tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82863905836411701932024-02-08T03:14:41.921-08:00Always RightOB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-59665836211135393932021-04-06T16:47:00.000-07:002021-04-06T16:47:12.039-07:00The Novel Scamdemic<div>The WHO (World Health Organization), followed by the CDC (Center for Disease Control) and many others, initiated the COVID19 Pandemic with the <i>BOGUS</i> claim that COVID19 was a "<i>NOVEL</i>" virus (like ebola) that no one had any preexisting immunity to... Chicken Little's everywhere jumped up and scream EVERYONE'S GOING TO DIE.... etc, etc... And so started the pandemic, lockdowns, masks, and more.. <br /><br /></div><div>Fact -- There is no research anywhere to support the <i>NOVEL</i> claim by the WHO, CDC, FN-Media, etc... It's a full out Scamdemic.. This isn't to say the COVID19 virus epidemic was not a significant health problem, especially for those with co-morbidities and age over 70. It is a highly contagious virus that created significant problems for many people, including death. During the next year, new effective therapies and several vaccines were discovered or created. <br /><br /></div><div>However, as far as the novel COVID19 claim goes, that's bogus... In fact, there's real research about how survivors of SARS 2003 flu have immunity 17 years later to COVID19... This research also shows that some degree of immunity exists from people who have recovered from a wide variety of COVID flus and colds... About 20% of the colds each year are part of the COVID family of viruses...<br /><br /></div><div>The <i>NOVEL</i> claim that pushed the world wide panic for COVID19 is a TOTAL scam that continues on over a year later without being challenged to this day... <br /><br />FACT -- COVID19 is not a novel virus... Rather, there's many millions of people with some degree of preexisting immunity to COVID19. This may help explain why there are so many symptomless COVID19 infections....<br /><br /></div><div>Below is an actual research article link from Nature about immunity from SARS and other COVID viruses, covered in sciency detail... This is NOT a FN-Media sugar coated rehash... It's doubtful a sugar coated FN-Media translation exists, and if it did, it might be FB 'cancel cultured...' <br /><br /><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z" target="_blank">Nature Article on COVID SARS</a><br /></div>OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-17510784752451377462019-10-26T20:30:00.001-07:002019-10-26T20:30:23.262-07:00Evolving from Social Security to a real retirement plan... How to design a more effective social marketplace for retirement savings -- Sadly, Social Security about to enter the predictable failure phase of ponzi schemes... What are the options? <br /><br />It's not that complicated when one learns how to address the problem from a social marketplace perspective that isn't constrained by offering one size fits all socialist/collectivist solutions such as Social Security. Yes, it's possible to evolve from Social Security, where one really doesn't have a pension with your name on it, to one that does, while also providing a safety net for existing Social Security recipients who rely upon Social Security for their basic needs..<br /><br />
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<li>Start by designing a private pension/IRA system where the existing SS framework would put $1 per hour into each worker's pension/IRA. </li>
<li>This would be about $2000/year going to the typical worker's IRA if they work the rough average of 2000 hrs per year. </li>
<li>Workers of all sorts would still pay the regular FICA tax with employer matching into SS and most of this would go to help pay the current SS retirees. </li>
<li>Workers could choose to direct more to go into their IRA, their spouses IRA, or whoever they want to help out, if they wished to. </li>
<li>This means, the older workers with higher incomes paying more into FICA would be helping get lower wage younger workers get their IRAs kick started...</li>
<li>There would be a default IRA one could choose from, probably something like the investment portfolio of Federal Employee Unions. Optionally, one could move other IRA approved investments of your own choosing.</li>
<li>A typical well chosen IRA might double in value every 7 years -- that's how the Fed's pension portfolio works... So if you start working at 20, 42 years later, your $2000 IRA started at age 20 from working 2000 hours flipping burgers would have doubled 6 times to be worth $128,000. Your $2000 IRA for the next year at age 21 would be worth slightly less, etc, etc, for each subsequent year...It would amount to significantly more than a one million dollar pension.</li>
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In other words, folks would have a real pension, in their name, that they could pass on to their heirs, that they could use to pay medical coverage and bills, housing, and judiciously enjoy their retirement based upon a life time of working, without sucking taxes from future generations for their measly SS benefits... Yes, sad truth is SS is a horrible retirement benefit that is barely earns more money that one put into it years ago... <br /><br />
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<li>all the money invested in IRAs would have created lots of new jobs and new wealth. </li>
<li>This in turn would help pay for transitioning out of the Ponzi SS system... </li>
<li>This is unlike the current SS system which is heading towards needing huge taxes on future generations of workers (making future economies and generations poorer with little to show for their work)..</li>
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Folks, this stuff isn't rocket science, but apparently private pensions are too complicated and controversial for our bozo socialist collectivist politicians to agree on because it empowers the individual and the marketplace to be in control, and not politicians and burrOcrats... .OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-37928080799522863172019-05-31T21:24:00.002-07:002019-05-31T21:24:45.221-07:00CO2 is good for life on earth, not bad...<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3sj26" data-offset-key="69lkd-0-0" style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="bpf8t-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">There's (only) 4 C02 molecules per 10,000 air molecules. That's like one blue haired kid at the average four year high school of 2500 teens. Translation -- C02 is almost a rare gas... </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="48d5-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The average weight of 10,000 moles of air is 290kg (or 640 lbs). The weight of 4 moles of C02 is (44 grams X 4) or 176 grams... The weight of the 10,000 molecules of air is 1650 times larger than the weight of the CO2. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6d2on-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">For the four C02 molecules to increase the speed of the 10,000 air molecules, is like a six ounce robin trying to push a 670 pound bowling ball by pecking at it. Except, the robin is really C02 and as C02, it has no brain to focus it's energy on such a task... Air is just a dumb thing of weight X and average speed Y at temperature Z. Translation -- Global Warming is attempting to take the mythical the Jedi Force of Star Wars and make believe it's a 'real' thing... It's just so much nonsense... </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="82re4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Additional reality check -- Life on Earth is carbon based. One of the primary ways that carbon moves around our biosphere is via C02. Plants are very effective about taking C02 in the air and converting it into O2 and new carbon based biomolecules for the biosphere... That's why, in spite of millions of barrels of fossil fuel being burned up all the time, the CO2 in the air barely moves a tick. More C02 means more life on earth. Less C02, less life... Those are also basic facts... </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8k5fi-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">In other words, it's total numbnuts to focus upon sequestering C02 from the biosphere. Or taxing C02 to reduce it's concentration in the biosphere of the Earth. Less C02 floating around in the biosphere just makes life less plentiful. Full on stupid, IMHO... </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="adr1m-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Take the huge forest fires that rage in the summer months up in the north areas of Canada. This is going to release tons and tons of C02 into the air. This C02 from near the arctic circle will move around the earth's biosphere and be converted into jungles,corn, cows, insects, and all sorts of life around the world where it might otherwise never get to, save for the huge fires raging in the lodge pole pine forests of north Canada... These trees are barely larger than a baseball bat and with forests so thick it's a challenge to walk thru. They have no useful value as wood or most anything... </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c88m7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">These fires have being happening for eons and eons... If you drive the AlCan highway from Canada to Alaska, there's 20 to 30 mile (or more) stretches where everything far off into the distance has been burned... Then a couple years later, the lodge pole forest will return, to burn again at some time later... It's a cycle of life thing that is far beyond man's ability to control... Man is more likley to just muck things up trying to manage C02... </span></div>
