Sucker Bait for America?

Let us all heave a gigantic, collective sigh for the new Contract From America. Almost rang the bell, but no cigar. It went to the full count of 3 and 2 and then it struck out. The basketball hit the rim, swirled around and popped back out. Yes, you remember the Contract with America from the 94 congressional elections? Newt Gingrich helped federalize the elections by helping create a “contract with America.” It helped to propel the Republican party to huge gains in the congressional elections that year. But, will the new ballyhooed "Contract From America" do the same?

Some of the individual points are not bad, but is the contract over all sucker bait? The balanced budget amendment, point three was in the '94 contract, but never passed because the only Republican senator who was retiring, and not worried about reelection, Hatfield of Oregon, voted the deciding vote against it. Was he castigated and called a traitor to the party by the Republican leadership? No, Newt Gingrich called him "courageous."

The other piece of sucker bait is point five, the blue ribbon commission. We've already been there, done that, with theGramm-Rudman Commission and the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act in 1986. It did absolutely no good in cutting waste and spending despite many good suggestions.

Still, it has many excellent planks which I support.

But, first I have a quibble. Point eight is an "all of the above" energy policy. Fine, as far as it goes. But, it should state the ultimate goal clearly. What we really want is a cheap, abundant energy policy. We want to light up our homes and the cities, and fire up our factories and bring back the Sunday after church drive in the country. And we want to disenfranchise the terrorist supporting oil sheiks at the same time. We can do it and have it all with drill, drill, drill, nuke, nuke, nuke, and break up, break up, break up the big energy monopolies.

But, then comes the big uh oh, is this really on the level? Where, oh where, is the plank on illegal immigration? Again, where, oh where is the plank on illegal immigration? You are kidding me. This is supposed to be a contract from the people and there is no mention of illegal immigration? When, depending on which poll you believe, 60-73 percent of the American people are opposed to illegal immigration yet somehow it doesn’t make it into the platform of a contract "from" America?

Also, why is there no mention of a full employment policy? When we have full employment wages go up, up, up. That’s why Alan Greenspan and the other elitists want you to be unemployed or underemployed. They want to keep you in line. They want you and your wife and your children to have less than you need to live on so they and their girlfriends can have more than they need to live on. Another advantage, when wages go up, up, up, then employers go berserk and start investing in research and development again, looking for labor saving devices, which means they have to hire tech workers who make higher salaries. Then they have to build and run factories to build the labor saving devices, which puts more people to work and means more people with money to buy stuff, which means more factories and more people working. Which means more people with money to buy stuff, which means more factories etc. etc. etc. And all that r &d will make us the leader in world trade and technology again.

But, you might say, they’ll build the factories overseas and do the r & d overseas so it won’t benefit us. Which leads us to the some more things that are missing from the contract from America. Where is the plank that says we’re going to end outsourcing of jobs, and also end the H1B visas that allow foreigners to come to America and work technical jobs at 1/3 the wages Americans make while American technical workers are unemployed or working at MacDonalds? There’s not one word about it in the platform.

And what about tariffs? You want to move your factory overseas? Fine. Leave. But when your goods come back to America they are going to face a tariff of anywhere from 40-50 percent. Will you be able to compete with the manufacturer who stayed home and put Americans to work?

And one final thing. The most important thing really. In it's opening statement on "Individual Freedoms," the contract states that our liberties are inherent and not granted by the government. Very good, but where then do they come from? In this most critical document do not tell me that a contract "from" the American people would ever turn it's back on God. God is the author of our liberties, and we will not regain them without hard, excruciating work, penance, prayer and repentance.

If you believe otherwise, then you really are a sucker.

Return of the Living Dead

Just when you think the man is sufficiently buried he sticks his ghoulish hand back up through the grave soil.

Bill Clinton never tires of proving how unfit he was to be President of the United States. That he could be re-elected is a never ending rebuke to the political skills of the moderate wing of the Republican party.

Now he is saying that it was the right wing talk show hosts that were responsible for the horrific bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City back on April 19, 1995. It was the charged rhetoric of Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives that drove Timothy McVeigh mad, stark raving mad I tell you, so mad that McVeigh built a humongous fertilizer bomb, that defied all the known rules of physics that pertain to explosives, and brought down the Murrah Building.

