Economics, As It Should Be, In The USA...

Time to put Democrats in charge.  

See also: the US economy from 1946 - 1976. 

The RCS (Republican criminal syndicate) has said all the right things, then demonstrated, time and again, that they don't mean it; won’t ever deliver.  

Small (RV, tiny home, other types of floor plans) manufactured houses could be located in abandoned shopping malls and empty office spaces; private equity prohibited.  Empty, associated, parking lots become green spaces with solar panels and windmills overhead.
 
Don't forget at least a $25/hour minimum wage, and the return of company funded, defined benefit, pensions...  

Social Security was designed to be the third leg of a stool (pension, personal savings and Social Security) upon which retired Americans could, comfortably, depend.

Did I mention Single Payer health care? As mentioned, repeatedly, the economy grows when as close to everyone can spend, save and invest!  The United States is the only OECD (an organization of the 38 most advanced national economies of the world) country where medical costs can cause personal bankruptcy.

Socialism (a form of cooperative, regulated capitalism) is at the core of economic success in the USA; check for paved streets, lights that work at the flick of a switch, water that flows every time you turn the tap, etc... Education (for all) and infrastructure (everywhere) ain't cheap; it’s not profitable. Compare prices of utilities that private companies provide against the cost when government provides same; compare quality and dependability as well. 

Again, the economy grows most when as close to everybody can live indoors, eat (afford general living expenses), vacation, save and invest (for retirement and etc...). 

The wealthy will only spend so much into the economy, because they already live well, and oft don't have a need to spend more. Keynesian government and working class folks (when they can) spend more into the economy; grow the economy for everybody. 

The business of business is profit, and when more folks can spend into the economy the likelihood of a profitable business increases.  When living indoors and child care is affordable, working people can focus better on their jobs, and again, will have more money to spend into the economy; profit potential, for the business community, increases; again. 

If the more, "well-to-do," move out, as oft threatened, while the aforementioned details increase the size of the local economy, then the local community will need a smarter group of wealthy residents... They'll move in to fill the void.  

When the schools are better, for every youngster, the quality of the life for the entire community improves.  Education and infrastructure are best done by government, socialism, because doing these things well, for as close to everybody, helps build the economy; isn't profitable. 

Keynesian economics state that the government provides about 30% of the funds spent into the economy; more when the economy slows down. The circumstances surrounding economic slow downs (job hours reduced or jobs lost) disallow average folks the ability to spend their standard, allotted amount into the economy.  Again, the wealthy folks don't spend more and rarely need to spend less; save money. 

Inflation (tariff enhanced) and slow wage growth, amongst the 90%, oft disrupts the economy.  The average wage for lowest earning, some 90% of the population of the USA, should be at least $52,000/yr., $25/hour, (income tax free) for a single, childless adult... Average wages, across the USA, are nowhere close to said amount. The federal minimum wage is completing it's second decade at $7.25/hour; not anywhere close to a living wage. 

Again, the economy grows when as close to everyone can afford to participate, not just scrape by. See also: United for Alice.

Life is What You Make of it...

Decide to invest the time, start with voting, to create and maintain the world you want to live in. If not, you’ll live in the world someone else wants. If it’s not good, get busy!

Live Intentionally!

Lead by example… Be exemplary!

Do for others as you’d like others to do for you.

So far, the worst of humanity has been kept in check by the rest of humanity. Unfortunately, the worst of humanity is never completely eliminated, because only the worst of humanity would do what’s needed for that to happen.

The worst of humanity will always blame someone else… If the shoe fits, gold plate it and sell it to the gullible.

Character is what you do when no one is watching. Be your own best observer. You are, after all, responsible for all of your own actions.

If you want the best possible outcome, for as close to everyone as possible, you must pay attention and try to do what is needed as often as is required; see above.

The world becomes a better place with each, and every, single, individual effort.

Be part of a team to amplify the best efforts.

It need not always fall to you to act, but, your best effort will always help.

If at first you don’t succeed, carry on.

Perfection is a stretch goal that can’t be attained, but can be approached incrementally.

Democracy does not happen on it’s own…

Democracy is not self-sustaining…

Socialism is government working, oft with others, to create the best possible world for as close to everybody as possible.

Socialism is what made the world’s greatest economic expansion, in the USA, in the mid-twentieth century, happen.

Life is better when you care.

A Boomer to the More Recent Generations...

Blaming us, Boomers, is the key to not getting back to where we were after WWII: 1946-1976.

The USA was the land of opportunity after WWII because of: unions, the New Deal, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Glass-Steagall, etc...

During the Gilded Age, the period of extravagance that caused the Great Depression, the megalomaniacal class (mega($)), the uber wealthy of the day, did not think, "enough," applied to them.  Sound familiar?

The business of business is profit, and unregulated businesses tend to profit only the owner class; those whose parents' fiscal status could make business ownership possible.  The mega($) also despised competition; built trusts wherever possible.

