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–Does our doublethink about immigration, cause you cognitive dissonance?

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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 poor.
•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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Does our doublethink about immigration, cause you cognitive dissonance?

Doublethink: Doublethink is the act of ordinary people simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct.
Cognitive dissonance: Contradictory beliefs causing conflict in one’s mind.

Consider Donald Trump’s comments about immigrants and jobs: July, 2015:

Trump in Phoenix: Mexicans Are Coming to Take Your Jobs

“I love the Mexican people … I respect Mexico … but the problem we have is that their leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our leaders, and they’re killing us at the border. They’re taking our jobs. They’re taking our manufacturing jobs. They’re taking our money. They’re killing us.””

Do you agree with Trump that immigrants “are taking our jobs.”

Or consider Donald Trump’s comments about immigrants and jobs: September, 2015

“I want people to come into our country legally. I want to have a big fat beautiful open door. I want people of great talent to come in for Silicon Valley. I want engineers. I want physicists. We want people of great talent to be in the United States work here and ultimately to become a citizen.”

“[Immigration] also can be a very positive subject, because I believe so strongly in immigration and we have to stop illegal immigration and we have to look forward to great immigration done in a legal manner.”

Do you agree with Trump that we want talented and smart immigrants to take America’s engineering and physics jobs? Do you feel it is better that those jobs, rather than more menial jobs, to be taken by immigrants?

Do you see any contradiction between concern about immigrants taking jobs and wanting more immigrants to take high-end jobs?

Or consider Donald Trump’s comments about immigrants and welfare:

End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.

Do you agree with Trump that immigration should be limited to immigrants who already have well-paying jobs in the U.S., and that poor people or immigrants without well-paying jobs should not be allowed to enter the U.S.?

Consider Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte’s comments:

The United States of America is extremely hospitable to immigrants, asylees, and refugees. Our nation’s record of generosity and compassion to people in need of protection from war, anarchy, natural disaster, and persecution is exemplary and easily the best in the world.

Do you agree that our record of generosity and compassion is the best in the world?

Compare your belief with Trump’s comments:

A nation without borders is not a nation. There must be a wall across the southern border.

And this:

Germany can cope with at least 500,000 asylum seekers a year for several years, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said.

Hungary’s conservative leadership is building a border fence to try to keep (immigrants out, but German politicians have expressed pride in crowds who turned out to welcome new arrivals.

And this:

Between 2012 and 2013, the (U.S.)foreign-born population increased by about 523,000.

The population of Germany is 1/4 that of the U.S. In area, Germany is smaller than the state of Montana.

Is our generosity and compassion really the best in the world?

And finally, we come to this:

Top 10 MYTHS About Immigration

Myth 1. Immigrants don’t pay taxes.
(Source: http://www.immigrationforum.org/about/articles/tax_study.htm)

Myth 2. Immigrants come here to take welfare.
(Source: “Questioning Immigration Policy – Can We Afford to Open Our Arms?”, Friends Committee on National Legislation Document #G-606-DOM, January 25, 1996. http:www.fas.org/pub/gen/fcnl/immigra.html )

Myth 3. Immigrants send all their money back to their home countries.
(Source: http://www.cato.org/research/articles/griswold-020218.html)

Myth 4. Immigrants take jobs and opportunity away from Americans.
(Source: Richard Vedder, Lowell Gallaway, and Stephen Moore, Immigration and Unemployment: New Evidence, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Arlington, VA (Mar. 1994), p. 13.)

Myth 5. Immigrants are a drain on the U.S. economy.
(Source: Andrew Sum, Mykhaylo Trubskyy, Ishwar Khatiwada, et al., Immigrant Workers in the New England Labor Market: Implications for Workforce Development Policy, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, Prepared for the New England Regional Office, the Employment and Training Administration, and the U.S. Department of Labor, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2002. http://www.nupr.neu.edu/11-02/immigration.PDF)

Myth 6. Immigrants don’t want to learn English or become Americans.
(Source: American Immigration Lawyers Association, Myths & Facts in the Immigration Debate”, 8/14/03. http://www.aila.org/contentViewer.aspx?bc=17,142#section4)
(Source: Simon Romero and Janet Elder, “Hispanics in the US Report Optimism” New York Times, Aug. 6, 2003)