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OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-82085110940566035642019-05-27T10:58:00.002-07:002019-05-27T10:58:44.071-07:00Mole MadnessHere's how to deal with mole infestations. <br /><br />Get some dry ice, gloves and a hammer. Google Dry Ice near me -- it's available from a wide variety of sources. $10 block should do fine...<br />
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Carefully uncover the tunnel of a mole mound of dirt.<br />
Use the hammer to make a chunk of dry ice about the volume of a golf ball and using the gloves to prevent frost bite, put the chunks in the tunnel, then cover the hole with the dirt without caving the tunnel in...<br />
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Optionally, use some folded newspaper or cardboard to protect the tunnel from caving in and cover that with the dirt.<br />
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Repeat until all mounds in the yard have been treated.<br />
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Sometimes an additional treatment is needed in a few weeks if more activity shows up...<br />
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The cold, odorless CO2 pushes out the warm air and puts the moles and the grubs in the tunnels that they eat into a permanent sleep...<br />
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This technique can eliminate large communities of mole activity in one or two treatments... Frequently, they never return... Or if they do a year or two later, you know how to deal with the problem...Get some dry ice, gloves and a hammer. Google Dry Ice near me -- it's available from a wide variety of sources. $10 block should do fine...<br />
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Carefully uncover the tunnel of a mole mound of dirt.<br />
Use the hammer to make a chunk of dry ice about the volume of a golf ball and using the gloves to prevent frost bite, put the chunks in the tunnel, then cover the hole with the dirt without caving the tunnel in...<br />
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Optionally, use some folded newspaper or cardboard to protect the tunnel from caving in and cover that with the dirt.<br />
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Repeat until all mounds in the yard have been treated.<br />
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Sometimes an additional treatment is needed in a few weeks if more activity shows up...<br />
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The cold, odorless CO2 pushes out the warm air and puts the moles and the grubs in the tunnels that they eat into a permanent sleep...<br />
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This technique can eliminate large communities of mole activity in one or two treatments... Frequently, they never return... Or if they do a year or two later, you know how to deal with the problem...OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-5707844197719641922018-07-15T13:15:00.001-07:002018-07-15T13:20:28.719-07:00Fixing Health Care financing<div class="UFICommentContent" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
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<span class=" UFICommentActorAndBody" style="background-color: #eff1f3; border-radius: 18px; display: block; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 8px 10px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">FIxing the Healthcare financing mess isn't all the hard. FYI, this is presented from the perspective of insurance coverage for dental care, but it would also apply to medical coverage.<br /><br />It should start (and pretty much end) with Congress repealing the carrier's antitrust exemption -- carriers have generally shown an inability to be trusted not to mess up the normal function of the marketplace for their own profit (whether they are for profit or non-profit entities), while also reducing the quality of care provided... </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">IMHO, a normal functioning health care market should allow clinics to have one and only one fee schedule, just like any other store or vendor. A carrier could offer to pay $XXX for any procedure, and the rest would be up to the patient to pay... Let patients search around for a price they feel is good for them, if cost is more important than other issues... </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Without an antitrust exemption that lets carriers to set clinic fees, Carriers could base their reimbursement schedules upon some portion of the percentile fee of the spectrum of fees that clinics in an area charge. That's what they pay for a procedure, regardless of what any clinic charges. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">For example, say the 60th percentile (slightly above average) charge for a crown is $1000, and the carrier wants to pay half, then they'd pay $500 for a crown, regardless of what the clinic charges. If Clinic A charges $800, then the patient portion would be $300 at Clinic A, if the Clinic B charges $1500, then the patient portion would be $1000 at Clinic B. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Such a reimbursement system would not require an industry anti-trust exemption, plans could easily cross state lines, clinics wouldn't have to sign up as providers, they'd just bill the carrier, perhaps after filing a fee schedule with the carrier to aid in their percentile fee tracking... </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carriers might also offer the patient financing for the patient's copay... Yes, it's long past time for carriers to think out of their bozo box... They don't have to do that with their precious anti-trust exemption... </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mostly, what would happen is instead of dulling the marketplace with increasing low end care options pushed by carriers, this sort of (non-anti-trust exemption) carrier reimbursement system could enhance competition for service, price and quality of care provided. And the change in improvement of care and financing options to pay for care, would likely be very swift.</span></span></span><br />
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OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-85508044916923668982017-10-28T11:12:00.000-07:002017-10-28T11:12:00.504-07:00Bill Of Lefts<h1 align="Center">
<span>Bill of Lefts</span><hr />
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<span><strong>The Bill of Lefts include, but are not limited, to these certain <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/underground/fair.htm">unalienable principles</a> :</strong></span></div>
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<span>Thou shall be secure in the fact government will take care of you. <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/underground/cow.htm">Everything is free</a> as long as you don't work for it. So you are best off not working at all or as little as possible.</span></div>
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<span>Government shall never take away anything <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/underground/cow.htm">it gives you</a>. However, it may take away anything you earn on your own.</span></div>
