Good work on the R’s I would present a different outcome on the D’s. In Paris in December the COP21 climate conference will end with a proposed recommendation to be presented to the UN on a major carbon tax on the EU and the US/Canada (Western Civilization) in early 2016. This is to be the Crown Jewel of BHO’s words transformation and to get it through the US process the only one capable of doing that is Al Gore. All other D’s candidates will be eliminated and the ticket will be Gore and Warren.
Monthly Archives: September 2015
The last individual in Europe, a short story
Re-Posted from Jon Rappoport’s Blog originally posted on September 12, 2015 by Jon Rappoport
“The indoctrination effect, regarding the individual, is to make him think he no longer has an independent existence. Those who still have functioning minds are taught that ‘the individual’ was a concept that had a use at an earlier stage of evolution, when modern systems and structures were still developing—but ‘individual’ became an accurate synonym for ‘criminal’ when benign super-government took over…” (The Underground, by Jon Rappoport)
October 2, 2071, the Center of Centers, United Europe. Citizen G1435-X was brought into a secret conference room in the Department of Re-Education, Special Branch.
His interviewer held the title of Mental Health Representative of the People Level 14, or MHR. This is an excerpt from their conversation:
MHR: Are you aware of the size of the United Europe Government?
Citizen: I know that almost everyone I meet works for the Government in some capacity.
MHR: If you include corporations, which of course are in partnership with Government on many levels, the figure approaches eighty percent of the population.
Citizen: And there are the computers and robots, too.
MHR: The correct name is Machines for the Illumination of Everyone.
Citizen: What do you want from me?
MHR: That’s the whole point. There is no you.
Citizen: How can that be true? I’m sitting here.
MHR: No, that is an illusion. For convenience sake, an assumption is being made: ‘I am I and you are you.’ It facilitates this conversation. But in truth, we are one. We are in accord. We know the same knowing.
Citizen: Gibberish.
MHR: It would sound like gibberish to a disaffected part of the whole. A disaffected part, which is ‘you,’ simply needs to surrender. Then you will cease to be a diseased illusory series of thoughts.
Citizen: And this is official Government policy?
MHR: Of course. The culmination of all Government is the shared cosmic body. Another term for it is Universe.
Citizen: At one time, limited government was instituted to protect the freedom of the individual.
MHR: You mean at one time, an illusion was instituted to protect another illusion.
Citizen: I’m still me.
MHR: Against the entirety of Government? Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds?
Citizen: Where are you from? Where were you born? Where did you grow up?
MHR: These are all irrelevant questions. Even asking them is a violation of the law. They lead to making elitist distinctions favoring some over others.
Citizen: I’m not asking others. I’m asking you.
MHR: You’re assuming there was a time when I thought of myself as an individual.
Citizen: Didn’t you?
MHR: There are errors. People commit errors before necessary corrections are made.
Citizen: You’re evading my question.
MHR: Why do you hate everyone?
Citizen: I don’t.
MHR: You must.
Citizen: Why?
MHR: Because you refuse to merge with them.
Citizen: Merge? What does that mean? It’s a word that’s been twisted in the new language all of you speak. The phony language. Merge?
MHR: Oppositional Defiance Disorder. Language Aversion Disorder. Illusion Disorder. Individualist Disorder. You’re suffering from a host of mental illnesses.
Citizen: France, Germany, England, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain. Do you remember those terms?
MHR: Of course I do. It’s part of my job. They’re on the Forbidden Words List. Only deranged persons insist on using them.
Citizen: What about the word ‘money’?
MHR: Also forbidden. The correct term is ‘credit’ or ‘allocation’.
Citizen: What about ‘freedom’?
MHR: That is a technical term. It specifically refers to alternatives methods of problem-solving a machine can opt for. It has no other meaning.
Citizen: You’re joking.
MHR: I assure you, I’m not. You undoubtedly believe the sentence, ‘An individual has freedom’ actually means something. But it was never more than a piece of propaganda.
Citizen: You have everything backwards.
MHR: You’re going to be entered in a program of re-education.
Citizen: It won’t work.
MHR: You’re not the first person to tell me that. You’ll discover, in the coming months, what ‘greater good’ means. You’ll also experience the joy of Oneness for All.
Citizen: How are going to manage that?
MHR: We’re going to connect your brain with the Kurzweil computer. You’ll download trillions of data that reveal the truth.
Citizen: Which is?
MHR: You and every other person in Europe are identical. You are, so to speak, copies of each other.
Citizen: And if I refuse to accept that?
MHR: You won’t have any data to the contrary.
Citizen: What?