Myth 7. Today’s immigrants are different than those of 100 years ago.
(Source: Census Data: http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/censr-4.pdf)

Myth 8. Most immigrants cross the border illegally.
(Source: Department of Homeland Security http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/index.htm)

Myth 9. Weak U.S. border enforcement has led to high undocumented immigration.
(Source: Immigration and Naturalization website:http://www.ncjrs.org/ondcppubs/publications/enforce/border/ins_3.html)

Myth 10. The war on terrorism can be won through immigration restrictions.
(Source: Associated Press/Dow Jones Newswires, “US Senate Subcommittee Hears Immigration Testimony”, Oct. 17, 2001.)
(Source: Cato Institute: “Don’t Blame Immigrants for Terrorism”, Daniel Griswold, Assoc. Director of Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies http://www.cato.org/dailys/10-23-01.html)

Do you think immigration laws should be changed to make immigration easier or more difficult? Why?

Which brings us to the title question: Does our doublethink about immigration, cause you cognitive dissonance?

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
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
Monetary Sovereignty

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

–“The only thing that stops a bad guy . . . “

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 poor.
•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 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Wayne LaPierre, NRA: The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun.

We Almost Had 3 Mass Shootings Last Week

Vester Flanagan opened fire on two journalists on live television in Virginia.

Eighteen hours earlier in neighboring West Virginia, a boy walked into his high-school and pointed a pistol at his teacher’s head.

Forty-five hours before that, Boston police announced they stopped two men from massacring a Pokemon convention.

It is not known whether Flanagan belonged to a well-regulated militia that is protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims were good guys who should have had guns to shoot back.

It’s Called Gendercide Armed Husbands Shoot Eight Women In One Week, Six Die

While the nation was trying to digest the crime of two media members killed on camera in Virginia by a legal gun owner, a spate of women killed by enraged armed husbands in one week received less notice.

James Terry Colley, Jr. shot and killed his wife Amanda Cloaninger and her friend Lindy Dobbins in St. Augustine, Florida on August 27 say police.

It is not known whether Colley belonged to a well-regulated militia that is protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims were good guys who should have had guns to shoot back.

Blessing Okereke was fatally shot in the Bank of America tower in Oak Cliff in Dallas by her husband say police. Husband David Thompson told police he believed his wife was reaching for his pistol, so he shot her in self-defense. Right.

August 30, Nuria N. Kudlach was fatally shot at her home in State College, PA and her husband was charged with first- and third-degree murder.

It is not known whether Okereke or Kudlach belonged to well-regulated militias that are protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims were good guys who should have had guns to shoot back.

The next day, August 31, Sonja Wells Raine was fatally shot on her job in Pascagoula, MS by her enraged husband according to police.

Raine’s “sister got killed the same way by her boyfriend or husband, so that is shocking,” said co-worker Kim Pinkney.

The next day, September 1, 76-year-old Norman McKinney of Erwin, Tennessee, allegedly killed his wife of 30 years. McKinney was elderly, “had two or three strokes” and other “medical issues” and couldn’t even dial a phone explained the sheriff.

It is not known whether Raine or McKinney belonged to well-regulated militias that are protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims were good guys who should have had guns to shoot back.

Thirty-three thousand people were killed by guns in America in 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control, a rate that’s higher than any other developed country on the planet.

It is not known whether the shooters belong to well-regulated militias that are protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims were good guys who should have had guns to shoot back.