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<span>There shall be plenty of mandates on the <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/underground/mess.htm">other guy</a>. You are safe as long as you choose do as little as possible -- then government will not ask you to do anything in return. Whatever you do, don't ever think about<a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/oped/mw.htm">employing someone</a>. If you do hire a maid, best not to report it.</span></div>
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<span><a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/underground/flat.htm">Bubbas who hang out together</a> can get most anything they want as long as they promise to vote for incumbent liberals.</span></div>
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<span>Government can always raise taxes on the rich because <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/underground/fair.htm">success is just not fair</a> no matter what the tax rate.</span></div>
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<span>Deficits are a part of life, but that is only a problem for those with money. If the <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/underground/get_it.htm">government gives you a credit card</a> for health care or anything, use it as much as you want. The more you use it, the more free things you can expect to get with it in the future.</span></div>
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<span>The <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/underground/obm.htm" target="Always Right -- Most of the Time">Outcome Based Media</a> (aka the PRES<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="PRESSident">S</a>ident) is protected by the freedom of the press and can rewrite or reinterpret the Constitution to meet any desired PRESSidential goal or specification. The <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/underground/press.htm">PRESSident</a>is defined as the collective will of the liberal PRESSSSSS.</span></div>
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<span>The <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/underground/obm.htm" target="Always Right -- Most of the Time">Outcome Based Media</a> is only required to report the <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/underground/barrel2.htm">views that the PRESSident</a> feels are useful propaganda for the intended audience of that report. Conflicting positions are fine as long as the last statement promises new programs.</span></div>
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<span>Most <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/oped/liberty.htm" target="Always Right -- Most of the Time">laws are best written by federal courts </a>and <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/economics/gridlock.htm">regulatory agencies</a>, so it is best to make any legislation as vague and contradictory as possible.</span></div>
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<span>All rights reserved to the States and <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/misc/individ.htm">individuals</a> are subject to the previous rule.</span> (articles 1 thru 10 adopted by 10/95)</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="11th"></a><span>When your position <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/underground/correct.htm">can't be substantiated by logic or facts</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="spin">,</a> divert the issue to another topic that defames or attacks your opposition's credibility. It is good if there is little justification to do so, and even better if your spin is full of falsehoods and logical gaps. </span>(9/96)</div>
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<li>If you are guilty of something, defend yourself by saying your opponent is guilty of the same crime, even if it there is no truth in the accusation. (4/00).</li>
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<big>Unquestioning <a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/oped/socialmarket.htm" target="Always Right -- Most of the Time">faith in Big Government</a> shall be a promoted and protected right<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="nonsecularism">.</a> This non-secular faith, its welfare programs and worship of liberal politicians shall replace religion, as well as the faith based charities. Conservatives who have no faith in big government shall be persecuted and scorned as 'radical right extremists' of the worse kind. </big>(4/98)</div>
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OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-46905417338310107062017-04-12T20:26:00.000-07:002017-04-12T22:21:16.414-07:00Surfing the Curl<div data-contents="true">
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<span data-offset-key="94rqt-0-0"><span data-text="true">In business, if you stop moving forwards to your goals (note the plural 'goals'), and are distracted by nonsense sideshows, you will be quickly passed up by others... Trump is not just in his element as President, he's like riding the curl, confidently surfing an endless wave... Just like he pretty much has done for quite some time... </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fsuj7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Politicians and BurrOcrats and the Media, nah, not so much... They are used to existence in a relatively safe and slowly expanding swamp... Politicans do take up the surf every few years at election time... Most look to ride the easy short waves, then return to the swamp after the election...</span></span></div>
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OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-78111213303235877072016-11-10T20:26:00.000-08:002016-11-15T09:55:25.363-08:00The Electoral College as a tennis match<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="cnhvi" data-offset-key="57odn-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<li><span data-offset-key="57odn-0-0"><span data-text="true">Our electoral college system is roughly similar to the scoring system in Tennis... In tennis, you only have to be the first to win 6 games (by two) to win a set. You can lose some games without scoring a point. And win others by just one point more than your opponent... You may win more close games and win the match, while the opponent wins more points... </span></span>
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<li><span data-offset-key="57odn-0-0"><span data-text="true">One common tennis strategy is in the games you lose, you work just hard enough to make your opposition sweat and use up energy while saving your best efforts for the must win games. </span></span>
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<li><span data-offset-key="eqpa8-0-0"><span data-text="true">The reality in Tennis as well as Presidential electoral politics is you have to win the tough games... It doesn't matter who won the most points, only who won the most games...</span></span>
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<li><span data-offset-key="9l3v7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Same applies to the electoral college. To win the Presidency, you have to win the tough states. What happens in the other states doesn't matter. You focus your energy on the states you must win... </span></span>
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<li><span data-offset-key="2t7js-0-0"><span data-text="true">In the 2016 election, the Ocrats and left wing media spent way too much energy and focus preaching to their choir in the big city turf while continuing to ignore the folks in 'flyover country'. This also basically describes how they've bullied/governed for the past eight years... </span></span>
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<li><span data-offset-key="2t7js-0-0"><span data-text="true">Trump focused his energies on the folks in the fly over country the Ocrats and media have ignored, and won... Go figure... </span></span></li>
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OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-33214937680826788872016-01-01T11:21:00.002-08:002016-01-01T11:21:14.526-08:00Patently the problem, with a solution. IMHO, one solution to better productivity and prosperity for all would be to
provide tax cuts for companies based upon the duration of their patents.
