Samuel Little is an American serial killer and serial rapist who was convicted in 2012 of the murders of three women in California between 1987 and 1989, and in 2018 of the murder of one woman in Texas in 1994.
He claims to have killed as many as ninety-three women, and investigators have linked him to over sixty murders.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed Little’s involvement in at least fifty murders, the largest number of proven cases for any serial killer in United States history.
He allegedly murdered women across nineteen states over a third of a century ending around 2005.
Trump and his businesses have been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six bankruptcies and criminal enterprises, Trump University, and Trump Foundation. He avoided jail by paying $27 million in fines.
While losing the popular vote, he became the oldest first-term U.S. president and the first without prior military or government service.
Trump, a notorious serial liar, with many of his comments and actions characterized as racist, was impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
His reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic proved deadly: Due to Trump’s personal incompetence, his downplaying of the threat, promoting false information about unproven treatments and the availability of testing, his employment of incompetent sycophants, and his refusal to accept the advice of scientists, medical doctors, and other healthcare professionals, Trump is responsible for the deaths of more than 250,000 Americans. a number that will increase significantly as Americans continue to die.
Not included in the totals are the premature deaths of Americans due to Trump’s incompetence regarding air and water pollution, and denial of global warming.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
RECESSION [rəˈseSH(ə)n] noun A period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters. Recessions generally occur when there is a widespread drop inSpending.
The measure of Spending is Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the formula for which is:
GDP = Federal Spending + Non-federal Spending + Net Exports
Spending is related to the supply of money in the economy. All recessions are caused by reductions in money supply growth, but they may be triggered by many different factors. As you will see, understanding the difference between “caused by” and “triggered by” is important.
Red line =Annual percentage changes in Federal Deficit Spending. Recessions = vertical gray bars.
The above graph shows that recessions (vertical gray bars) tend to occur following periods of reduced federal deficit spending growth. Recessions are cured by increased federal deficit spending growth.
The graph below is a close-up view of the period following the 2008 recession. It shows a 2009 – 2020 decline in deficit growth, which made the 2020 recession inevitable.
The line shows federal deficit spending growth.
Here is the same graph, with the addition of Gross Domestic Product.
Blue line = Gross Domestic Product
After the federal deficit spending to cure the 2008 recession started to decline, GDP growth had leveled off. We experienced a severe GDP decline in 2019 — well before COVID — when we already were on our way to recession.
In the Alps, snow often becomes so deep that dangerous avalanches are imminent. So, to forestall an unexpected and potentially fatal avalanche, cannons are fired at the snowpack, to triggera controlled avalanche.
It is not the cannons that cause the avalanche; the cause is the unstable snowpack. The avalanche, which eventually would have occurred with or without the cannons, was triggered by the cannons.
The uptick in the end-of 2019 federal deficit growth was the government’s response to the anticipated and realized GDP reduction. Sadly, it was not sufficient to prevent the recession.
Summary:
a recession is “a fall in GDP in two successive quarters,” and
GDP is based on spending, and
Because of reduced deficit spending growth, GDP began to fall in 2018, and seriously to fall in 2019, so
We were about to have a recession before COVID. The pandemic did not cause the recession. COVID merely was the “cannon fire” that triggered an already imminent recession.
Outside events — pandemics, weather, stock market disruptions, oil shocks, earthquakes, wars, etc. — do not cause recessions. They only trigger recessions that were destined to happen, because the economy lacked money. Ultimately, all recessions are caused by lack of money in the private sector.
The subprime mortgage crisis was a trigger for, not the cause of, the 2008 recession. Federal deficit growth already was declining.
The 9/11 attack and technology speculation were triggers for, not the causes of, the 2001 recession. Federal deficit growth already was declining.
An oil shock was a trigger for, not a cause of, the 1990 recession. Federal deficit growth already was declining.
Inflation and oil shortages were triggers for, not causes of, the “double-dip” recessions of 1980 & 1981. Federal deficit growth already was declining.
Oil price increases were a trigger for, not a cause of, the recession of 1974. Federal deficit growth already was declining.
The real cause of all recessions is Congress’s and the President’s failure to pump enough stimulus money into the economy via deficit spending. Prior to recessions, federal deficit growth declines.
All of the above recessions were cured by increases in federal deficit spending.
Even in those cases where recessions were triggered by oil shortages, the U.S. government could have deficit-spent to purchase oil, then sold it at a loss in America, to prevent the inflationary results. Because all inflations are caused by shortages of key goods, purchasing and redistributing scarce items is how a Monetarily Sovereigngovernment always can prevent/cure inflation.
“The economy needs at least $7 Trillion net added from the federal government. But, our Congress is spending far too little and spending way too late. Unless Congress and the President deign to see the light, we have no way to prevent a depression.”
“The $3 trillion rescue package helped avoid the catastrophe that is certain unless at least $7 trillion is pumped into the private sector.”
