THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

·         Noel Jonesposted to   http://hummm-i-wonder.blogspot.com/  Democrats and Republicans unite. On Sunday, 9/11, 2011, an American flag should be displayed outside every home, apartment, and office, in the United States. We should make it our duty to display an American flag on this the tenth anniversary of one of our country's worst tragedies. We can do this to honor those who lost their lives on 9/11, and whose families, friends and loved ones who have suffered. We can do this also to show our enemies that however we individuals differ we are still…THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

respose:See:http://www.monbiot.com/2011/08/01/how-the-billionaires-broke-the-system/

See:

http://www.monbiot.com/2011/08/01/how-the-billionaires-broke-the-system/

Mr. George Monbiot’s  first premise is in error in that there are only two ways  of cutting the deficit. It is not how you slice up the pie (or the economy in this case) but the size of the pie (the economy) that matters. If taxes and spending were frozen as they are today but our economy was to grow at the rate of China’s, the USA would not have a deficit issue. I have never worked for, or been paid by an “ordinary citizen”, it is the “banks, arms companies, oil barons, farmers” and other corporations that have always paid me. A poor person has never hired, paid me, or grown the national production of goods and services yet.

 MR. George Monbiot’s claim that “blue collar” pay has decreased by 18% is as much due to technological advances and the lack need for ‘blue collar” workers. Today’s blue collar jobs are being filled by illegal visitors that work for the best pay alternative they can get.  He fails to mention that 320,000 top 1%ers were added to the tax rolls in the last 10 years. The top 1 percent of tax returns paid 38.0 percent of all federal individual income taxes and they vote and participate in our politics regularly.. Most of the middle class do not understand or participate deeply in the political system. If there is someone richer or poorer than you are, then you are “middle class”. Republican members of Congress, supported by the Tea Party movement won’t budge nor should they.   The government should not take on the responsibilities that we, our families, neighbors, friends, churches and local organizations should be doing.

 It is unclear to me why, if we think like Richard Murdock, MR. George Monbiot   thinks that is a bad thing.  How does Murdock’s own interests differ from mine?

Our problems today will not be solved by class war fare or partisanism. We live in a government of the PEOPLE who for the most part cannot tell you who represents them, by the PEOPLE the majority of whom don’t vote, and for the people who seldom if ever write to tell their congressmen and senator what they are for.  It is time we stop rationalizing and stand strongly on our moral, economic and ethical principals we were known for as AMERICANS.

Defense Budget vs Foreign Intervention

Defense Budget   vs   Foreign Intervention

I just saw a news report that a group of reservists made up of engineers were off to Afghanistan to build roads and bridges. Why do we send young men and women abroad to be in harm’s way, when for less cost and risk they could stay at home and do the same job?  Foreign intervention in the internal affairs of other countries is not DEFENSE.  We should fully support our troops who defend our country, but get rid of those *!@#%*!  Politicians we elected but we have not supervised.  They don’t know what DEFENSE is and are safe in Washington spending YOUR money and enjoying the benefits that most citizens do not have.   WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK. HOW ELSE DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO KNOW ?

IT IS ONLY YOUR MONEY YOU ARE LETTING STRANGERS SPEND

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 09 Aug 2011 is:

14,591,503,169,855.00

The estimated population of the United States is 311,089,764

so each citizen's share of this debt is $46,904.46.

WAGE EARNERS represent apx.154, 000, 000 people to pay it off the debt or

 $93,808.92 each 

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of

$3,960,000,000 per day since September 28, 2007!

This is YOUR MONEY (or your kids and grandkids) THE POLITICIANS are spending.

 PLEASE TAKE TIME WRITE OR EMAIL YOUR SENATOR, REPRESENTITIVE, AND PRESIDENT...DAILY TO REDUCE THIS OVER SPENDING.

 IT IS OUR FAULT WE HAVE LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS IRRESPONSIBILITY.

BUDGET? SEND DEFINITION TO YOUR CONGRESSMEN

YOU AND I LET OUR GOVERNMENT REPRESENTITVES SPEND TOO MUCH, SO TAX ME NOW... IT'S OUR FAULT,WE LET IT HAPPEN ON OUR WATCH !!!

NOW LET'S STOP BORROWING, STOP OVER-SPENDING AND BALANCE FUTURE BUDGETS.

TELL YOUR REPS TO WISE UP... ELECTED OFFICIALS WON'T BE ELECTED IN THE FUTURE THAT ALLOW OVER-SPENDING. AMERICANS HAVE FINALLY HAD ENOUGH.

Is the value of gold increasing?

Is the value of gold increasing or just the price? It seems to me that VALUE of gold is intrinsic to it based on its usefulness. The PRICE is a measure of what a person is willing to trade of his currency for that item. Therefore the lower the value of the currency, the more it will take to trade for the gold. If the demand for the use of gold has not increased nor has it become more scarce, yet the price continues to rise, then that would seem to indicate the value of the currency has decreased relative to the gold.  Rising Gold prices could be the “canary in the mine” warning us of the increasing prices for ALL goods and services in the near future. The cause of the decreased value of the dollar is that the debt ratio is ever increasing. For every dollar we borrow to cover deficient spending we decrease the trading value of the dollar and prices rise. The value of the dollar is decreasing. The PRICE of gold is only increasing relative to the dollar, not the demand for  its usefulness .

Sometimes our defense dept. should just sit on de fence.

Shouldn’t the defense department of the USA  be used for the defense of the USA?. It seems unreasonable to use our military to defend other nations or semi-nations that are in civil wars; when that action leaves us vulnerable to attack at home. Vulnerable, that is to say, susceptible to attack by depleting our resources, sacrificing our young men and women’s futures and weakening our economy. Ultimately we may encourage a stronger aggressor to test our defenses at home. We need to stop intervening in the foreign affairs that do not directly involve us. We need to stop irrationalizing or falsely justifying our actions just because yesterday we were strong enough to do so.  Today most of these involvements are indefensible.