If a company halves it patents from 20 to 10 years, the tax rate on
income from those patents might be halved. If they go to 5 years, it
would be a quarter. No patent, no tax. Or something like that. <br /><br />The patent reality is until recent times, it took nearly 20 years (a generation) for a product to penetrate the marketplace. These days with global internet connectivity, full penetration can take a few weeks in some industries, a few years in others. <br /><br />The useful lifetime of many patents is far less than 20 years. Modern marketing, distribution, engineering and production capabilities don't require much time at all to achieve market saturation. Once market saturation is reached, constipation by patent rules and work/marketing practices of all sorts starts to take over. <br /> <br />If one opened up the marketplace to a market sensitive patent tax scheme, there would be a lot more innovation and shared prosperity that would be intimately sensitive to each market niche. <br /><br />As patent times drop, there would be more 'new' and shared ideas to work with. The need for walls of rules to stretch profits for the duration of a patent would dissipate and those most quickly adapting to such changes would be most successful in competing in a much wider open and prosperous marketplace. <br />
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It's also likely that smaller and more nimble companies might be better at adapting to this than the brontosaurus sized companies that currently dominate the world's marketplaces. The stacks of bucks that are sucked into the current behemoths would likely be shared more evenly across the marketplace and workforce to most everyone's benefit. OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-51976834723017611492013-12-21T23:38:00.001-08:002013-12-22T00:06:05.837-08:00Taxpayers Pay and Plow the Road to Single PayerO-Care isn't about creating a viable insurance marketplace -- it's about
creating a taxpayer funded money laundering scheme to plow, pave and pay for
the road to single payer. <br />
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It goes like this -- <br />
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<li>OCare is really a
massive expansion of Medicaid -- that part of O-Care has been very successful. </li>
<li>Expect O-Care to mandate that providers who accept O-Care insurance to be required to take Medicaid as well. That will make sure there's lots of claims to process rather than lots of Medicaid patients on waiting lists... </li>
<li>Medicaid claims are processed by carriers because the gubermint has been
proven to be incompetent at this task. </li>
<li>Carriers don't mind the claims processing task -- they get the taxpayers to pay for processing OMedicaid claims, and they
don't have to pay for the claim. </li>
<li>It's all paid for by the taxpayer.
Easy gravy...</li>
<li>Carriers in turn will take significant
portions (billions?) of what they are paid for processing OMedicaid
claims, and lobby politicians for more Medicaid claims to process, plus
higher taxes so they get paid even better for processing more claims. </li>
<li>All paid for by the
taxpayers... Did I mention that again? My bad... Go figure... </li>
<li>It's a socialist taxpayer funded money laundering scam made in liberal heaven.
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Also, don't hold your breath for any of the crony GOP LOSERship to
stop this sort of crony activity -- helping crony's out in exchange for
more campaign bucks and insider trading info is the LOSERship's bread
and butter when it comes to maintaining their power over common sense
Constitutionallist tea party types. OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-49977589857160613392013-10-19T12:52:00.003-07:002013-10-19T12:52:57.978-07:00Ocare Petition/BoycottCruz and the new GOP ought to push the idea of counting paying folks
signing up for Obamacare as a petition. If 50% of those eligible sign
up by Dec 15, then he'll stand down and let Ocare proceed, otherwise,
Ocare goes away. Seems only those actually paying some premium expense
would be eligible to be counted in this petition as those getting Ocare
for free are bought with other people's money. <br />
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Even
if this idea doesn't make headway in Congress, it's likely to be picked
up by average Bubbas and Bubbets who log onto Ocare and find they'll be
paying big bucks for Ocare. Unlike subsidized Congresscritterrs, folks
in the struggling Oconomy of Main Street will have to redirect their
plans for a new house, new boat, new car, nice vacation and saving for
college for their kids to pay for Ocare, with it's $6000 deductible and
high premiums. <br />
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Some might call the people's Ocare petition to
be an Ocare boycott -- big deal, liberals try the same sort of thing all
the time against conservative companies... Let the Ocrats make all the noise they want to fight it -- all publicity is good publicity if your cause is just... OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-22055872140772980702012-12-11T21:43:00.000-08:002012-12-11T21:43:27.553-08:00Enjoy the ShowObamacare isn't all that complicated -- it's like a taxpayer
funded benefit for "free" cable TV. OTV provides everything, in HD, with Tivo, multi rooms, smart phones, etc --
It's got the full NFL, NBA, MBA, NCAA, MLS, ESPN sports package;
HBO, Hulu, Netflix for your whims; Cooking channels to fatten you
up; Exercise channels to thin you up; Education channels to make you
smart; Fast internet for surfing, Hustler channels for...
