A Nice, Honest, Young Man___A Virtuous Integrity
Obama has framed a grand strategy, not only for the Democratic Party, but the Republican Party, as well. We could be given no better chance to change the nation, as a whole, for the greater good of all, concerned. I have heard and read many philosophers, political scientists, economists and politicians, etc., in my long life, yet never before, have I seen such an opportunity, arrive on the scene, at a more necessary moment, in our national history___with all the serious turmoil, military, social and economic, in our history. We face a period of unprecedented local and global uncertainty, chaos and fear… After studying most all the world’s great leaders, nations, and our own founding fathers’ ideals, I find Barack Obama to have the most striking and unique vision, for our and the world’s, future. Now, let me expand a bit…
First, I’d like to offer an opinion of what I see as Barack Obama’s fundamentally new patriotic integrity. And, I do see this as an entirely new vision of his special vision of patriotism. I do believe our founding fathers had quite clear views about the patriotism, of their day, though that is far different than ours today. What’s the difference? Well, through the centuries, I feel the constitutional patriotism, that existed in their day, has been quite evolutionarily over-whelmed and accidentally replaced, by a less than sincere legal institutional patriotism, with far less constitutional patriotism, than in days long gone by. Today’s patriotism, loosely attributed to all aspects of the American social contract and fabric, has accidentally evolved into a dangerous factionalism, that Mr. Obama has seized upon, re-uniting to its fundamental core values. We have local citizens natural group patriotism. We have religious institutional patriotism. We have academic institutional patriotism. We have political institutional patriotism. We have military institutional patriotism, and we have a three-fold markets(local, Wall St. and international) commercial institutional patriotism. Every one of these groups has an undue allegiance to their own groups, “group think”, thus fractionalizing the whole, into not the most wholesome of outcomes. Whereas, Barack Obama is walking the middle ground of a very new unifying/unification patriotic integrity, in the center of all of these areas. This is not only new, but unheard of, until this great being stepped onto the political stage, with his new visions, and messages of just such unification. Let’s hope he succeeds…
Second, Mr. Obama has mentioned; “Instead of only taking care of Wall St., it‘s time to also take care of Main St.” “Instead of rewarding corporations to off-shore, I‘ll reward those companies and corporations who stay and produce on-shore.” “Instead of bad trade treaties, laws and policies that allow currency manipulation and unfairness, I’ll create fair trade and currency treaties that foster fairness, by closing tax loop-holes, and closing tax haven excesses, by changing the bad laws, to good laws.” Now, these aren’t the exact words of Mr. Obama, but they are quite a close interpretation of his words and ideas, in this limited area, in my opinion___his other ideas are also based on equilibrated fairness. At least the points are my interpretations of his valid ideas and quotes. Let’s take the first quote, and parse what it truly portends. He’s not at all being partisan, as many may think, in this remark. He’s talking about there being many good Republicans and Democrats on Main St., and a few bad apples at the outer Wall St. level, and all would most likely have to agree with this. He’s most likely seen statements like Warren Buffets; “The center is created by the innovators. The middle players are the imitators of the center. And, the outer fringe has far too many fraudulent incompetents.” In other words, Mr. Obama is advocating removing/eliminating the incompetents from Wall St., as best and as safely as can be accomplished, and the international gambling casino, of “The Shadow Banking System’s” excess speculations, in fictitious wealth, the true originating, harming element in the massive housing, market and energy crises, and replacing it with Main Street‘s higher level of honesty and integrity. So, he’s offering a middle ground solution to all our problems, by respecting a new uniting incentives, patriotic integrity of market changes, that is soundly beneficial, to both Republicans and Democrats, by moving, by law, the incentives of transactions, more away from Wall St. and toward Main St. and the local community of homeowners, and more legitimate businessmen and women, and accomplishing this by respecting the fundamental integrity of our constitutional checks and balances systems, clauses and amendments___which are in line with the economic laws and realities, of other times of historical realities and needs. Believe me, his ideas represent truly sound policies, as great minds since J.M Keynes and our own Hyman Minsky, Paul Davidson and Jane D’Arista, also Plato, Benjamin Franklin, longer ago, and Paul Einzig, from England, have offered this blind world, the same ideas, for over half a century___It’s a true historical shame they and we haven’t listened. Even Bill Clinton hired Professor Paul Davidson to attend and lead an international financial architecture conference, in Europe, in the late `90’s. It’s really a historical shame that Monika got in the way of its fruition, and detracted Bill from pushing the much needed agenda, which I had encouraged him to enact, from the start of his first term, and before ___I still possess his signed hard copy replies. But, the same agenda is much more needed at this very juncture of our precarious history. Let’s hope Mr. Obama realizes, and takes up this necessary path, as the other one offered by our own Paul Krugman, I fear, falls far short of the success needed. Davidson’s is “I.F.A.”(international financial architecture) reform, and Krugman’s is “ZIRP.”(zero interest rate policy), or no reform at all, just another Japan, already tried and almost-failed, band-aid, that really contributed greatly, to the present global transactions bubble...
I hope I’ve made a few good points in this short piece, about taking Obama’s middle equilibrated vision of all possible ideas, and truly changing the world, for the better. We can not much longer survive this international gambling casino, of “Shadow Banking” incompetence, moving sound American capitalism, to the communist state of China. And if you don’t think this is what is happening, you’d better study how China is operating in Africa, to corner her commodities markets, especially oil___and at that, with bribes. Bribes so huge, they are effectively buying whole countries for pennies on the dollar. And, you should be warned, they are not buying and selling through the global pool of energy and other commodities. They’re owning directly, from the ground up, and shipping straight to China, thus by-passing capitalist legitimate markets and transactions___They’re operating outside capitalism, on this side of the market, and comparative dis-advantageously on the other side, to us, on the inside of trade capitalism___A very new ominous mechanics, of extreme mercantilism___and at far less than natural global production and trade costs. This process most likely has the capability of communism to truly corner the entire capitalist system, over enough time. It’s not as you may think, even if you are the best economist/historian in the world, as I am also, and Adam Smith’s “Free-Trade Theory” and David Ricardo’s “Comparative Advantage Theory” are not honored by the communist Chinese Party, except to manipulate, and further, will not, and can not succeed, against China’s vast “Graft Capital Communism”___they are a true international manipulative, financial monopoly, as to standard economic theory. They seem to have little respect for our ideas, theories, contracts or treaties. You should realize the West operates in Africa at an extreme disadvantage, as our Sarbanes/Oxley Ethics/Transparency Law requires practically 1000 page contracts of no bribes, and China uses a one page contract___A blank check bribe. Africans can read a blank check bribe much quicker than a 1000 page complicated contract___Which would you do, if you were them? They’re fast driving us out of Africa’s rich commodity and energy markets___which make up about 30% of world supplies___monopoly owned, by communist China? I advise all to take this message seriously, and do the research yourself, to bare out the facts. A good place to start is the newest article on “China Invades Africa”, in the June print issue, or web based e-zine, “Fast Company.” It’s a real eye-opener… Another excellent book backing up the above mentioned is “The Bottom Billion”, by a professor from England. “Bare Branches” is also recommended, authored by two brilliant female professors…
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