Tuesday, March 31, 2009

CAPITALISM VIII

Does anyone deny that a significant monetary expansion, printing more money, has been used to recover from prior recessions?

CAPITALISM VII

Does anyone deny that a thorough study of the ‘99 financial services deregulation legislation is in order?

Monday, March 30, 2009

CAPITALISM VI

Does anyone deny that public stimulus money, particularly bank bailout money, forces substantial numbers of have-nots to “invest” in worthless investments?

Friday, March 27, 2009

CAPITALISM V

Does anyone deny that if the capitalist system had created an escrow system using a self-imposed tax on trades, that not one red cent of public stimulus money would have been required?

Thursday, March 26, 2009

CAPITALISM IV

Does anyone deny that private capital and private capital alone would be available to prop up capitalism during times of recession were capitalism to create an escrow funded with market transaction fees?

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

CAPITALISM III

Does anyone deny that the stimulus money is for the purpose of propping up capitalism?

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

CAPITALISM II

Does anyone deny that from about 1982 to date the market can be described as supercharged, and that, compared to the market between 1929 and 1982, the difference is a difference in kind rather than a difference in degree?

Monday, March 23, 2009

CAPITALISM I

Does anyone deny that SINCE the depression of 1929, including the present recession, there have been a total of 14 recessions?

CHARTS

Note that the chart for the period between February-October 1945 appears to be in error.

Friday, March 20, 2009

CONSTITUTION V

Does anyone deny that war rhetoric can be a virtual, de facto, constitutional amendment?

Thursday, March 19, 2009

CONSTITUTION IV

Does anyone deny that during each major military conflict this society has engaged in there has been verbose rhetoric, "war rhetoric", for the purposes of inducing participation in, and justifying the violence of, the conflict?

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

CONSTITUTION III

Does anyone deny that contract law has provisions for “renegotiated terms” such as those resulting from unforseen circumstances?

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

CONSTITUTION II

Does anyone deny that Constitutional rights are basically and fundamentally contract rights?

Monday, March 16, 2009

CONSTITUTION I

Given uncertainties implicit in cultural changes, a paucity of records, and unexpressed and even secret intentions, does anyone deny that interpreting the Constitution primarily on the intentions of the founding fathers is tenuous, at best?

Friday, March 13, 2009

SSA LOTTERY TAX

Does anyone deny that imposing an SSA-specific nominal before payout levy on lottery winnings would be a virtually painless way of increasing social security revenues?

Thursday, March 12, 2009

NO PERSON ...

Does anyone deny that striving for a no person unfed, no person unclothed, no person unsheltered society, meritorious on its own, would reduce health care costs and increase the number of people contributing to gross national product?

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

COMPUTER MODELING

Does anyone deny that computer modeling is a valid predictive outcome science?

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

DISPROPORTIONATELY BORNE

Does anyone deny that when it comes time for some dying to be done in this society, the burden is disproportionately borne by the below-upper-class segment of our society?

Monday, March 9, 2009

EINSTEIN INSANITY

Does anyone deny that, after 13 recessions, as Alfred Einstein said, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results would be insanity?

Friday, March 6, 2009

WEALTH DISPARITY PARALLEL

Does anyone deny that a wealth disparity parallel exists between the 18th century royalty and commoner classes, and the upper-class and the below-upper-class segments of our society?

Thursday, March 5, 2009

FUNDAMENTAL PREDICATE

Does anyone deny that a fundamental predicate of this society is REDISTRIBUTION of WEALTH?