Anyways, OTV covers everything... Mostly at your rich neighbors
expense, after you pay a premium yourself if your income is above
middle class $50k or so. Gotta love it... <br /> Fine print, when the Obucks start to (quickly) run out to pay
the creators and actors of these shows and show quality drops what
are you to do for new quality shows when you absolutely need a new
show? Big surprise -- the new stuff won't be on your network.
Translated back into healthcare terms, Obamacare promises coverage
but that's doesn't mean they have to provide you care. <br />
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<b>IMPORTANT NOTE : Doctors (and nurses), NOT politicians,
provide care.</b><br />
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<b><i>There's a difference between coverage and care</i></b>. Sure you may
have Obamacare coverage, but that doesn't mean you'll find a good doctor to provide your (cut rate) Obamacare. Those with Obamacare
coverage will have to get used to waiting in line <b>(throttled in
c</b><b>ell phone lingo)</b> -- Medicare and Medicaid patients
will shuffle in behind the waiting Obamacare folks. Prepare for
endless seesaw political battles over decreasing health care quality
for this or that group -- with ever increasing media hype and
advertising to follow. It's all part of the "plan". <br />
<br /> Oh yes, did I forget to mention that politicians and many
gubbermint workers are exempted from Obamacare? They'll jump right
to the front of the line with top dollar first in line coverage, at
your expense. Sucks not to be part of the Privileged...
<br /> Enjoy the show while you can... <span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Suckers</span>...</span>OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-24430364737007655752012-11-15T09:42:00.002-08:002012-11-15T09:42:58.794-08:00Raising taxes on the LawnRaising taxes on the productive sector for politicians to spread around is like lowering the cut of a lawn, collecting the clippings, and dumping the clippings over the brown areas in the lawn so they look green for a few days. <br />
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Go figure, the brown dumping ground soon turns brown again and harbors diseases that spread to adjacent areas in a never ending downward spiral. This pretty much describes the current state of our welfare entitlement economy. <br />
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And the 'common sense' solution offered by the 'greenskeeper' is what? Raise taxes (lower the mower cut even more) so there's more clippings to spread around? And just how is that supposed to work? Doesn't work for the lawn, won't work for economy. OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-61242587754352977262012-07-18T12:53:00.000-07:002012-07-18T12:53:08.861-07:00Obamacare's Working Family Tax increaseFolks, the big "tax" in Obamacare isn't the penalty for not buying insurance, it's the premium you pay for the insurance. <br /><br />
Obamacare is basically a variation of a sliding scale Medicare tax -- those above a certain amount pay more than the cost of the coverage, and that money collected is shifted to help pay for those who pay less than the actual coverage's value. This tax/premium is collected by and managed directly by the insurance companies according to the rules set down by the Obamacare bureaucracy. This bureaucracy has be granted the power to increase this tax/premium as well as modify the coverage provided without consultation with Congress. <br /><br />
For example, assume that the basic coverage might actually cost 12k for a family -- the actual cost put forth for those in higher incomes might be 20k. The eight thousand extra charged those over 100k is used to subsidized the coverage for average families of 50k who can't be expected to pay the $12,000 tax for their coverage -- that would be a 24% tax bill on middle class working families. Instead, middle class families may be expected to pay perhaps $6,000 (or 12%) in income taxes to carriers for their Obamacare coverage, with premium subsidies from those with higher incomes and various other taxes used to make up the rest of their coverage. Never mind that this is a huge 20% health care tax increase on those with 100k incomes... There aren't enough of those folks to bend the vote in other directions. <br /><br />
Clear as mud? Yep -- it's way too complicated for left wing CongressCritters or the PRESSSSident to explain without upsetting middle class families -- many families may only wake up to this huge Obamacare tax when they are formally drowned in Obamacare's first round of taxes/premiums. <br />
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To simplify this just think of Obamacare as a sliding scale Medicare tax for working age folks to pay for working class coverage, on top of paying Medicare taxes. How much your "tax" is depends upon your income. <br /><br />
Never mind that little of this is Constitutional as a tax or not... OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-21047612536511776512012-07-14T20:23:00.002-07:002012-07-14T20:23:48.472-07:00It's Social Marketplaces, not spending or revenues.The US (as well as many other nations) doesn’t have a spending or revenue problem, they have a Social Marketplace problem. The perpetual “spending versus revenue” debate is a misdiagnosis of the problem. The problem is centralized politically driven social marketplaces are inherently fiscally, as well as morally, unstable and lead to eventual fiscal as well as moral bankruptcy. No amount of adjustments to spending or revenue will treat this cancer.
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Instead of defining the various social marketplaces (education, health care, housing, pensions, etc) to be individually driven according to marketplace rules, with prudent self adjusting accommodations for those of limited means, politicians have tried to play Santa Claus buying votes for this or that Social Marketplace program, generally at the expense of future generations as well as the general prosperity of today’s economy.
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Any solution that doesn’t address taking the centralized and special interest politics out of these various social marketplaces is doomed to be little more than a temporary fix on a long downhill slide into some sort of economic abyss.
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There are plenty of options, as well as examples, of how the various social marketplaces can be redefined toward individually driven social marketplaces. Chile provides an example of how personalized retirement plans work. There are others. There are pockets of HSA health care coverage that are working fine in the US even given the straightjackets politicians have encumbered them with — if they’re not killed by Obamacare. There are other examples around the world such as Singapore. Similar sorts of models can be applied to education and other social marketplaces.