Since he brought up the subject, maybe he would like to reopen the investigation and get a few questions answered. So, tell us Bill;

1. How can a fertilizer bomb do that much damage when explosives experts such as Ret. Brig. General Benton Partin and Dr. Roger Raubach have said it is physically impossible?

2. Why was Brig. General Benton Partin never allowed (please read this link--it will really turn your stomach, Bill, and, no, there aren't enough sexy interns in the world to make you forget what you did) to offer testimony at the trial?

3. Why were Congressional investigations into Whitewater, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Mena, ATF conduct, and the death of Vincent Foster suddenly put on the back burner after the Oklahoma City bombing?

4. Judges and other vip's were warned not to come to the building that morning. Why wasn't that warning passed on to kids in the pre-school on the second floor?

5. Aside from the Murrah building explosion, which the official version of right wing planning and execution is laughably unbelievable, how many deaths have been attributed to right wing militias? Zero?

6. How many deaths have been associated with close proximity to you, Bill?

That is such a good question, I'll help you out with some links. This one links over 200 deaths to you, and it's alphabetical so you can look up your friends by name. This next list only contains 103 names. The next list is for 90 names so you can see I'm trying to be nice here, and look for the most positive information I can get. You get the idea, Bill. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones at the tea party movement or talk radio.

For more information on the Oklahoma City Bombing read this excellent link from "The Rag Blog or this one from a policeman's investigative perspective, "riflewarrior." And one more for good measure from John Dougherty about local news sources.

What is John McCain Doing to Sarah Palin?

I have to wonder if Juan, (oops I meant John) McCain is as foxy as he looks. The man has been leading Republicans down the primrose path for ages, and it looks as if he may pull if off again. You would think that Arizona is a conservative state, but it looks like the silver fox may be turned loose once again in the Senate hen house to betray the Republican chickens and reach across the aisle.

Even Sarah Palin is campaigning for him, and you have to speculate if the destruction of her presidential aspirations isn't one of the points of the exercise. Of course, McCain wants to be elected, but he's a cunning fellow and I'm beginning to think a bit of a chess player also. After all, it was McCain's staff who did their best to tarnish the image of the bright star who rescued his campaign, but outshone him at every turn. What better way to drag her down to his level than to associate her with issues that will destroy her base? Amnesty? He's for it. Illegal immigration? No big deal. Global warming? He believes in it. Cap and trade? He's for it but not Obama's version. FDA control of the vitamins and supplements you need to stay healthy? He sponsored a bill to help big pharma.

Is there any way Palin can campaign for McCain without implying endorsement for all these positions? Can she say, "Vote for this man, but I disagree with him on all the major issues?" That won't work and McCain knows it. You would think an officer and a gentleman would protect her and her potential career. But no, he, I think despises her base, and just as he betrayed them on the issues, he will now betray their shining, bright hope.

Your Planned Destruction

I am going to tie economics to the illegal immigration question. I am going to do that by asking you a question. It may seem simple but that is the beauty of the question. And the question is--What happens to the price of oranges when you have too many oranges? Does the price of oranges go up or down? What if you have too many apples? Same question same answer. The price goes down. It’s the fundamental law of economics --Supply and Demand-- Too much supply means falling prices. Is this racist? Does it matter if the apples are German apples or Mexican apples? Afraid not amigo. There’s nothing racist about it. Over supply means lower prices and if you have an oversupply of workers you have a lowering of wages. Nothing racist about it, that is just economics.

And that leads us to a new economic breakthrough, a new economic law and you read it here first, on the Greenskys blos, and since I discovered it, I get to name it after myself, and it’s called Ronald Neal Green’s law of national economic governance--and the law is

“The easiest way to create mass prosperity is through a labor shortage and the easiest way to create mass misery is through a labor surplus.”

There it is, the rosetta stone of economic governance. Once you have a labor shortage every law of economics moves to create higher wages which means more spending and buying and more demand for production and more workers and more wage increases. Does this lead to inflation? Absolutely not! Inflation is a function of expanding the money supply faster than the supply of goods and services increases. Anything you hear to the contrary is propaganda.