Between last Friday, July 17, and Thursday, July 23, there were at least 15 reports of murder-suicides committed with guns in the United States:

  • Friday, July 17, Chicago. A 38-year-old man is believed to have shot and stabbed his 72-year-old father and his 29-year-old brother at the father’s home, killing them, before shooting and killing himself.
  • Friday, July 17, Monrovia, California. A 35-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 37-year-old wife before killing himself.
  • Friday, July 17, Norman, Oklahoma. A man is believed to have shot and killed his ex-wife and then killed himself in a hospital parking lot. The woman was at the hospital visiting her mother.
  • Friday, July 17, Perry Hall, Maryland. A 47-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 12- and 10-year-old sons before killing himself.
  • Friday, July 17, Mauldin, South Carolina. A 34-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 37-year-old brother before killing himself.
  • Saturday, July 18, North Ridgeville, Ohio. A 65-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 62-year-old wife before killing himself. The woman may have been protecting the couple’s disabled 26-year-old daughter when she was shot.
  • Saturday, July 18, Tampa. A 32-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 23-year-old girlfriend at a hotel before killing himself.
  • Sunday, July 19, Grady County, Georgia. A 55-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his estranged 39-year-old wife at her home, then to have driven to his home and killed himself.
  • Tuesday, July 21, Bear, Delaware. A 35-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed a 34-year-old woman before killing himself.
  • Tuesday, July 21, Amherst, New York. A 53-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 55-year-old wife before killing himself.
  • Tuesday, July 21, Walnut Creek, California. A 21-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed a 19-year-old woman at her parents’ house before killing himself.
  • Wednesday, July 22, Jacksonville, North Carolina. A 69-year-old man is believed to have shot and killed his 68-year-old wife before killing himself.
  • Wednesday, July 22, Suwanee, Georgia. A man is believed to have shot and killed his wife and her two sons before killing himself. He also shot and injured his wife’s father.
  • Thursday, July 23, Vallejo, California. A man is believed to have shot and killed his ex-wife and injured another man before killing himself.
  • Thursday, July 23, Mason County, Washington. A 52-year-old man is believed to have killed a 17-month-old child before killing himself.

It is not known whether the shooters belonged to well-regulated militias that are protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims (including the 17-month-old) were good guys who should have carried guns to shoot back.

And then there are just some of the school shootings since 2010:

  • 14-year-old Hammad Memon shot to death 14-year-old Todd Brown in a crowded school hallway of Discovery Middle School, during changing of classes. The shooting was possibly motivated by gang activities.
  • Amy Bishop Anderson, a biology professor, shot and killed three of her colleagues and wounded three others during a faculty meeting.
  • At eer Creek Middle School Bruco Eastwood opened fire from a Winchester Model 70 rifle in a parking lot. Two eight-grade students, one female and one male, were both shot and wounded.
  • Two students were shot and wounded in front of Mumford High School. A 17-year-old man, Steven Jamal Hare, was tried as an adult and charged with assault with intent to kill.
  • 15-year-old student Jose Daniel Cisneros was shot to death on an athletic field at Alisal High School. Cisneros was walking to the school campus at 8 a.m., and was shot multiple times.
  • Samuel Hengel, 15, took 23 students and a teacher hostage inside a classroom of Marinette High School for five hours. (When) police entered the building, Hengel shot himself in the head. He died the next day.
  • Outside Aurora Central High School, a 17-year-old girl was shot and wounded. The wounds caused her to be paralyzed. Luis Enrique Guzman-Rincon, 20, fired shots from a car while students were standing outside the high school.
  • At Millard South High School, student Robert Butler Jr., 18, shot and killed Assistant Principal Dr. Vicki Kaspar, and wounded Principal Curtis Case.
  • Schnell Elementary School Principal Sam Lacara is shot to death in his office, by John Luebbers, a custodial employee at the school.
  • Michael Phelps, a 15-year-old suspended student, returned to Martinsville West Middle School. In the entrance of the school, Phelps shot 15-year-old Chance Jackson twice in the abdomen.
  • Multiple gunmen opened fire during a powder puff football game at Worthing High School. One man, an 18-year-old former student named Tremaine De Ante’ Paul, died. Five other people received injuries.
  • A 14-year-old male student is accused of firing a handgun on the campus of Highlands Intermediate School, wounding one student.
  • A 15-year-old girl was shot in the neck at Cape Fear High School. A student of the school,15-year-old Charles Underwood, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.
  • Ross Truett Ashley, 22, a part-time business student at Radford University, shot and killed a police officer engaged in an unrelated traffic stop on the campus of Virginia Tech, then committed suicide in a nearby parking lot.
  • One student was shot and injured after another student opened fire at North Forest High School. The student said that he was being confronted by three other students who were bullying him, and he took out a handgun and fired at them in self-defense.
  • Third-grader Amina Kocer-Bowman was accidentally shot when a fellow student brought a 9mm handgun to school and it went off when he dropped his backpack. She survived after 6 weeks in the hospital and a surgery to remove the bullet from her spine.
  • Thomas “T. J.” Lane, 17, took a Ruger MK III,.22 caliber Semi-automatic pistol and a knife to Chardon High School and fired ten shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. Three students died in the attack. Three other students were injured.
  • At Episcopal School of Jacksonville, fired Spanish teacher Shane Schumerth, 28, shot and killed head of school Dale Regan before committing suicide.
  • One L. Goh was accused of shooting to death seven students and wounding three others in a classroom at Oikos University.
  • A Carrboro man was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman in front of Mary Scroggs Elementary School.
  • Two Hamilton High School students were shot and wounded in the parking lot of the school.
  • Robert Gladden, 15, took a double barrel shotgu to Perry Hall High School and fired two shots inside the school cafeteria. A 17-year-old senior was hit in the lower back while he was sitting at a table and suffered critical wounds.
  • A student fired multiple gunshots in the ceiling of Normal Community High School, and was tackled by a teacher.
  • At a Halloween party on the University of Southern California campus, an argument escalated and a man pulled out a handgun and shot a rival gang member, Geno Hall, seven times, critically wounding him.
  • Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Adam Lanza, aged 20, killed 26 people and himself. He first killed his mother at their shared home before taking her guns and driving to the school.
  • Shots were fired at Apostolic Revival Center Christian School, leaving 27-year-old Kristopher Smith dead in what was believed to be a retaliation killing, possibly for talking with police about a previous incident.
  • A gunman entered a science classroom of Taft Union High School with a 12 gauge shotgun and opened fire. A 16-year-old male student, identified as Bowe Cleveland, was shot in the chest and critically wounded.
  • A gunman shot an administrator in his office on the fourth floor of Stevens Institute of Business and Arts, wounding him. The suspected gunman, Sean Johnson, a part-time student, shot and wounded himself on a stairwell.
  • Two people were shot and killed and a third person was wounded at the parking lot of Hazard Community and Technical College. The third victim, 12-year-old Taylor Cornett, died from her wounds the next day. 21-year-old Dalton Lee Stidham was arrested and charged with three counts of murder.
  • A 17-year-old boy, Tyrone Lawson, was shot to death in a parking lot of Chicago State University.