That was then; this is now, and Congress still is reluctant to do the deficit spending necessary to prevent a depression.
Neither proposal would have been sufficient to cure the recession, but they would have moderated the suffering.
However, the Republicans still objected, and instead resorted to the old political ploy of claiming the fault was the Democrats’ for not compromising.
Now, families are starving, and Congress is at a standstill, which will continue through the January inauguration. Even then, unless the Democrats win Georgia’s two Senate seats, Republicans may prevent any further stimulus, and the nation will fall into a depression.
The reasons given for the Republican obstruction is that the deficit is “unsustainable,” “unaffordable,” “imprudent” and/or are “socialism.” All those reasons are false.
Further, socialism is not just federal deficit spending. Socialism is ownership and control over resources. When the government merely spends, that is not ownership and control. Medicare, food stamps, unemployment compensation, and all federal purchases from the private sector do not constitute socialism.
Even further, socialism in itself neither is bad nor good. When socialism devolves to a dictatorship, as happens with communism, it is bad. But we have a great deal of socialism in America that is good.
The military, federal agencies like NASA, the FBI, the CIA, the White House, Congress, our court system, roads and highways, most dams, public beaches, public libraries, public parks, West Point military academy, and many others are examples of “good” socialism.
The word “socialism” is used as a pejorative to confuse the public.
Bottom line: Today’s recession is wholly unnecessary. While the politicians blame it on COVID, they merely are finger-pointing. The blame for today’s recession, and indeed for all recessions and depressions, lies squarely with Congress and the President.
It is they who determine the private sector’s money supply, which is the true driver of recessions and depressions.
If Congress and the President can agree on spending an additional $5 trillion – $7 trillion in stimulus money, depending on where the money is spent, the recession would end. The economy would grow, businesses would survive, and the populace would thrive.
Congress and the President have all the power they need if they are willing to use that power to save America rather than using it to put the other party at a political disadvantage.
I fear, however, that if the Republicans maintain control over the Senate, Mitch McConnell has demonstrated he has no interest in helping the American economy and people, but rather seems solely concerned with preventing whatever the Democrats wish to do.
That attitude will lead to a depression in which only the rich will survive unscathed.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
Every President has several accomplishments and several failures. But, time blurs our memories, and we tend to remember very few of each.
The little we remember becomes their legacy.
Thus, legacy is in the eyes of the beholder, and what you remember about a President may be much different from what I remember.
Presidents have personalities; their legacies generally reflect their personalities.
Here is how I personally perceive the legacies of our more recent Presidents.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s legacy is a blend of Social Security and “a date which will live in infamy.” I remember Harry Truman for dropping the atomic bomb and for recognizing of Israel.
I see Dwight D. Eisenhower’s legacy as the interstate highway system and his warning about the “military-industrial complex.” John Kennedy will be remembered for the Cuban missile crisis and landing men on the moon.
Lyndon B. Johnson is remembered for “The Great Society,” and sadly, for Vietnam. Richard Nixon, of course, is famous for Watergate, but also for opening diplomatic relations with China.
I seem to remember Gerald Ford mostly for pardoning Nixon, and Jimmy Carter only for the Iranian hostage crisis. Though each had positive accomplishments, they don’t stand out in memory.
For me, Ronald Reagan forever will be the end of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union. George H.W. Bush lasts in my mind for the “Read my lips, no new taxes” lie and for the Willie Horton bigotry.
Bill Clinton always will be Monica Lewinsky, with a nod to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and “Slick Willie.” George W. Bush, to me, is the Iraq war.
Barack Obama’s legacy will be “Obamacare,” though ironically, it is a copy of a Massachusetts law signed by Republican Mitt Romney.
And then there is Donald Trump. Having a limited ability to read or desire to learn, he has done a minimal amount. He masked his insecurities and inabilities by focusing not on doing the job, but rather on self-aggrandizement, anger, and insult.
Perhaps that is why, despite having strangely passionate followers, he was voted out of office.
It is too soon to know what Trump’s legacy will be, but I predict for most of the world it will be summarized like this:
Today, as I write this, Trump continues to build his legacy.
He pardons convicted criminals, which may even include pardoning himself. He endlessly, and without evidence, claims the election was “stolen” from him, and he does everything in his power to void the votes of millions, thus voiding American democracy.
His incompetence regarding the COVID-19 disease has led to the unnecessary deaths of three times more Americans than died in the Korean and Vietnam wars, combined.
Gap Psychology describes the common desire to distance oneself from those “below” in any socio-economic ranking, and to come nearer those “above.” The socio-economic distance is referred to as “The Gap.”
Wide Gaps negatively affect poverty, health and longevity, education, housing, law and crime, war, leadership, ownership, bigotry, supply and demand, taxation, GDP, international relations, scientific advancement, the environment, human motivation and well-being, and virtually every other issue in economics.Implementation of Monetary Sovereignty and The Ten Steps To Prosperity can grow the economy and narrow the Gaps:
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