We shall see. The shames of America

Twitter: @rodgermitchell; Search #monetarysovereignty
Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

Mitchell’s laws:
•Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
•Any monetarily NON-sovereign government — be it city, county, state or nation — that runs an ongoing trade deficit, eventually will run out of money.
•The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes..

•Liberals think the purpose of government is to protect the poor and powerless from the rich and powerful. Conservatives think the purpose of government is to protect the rich and powerful from the poor and powerless.

•The single most important problem in economics is the Gap between rich and the rest..
•Austerity is the government’s method for widening
the Gap between rich and poor.
•Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
•Everything in economics devolves to motive, and the motive is the Gap between the rich and the rest..

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The people who most aggressively claim to be “patriots,” continue to be the least patriotic people America must suffer.

These are the phony “patriots” who wish to deport 11 million men, women and children, many of whom have been good, law-abiding Americans for decades, just because an unnecessarily slow, complex, Byzantine system has not provided documentation.

These are the lying “patriots” who classify most Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists.

These are the venal “patriots” who classify most black college students as too stupid to attend good schools. (Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong at “Slower” Colleges

These are the amoral “patriots” who vote to reduce unemployment compensation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and other benefits for the middle classes and the poor, because they claim the poorer classes are so lazy they won’t work if given money (but, of course, the rich will work if given money.)

These are the moronic “patriots” who repeatedly vote against their own best interests, only because they believe those poorer will be hurt more.

And, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, “Here they go, again.”

Bloomberg Politics Poll: Nearly Two-Thirds of Likely GOP Primary Voters Back Trump’s Muslim Ban

Almost two-thirds of likely 2016 Republican primary voters favor Donald Trump’s call to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S., while more than a third say it makes them more likely to vote for him.

“We believe these numbers are made up of some people who are truly expressing religious bigotry and others who are fearful about terrorism and are willing to do anything they think might make us safer,” Doug Usher, who runs polling for Washington-based Purple Strategies, said in his analysis of the findings.

“This indicates that, despite some conventional wisdom expressed in the last 48 hours, this is unlikely to hurt Trump at least in the primary campaign.”

The title of this post is “We shall see. The Shames of America.” It refers to at least two shames:.

Shame 1. There are so many bigots in America, who would ban individuals, not because they ever have done anything wrong, but rather because of the way they worship or the color of their skin.

This is ironic, because freedom of religion is one reason the original settlers fled to America, and also is one of the Constitutional rights the conservates repeatedly claim for themselves.

It also is ironic because more than 600,000 real patriots died, and hundreds of thousands more were wounded in the American battle to eliminate racial bigotry

And it is ironic, because one-third of the soldiers who fought for the Union Army were immigrants, and nearly one in 10 was African American.

Shame 2. There are so many stupid people in America, who repeatedly vote to cut benefits for themselves, because they believe the lies the rich tell them about the middle classes and the poor.

Today’s Republican party, formerly the party of Abraham Lincoln, directs its appeals to the lowest common denominator of American morals and intelligence.

So, in a year we shall see whether the U.S. Supreme Court will be filled with Scalias, Thomases and Alitos, who will claim money is speech and who will vote for more laws allowing unlimited spending to buy elections and greater restrictions on minority voting.

We shall see whether taxes on the 1% are cut while taxes on the 99% are increased via “flat” taxes, sales taxes and FICA increases.

We shall see whether Social Security benefits, Medicare benefits, Medicaid benefits, food stamps and other poverty aids are cut.

We shall see whether every angry, bigoted incompetent is allowed to carry fully automatic guns, with huge magazines, everywhere.

We shall see whether there is an increase in the number of mosques, synagogues, temples and churches burned, shot up, trashed or otherwise violated by mental bantams who were agitated by despicable politicians.

We shall see whether a raped young girl is raped again by cruel, self-appointed judges who deny her an abortion to save her life.

We shall see whether America contains more stupid, immoral, self-destructive voters than those who are intelligent and compassionate.

We shall see if the America is the moral leader of the world, or just another shameful, selfish, uncaring nation that began with good intentions, but fell into disrepute and historical infamy.

