–The single most important characteristic for the President of the United States of America

Mitchell’s laws: The more budgets are cut and taxes inceased, the weaker an economy becomes. To survive long term, a monetarily non-sovereign government must have a positive balance of payments. Austerity = poverty and leads to civil disorder. Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
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You may think you know the most important characteristics for being President of the United States. You may be wrong.

Perhaps you think honesty and intelligence count. Not at all.

Or you might think understanding America’s past and concern for America’s future are important. Or having an understanding of the military and of economics? Not a chance.

What about a strong desire to help the under-classes — you know those tired, those poor, those huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of a teeming shore, the homeless and tempest-tost? Ah, who cares about them?

What about having a clear vision for economic growth? Solid plans to help people achieve “the American dream?” Consistency of message? Naw. Not important.

The single most important criterion (according to “Christian conservatives”) is the determination to prevent gay people from finding happiness in marriage.

Washington Post
Obama gay marriage endorsement mobilizes Christian conservatives
By Dan Eggen and Sandhya Somashekhar, Published: May 11

President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage is energizing Christian conservative support for Mitt Romney in a way that the likely GOP nominee has so far not been able to do on his own, according to religious leaders and activists.

Pastors in Ohio, North Carolina, Florida and other swing states are readying Sunday sermons inveighing against same-sex unions,. . .

And here, you probably thought that to maintain its tax-exempt status, a religious organization could not engage in politics. Laws don’t count for right-wing Christian extremists, except for the single most important law of all (the 2nd Amendment).

. . . while activist groups have begun laying plans for social media campaigns, leaflet drives and other get-out-the-vote efforts centered on the same-sex marriage issue. Romney could benefit from a strong turnout among evangelicals and other social conservatives, many of whom remain skeptical of his commitment to their causes.

“So many people were rather lukewarm toward governor Romney and were really looking for some more tangible reasons to support him,” said Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values, who led the ballot drive that banned gay marriage in Ohio in 2004. “Then lo and behold, it just fell out of the sky when Obama came out and endorsed same-sex marriage. . . . We are going to make this our key issue: the attack on marriage.”

The National Organization for Marriage, a leading anti-gay-marriage group, lashed out at Obama after his announcement and promised to campaign against him “ceaselessly” in swing states.

As one can see, the single most important qualification for President is the desire to prevent two people, who love each other, from achieving happiness.

You of the so-called “religious” right (America’s version of the Taliban), insist that gay marriage violates the bible, and so should be prevented and punished. I agree. While gay marriage is not mentioned in the bible, male gay cohabitation is.

So, for consistency and for all our benefit, I publish below a list of other biblical rules we should insist every candidate follow. Obviously, we “religious” folk already follow these rules; otherwise we’d just be a bunch of mean-spirited hypocrites, injuring people for our own amusement. Right?

Leviticus 20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death

Exodus 21:17 Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.

Exodus 22:19 Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.

Exodus 31:15 Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

Leviticus 20:10 If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife — with the wife of his neighbor — both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.

Bad news for Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain and just a “few” others.

Leviticus 20:11 If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman are to be put to death

Leviticus 20:12 If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death

Leviticus 20:27 A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death.

Leviticus 24:16 anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD is to be put to death.

OMG!

Numbers 1:51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall do it. Anyone else who approaches it is to be put to death.

Deueronomy 25:11-16. When two men are fighting and the wife of one intervenes to save her husband from the blows of his opponent, if she stretches out her hand and seizes the latter by his genitals, you shall chop off her hand; show no pity.

I should mention this last law is one of my favorites.

You shall not keep two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and the other light; nor shall you keep two different ephahs in your house, one large and the other small.

Leviticus 19:19 Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed.

27-28; Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard. Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves.

Genesis 17:11 You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.

I do hope all you “religious” conservatives voluntarily have been circumcised. Don’t make us pass a law requiring you to do it.

Deuteronomy 17:12 Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the LORD your God is to be put to death.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death.

Deuteronomy 22:5 A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.

Deuteronomy 22:9-11 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together. Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

Deuteronomy 22:23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife.

Deuteronomy 23:20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite.

Deuteronomy 24:5 If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him.

Deuteronomy 25:4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

Let’s get busy, “religious” right. There are plenty of biblical restrictions to enforce — usually by putting someone to death. Let’s clean up this nation. Put sinners to death. Follow the bible, strictly. Remember, you’re the Christian right. Don’t let the Islamic Taliban show you up.