  • Between the Library and Academic Building outside of Lone Star College–North Harris, two men got into an argument and one of the men pulled out a gun and shot the other man, a student.
  • An argument over turf and respect between two rival gangs escalated to what police now describe as a “gun battle” in January at Cesar Chavez High School in Phoenix.
  • A 14-year-old male student was shot and wounded in the back of the neck at Price Middle School. The gunman, a student, was believed to be arguing with the other student before taking out a handgun and firing multiple shots at him.
  • Two women were wounded during a shooting at the campus of New River Community College. Neil Allen MacInnis was taken into custody.
  • At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a campus police officer was shot multiple times.
  • Allegedly responding to a student fight, a parent brought and fired a weapon on the campus of Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School. No one was injured.
  • Six people, including the shooter died and four others were wounded at or near the campus of Santa Monica College when a lone gunman opened fire on the school campus library after shooting at several cars and a city bus at separate crime scenes.
  • Two custodians at Alexander W. Dreyfoos School were shot and killed. A third custodian was suspected in the killings .
  • A man with an AK-47 fired six shots inside the front office of Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, an elementary school. After the gunman fired the shots, he barricaded himself in the office and police at the scene returned fire.
  • A student, Roderick Bobo, 15, was shot during a football game at North Panola High School in what was termed as a gang-related shooting.
  • A 15-year-old male student was shot in the neck and shoulder at Carver High School (North Carolina). An 18-year-old male student was apprehended by a school resource officer without incident.
  • A 16-year-old student was shot in the hip at Agape Christian Academy after a fight broke out at 2 pm.
  • 12-year-old seventh-grade student Jose Reyes opened fire with a semi-automatic handgun at the basketball courts of Sparks Middle School, injuring one student in the shoulder. A teacher, Michael Landsberry, who was trying to intervene with the gunman was then shot and killed by Reyes, as he was standing on a playground.
  • A 21-year-old student was shot and wounded at North Carolina A&T State University.
  • A Stephenson High School student and a janitor were shot in an apparent confrontation between team members and a group of teens who were not attending the school.
  • After classes ended, at least one gunman came out of the woods and opened fire on three students as they were walking to their cars at Brashear High School. One student was grazed in the head, another was struck in the neck and shoulder, and a third was hit in the leg and foot.
  • A 15-year-old student was shot and wounded by a 17-year-old student near a soccer field on the campus of West Orange High School (Winter Garden, Florida). The shooting occurred after a fight broke out between the two students.
  • 18-year-old Karl Pierson shot 17-year-old student Claire Davis in the head, fatally injuring her, in a hallway in Arapahoe High School (Centennial, Colorado).
  • Four teens went into Edison High School (Fresno, California) in what was believed as a gang-initiation process. After accosting a 62-year-old woman about a mile away from school grounds, they found an athletic trainer who taught at Edison High and shot him several times in the leg and stomach.
  • A student was charged with bringing a gun to school at Liberty Technology Magnet High School and shooting a classmate in the thigh.
  • A 14-year-old boy was shot outside of a basketball game at the Hillhouse High School athletic facility, suffering wounds in his hand and leg.<
  • Two people were shot and wounded inside the gymnasium of Berrendo Middle School, at about 8:10 am. An 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were airlifted to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas in critical condition. The 12-year-old suspected shooter, Mason Campbell, a seventh grade student, was apprehended at the scene after he was talked down by a staff member and dropped the shotgun.
  • A student allegedly shot two other students in the gymnasium at Delaware Valley Charter School.
  • One person was shot and critically injured at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania.
  • A 21-year-old student, Andrew Boldt, was shot and killed in a classroom building on the campus of Purdue University. A suspect, 24-year-old student Cody Cousins, was arrested and charged with murder.
  • A 20-year-old student was shot and killed at South Carolina State University. A 19-year-old was arrested and charged with murder.
  • A man was shot and killed at Los Angeles Valley College. Two suspects were arrested in the fatal shooting.
  • A group of students at Rebound High School got in an argument in the school’s parking lot. One student pulled out a gun and shot another student in the ensuing altercation.
  • One student was shot in the leg in an apparent altercation over a gambling debt at Tennessee State University.
  • Three students were fighting in a parking lot of Eastern Florida State College and one pulled out a gun and shot another of the students. All three student claimed self-defense.
  • After a basketball game at North High School (Des Moines), there was gunfire in a parking lot of the school.