Yes, we shall see.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D plus long term nursing care — for everyone (Click here)
3. Provide an Economic Bonus to every man, woman and child in America, and/or every state a per capita Economic Bonus. (Click here) Or institute a reverse income tax.
4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
5. Salary for attending school (Click here)
6. Eliminate corporate taxes (Click here)
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually Click here
8. Tax the very rich (.1%) more, with higher, progressive tax rates on all forms of income. (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here and here)

10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)

The Ten Steps will add dollars to the economy, stimulate the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.
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10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt

No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
1. A growing economy requires a growing supply of dollars (GDP=Federal Spending + Non-federal Spending + Net Exports)
2. All deficit spending grows the supply of dollars
3. The limit to federal deficit spending is an inflation that cannot be cured with interest rate control.
4. The limit to non-federal deficit spending is the ability to borrow.

THE RECESSION CLOCK

Recessions come only after the blue line drops below zero.

Monetary Sovereignty

Vertical gray bars mark recessions.

As the federal deficit growth lines drop, we approach recession, which will be cured only when the growth lines rise. Increasing federal deficit growth (aka “stimulus”) is necessary for long-term economic growth.

#MONETARYSOVEREIGNTY

Pandering to the ignorant

Twitter: @rodgermitchell; Search #monetarysovereignty
Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

Mitchell’s laws:
•Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
•Any monetarily NON-sovereign government — be it city, county, state or nation — that runs an ongoing trade deficit, eventually will run out of money.
•The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes..

•Liberals think the purpose of government is to protect the poor and powerless from the rich and powerful. Conservatives think the purpose of government is to protect the rich and powerful from the poor and powerless.

•The single most important problem in economics is the Gap between rich and the rest..
•Austerity is the government’s method for widening
the Gap between rich and poor.
•Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
•Everything in economics devolves to motive, and the motive is the Gap between the rich and the rest..

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Pandering to the ignorant — all the politicians do it, mainly because we all are ignorant about most issues.

We learn about issues from our leaders, from the media and from our equally ignorant friends.

So, when our leaders and the media wish to mislead us, and our friends don’t know any more than we do, where does that leave us?

Ignorant.

But ignorance does not prevent us from forming opinions, and it is a sad truth of human nature, that the opinions of the ignorant often are firmly held.

Religion and politics are examples. No one really knows anything about God — not what He wants, not how much control over our lives He has, and not whether He is a He or a She or an It, nor whether He/She/It really exists.

But, lacking solid information, most of us have very strong beliefs about the answers to these questions.

Politicians take advantage of that strange relationship between ignorance and strong belief, by making ridiculous claims.

When Republican politicians repeatedly vote to defund ACA, there is an implied claim that those votes are meaningful. But they have as much meaning as voting to make the sun stop rising in the east.

Apparently some voters enjoy seeing their politicians engaged in such futility, apparently hoping that somehow, despite all logic, the vote will make the sun rise in the west.

Donald Trump’s claim that he will deport 11 million people and bring back “the good ones” falls into the same category:  “Stupid things we do and say to make a point.”

One might think it would be better to say intelligent or factual things to make the same point, but politicians have learned facts are not necessary, and actually may be an impediment to belief.

We are more ready to believe something outrageously wrong than something subtly correct.

Which brings us to the following article:


Senator Cruz Introduces Bill To Let States Reject Refugees

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Ted Cruz, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2016, said on Tuesday that he introduced legislation to give governors the ability to opt out of refugee resettlement programs.

Cruz said that if President Barack Obama wanted to send refugees to any state, his legislation would let its governor refuse to participate, “to conclude that the federal government has not done a sufficient job ensuring that the safety and security of the citizens of the state will be protected.”

I’m certain that Senator Cruz’s followers believe this is a wonderful idea, and I’m equally certain that at least a majority of his base knows it’s impossible.

The Constitution of the United States requires that anyone in America can travel to any state in America. So governors can “opt out” all they want, and it means absolutely nothing.

Your governor may hate blacks, browns, gays, Muslims or short people, but once they are anywhere in America, he can’t prevent them from entering your state.

And Cruz knows this.

