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-Chrissy Faessen, Rock the Vote
Monthly Archives: August 2014
The Politics of Foreign Policy-Part 2/6
Gone are the days, rare as they were, of astute diplomacy and current is the era where the bureaucracy of foreign policy is anything but a pure expression. Where affirming the sovereignty of the American people is the ideal rather then something instead akin to an adolescent love-fest were ideologues animate objectives on a napkin at Starbucks or thru brusk phonetics via text message.
The following are a select group of responses to questions/comments received after the original article was published. We believe you will find them of interest.
The Politics of Foreign Policy-Part 1/6
At the heart of the issue are two significant component realities of the U.S. State; on one hand you have the Executive Branch, the seat of political ideologues, and on the other side you have the permanent bureaucracy which includes the U.S. Department of State.
Tied, as the DOS is, to significant interests and architects of macro-policy it is the portal thru which economic/financial policy is a expressed and when these fail, the armature of military diplomacy; regardless of who sits in the Oval Office.
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
Sadness in a Smiling Face
“Your eyes defy a weeping heart, a smile conceals a silent spirit; the pain of sadness. Would that I had known, that I would brave to heal, that I might wipe away your tears, that I might share my hope in the company of grace; that I might give to you relief in the fondness of loves embrace. Would that I had known, what could I have done? I am left to never know.”
Debt Load Grows while Interest in Solutions Diminish
Yes, by the time President Obama leaves office you can expect that the Federal Debt will be well within reach of the $21 Trillion mark and easily 112% of U.S. GDP and if you take Government spending out of the GDP figures it will be closer to 158%. Is Obama to blame? Yes and no; the fact is that he’s culpable only as to the fact that he’s failed to drive a course correction, but given he has absolutely no economic or financial management capacity, it is foolish to expect any different turn of events. The reality however is no less promising as the growth in the debt lies squarely at the steps of Congress, specifically the U.S. Senate. The U.S. Dollar, on the world stage, is headed for the history books and when that happens (and it is already occurring) inflation will destroy what remains of the U.S. economy and debt-fixed U.S. financial markets.
Until the U.S. restores the order of the domestic economic structure there is no reversing the course; so long as corporate salvation at the expense of the domestic agenda remains sacred there is no reversing the course; so long as the illusion of a global economy remains dominant and domestic solvency subservient there is no reversing course; so long as government revenue solutions are primarily sourced by enforcement against and upon the American household there is no reversing course; so long as political expedience is funded by spending resolutions there is no reversing course; so long as you remain a bystander to the existing matrix of lawlessness there is no reversing course.
The following are a select group of responses to questions/comments received after the original article was published. We believe you will find them of interest.
#1: What is the “domestic economic structure”? It is the fundamental and inherent value implicit in a market; it is the implicit acceptance and understanding that:
(1) All and every economy is local.
(2) that economy only exists when and where there is demand (and the capacity to exchange value for it) in search of supply.
(3) that the more proximate supply (and its creation) is to demand the more stable the economic environment.
(4) that supply does not, in itself, create economy.
(5) that for wealth creating capacity to occur the capacity for and creation of wealth must always be greater than consumption. .
(6) The wealth of an economy is not merely measured in $ output but more so in the expansion of individual wealth creating capacity.
(7) an individual’s wealth-creating capacity is not merely a function of their physical and tangible output; it is chiefly a function of the Individual’s desire-capacity and the freedom/liberty to express it.
(8) The value of a Nation is measured in its capacity as well as its pro-generative potential for the creation of wealth.
We can no sooner survive as servants to the Corporate (Multi-National) /Government structure than we can subsist from breathing the air we expel from our own lungs; those systems can and must only ever function to enhance, expand and protect the production of breathable air. End of story!
#2: Gold Standard as a fix? I’ve long held the belief that any measure of wealth is always subjective. Gold is no different and because of its ethereal notional value perhaps that is why it is so worthless as an economic measure. After all, at some point, does it not also have to be quantified in terms of a unit of value and if so, by whom? The point is that its not so much what defines the unit of value but more so how the unit of value is both fractionalized and thus manipulated which is, ultimately, how and why inflation occurs. Bullion, whether in the form of gold and silver, should be “banked” by Nations as a substantive and representative measure of a Nations Treasury, but as a direct correlation to a currency’s unit of value I have serious concerns. I believe a more relevant and appreciating measure of value is that of a nations wealth creating capacity and then on an annual basis you adjust the value (by change in currency in circulation) to reflect growth or contraction.
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
Daring Impeachment
Has the President so diminished the Presidency that he is now willing to trade the esteem of the office for political favor? Is, as the President Obama promised, this Administration the most transparent of all? Oh, to be sure, there have been Presidents whose conduct can easily be classified as wretched and still more who released diminished thought into actions, but none have sought to reveal the hidden truths or dare expose the Office of the President in any form even remotely approaching that of the current occupant.