  • |A 16-year-old student was shot in the stomach on the campus of Salisbury High School (North Carolina) during a dispute in the school gym. 17-year-old suspect was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
  • Five shots were fired in the parking lot of Charles F. Brush High School, including one which hit an unoccupied police car.
  • A male victim was shot in the back in a possible gang-related drive-by shooting near the University of Southern California. The suspect fled into the University Campus.
  • An elementary school teacher was shot and killed outside The Academy of Knowledge Preschool.
  • An argument between students led to shots being fired in a Benjamin Banneker High School (Georgia) parking lot during the afternoon.
  • Just after the lunch hour, at D. H. Conley High School, a car drove past the school and witnesses said an occupant reached out of a car window and fired shots in the direction of the school.
  • After a Friday evening student awards ceremony called “Grammy Night”, four men who were affiliated with a gang fired into a crowd in the parking lot of East English Village Preparatory Academy; one nineteen-year-old teen, Darryl Smith, was fatally shot in the head.
  • A man fatally shot his estranged wife in the parking lot of Saint Mary School in northwestern Indiana.
  • Two men fired shots inside a dormitory at Paine College on Sunday, injuring one student in the head.
  • An active shooter situation was reported at Paine College on Monday with one person reported to be shot. It was the second shooting incident to occur at the college campus in two days.
  • A person was shot on a student parking lot roof at Georgia Gwinnett College.
  • A 14-year-old student was injured during a drive-by shooting in front of John F. Kennedy High School (Richmond, California).
  • Three people were shot inside a hallway in Seattle Pacific University. One student died.
  • At around 8:30 am, shots were fired at Reynolds High School (Troutdale, Oregon). 14-year-old freshman Emilio Hoffman was killed. The gunman, 15-year-old Jared Padgett, exchanged gunfire with police officers and then committed suicide in a restroom stall.
  • A 20-year-old Indiana State University (ISU) student was shot by another ISU on Saturday inside a residence hall.
  • Two students got in an argument at Albemarle High School (North Carolina), and one of the students shot the other twice including once in the leg.
  • One student was shot and injured at Fern Creek Traditional High School. The incident occurred, reportedly after student became enraged in a hallway and pulled out a gun.
  • After a homecoming football game, a fatal shooting of Kristofer Hunter, 17, occurred in the Langston Hughes High School parking lot. The assailant, Eric Dana Johnson Jr., 18, turned himself in a week later.
  • Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting. A gunman, later identified as Jaylen Fryberg, who was a student in the school, shot five students, fatally wounding four, in the school cafeteria before committing suicide.
  • Florida State University shooting. A gunman opened fired in or near the Strozier Library. Three people suffered gunshot injuries and were taken to a local area hospital.
  • Two teens were shot Thursday during a fight on Miami Carol City High School property. One of the boys who was shot died.
  • On December 12, 2014, an unknown gunman shot three students and a man outside Rosemary Anderson High School in north Portland. A 16-year-old girl was in critical condition, while the others suffered minor injuries.
  • A 15-year-old boy, a student’s father, and a teacher were each injured at a Wisconsin Lutheran High School shooting that occurred Thursday night in the school parking lot at Wisconsin Lutheran High School.
  • Two students were shot outside Frederick High School near the gymnasium of Frederick High School during a junior varsity (JV) boy’s basketball game.
  • Two students argued outside the music building at Bethune-Cookman University when one pulled out a gun. Both had guns and it is not disclosed who did the shooting, injuring three students.
  • Police said one person has been arrested for a shooting at Pershing Elementary School.
  • A faculty member was shot and killed in the school library of Wayne Community College.
  • A police officer was shot outside a school in a school zone while he was directing school buses into a school. The school was J.B. Martin Middle School, and the suspect was apprehended at the scene.
  • A student at Deskin Elementary School brought an allegedly stolen .45 caliber gun to school and accidentally discharged it as he opened his backpack.
  • A student at North Thurston High School walked into the commons area and fired two shots into the ceiling from a .357 magnum pistol.
  • Police say a 14-year-old eighth grade boy brought his father’s gun to school.
  • An 18-year-old student, Marcus Wheeler, shot himself in a school breezeway, according to Tempe police.
  • Police report that a 16-year-old shot 5 bullets into a school bus and injured 2 students. Apparently, there was an argument that touched on previous events.
  • In the early morning hours of Memorial Day weekend, a group of people were at Southwestern Classical Academy in the parking lot. Shots rang out and 7 were injured, with two men being apprehended and charged.
  • A student was fatally shot in a student union building at Savannah State University.
  • A man was arguing with at least one other person escalated into a physical fight on the parking lot of Sacramento City College. A man opened fire, killing a 25-year-old student and wounding two others.