So why does he waste not only his own time and effort, but the time and effort of the entire Senate?

Why does he wish to demonstrate stupidity, especially when he is running for President?

Because he wishes to show he is “tough on immigration.”

By the strange phenomenon of human nature, his outrageously stupid act provides better proof to his followers that he is brilliant and tough, than had he set out his calm, logical reasons for not allowing refugees to come into America.

His followers don’t want a calm and logical leader. To them, calm and logical is weakness.  They want a “hair-on-fire,” screaming, bigoted, “mad-man-with-a-chainsaw” leader.  To them, ignorance + cruelty = strength.

It never occurs to them that while such qualities may play well in an auditorium, they are not appropriate for the President of the United States. We may find the wild, crazy rebel romantically attractive, but when we wish to settle down, it’s with someone who is kind, thoughtful and logical.

Those who vote for mean-spirited bigots of outrageous action rather than leaders of intelligence and compassion, get exactly what they asked for.

They get the Joe McCarthys and the George Wallaces, the Hitlers and the Stalins, the Trumps and the Cruzes.

And then they suffer and wonder why.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

===================================================================================
Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D plus long term nursing care — for everyone (Click here)
3. Provide an Economic Bonus to every man, woman and child in America, and/or every state a per capita Economic Bonus. (Click here) Or institute a reverse income tax.
4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
5. Salary for attending school (Click here)
6. Eliminate corporate taxes (Click here)
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually Click here
8. Tax the very rich (.1%) more, with higher, progressive tax rates on all forms of income. (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here and here)

10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)

The Ten Steps will add dollars to the economy, stimulate the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.
——————————————————————————————————————————————

10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt

No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
1. A growing economy requires a growing supply of dollars (GDP=Federal Spending + Non-federal Spending + Net Exports)
2. All deficit spending grows the supply of dollars
3. The limit to federal deficit spending is an inflation that cannot be cured with interest rate control.
4. The limit to non-federal deficit spending is the ability to borrow.

THE RECESSION CLOCK

Recessions come only after the blue line drops below zero.

Monetary Sovereignty

Vertical gray bars mark recessions.

As the federal deficit growth lines drop, we approach recession, which will be cured only when the growth lines rise. Increasing federal deficit growth (aka “stimulus”) is necessary for long-term economic growth.

#MONETARYSOVEREIGNTY

Hitler redux

Twitter: @rodgermitchell; Search #monetarysovereignty
Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

Mitchell’s laws:
•Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
•Any monetarily NON-sovereign government — be it city, county, state or nation — that runs an ongoing trade deficit, eventually will run out of money.
•The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes..

•Liberals think the purpose of government is to protect the poor and powerless from the rich and powerful. Conservatives think the purpose of government is to protect the rich and powerful from the poor and powerless.

•The single most important problem in economics is the Gap between rich and the rest..
•Austerity is the government’s method for widening
the Gap between rich and poor.
•Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
•Everything in economics devolves to motive, and the motive is the Gap between the rich and the rest..

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If this doesn’t sound familiar to you, you probably are too young to remember or have read about World War II:

‘I will bomb your f*cking location’: Muslims face violent threats as Trump urges ban on mosques

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump helped fan the flames of anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of last week’s deadly terrorist attacks in Paris.

Trump renewed his call Monday morning to shut down mosques or at least place them under surveillance.

“You’re going to have to watch and study the mosques, because a lot of talk is going on at the mosques,” Trump said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” less than a month after telling Fox Business that “absolutely” shut down U.S. mosques to defeat Islamic State militants.

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Better yet, Trump, how about making them wear yellow armbands, then load them into boxcars and ship them to Auschwitz-Birkenau?

Oh, that’s been done? Maybe to Trump Towers?

“From what I heard in the old days, meaning a while ago, we had great surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City, and I understand our mayor totally cut that out, he totally cut it out,” Trump added, apparently referring to New York’s controversial racial and religious profiling investigation — which was discontinued after it resulted zero arrests or leads.

Here’s what the nation’s leading hate-monger brings. The roaches come out of the woodwork:

Police are investigating several threats made over the weekend against Muslim houses of worship.