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What is needed is recognition that government’s proper role isn’t to provide these various Social Marketplaces via some central command and control system. Government’s proper role is to define and implement individually driven, Social Marketplaces that are sensitive to marketplace whims, while also providing structures for those of limited means — with a natural unassailable check and balance against perverse expansion of ‘limited means’ to larger and larger populations via politicians buying votes as Santa Claus.
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How the US got here is simple — During FDRs days, politicians determined that the Preamble to the Constitution was irrelevant and started to ignore the guidelines it provides for how the powers of the Federal Government are to be used. As a result, instead of promoting the general welfare, politicians have pushed providing special interest welfare over promoting the general welfare — this buys votes… They also ignore preserving liberty for our posterity (future generations) by buy votes today for goodies that future generations will have to pay back. Then there’s the shadow government of federal bureaucracies that basically write law without regards to Congress or the Constitution and the Preamble — taking liberty away one regulation at a time, many regulations each day…
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Judges, politicians and many of the population have bought into this extra-Constitutional fantasy of a cradle to grave worship of big government that will solve all problems, big and small. It does no such thing — government is the problem, not solution. The solution isn’t smaller government, it’s developing and implementing individually driven compassionate social marketplaces. Individually driven social marketplaces will result in a smaller government that also provides access to a vibrant and healthy set of social marketplaces for all.OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-34720314630391763182012-07-14T20:18:00.001-07:002012-07-14T20:19:24.312-07:00Socialism and other Social MarketplacesSocialism is basically a centrally controlled Social Marketplace owned by government.
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There are many forms of centrally controlled Social Marketplaces that don’t fit the classical definition of Socialism — Obamacare, for example, isn’t strictly socialized health care because the private sector carriers administer the programs the centralized federal bureaucracies largely define. The taxation/cost shifting to support coverage of those with lower incomes is in part paid for by redistributing overpriced premiums paid by those with middle to higher incomes. The overpriced premiums are basically a hidden tax on middle income folks on up, collected and managed outside of ‘normal’ government revenue and spending channels. Socialism it’s not, but a centralized social marketplace it is. At least it’s not the Mandated Employer Subsidized Socialism (MESS) that HillaryCare was all about.
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Home financing via Fanny and Freddie are similar examples of federally centralized Social Marketplaces that have run amuck with a mix of private and public sector financial enterprises being puppeteered by federal bureaucracies and politics. The fiscal malaise we are currently stuck is in directly related to the failure of this Social Marketplace AND the continuing denial of the federal government playing the key role in it's bubble bursting.
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There are plenty of other examples of centralized Social Marketplaces in the US and around the world that don’t fit classical Socialism but should be treated with equal distain. Then there’s public schools — they are basically socialized education save for how the funding is mixed between local and federal sources — trending towards more federal control, at least until the feds figure out they don’t have the money…OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-33401190898803543682012-05-23T15:28:00.002-07:002012-05-23T15:28:45.407-07:00How does the Socialist garden grow?"A garden constantly overshadowed by a overbearing gardener will never grow to it's full potential"<P>
This is as simple a statement as there is to describe why socialist statist policies and leadership fails. As hard as a well intentioned overbearing gardener tries, their garden never grows as well nor is it as productive as one that is allowed to grow outside of the shadow of an overbearing regulatory government. <P>
Where did we go so wrong? One of the founding principles of our Constitution is supposed to be how the Federal Government's role is to "promote the general welfare, while preserving liberty to ourselves and our posterity" as defined in the Preamble of the Constitution. These most basic guidelines have been ignored by our statist government gardeners in favor of an overbearing government that wants to oversee (tax and regulate) virtually any and every productive activity one could imagine partaking of. <P>
Go figure that there just isn't as much push to be part of the productive marketplace garden when it's become such a hassle (as well as negative) to make a profit. Then there's the weed patch of unproductive folks cruising along on food stamps, free cell phones, free health care, nearly endless funemployment and other gubermint handouts up the wazoo. This largely unsupervised welfare weed patch appears to be growing just fine. Go figure... If the guberment gardener gave even a smidge of the attention to the weed patch that it spends beating on the profit making sector of our economy, perhaps the marketplace garden would have some time in the sun to grow.
<P>Just saying, common sense isn't complicated...OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-7213258635986427892012-04-11T18:16:00.001-07:002012-04-11T18:16:54.225-07:00The Democrat's class warfare against high earners isn't so much about fairness or balancing budgets as it is about further strengthening the three tiered class society of the <b>Privileged, Collectors, </b>and<b> Serfs (Workerbees)</b> that the Democrats have been carefully constructing over the past several decades.
<p>The <b>Privileged</b> are the politicians, bureaucrats, unions, greens, attorneys, pols, media and a few assorted others… They strive to live outside normal market forces, using the Collectors to suck the life energy from the Serfs to support their <b>Privileged</b> lifestyles and goals.
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The Collectors are the business managers and business entrepreneurs that make the private sector Marketplace work -- most everything that happens in the private sector marketplace comes under their guidance in some form or another. They live and prosper by successfully navigating thru government rules and regulations as well as marketplace rules to provide a product or service of some sort to the marketplace. In the Democrat's tiered society, the Collectors are used to collect the life energy from the Serfs and pass that on to the Privileged so they may live outside normal market forces. The Collectors are ideal for this task since they are a minority of the population, and many workerbee Serfs are easily played as suckers by the Privileged using the class envy card. Go figure how taxing their boss will help any workerbee get better pay or work conditions, but that's the nature of ignorance...
<P>The Workerbee Serfs are the typical private sector worker who lives most of his live within the private sector and it's various marketplaces full of services and products. They are typically decent hard working folks who'd just as well be left alone if given the choice. Every election cycle, the Privileged come at them with all sorts of promised benefits if only they vote for the Privileged politicians and their class envy policies. However, there isn't enough left from the Privileged gorging themselves to pass much of any real value on to the Serf's other than hope for change someday...
