had the "cahones" to find Elian Gonzales, who should be somewhere in his twenties now, and put the same questions about Cuba to him.

I believe you should pose your questions to people who know what they're talking about!

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DO THE MATH! Calm Your Fears!

Can Our Economy Withstand a "Transition"?

Following the 1988 election, I attended a Washington Think Tank presentation on the "Transition" from Mad Ronnie to Daddy Bush.  Illuminaries like Ted Koppel were presenting.  I naively asked who was charged with coming up with the strategy for governig in the new administration.  That prompted titters in the room.  I quickly learned that presidential politics in this country is modeled on our old city-immigrants gang behavior.  One gang arises to push out the gang in power.  There is little or no thought of "transition" until the battle is won.  I was told that the new administration would be lucky to "find the light switches" in the White House.  And, remember, Daddy Bush was Ronnie's Vice President.

Fast forward to the end of Dubya's administration and the never-ending series of debacles that period wrought.  Their crowning achievent came in 2008 with an atttack on our economy, and on this nation, unlike anything seen since the 1929 Wall Street Crash.  In September of 2008, just days before the election, they brought us the "come to Jesus" moment for all in power, but especially for the two candidates running.  One froze, the other had a plan.  The guy with the plan won.

When he tried to "transition" into governing, the Repoobs, who just finished 8 full years of frigging up everything they touched, set about to destroy all chances of his succeeding.  They made it impossible for him to get the staff he needed to govern (that part requiring Congressional approval); and used filibuster rules in the Senate to hamstring just about everything else.  In spite of them, the new guy stopped the rate of  job-hemorrhage by bailing out the auto industry; repaired the banking system so our ATM's would continue to work; and passed an historic Health-Care bill to break our habit of out-of-control spending on the health care for an aging population.

The gang who, with the help of the Supremes, seized control in 2000, is now lining up behind a bunch of rich backers; none of whom anyone with an I.Q. above 50 would "follow to the bathroom".  They want to regain power and subject our fragile economy, and the more fragile global economy, to the shock of another "transition".

Throw off the calculations of what "peanuts" you might gain at the expense your neighbor in this election, and figure instead what you might lose in another "transition" to this new "gang with no plan"!


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A "FIX" for "Citizen's United"?

The Power of the Voter

"A Republic, Ma'am, If You Can Keep It"; words, we're told, uttered by Benjamin Franklin, founder of our Constitution, and a white "escaped slave" (check it out!).  He was citing the immense power our founders gave to the voter in this nation; and, at the same time, warning of how easily the voters can lose that power.  The "Supremes" (or the radical 5 of them) doubled down today on their position regarding vast sums of money as "free speech" in a ruling against the State of Montana.  But, remember, Elections Have Consequences!

Adelson, big money backer of the Repoob insurgents, has openly stated his intention to spend however much money it takes to defeat President Obama and other Democrats in the election of 2012.  Mitt and the Repoobs met over the weekend with their other mega-donors to raise even more money.  Condi Rice, that "soul sister" of Clarence Thomas, was in attendance and gave a speech.

So the "fix" becomes clear.  Adelson tells us all what to do to keep them from overthrowing our government.  Their hooligans in the House of Representatives are not able, alone, to accomplish this task with their goose-stepping, Big Lie tactics.  VOTE AGAINST ANY AND ALL REPUBLICANS.

That will save your country, and give you a chance to re-structure our government with the current cancer eradicated.

But, you might say, you don't know anybody who sells their vote for money.  There are many tactics that accomplish the "buying" of your vote; without your conscious "sale".  Media barrages are the principal way their money works.  Hiring poll workers; changing state laws in state Legislatures; hiring people to flood the streets and knock on doors to "capture" voters; are most of the ways this excess money will be used.  The BIG LIE spoken in lock-step (goose-step?) by the Repoobs, has the psychological effect used so sucessfully in Germany during the 20's and 30's  to overthrow a Democracy from the inside.

The "army" that defends this nation must be the army of voters in 2012.

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ILLUSION OF CHOICE?

Is the 2012 Election Mis-cast by our Media"

I'm beginning to feel that our Yin-Yang Media has it "all wrong" in their reporting on the up-coming Presidential Election in the United States.  This morning's results from Cairo (the results of the first democratic election held there in 7000 years of history) should make it plain to all citizens of this country that something much bigger than we thought is taking place on this planet.  It may break their foolish little hearts, but our media has to realize its not just about us!  We are members of the planet's population, but that  may be about the extent of our importance in the play-out of 2012.

In typical fashion, what they're beating their gums about is perhaps the smallest part of what is unfolding.  What if  demographics meets new communication technology in such a way as to produce a global revolution in the way people will be governed, as well as feed themselves, in the future.  Maybe the question should be which candidate can make a difference that will help this country survive what is coming. 

A common thread in recent events (evidence 9/11) has been the activities of young males, many of whom are highly educated, in and from countries that have an explosion of such populations under the age of 21.  These people see no future for themselves and are ready and able to commit drastic acts as a result.  The Arab Spring (Syria today, but Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, who knows what or where next) may just be the beginning.

Our media has obsessed about the other end of the age range (baby-boomer retirees) and the impending collapse to our economy.  Mitt and the Repoobs are running much of  their campaign on the aging issue;  to scare their base of older, white voters.  The "Browning" of our population scares Hell out of this political wing, also. (Another "demographic").

Demographic forces will have their way.  Aging populations with huge economic demands, and young populations with no path to productive work are separate wings of the same economic catastrophe.  Jobs disappear because the old way of providing health, retirement, and other benefits, cannot be borne by private industry anymore.  I think most of our politicians have known this for the past forty years.  National economies, the world over, weaken and decline in the face of the slowing economic activity that results.  "Europe" shows that remedies are beyond the capabilities of single governments and single "leaders". 

Old concepts may have to be resurrected; like, Cooperation, Fair Competition, Equitable Trade, Shared Interests, and maybe new ones have to be developed.  Throwing around foolish terms like "Socialist" don't help, even though they may appeal to the ignorant and greedy (and racist).  Such actions may only fuel and hasten the decline; calling into question the patriotism of those so engaged.

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