A caller left a threatening voice mail message that referred to the massacre about 7 p.m. Friday at the Islamic Society of St. Petersburg, Florida — which canceled Sunday school over safety concerns.

“This act in France is the last straw,” the caller warned. “You’re going to f*cking die.”

“I personally have a militia that’s going to come down to your Islamic Society of Pinellas County and firebomb you, shoot whoever’s there on sight in the head,” the caller added. “I don’t care if they’re f*cking 2 years old or 100.”

In case you ever wondered how an entire nation — Germany — went mad with hatred, here is your answer:

Arsonists in Canada deliberately targeted a mosque Saturday night, investigators said. The fire caused about $80,000 in damage to the only mosque in Peterborough, Ontario, about half an hour after around 70 members were inside celebrating a birth.

“Mothers with little kids were there,” said Kenzu Abdella, president of the Kawartha Muslim Religious Association.

And then the Hitler wanna-be digs even deeper:

Donald Trump calls for ban on Muslims entering the U.S.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald J. Trump called for a total and complete ban on Muslims entering the United States, upping the ante of previous calls to profile Muslims and spy on mosques in the wake of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.

Mr. Trump cited polls that show at least some sympathy in the Muslim community for jihadists, including a Center for Security Policy survey that revealed 25 percent of Muslims agreed that violence against Americans was justified as part of a global jihad.

“Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension,” Mr. Trump said in a statement.

“Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine,” he continued.

The Center for Security Policy is a right-wing propaganda arm, whose data are, shall we say, suspect. But if Trump wants to know where the hatred comes from, he has only to listen to any of his speeches.

The man clearly is the most disgusting creature to run for President of the United States. By appealing to the most stupid and hate-obsessed among us, he has shamed America. Perhaps that is his way to “Make American Great Again,” by being as unAmerican as possible.

When Trump mentioned the idea at a rally here Monday night on board the USS Yorktown, he drew loud cheers from a massive crowd.

Again, I ask, who the heck are those people who made him the leading Republican?

Trump is evil, but sadly, he represents right-wing thought. Undoubtedly, there are loads of Republicans who will tell you, “He’s right.”

The polls tell that story.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

===================================================================================
Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D plus long term nursing care — for everyone (Click here)
3. Provide an Economic Bonus to every man, woman and child in America, and/or every state a per capita Economic Bonus. (Click here) Or institute a reverse income tax.
4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
5. Salary for attending school (Click here)
6. Eliminate corporate taxes (Click here)
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually Click here
8. Tax the very rich (.1%) more, with higher, progressive tax rates on all forms of income. (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here and here)

10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)

The Ten Steps will add dollars to the economy, stimulate the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.
——————————————————————————————————————————————

10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt

No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
1. A growing economy requires a growing supply of dollars (GDP=Federal Spending + Non-federal Spending + Net Exports)
2. All deficit spending grows the supply of dollars
3. The limit to federal deficit spending is an inflation that cannot be cured with interest rate control.
4. The limit to non-federal deficit spending is the ability to borrow.

THE RECESSION CLOCK

Recessions come only after the blue line drops below zero.

Monetary Sovereignty

Vertical gray bars mark recessions.

As the federal deficit growth lines drop, we approach recession, which will be cured only when the growth lines rise. Increasing federal deficit growth (aka “stimulus”) is necessary for long-term economic growth.

#MONETARYSOVEREIGNTY

Inequality: Begins with money. Doesn’t end there.

Twitter: @rodgermitchell; Search #monetarysovereignty
Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

Mitchell’s laws:
•Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
•Any monetarily NON-sovereign government — be it city, county, state or nation — that runs an ongoing trade deficit, eventually will run out of money.
•The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes..

•Liberals think the purpose of government is to protect the poor and powerless from the rich and powerful. Conservatives think the purpose of government is to protect the rich and powerful from the poor and powerless.

•The single most important problem in economics is the Gap between rich and the rest..
•Austerity is the government’s method for widening
the Gap between rich and poor.
•Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
•Everything in economics devolves to motive, and the motive is the Gap between the rich and the rest..

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It is my very strong believe that the single most important problem in economics is the Gap between rich and the rest..