If you don’t have a shortage but rather you have a surplus of labor, that creates mass misery. How? Too many workers lowers the price of workers, called wages, just like too many oranges lowers the price of oranges. Less wages means less money to buy goods and services, and this we call falling demand. Falling demand means less need for workers and even less demand and so on and so forth. Now business’s can lower prices to stimulate demand but more often they will hold back production to keep prices up by drying up supply. When business cuts back on production it is called sound management and the financial pages praise the self corrective power of the market. When labor holds back production to keep their price up it’s called a strike and the editorialists condemn it as dangerous anarchy.

Now, you’re probably thinking, This can’t be true. Ronald Neal Greens law of economic governance, “a shortage of labor leads to mass prosperity, a surplus of labor leads to mass misery.” Where has this law been all this time? Surely, if this were true, the economists would already know about. If it’s true, why haven’t we heard about it before? Well, friends I’m here to tell you it is true, and, yes the economists know about it, and that will be the subject of a future column.

A Return to Duty

Well, I am back. After a too long hiatus while I pondered my next move I have finally moved on to another sector of the entertainment media spectrum. To wit, I am now a talk show host.

That's right, starting this Saturday, March 6, AD. (that's Anno Domini, the Year of Our Lord, saviour and deliverer Jesus Christ) I will be hosting Love and Duty, 1-2 P.M. CST out of WGSO in New Orleans.

I've done cable access television before, but this will be live and, of course, requires different techniques and skills. If you think I'm nervous you're right.

The first show will be about the judgement of Sarah Palin and the duplicity of the failed Senator from Arizona, Juan McCain. Is Sarah Palin comitting political suicide in campaigning for Mr. Amnesty and does Jaun have devious designs?

I am going to go with devious designs and, so as to build suspense (and audience), I can tell you that you will be surprised and shocked, shocked at what Juan has in mind.

Also, we will be discussing The Rigged Game, with author John Hively. One citizen reviewer in a review posted on Amazon.com called the book "...very unique and highly recommended." In fact I feel so strongly about this book and this guest, I will quote the entire last paragraph of the review, "This is the best book I've read for many years. More exciting than 'the Stranger', more useful than 'the Prince', more insightful than Freud and Nietzche combined (well...). This book is the 'Origin of Species' of modern macroeconomics."

I heartily concur with the opinion of the reviewer. Please listen in to the show Saturday. If you're not in the New Orleans area, no matter. Saturday, March 6, at 1p.m. CST go to radiotime.com and in the search box type in WGSO. Please feel free to call in and offer your opinions about the show, book or guest. If you would like a peek at the book go to Amazon.com.

Random notes and disasters: What is in the health care bill? The details are beginning to emerge. It is not a pretty sight and not for the faint hearted. As Samuel Johnson said, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." It is one more planned catastrophe (I don't believe in the "good intentions" part) in the carefully planned destruction of America.

The basic flaw, of course, the overworked and staggering "elephant in the room," is that the problem is unsolvable. Huh! Sorry, but everyone neglects to mention that the more money you make available to solve a problem the more it costs to solve the problem. Where do all the unwed mothers come from? We pay for them via welfare. If we paid people to stay married they would stay married. As long we make vast sums available for cancer research we will never find a cure for cancer.

There is, in my opinion, only one way to make medical care affordable and that is to defund it. Make all medical insurance illegal. Now. For profit, non-profit, private owned, state owned--doesn't matter--make it illegal.

While we're at it, bust up the biggest monopoly union in the country, the American Medical Association (AMA) and it's stranglehold over the medical schools. We need to double the supply of doctors, technicians and nurses. Then the vaunted free market will, with this increased supply of workers, find salaries and costs atumbling down.

Also, a true price system will force Americans to consider alternative treatments and lifestyles, eat organic, exercise (in moderation we hope) more and learn to think of medicine, affordability and effectiveness in the same sentence.

Too harsh? Do you seriously think more money will help? European style single payer? It sounds, at first, better than nothing, but you now have less motivation to invest in innovative techniques, and, consequently, there will be very little growth in medical knowlege. Also, do you really want the government, medical complex having literal life and death control over you and, yes, there will be death panels by another name.

A free and liberated medical system is not a pipe dream. It was once the American way. And it can be again.