And above all, don’t let anyone different from you, find happiness.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
http://www.rodgermitchell.com

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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. Two key equations in economics:
Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment and Consumption + Net exports

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–Everything you need to know about the Tea/Republican Party, in 5 short paragraphs

Much has been written about the Republican Party’s takeover by the Tea Party and the “religious” right wing, but the following may put it all in simple perspective:

House Republicans pass sweeping domestic cuts, spare Pentagon
By Lisa Mascaro
Tribune Washington Bureau
3:10 p.m. CDT, May 10, 2012

1. WASHINGTON _ House Republicans approved a sweeping package of budget cuts to food stamps, Meals on Wheels and other domestic programs _ while sparing the Pentagon _ in an election-year showcase of party priorities.

2. Democrats overwhelmingly opposed the legislation, which is expected to stall in the Senate, but House Speaker John A. Boehner’s decision to call a vote gives the GOP an opportunity to highlight its agenda and attack President Barack Obama’s efforts to reduce the deficit. The bill was approved on party lines, 218-199.

The Tea/Republicans know the bill will be defeated in the Senate, and if not, vetoed by President Obama. So why did they vote for it — unanimously? They wish to demonstrate to the lunatic right-wing fringe that they are opposed to anything that helps the poor.

You don’t believe it? Read on.

3. The legislation is “literally taking food out of the mouth of babies” while continuing tax breaks for the wealthy, said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the minority leader. The cuts would replace across-the-board reductions to both defense and non-security programs that had been agreed to as part of last summer’s debt-ceiling deal with the White House.

That terrible debt-ceiling deal was forced by the Tea/Republicans. But now, they can’t even live up to their own agreements. First they demand a disastrous deficit cut. Then when the Democrats cave, the Republicans up their demands, to cut anything that helps the 99%. The military is spared only because the 1% own the industrial complex that supplies the military.

4. Republicans countered they were tackling the nation’s deficit problems while preventing steep military cuts that Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has said would be devastating.

5. “Were hearing lots of comments about how this hurts people, how this hurts the poor,” said Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the House Budget Committee chairman. “Let’s take a look at our poverty-fighting efforts. … These programs aren’t working.”

This is the same heartless bullsh*t the Tea/Republicans use when discussing the deficit. If money is spent on a problem (recession or poverty) and the problem isn’t 100% cured, the Tea/Republicans claim the money spent “didn’t work.” They said the stimuli “didn’t work,” because we’re still fighting the recession, not admitting that without the stimuli we’d be in the depths of a depression.

According to the lunatic Tea/Republican fringe, reneging on agreements you yourself forced, then cutting federal spending, will stimulate the economy and help the poor. I used to say this merely reflected ignorance of Monetary Sovereignty — indeed of all economics — but no more. It is a calculated effort to increase the gap between the rich and the not-as-rich, bought and paid for the Koch brothers et al.

You now know everything you need to know about the Tea/Republicans.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
http://www.rodgermitchell.com

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–Will the NATO summit in Chicago be peaceful or will there be riots?

Already, millions have been spent on preparations for this extravaganza. Is the summit worth the cost, inconvenience and danger?

npr

In a little more than a week, thousands of dignitaries, protesters and media are expected to pour into the city as world leaders gather to discuss the future of Afghanistan, and any evolving threats. Chicago officials and protesters alike say they’re ready.

They’re ready for what? Does this sound peaceful?

Protest Groups Detail Plans For NATO Summit
May 10, 2012 1:31 PM

CHICAGO (CBS) – Activists planning anti-NATO protests, marches, concerts and counter-summits gathered Thursday at the headquarters of Occupy Chicago to discuss a week’s worth of events leading up to the NATO summit on May 20 and 21.

WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports, with the permit hassles protesters have been having with city officials, protest organizer Andy Thayer said he’s looking for some presidential intervention.

“This president has got to say to Rahm Emanuel, ‘Cut the hell out, guarantee people’s First Amendment rights in the city of Chicago,” Thayer said. “In terms of public convergence, the last time I checked, the First Amendment had not been annulled in the city of Chicago, and so people should feel free to walk the streets.”

Occupy Chicago representative Rachael Perrotta said the First Amendment is the only permit the group needs to stage protests, so the group won’t be seeking any permits for their events protesting the NATO summit. Occupy Chicago will join forces with the Anti-Nato Coalition to stage a weeklong series of demonstrations and forums, addressing issues ranging from foreclosures to immigration reform, and from education to the environment.