It’s so important because it is not just a money Gap. It only begins with money.

Consider The Thirty Million Words Initiative:

Dr. Dana Suskindg grants the gift of sound to children who were born deaf or for any other reason, do not have the ability to hear.

In 2006 she founded the pediatric cochlear implant program at Comer Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago. If you’ve seen the YouTube videos of toddlers hearing their parents’ voices for the first time, you know it’s nothing short of transcendent.

When these children start to hear, the excitement really begins. The world as they’ve known it their entire lives is altered in an instant.

During follow-up appointments, however, Suskind began to notice disturbing discrepancies in her patients’ progress.

Two of her first patients, Zach and Michelle, received cochlear implants around their first birthdays. “Same potential, same surgery, but very different outcomes.”

Zach immediately soaked up sounds and words. By third grade, he was mainstreamed into a public school classroom and scored at grade level in reading and math.

Michelle, on the other hand, was reading only at a kindergarten level in third grade and used very little spoken or sign language. Her hearing was normal, but she struggled to grasp the meaning of most words and appeared unable to learn them, even with extra help.

(In searching for why), Suskind discovered research by psychologists Betty Hart and Todd Risley who had set out to investigate why lower-income children consistently underperformed at school, compared to their higher-income peers.

They refused to accept the conventional wisdom: “Poor people — It wasn’t in their genes to be smart.

Hart and Risley discovered that kids born into poverty heard, in their first three years of life, 30 million fewer words than those born into more affluent families.

And the words poorer children did hear (were less sophisticated and) consisted of more prohibitions (“Don’t”) and fewer affirmations (“Nice job”).

The article goes on to describe the heartbreak of children being condemned to lower IQ by the accident of their parents’ income — the tragedy of wasted potential.

The brainpower of a nation’s children benefits that nation. The “brain drain” includes not only smart people leaving a country, but the nation cheated out of its children’s intellectual potential.

By cutting benefits to the middle and lower classes — food stamps, Medicaid, unemployment compensation, good schooling — and by working to destroy unions (unionized employees earn more), the politicians cut America’s potential.

The rich may say the poor deserve their poverty, them being lazy (“If you give them anything, they won’t work”) and unmotivated, but that false belief works against America’s future competitiveness.

The single best way to “Make America Great Again” (as Donald Trump bellows), is to eliminate poverty and to lift the lower and middle-income groups. If Trump truly believed his own slogan, he would opt for the Ten Steps to Prosperity (below).

The income/wealth/power Gap translates into an education Gap, a health Gap, a creative Gap, a motivation Gap, an opportunity Gap and many other related Gaps, the narrowing of which would benefit all Americans.

In many respects, America is a team, where the contributions of each member benefit the whole.

The next time you feel resentful that the poor may be “receiving more than they have earned or deserve,” remember that their future contributions benefit you. This is what really makes America great.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

===================================================================================
Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D plus long term nursing care — for everyone (Click here)
3. Provide an Economic Bonus to every man, woman and child in America, and/or every state a per capita Economic Bonus. (Click here) Or institute a reverse income tax.
4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
5. Salary for attending school (Click here)
6. Eliminate corporate taxes (Click here)
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually Click here
8. Tax the very rich (.1%) more, with higher, progressive tax rates on all forms of income. (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here and here)

10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)

The Ten Steps will add dollars to the economy, stimulate the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and the rest.
——————————————————————————————————————————————

10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt

No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
1. A growing economy requires a growing supply of dollars (GDP=Federal Spending + Non-federal Spending + Net Exports)
2. All deficit spending grows the supply of dollars
3. The limit to federal deficit spending is an inflation that cannot be cured with interest rate control.
4. The limit to non-federal deficit spending is the ability to borrow.

THE RECESSION CLOCK

Recessions come after the blue line drops below zero.

Monetary Sovereignty

Vertical gray bars mark recessions.

As the federal deficit growth lines drop, we approach recession, which will be cured only when the growth lines rise. Increasing federal deficit growth (aka “stimulus”) is necessary for long-term economic growth.

#MONETARYSOVEREIGNTY