Teddy and Franklin D. Roosevelt were leaders in the effort to put significant, regulatory (government) restraints on their megalomaniacal peers.  The fix started before the turn of the 20th century, but was not successfully completed till the New Deal kicked into high gear at the end of WWII.

Keynesian government spending recognized the need for some activities (infrastructure: water, electricity, telecommunications (Internet, telephone, radio, TV, etc...), roads, airports, sea ports; military; education: pre-k to post doc; health care; R&D: FFRDCs, tier 1 & 2 public, research universities; etc...) needed to be done for as close to everybody as possible; this was/is not profitable.  Socialism was, and still is, needed.  Businesses can not, will not, do what's required, even as they declare that, "only they can." Sounding familiar here as well?

In the 1960s and 70s progress towards an all inclusive society was made: the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts lead the way.  Women's health care made major progress in the precedent set by Roe v. Wade.  A woman could not have her own credit card, car or home loan till half way through the 1970s; ask your Mom or Grandmother.

There was a problematic group, heavily promoted by a resurging mega($) class, during the late 20th century called the, "neo-liberals."  They were neither new nor were/are they liberal. Moving away from the government regulations that restrained the unenlightened self-interests of the 1% allowed the economy, that the more recent generations find problematic, to come to pass; again.

I will not defend Boomers from the part of the blame that we deserve. However, if you want to rebuild the economy that made the USA the most equitably wealthy, overall, in the world, you've got a great deal of work to do. If, “socialism,” seems unworkable to you, that points to that person in your mirror as your main problem.

You can ask the Boomers to help, and quite a few of us will, but the effort you need the most is your own; start with voting.  Greed is an ever present characteristic of the human race, and it must be regulated by government; of, by and for the people (voters and other participants). Mega($) self restraint has not, and will not, ever happen.

Time to Recreate Democracy in the United States of America...

 ICE (American SS) is moving fast to make Americans familiar with, and afraid of, said ICE, "law enforcement (SS)."

Speaker (Stepped on his) Johnson, of the US House of Representatives, sent the Republicans (Republican criminal syndicate, RCS) in said US House of Representatives on vacation to avoid swearing in the newest, recently elected, House member; the 218th vote for the release of the Epstein files.

The investigations  into voting irregularities, in the 2024 elections (starting in Rockland County, NY), implicate some of the oligarchs, behind the curtain in the 47 administration, who had provided means and methods for said election tampering;

The oligarchs are trying to get unregulated, kleptocurrency normalized;

The oligarchs are trying to get unregulated AI activities accepted;

Many of the oligarchs, behind the curtain of the 47 administration, are also in the Epstein files...

Pattern emerging?

The oligarchs have a lot to gain with merde l'orange in the White House; sycophants (RCS) in the US Congress and SCOTUS sycophants immunizing 47 from the need to adhere to: oath of office, rule of law and the US Constitution.

The walls are closing in on merde l’orange with: vote 218, Epstein at the door; more investigations about 2024 election irregularities; emoluments violations; war crimes; etc...

If the control, from behind the curtains, is  exposed as the acts of criminally motivated, megalomaniacal oligarchs, trying to create an authoritarian led gilded age (profiting only themselves), said control might come to an end. Oligarchs could begin to face the legal consequences of their activities; finish lives in prisons, not aristocratic opulence.

It is, well past (but not too late), time to hold those who participated, in any way shape or form, in the aforementioned insurrection to task: eject from office as specified in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, so that the legislative quorums that remain can reestablish Democracy in the United States of America! 

Let’s get moving!

We Did NOT Need To Be Here!

We, the people, did not take appropriate action... 

The Republican party began it’s chosen path of decline, to the Republican criminal syndicate (RCS), after the party of Lincoln decided that the traitors responsible for the insurrection, that became the Civil War, did not need to be held to account; very few investigations led to few, or no, indictments and resulted in no trials for actual treason.

In the Reagan administration the conservative, southern Democrats admitted that they were, “Reagan,” Republicans; starting, in earnest, the slide into the RCS.

When 45 was impeached for inciting insurrection (a.k.a., treason) many RCS in the US House did not vote to impeach, but 45 was impeached by the requisite majority in the House nonetheless.

The US Senate required a more significant majority  (two thirds, 67 votes) to convict the impeached merde l’orange/45.  Sufficient RCS Senators refused to convict the impeached President.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution details that anybody associated,  in any way, with insurrection is forbidden from holding any public office, requiring an oath of office,  ever (be it again, or in the first place).  

Merde l’orange would have been removed from office immediately upon conviction, and be barred from any other office, ever again; could not campaign for another elected office, let alone President of these United States.

If all the upcoming elections were to remove all of the RCS candidates and current, public office holders from contention that would clear the way for the convict merde l’orange to be properly impeached, convicted and removed from office for emoluments clause violations, and any other crimes indicated by appropriate investigations.

This would not only return the US Congress to the only party that actually respects: oath of office; rule of law; and the US Constitution…  The Democrats (and the two, Independent Senators) would be put in a position to restore Democracy in the USA. 