From May 18 to May 20, organizers plan to stage a so-called “barefoot summit” at the Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park – a kind of Chicago Woodstock with local bands, poetry readings, and speeches

Given the enormous cost, the massive inconvenience to the residents of Chicago and the real danger of turmoil, what is the purpose of the NATO summit? Here’s what NATO says:

NATO’s 25th summit meeting

At the Chicago Summit, 20-21 May 2012, NATO will drive forward key principles and policies that will shape the Alliance of 2020 and beyond. It will deliver on decisions taken at the Lisbon Summit in November 2010, turning them into concrete programmes and initiatives.

Allies will commit to maintain the necessary capabilities and to developing cooperation and dialogue with partners. And at a time of austerity, it will be a question of striking the right balance between fulfilling NATO’s shared responsibilities and balancing national budgets.

The summit will principally focus on three main themes:

–the Alliance’s commitment to Afghanistan through transition and beyond;

–ensuring the Alliance has the capabilities it needs to defend its population and territory and to deal with the challenges of the 21st century; and

—strengthening NATO’s network of partners across the globe.

NATO is an essential source of stability. In order to maintain its capacity to safeguard the security and values of its members, it needs to continue developing the means to do so and building partnerships beyond the North Atlantic region.

Considering the massive cost and inconvenience, and the real danger of assembling so many high ranking people in one building, I have two questions:

1. Haven’t you been discussing these things every day for the past couple of years?
2. Have you people never heard of video conferencing?

We now live in the 21st century. The world has changed. Even teenagers know how to communicate electronically. Is a physical summit the smartest way for thousands of dignitaries to meet?

Really?

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
http://www.rodgermitchell.com

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–What caused an entire nation to go insane, and can that happen here?

As I have read about, and listened to, the Tea/Republicans, I wondered to myself, “Would it be possible for our entire nation to go insane?”

During bad economic times, people seek the comfort of “law and order” and they look for someone to blame for their troubles. The Tea/Republican Party, understanding the dementia that comes with human dissatisfaction, has done everything possible to prevent the U.S. from coming out of the recession (remember “the party of ‘No’?”).

It has blocked every initiative that would have helped end the recession and the widening gap between the 1% and the 99% (advocating low taxes for the rich, while demanding cuts in Social Securty, Medicare and Medicaid).

It has claimed stimuli “didn’t work,” based on the reality that though the stimuli helped greatly (without them we would have slipped into depression), the Tea/Republicans made sure the stimuli were not large enough for a cure.

The Tea/Republicans fielded a group of candidates unparalleled for incompetence and pure craziness (Cain, Perry, Gingrich, Santorum and Bachmann) all of whom expressed extreme “solutions” the voters, in desparation, grabbed for.

And finally, the Tea/Republicans settled on Mitt Romney, a candidate having no beliefs whatsoever.

With millions of people prepared to vote Tea/Republican (Indiana just did), it seems clear an entire political party – even our whole nation – can go completely insane. It has happened before.

In the late 1930’s Germany went insane, under much the same circumstances as we have here. See these excerpts from Wikipedia and elsewhere:

During 1921 and 1922, the Nazi Party grew significantly, partly through Hitler’s oratorical skills, partly through the SA’s (brownshirts) appeal to unemployed young men, and partly because there was a backlash against socialist and liberal politics in Bavaria as Germany’s economic problems deepened and the weakness of the Weimar regime became apparent.

The Nazi Party might never have come to power had it not been for the Great Depression and its effects on Germany. By 1930 the German economy was beset with mass unemployment and widespread business failures.

Today in America, we have a backlash against socialism (aka “big government”), unemployment, widespread business failures and the seeming weakness of the Obama regime.

The inability of the democratic parties to form a united front and the continued decline of the economy, all played into Hitler’s hands. Some major business figures such as Fritz Thyssen were Nazi supporters and gave generously.

In the U.S. we have the inability of the two major parties to work together, and major business figures such as Sheldon Adelson, Foster Friess, Harold Simmons and the Koch brothers giving generously to right wing causes.

During 1931 and into 1932, Germany’s political crisis deepened. By now the nazi brown shirts had 400,000 members, and its running street battles with the other party paramilitaries (who also fought each other) reduced some German cities to combat zones.

Paradoxically, although the Nazis were among the main instigators of this disorder, part of Hitler’s appeal to a frightened and demoralized middle class was his promise to restore law and order.