MHR: The information we insert will crowd out whatever else is present in your mind. Think of what you now ‘know’ and believe as a lake. We will empty that lake into a huge ocean. Soon the lake will be invisible. For all intents and purposes, it will have disappeared.
Citizen: Suppose the opposite happens? Suppose the lake swallows the ocean.
MHR: Impossible. We will search out every word you use and provide new meanings. Proper meanings. Then you will think and speak according to the law.
Citizen: Do you believe I’m the only individualist in Europe? There is a rebellion underway.
MHR: Under what name? What is your organization?
Citizen: There is no organization.
MHR: That’s absurd. You would have to have an organization.
Citizen: Not true. That’s why you have a problem. If there were an organization, you could co-opt it. You could infiltrate it. You could offer it special favors. You could set it against other organizations.
MHR: The word ‘rebellion’ means an organized opposition…
Citizen: In your language it does. You think all human activity takes place in groups. But you’re wrong.
MHR: How could we be wrong? We control language.
Citizen: You control your language. But many individuals don’t accept your definitions.
MHR: There is only one language.
Citizen: Your language pertains to groups. But this rebellion, as I just said, has nothing to do with groups.
MHR: I don’t like where you’re going with this.
Citizen: Remember the French language? There are people who still speak it.
MHR: ‘French’ is a forbidden word.
Citizen: Keep telling yourself that. Remember a city called Vienna? Or Stockholm?
MHR: You’re not supposed to know those words.
Citizen: But I do. Vouloir, c’est pouvoir.
MHR: That language is outlawed.
Citizen: It loosely means, if you want something, you can get it.
MHR: I know what it means.
Citizen: So you speak French.
MHR: I have to, in order to know what is illegal.
Citizen: Do you remember the French writer, Albert Camus? And his essay, The Rebel?
MHR: The word ‘rebel’ is absolutely forbidden. It has no meaning.
Citizen: I beg to differ.
MHR: Rebellion equals mental disorder. The disorder is real. The rebellion is merely a form of compensatory behavior, a pretense.
Citizen: You think you’ve established a United Europe composed of androids, but you haven’t. That’s your pretense.
MHR: There is only one genuine human impulse: to do good for others. And the State owns that impulse.
Citizen: Do you know what you’re saying? How absurd it is?
MHR: The State must own it, in order to make sure the future is directed as it should be.
Citizen: So the State is defined as that entity which maintains all that is good.
MHR: Of course. How could it be any other way?
power outside the matrix
Citizen: Let me make an inference here. If the day dawns when all citizens adopt the new language, you will be able to forget the history you know: the old languages, the old cultures, the old cities. You’ll be able to forget the past.
MHR: Theoretically, yes.
Citizen: Will it make you happy to forget it, to let go of it?
MHR: Of course.
Citizen: I don’t think so. I think you want to be one of a small number of elite people who remember everything. I think you cherish the past. You want to possess it.
MHR: How dare you say that.
Citizen: You’ll be the rare person who can read Shakespeare, Goethe, Homer, Dante, Yeats. You’ll be a scholar in an invisible university.
MHR: I serve the cosmic body of the State.
Citizen: You serve only yourself and a few others. You want individuality, but you want to deny it to the rest of us.
—end of interview excerpt—
Apparently, at this point, MHR experienced an episode of some kind. Acutely elevated blood pressure, a burst vessel, a heart attack. The record is unclear…
Sources report that his interview with Citizen G1435-X was preserved in a secret archive, to be read by government leaders and understood as a cautionary tale…
The Charge of The Vulgarians….
The new battle song of the REPUBLIC
Go Trump we are with you!
Pinocchio, Snow White and Superman are out for a stroll in town one day.
As they walk, they come across a sign:
“Beauty Contest for the most beautiful woman in the world.”
“I am entering” said Snow White.
After half an hour Snow White comes out and they ask her,
“Well, how did you do?”
“First place,” said Snow White.
They continue walking when they see a second sign:
“Contest for the strongest man in the world.”
“I’m entering,” says Superman.
After half an hour, he returns and they ask him,
“How did you make out?”
“First place,” answers Superman. “Did you ever doubt?”
They continue walking when they see a sign:
“Contest! Who is the greatest liar in the world?”
Pinocchio says “This is mine.”
Half an hour later, he returns with tears in his eyes.
“What happened?” They asked…….
Pinocchio answers… “Who the HELL is Hillary Clinton?”
The “Trump Conservative War” – The Great Trumpian Divide – National Review VS Mainstreet…
Read every word and I’d say it’s just about 100% right that is exactly what happened and why we see no difference for the R’s and D’s maybe they should be called what they are which is just a slimy snake offering us the forbidden fruit.