We, the people, must rise up to the challenge of voting to restore Democracy in the USA, or we own the fall of Democracy in our nation, and the rest of the world if it follows us down the rabbit hole.

Let’s fix this problem as only we, the people, can!

Democrats and Independents... The time to engage has come!

We don't have to beat the Republican criminal syndicate (RCS) at their own game, using their methods and tactics, but we must compete and win if we're going to restore Democracy in the USA.

When they go low, we walk across them like the badly warn pavement they've chosen to become.

Fight fire with water cannons.  There's a reason those devices are bolted to vehicles.   

Let's demonstrate our determination.

Democrats in Texas, California, Illinois, NY, etc... have shown the way.  

There are things that government must do, because they are expensive to do well, and must be done as well as is possible for as close to everyone as is possible.

The business of business is profit, and there's no profit to be had in providing these most important of basic services: education (pre-k to post doc); transportation (roads, trains, airports, seaports, etc...); basic research (FFRDC, Tier 1 & 2 research universities, etc...); post office (6 days every week, to everyone come rain or sleet...); the military (to protect and defend the Constitution...); regulations that define the boundaries for establishing and keeping civil society.

Government must do health care (Medicare for All/Single payer), because the best medical practices are prevention and most efficient/fastest cure; the least profitable of all available means and methods.

Remember, the business of business is profit, and the best of health care is that which is most efficient and effective; least profitable.

These are some of the things businesses can't do well, no matter what they say, because the pursuit of profit is self-serving, and those who've profited most have taken unenlightened, self-interest to narcissist and megalomaniacal extremes.

Democracy is the worst kind of government, except for everything else.  Democracy is what we must constantly pursue as if our posterity depends upon it, because it does.

Lead, follow or get out of the way, because we've  got a Democracy to re-establish in these United States of America.

“De Minimis,” is for Cheating.

There is no such thing as a, “de minimis,” (insignificant) change to any voting machine; anywhere, ever.  All proposed changes should have every detail published and distributed well in advance, so that everything might be cross checked by multiple other, “third party oversight,” agencies and vendors.

I spent 25 years working in tech support for computer connectivity, networking, and in one of the data centers, where I spent 5 years, we did systems changes starting Saturday at midnight.  The phrase used for dodging reporting and accountability was, that the system, “change is transparent to the users.”

There were often changes in many of the different sub systems involved in the processing of data at this, unnamed, company.  Too often many of these changes were labeled, in the associated documentation (lack thereof), as, “transparent to users.”  Many of these changes were not known to said users, and most of the systems' users did not come in till start of business on Monday morning.  

The phones at the operations/tech support desks would start to ring as computer  users on the east coast tried to begin their work week on Monday morning.  The changes weren't just not, “transparent,” they often had caused applicable systems to crash.

It was apparent, though not followed through with, that no changes should ever be referred to as, “transparent to users,” and/or, “de minimis.”

The voting machines used in the USA are far more important than the data processing systems in any single company, so it is far more important that NO change may ever be labeled as, “de minimis.”

According to an investigative piece, from the Daily Boulder, a private lab quietly implemented sweeping changes to voting machines used in over 40% of U.S. counties ahead of the 2024 race. Those changes, the report claims, were made with no public notice, no formal testing, and no third-party oversight.

What changes were made to voting machines before the 2024 election?  Investigations and litigation is currently in process to find out.  The election has been certified by Congress, so the results of the 2024 Presidential election are unlikely to be changed as a result of the aforementioned activity.

Instead of labeling these as major changes, Pro V&V classified them as “de minimis,” a term typically reserved for insignificant tweaks. This classification allowed them to bypass public scrutiny and avoid triggering full-scale testing or certification processes.

But watchdog group SMART Elections wasn’t convinced. In their words:
“This wasn’t just a glitch in some sleepy county. It was a stress test of our entire system.”

Soon after the machines went live, complaints began to surface.

At the center of the controversy is Jack Cobb, the director of Pro V&V. While he doesn’t appear in the headlines, his lab certifies the machines that millions of Americans use to vote. According to the report, once the controversy began to gain traction, Pro V&V’s website went dark, leaving only a phone number and a generic email address. No public logs. No documentation. No comment.

Pro V&V is certified by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). However, once accredited, labs like Pro V&V face no real public oversight.

These are problems that should never have been allowed to happen; needs to be determined and addressed before November elections in 2026.

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/kamala-harris-won-the-u-s-elections-bombshell-report-claims-voting-machines-were-tampered-with-before-2024/articleshow/121732679.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst  


https://aitechtonic.com/secret-changes-to-voting-machines-cast-shadow-over-2024-u-s-election-integrity/  


P.S., If the federal elections of 2026 lead to a veto proof, Democratic majority in the US Congress, then the transgressions, oft illegal, of the (criminally convicted, pathological liar) merde l'orange administration can start to be corrected while said troublesome 47th president still occupies our (US citizens') White House.