The America street battles have just begun. The various protest groups, many loosely united under the “Occupy” banner, plan for bigger demonstrations. Chicago’s NATO summit is a target for even greater demonstrations. If (when?) these demonstrations become violent, our frightened and demoralized middle class will demand a stronger police response, to restore law and order.

Germans voted for Hitler primarily because of his promises to revive the economy (by unspecified means).

The Tea/Republicans never have specified how they would revive the economy. Certainly, their plans to cut Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid would hurt the economy.

In 1933 Adolf Hitler abolished labor unions and political parties, and imprisoned their political opponents, first at improvised camps, then in concentration camps. Nazism had been established.

American right wing attempts to hamstring, then abolish labor unions, already have begun. See:

Scott Walker Told Billionaire That He’d ‘Divide And Conquer’ Unions

A new video has surfaced in which Governor Scott Walker promises a wealthy Koch brothers ally that he will use a “divide and conquer” strategy to turn Wisconsin into a “right to work” state. The video, which was filmed by Brad Lichtenstein on January 18, 2011, directly contradicts Walker’s repeated claims that he has no interest in pushing anti-Union legislation.

In the video, Diane Hendricks — a billionaire roofing-supply magnate who has close ties to the Koch brothers — asks Walker whether he could “work on these unions” and make Wisconsin a “right-to-work state.”

“Oh yeah,” Walker responds. “We’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is, we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.”

Governor Walker was handsomely rewarded for his promise; since the video was filmed, Hendricks has given Walker’s campaign $510,000. According to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, this makes her Walker’s biggest supporter, and the largest known donor to any candidate in Wisconsin history.

Now back to Nazi Germany:

Initially, there was much indifference surrounding anti-Semitism. (But) a denunciation system was put in place, which relied on the people of Germany to turn in Jews and others who were not “suitable” for the German population.

This system offered a great deal of incentive for people – if they turned in others, they eliminated the possibility of being persecuted themselves. The officers who were in charge of monitoring the denunciations became so overwhelmed with the multitude of cases they faced on a daily basis, that they began to take people for their word without looking further into the cases.

Think of the anti-alien laws being passed in the American South, where it has become illegal knowingly to hire an undocumented alien. Citizens are encouraged (required?) to turn them in to the police. The police can detain people whom the police (with no evidence whatsoever) believe are illegal, so accusing someone of being illegal is sufficient for their arrest.

Thus, many people were denounced without just cause, and sent to concentration camps to die. For whatever personal reasons people rapidly began to take to this system, the important fact is that it worked. People liked being in control of who was in their neighborhood. Plus, they were offered financial incentives in many cases. A denunciation, reliable or not, could be worth a great deal of money. And at a time where money was scarce, people did anything they could to get their hands on cash.

So far, no reward system in America, but do not be surprised if that comes soon. (“Receive a reward for turning in an illegal alien.”)

Convinced that a plot was afoot to depose him, Hitler ordered the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Gestapo to assassinate his political enemies both in and outside the Nazi Party (the “Night of the Long Knives”) which resulted in up to 200 deaths. While some Germans were shocked by the killing, others admired Hitler’s decisive actions to restore order.

When a recession or depression makes people feel they have lost control over their lives, they seek to regain control through law and order, and by taking action against scapegoats.

Thus, has the Tea/Republican party taken advantage of the basest human instincts. We are no better than the Germans. They, like us, were good, honest, hard-working people, trapped in a depressed economy, and searching for some way out.

Partly, it was the “Anything-is-better-than-this syndrome. (Here, it’s “Anybody-is-better-than-Obama.”) And partly, Germans had an urgent need for a scapegoat. In their case it was the Jews; In America, it’s the illegal aliens, gays and the rich.

Those good, honest, hard-working Germans became so emotional, they even overlooked mass murder, in order to improve their lives. That is how crazed good people can become.

The Tea/Republicans have nothing logical to offer America. There is no mechanism by which cutting the deficit or deporting aliens can cure the recession or improve our lives. None. Yet our good, honest, hard-working (unemployed) people are willing to vote for anything, no matter how destructive and irrational, so long as it is different.

And that is the way any nation can become crazed. We are no exception. I see it creeping into Kansas, into Indiana and into the entire South, where those who claim to be most religious also are least tolerant, the most filled with hatred.

All we lack now is a great orator like Hitler was, to turn our entire nation insane. We are living on a razor’s edge.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
http://www.rodgermitchell.com

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