TRUMP: ALL ILLEGALS DEPORTED IN TWO YEARS… Dallas Rally Sold Out…
Trump has it right the EU has it wrong; its suicide to bring any invaders in any countries and if they don’t come in legally there are invaders.
Hungary threatens mass arrests…
The only sane countries are Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic which have all rejected a European Commission plan to bring in the invaders to the EU. This social suicide as the counties that do this will become Islamic states in a few decades.
Latest Iowa Poll Devastating For Scott Walker – Cancels California GOP Trip…
The R’s and D’s are the same and they both hate Trump and they will work together to defeat him — if they can, which is not certain!
An Analysis of the Market last Week and What the Next Month may Bring
It was a mixed session for Asia yesterday after what has been a very volatile week. The talk remains as to what China’s next move would/should be and “if” the FED were to move next week. Not just in Asia has this been the most awaited FED decision in years but it has been the hot topic just about everywhere. It was a clearer picture for core European Stock Indices with all closing lower on the day with 1% declines. The US did open lower but has rallied back up.
Next week’s long-awaited Federal Reserve meeting may not spur a wild market reaction, even if the central bank hikes rates for the first time in almost a decade. Economists are about equally split on whether the long-awaited move will come, though futures market trades are pointing to at least one more month of the Fed delaying its 0.25 percentage point.
The key that is really important is the trend. There is no question our model has been pointing to 2015.75 as the change in trend for interest rates. The Fed has been backed into a corner for unless interest rates rise (“normalization”), retire funds are doomed. The Larry Summer approach is of course one that benefits banks, not the population. He envision punishing people for saving money with charging them a tax (negative interest rates) to keep hoarding cash.
Therefore, we are not looking a just a 0.25% hike in rates, we are looking at reality hitting the Fed in the face. Do they take the irresponsible approach of Larry Summers? Or perhaps they realize you cannot punish people for existing and trying to save for a rainy day. The Fed will raise interest rates for they have no choice. If not next week, they can do it at any meeting monthly and they can call an emergency meeting any time as well,
A Serious Proposal for a different method of funding government operations suitable for a technology based economy
The Federal government never has enough money and over the past decade they have created enough money, Dollars, that there is a title wave of them about to hit us; we need a different system that the politicians can’t subvert. This short post is a way to achieve that.
The following figures are taken directly from the following government reports: Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) monthly report of the GDP of the United States; Monthly Treasury Statement; the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly employment situation; The Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States and the Department of Defense (DOD) Active Duty Military Strength Report. The Monthly Treasury Statement data is reformatted to calendar year format the government fiscal year format which runs from October to September so we can compare apples to apples.
First the Facts for 2014:
#1 The federal government currently spends almost $4.0 trillion a year ($3.885 trillion) of which some is derived from taxes & fees ($3.096 Trillion) and some is borrowed ($789.5 Billion). More on this subject later since the official GDP figures are different; so we use $3.2 Trillion here instead of the actual $3.9 Trillion, to be consistent with BEA numbers (explained later).
#2 There are some 151,012,000 people working for a living including ALL categories (the BLS does not count farm, self-employed and the military). This figure is the average for the calendar year 2014.
#3 If we assume there are 2,000 hours worked per year per person that equates to 302 billion hours worked per year. This is the only assumption used here and since many workers are part time this maybe an overstated number. Whether it is or not doesn’t matter to the discussion of the concept. It would only matter if implemented.
# 4 Therefore, if we divide the $3.2 Trillion spent by the Federal government by the 302 billion hours worked by all the citizens, that gives a ratio of $10.56 of federal spending per hour worked.
Now here is the concept:
The idea is based on an economic principle that my advanced econ professor taught me my senior year at Ohio University which is, basically just a form of a thought experiment. The principle is that if we make a change and the result of the change shows a result that is the same as before the change, then there was no real change in the output only a change in how we got there. The assumption then is that it makes no difference which method is used.
What follows is for federal spending only, state and local could also be added to this but that is too complex for this brief overview. This does include ALL revenue going to the federal government no matter the reason or program including social security.
#1 We eliminate ALL personal federal taxes and fees and ALL business taxes and fees as well which then reduces the governments’ income to zero (all borrowing is also eliminated).
#2 Simultaneously we reduce individual pay rates by the exact amount of the taxes they pay. For example if you were making $25.00 per hour but only taking home $20.00 per hour the change we make would be that you would now be making $20.00 per hour but paying no taxes so your take home would be the same as before $20.00 per hour (no change).
#3 Businesses would be required to reduce prices such that their income would be unchanged in a similar manner. So the net economic effect on the economy from this change (initially) would be zero since private and corporate spending would be exactly the same (no change).