<P>It’s been a great system for the Privileged as well as for counting votes. However, it's not such a good system when it comes to counting money and balancing budgets. However, balanced budgets and common sense isn't important to the Privileged since they live a fantasy world largely outside of normal market forces. Things like budgets and counting money is only important to the Collectors and others living by marketplace rules. So don't worry too much -- when this multi-tiered house of cards all comes crashing down, the Privileged will be just fine with their bloated benefit retirement and health plans.OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-75196548411524895162012-03-30T20:40:00.004-07:002012-03-30T20:43:26.771-07:00Solving the Healthcare Social Marketplace PuzzleThere is a relatively simple and 'American solution' to our healthcare social marketplace woes rather than pushing another gubermint burrocratic take over of the healthcare social marketplace down our throats -- <b>just let providers deduct the unreimbursed cost of charity care from their income</b>.<p>
Overnight there would be a stampede of clinics in all health professions stepping up with sliding scale fee structures to provide top notch charity care. Additionally, there would be a natural check and balance to this care -- to make it work, one would have to real income from paying patients to deduct from.<p>
Clinics could develop these plans according to the needs and situations of their own communities, rather than being forced to accept some top down edicts from some DC bureaucrats about how you are supposed to do things.<p>
Having control of their costs and care, Clinics could easily implement stable broad reaching preventive programs for those of limited means.<p>
The unspoken reality of much gubermint Medicaid and Medicare care is it frequently pays doctors and clinics 30 percent or less of their regular fees -- which is about the same as if the care were tax deductible, only with lots of ever changing red tape that reduce the quality of care provided. Microsoft might donate $1M in software to schools, it's tax deductible; a grocery store might donate $1k of food to a food bank, it's tax deductible; but a doctor can't donate their time to save a life, it's not tax deductible.<p>
Sure, one might find out that a lot of health care providers would be paying little income taxes -- but then there would also be a huge reduction, if not elimination, in Medicare and Medicaid expenses.<p>
This care would all be subject to marketplace rules -- if someone can do it better for less, that's where the market may go. Currently, with so much paid for by third parties and gubermint, there's little market incentives to find the most cost effective care options.<p>
In summary, providers, NOT politicians, provide health care. This shouldn't be overlooked. Way too many people have developed an unhealthy faith in politicians, burrocrats and gubermint to solve their woes. <b>In the case of health care, it's doctors, nurses and providers of all sorts that choose to provide whatever care is given, even in the face of barely being paid for their time or overhead.</b> If folks start to appreciate this part of the healthcare link, they may start showing up for appointments, following provider instructions, and improving their own health by developing a healthy long term relationship with their providers -- instead of the entitled demand "Make me healthy now for free so I can get back to my couch, laptop, Xbox and TV remote with soda and chips..." <p>
Virtually all of the so called health care woes people face can be directly tied to misdirected politics of one sort or another -- some well meaning, some naive, typically with a lot of 'unintended consequences', and virtually all mostly to buy votes and power rather than to provide quality affordable health care. Government is the problem, not solution...<p>
Get government out of the way by a few minor changes in the tax code and let the marketplace solve the health care problem.OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-87631321509712127072012-03-17T11:37:00.001-07:002012-03-17T11:37:16.905-07:00SocialMarketplace FooleryHere we go again with another misguided push for sales tax on internet sales as a way to help states short on cash raise revenue. Come on folks, we live in a global marketplace that will self adjust to an internet sales tax amongst the States by moving internet business out of the country — and killing more jobs in the process.
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Sure, initially some additional revenue might come into States, but that will just have to be spent on increased unemployment and welfare support for internet businesses that lose market share out of the country and have to either close or scale back their operations (lay off workers, close stores, and more). Might as well toss in loss of more jobs by American manufacturing that will now be done elsewhere because it makes even less sense to make something in the HIGH TAX US, ship it out of the country and back in to avoid taxation.
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Taxing internet sales is basically like putting a bandaid over the cancer of politically centralized <b>So</b>cial <b>M</b>arket<b>P</b>lace (<b>SoMP</b>) run amok.
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The answer to weak government revenue to pay for more politically driven <b>SOMP</b>s isn’t more taxes, it’s promoting less centralization and politicization of the <b>SoMPs</b>. It’s out of control government run <b>SoMPs</b> that are driving out of control spending that is leading the push for more taxes… More taxes is akin to pouring gasoline on a fire.
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The solution isn’t squeezing the flourishing internet sales market with more taxes, rather it’s opening up the politicized <b>SoMPs</b> so they are more individually driven rather than politically driven. Yes, this requires thinking out of the box -- a new paradigm if you will. Sadly, thinking out of the box is also something that the <i>LOSERship</i> of both parties are very weak at -- their solution for a a square peg and a round hole is to just pound harder, and charge the markets for all the pounding they did to 'solve' the problem until the cancer of Politicized SoMPs outgrows their bandaid and more pounding is required. Never mind that the "square pegs" of commerce and entrepreneurship are figuring out that moving operations out of the US is an increasing viable solution to achieving global marketplace success.