#4 To compensate for this loss of revenue the federal government would be allowed to create fiat money (no real change from what they do now) at the rate of $10.56 per hour worked by the citizens. And since there would still be 302 billion hours worked by the citizens (no change) they could spend $3.2 trillion dollars (no change).
$5 The result is that there is still the exact same amount of money in the economy in both the current system and the new system. All we did is change the method of how it got from the worker to the government.
You can see we have made major changes but nothing has really changed, we just changed the method of how we got from there to here. So therefore we are in accordance with the economic principle we started this section with being true.
I think you can see the benefits to this kind of system and, of course the devil is always in the details; however I believe I have considered most of them and they are not major obstacles. I do agree that this would take a lot of re-education to the public but I think it could be sold especially after 2017.
The major benefits are:
#1 The federal government can only spend more money when there are more people working more hours. That is an incentive to promote growth not dependency.
#2 No one has to worry about paying federal taxes so all purchasing and investment decisions are based on economics not tax avoidance. This makes for a much more efficient economy.
#3 The federal budget is always in balance. No need to borrow money and this also forces international trade to be in balance since the government doesn’t need to borrow from foreigners.
#4 Lower prices for products produced here would make the US more competitive and since the take home income is the same internal growth would be immediate.
#5 We end up with a labor based currency which is a improvement over what we have which is debt based. It also takes gold out of the equation except possibly for international trade since the current system we have of pegged rates does not work. However, that is a different subject for other papers.
#6 There are no downsides other than some federal agencies would no longer be required, such as the IRS and the FED. So actually the federal government would need less money.
The Equations:
The equations shown after this discussion are used in national income accounting to calculate Gross National Product (GDP). To show how this works we present an example using the real numbers for 2014. Again this is a simple macro model and the details are much more complicated then what is shown here. However, that doesn’t matter since the principle is valid and all the details can be worked out.
Note the BEA does not count borrowed money and transfer payments are not shown as growth. The BEA’s G also includes state and local spending much of which is transfer payments from the federal government. This means that the BEA figures for “government” used to calculate the GDP are not the same as shown by the United States Treasury for federal spending and borrowing. We will use the BEA figure of $3.2 Trillion instead of the actual $3.9 trillion pulled from the economy by the federal government for 2014 in this exercise.
GDP = Y = C + I + G + (X – M)
GDP = Y = $17.7 = $12.1 + $2.9 +$3.2 + ($2.4 – $2.9)
Where C (consumption net of taxes CN) can be defined as gross income (Cg) less federal taxes (TF) or CN= CG – TF
Where I (investment net of Federal borrowing or IN) can be defined as gross investment (IG) less federal borrowing (BF) or IN = IG – BF
Where G (government) can then be defined as government taxes (TF) + government borrowing (BF)
X is exports
M is Imports
Y = CN + IN+ G + (X – M) or
Y = CN + IN + TF+ BF + (X – M)
After the proposed change
CG = CN
IG = IN
G = Hours worked (HW) * $10.56
GDP = Y = CN + IN + G + (X – M)
GDP = Y = CN + IN + 10.56 * Hw + (X – M)
GDP = Y = CN + IN + (10.56 * .302) + (X – M)
GDP = $17.7 = $12.1 + $2.9 +$3.2 + ($2.4 – $2.9)
Obviously nothing has changed since in either the old method or the new method The GDP = $17.7 trillion. Properly packaged, presented and sold by someone would solve many of our problems and doesn’t hurt either conservative or liberal principles.
Notes and Comments:
Federal Spending is very different from what is generally shown or known, for example: The Monthly Treasury Report for 2014 (adjusted to a calendar year) Shows the Federal Government spent $3.585 Trillion dollars derived from $3.096 Trillion from taxes and fees and $667 billion from borrowing. However the National Debt during the same period went up by $789 Billion so there was additional cash needed for changes in payables and obligations and capital projects of $122 Billion. Therefore the federal government actually spent/used $3.885 Trillion in 2014 or 21.95% of the GDP.
Also as previously mentioned transfer payments to the states and cities i.e. block grants do not show as being Federal spending in GDP analysis. That is unfortunate since the federal government has strings attached which give them control of the money and that will get much worse after 2016 when the full force of the Affordable Health Care Act goes into effect.
The purpose of the quick review of my idea is to show that economically and monetarily this system works. It works because economics is about people and what motivates them. In one sense Karl Marx was right labor is the ultimate source of value, he was wrong in how to use that principle and that wrongness has lead to much suffering in the world as we tried to absorb his idealist thoughts (socialism) into the real world.
This proposed system is a method of merging both Adam Smith and Karl Marx while rejecting John Maynard Keynes completely.
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