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<b>Marketplace Reality Check</b> -- Politically driven <b>SoMPs</b> are inherently inefficient, costly, and insensitive to normal marketplace evolution — good or bad, programs grow and grow. Individually driven <b>SoMPs</b> are inherently efficient, cost effective, and very sensitive to normal marketplace evolution — good ones prosper, bad ones fade.OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-70908219774871294192011-10-16T16:40:00.000-07:002011-10-16T16:40:25.111-07:00Coveting HellI think Obama is confusing his buddy Rev Jeremiah Wright with MLK. Rev Wright could be a keynote speaker for this crowd, and probably will be if there is a OWS in October 2012 as part of Obama’s reelection bid.<p>
Obama’s comments also show how little he understands and believes in Christian philosophy and religious beliefs. <P>
One of the ten commandments is all about not coveting your neighbor’s wealth — Yet promoting the taking of your neighbors wealth is what the OWS crowd and the Obamacrat’s Class Warfare is all about. We’ve already got a very progressive tax code that is all about taking from your neighbor to pay for health care, house, food and more. Just how is that working for everyone? Could it be if you follow the devil, you're likely to live in hell?<P>
Cain has it right — He was taught not to covet his neighbor’s Cadillac, he was taught to work hard to buy his own… <P>
If only the average religious social conservative were only as vehement about protecting this commandment against Class Warfare and jealousy as they are about protecting the unborn. Is there an eleventh commandment about how it's acceptable to choose and pick what commandments you wish to follow?OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-63397486816589497382011-10-16T10:33:00.000-07:002011-10-16T10:33:40.675-07:00Big versus Small Government ignoranceConservatives continue to be misguided in promoting the goal that <i>small government</i> is the solution to the nation’s woes.<BR><BR>
Small government is the result of promoting dynamic <i>individually driven social marketplace</i>s. Just having a small government doesn’t mean one necessarily has dynamic individually driven social marketplaces. However, any society with dynamic individually driven social marketplaces will have a small government footprint.<BR><BR>
Conversely, <b>big government is the result of promoting collectivist politically driven social marketplaces</b>. In this regard Pelosi is correct : Small government, without vibrant individually driven social marketplaces that provides access to care for those of limited means, may allow women to die on the floor.<BR><BR>
Conservatives should expect this sort of nonsense to continue to gush out of liberals mouths so long as conservative leaders continue to promote small government as their primary goal, rather than first promoting vibrant individually driven social marketplaces.<BR><BR>
Translation — Conservatives will continue to look stupid to many of the electorate as conservatives just don’t get the importance of properly designed and operated big or little social marketplaces.<BR><BR>
Fine print — RINOs and most of the GOP LOSERship don’t get the individually driven social marketplace concept any more than liberals -- they haven't figured out how to leverage individually driven social marketplaces to promote their power.OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-73549053612082372262011-10-13T09:45:00.000-07:002011-10-13T09:51:47.727-07:00VAT SolioquyTo VAT or not to VAT,<BR>
that is the question,<BR>
Whether tis nobler<BR>
to suffer the confusion and political panderings<BR>
of a bloated incomprehensible tax code,<BR>
or to take arms against a sea of troubles<BR>
And by opposing end them. <BR>
To put them into permanent sleep,<BR>
Perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,<BR>
For in that sleep what dreams may come<BR>
When we have shuffled off these mortal flaws,<BR>
Must give us pause of prosperity possible,<BR>
thru a simpler, fairer burden that all shall carry...<BR>
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But alas, not to be,<BR>
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The undiscovered country, from whose bourn<BR>
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,<BR>
And makes us rather bear those ills we have<BR>
Than fly to others that we know not of?<BR>
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,...<BR>
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A VAT based world might work just fine, if it could totally replace the income tax, in it's various forms. However, there are too many unwilling to make the leap from our current system, no matter how corrupt and flawed, to another world. Just be glad these aren't the same self limiting folks that were around during the time of the Revolution.OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-91236120283809473872011-09-29T09:53:00.000-07:002012-03-17T11:38:48.937-07:00Nightmare on Pennsylvania Street<p>The Obamacrats are running scared and searching for a way to add some enthusiasm to their base. </p> <p>As evidence to what’s possibly coming around the corner, last night, I got a short robo phone poll call that asked should Obama have Hillary or Biden as VP in the coming election. As I recall the only other questions were about party affiliation, race and my age. Short and sweet, no asking for donation$, no person to talk to, just listen to the prerecorded message and push a button according to my response. </p> <p>So don’t be surprised if pretty soon (July 2012?), there’s some more feelers out there about dumping Biden and adding Hillary to the ticket as a means to create some enthusiasm beyond their extreme Blue/Green base. My guess is this may start with the PRESSSSident reporting on some new gaff that Joe makes to start the process of pushing Joe under the bus -- this might take at least a couple hours of following Joe around... </p> <p>This also means that Obama’s Class Warfare strategy has wrapped up the Blue/Green base so no Democrat (aka Hillary) can run a primary challenge to the One. After O’s recent campaign sweeps, the extreme Blue/Green bucks are pretty much totally committed to Obama, there’s simply no left wing money left…<br /></p> <p>Go figure, this is also why, outside of the extreme Blue/Green base, there’s also not much enthusiasm left to spread around. It’s like rank & file Dems are all being forced to give up a nice Sunday Football afternoon to line up at the local theater to watch the sequel to a really bad movie (Nightmare on Pennsylvania Street) — as if changing some names on the marquee will actually fix the Nightmare’s sequel when everyone knows the plot is just more of the same… Go figure why the rank & file Democrat probably feels they’ve got something else better to do -- In addition to watching some football, they'll may check to make sure the honeydew list includes taking out the trash should the POTUS show up at halftime to disrupt their game…<br /></p>OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8286390583641170193.post-88981309527882482562008-12-14T14:09:00.000-08:002012-03-17T11:40:27.876-07:00Always Right<a href="http://drfredc.com/allright/oped/oped.htm">Always Right -- well most of the time.</a>OB1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15731377177618863974noreply@blogger.com1