It is not known whether the shooters belonged to well-regulated militias that are protecting the security of America. It also is not known whether the victims (including the teens) were good guys who should have carried guns to shoot back.

When everyone carries guns, we all will be safe from gun violence.

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
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
Monetary Sovereignty

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

–Has “Pro-life” become “Pro-death”?

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 poor.
•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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Which is more important to you: The living or the dead?

The answer is not so obvious as some might think.

Recently, the right-wing Washington Times published an article titled: “New Hampshire defunds Planned Parenthood facilities”

The New Hampshire vote, coming over the objections of Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan, comes as the latest example of the backlash against Planned Parenthood following the release of five undercover videos raising alarm over the organization’s involvement in the trade of fetal organs from abortions.

The Republican-controlled New Hampshire Executive Council denied state funding by turning down a $639,000 contract with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.

The executive council’s decision came after Ms. Hassan refused calls to look into the group’s practices regarding fetal tissue.

The governor has said there is no evidence of illegality at the state clinics, which reportedly do not handle fetal tissue donations, adding, “We do not launch investigations in the state of New Hampshire on rumor.”

The nationwide discussion about Planned Parenthood has to do with a video (I’ve not seen it) that purports to show a negotiation over cadaver parts.

The readers of the Washington post were outraged. Here are representative examples of their comments:

“Women will find other clinics and facilities that don’t rip babies apart for lucre. They’ll be fine. Planned Death will suffer. That’s a good thing.”

“This may be the way around this Democratic Party supported slaughtering of the innocent, states one by one defunding them. Redirect those funds to health clinics that are not in the business of dissecting babies and money laundering for the Democratic Party.”

“The original undercover videos of PP going back over a year, revealed these murderers admitting they can easily finance their own black market organ factory without forced participation by unsuspecting taxpayers.”

“Why is it so important to kill babies up to birth?”

As you can see, there is a misleading overlap between abortion and vivisection. Logically, you can be opposed to the former while still understanding the need for the latter.

Some consider abortion to be “murder,” and virtually everyone is opposed to murder. But doctors and researchers have been using cadavers for more than a century — for research and practice — and seldom are these good people labeled, “murderers.”

Three facts:
–It is far better for a doctor to practice and to learn on a cadaver than on a live patient.
–Surgical researchers have no satisfactory alternatives to cadavers.
–Without cadavers, medicine still would be in the dark ages.

Cadavers have been the basis for countless medical discoveries, that have saved and extended the lives of millions — including millions of babies.

In order to learn from a cadaver, the doctor or researcher must dissect it (Medical research is not for the squeamish).

A doctor or a researcher is willing to pay for body parts, not because he is an insane “Freddy Krueger ” monster, but because he is trying to learn and to save current and future lives.

The U.S. Supreme Court has legalized certain abortions. That being the case, I submitted a question to the Washington Times readers. It was a very simple but important question, that had not been addressed:

“Abortion is legal. For months or years it will remain legal. So, for months or years, there will be many thousands of legal abortions. Additionally, there will be many thousands of natural abortions and still-borns.

“What do you suggest doing with all those dead fetuses?”

Mostly, there were no answers, but the few answers that were given, resembled these:

“They’re not ‘fetuses,’ they’re children.”

“Murder children and then use their body parts to save other “children,” a ruse liberals have been playing on an unsuspecting public in lock step with their godless messiah, Margaret Sanger.”

“The Liberal war on Children.”

“Liberals such as yourself, are devoid of ANY moral compass, when you design laws that encourage a woman to murder her child, and then slaughter that baby when it is born ALIVE for profit without her knowledge.”

The back and forth, conflating abortion with vivisection of cadavers, repeatedly avoided the question, leading me to write:

Before you set your hair on fire with uber-religious holiness, let me remind you of several facts:

1. The vast (and I mean VAST) majority of abortions are requested by pregnant women, who are thinking neither liberal nor conservative, but rather have a variety of reasons for not giving birth to a baby.

The nation agrees with them re. abortion, as does the Supreme Court. So if you want to argue the merits of abortion, don’t come to me. The law is settled, and if you disagree, try to change the law.

2. Until the law is changed (and surely after), there will be many thousands of aborted fetuses every year, in America. Some will be aborted by doctors, some will be aborted by non-doctors, and many will be aborted by nature in the form of still-borns and incomplete pregnancies.

3. My question then — the question I repeatedly have asked and never have had answered is: “What do you suggest doing with all those thousands upon many thousands of legally aborted fetuses” (or if you prefer, “unborn children.”)?

Why do you refuse to answer?

Then, after being cursed as a heartless, soulless liberal who favors killing children, I wrote:

I merely asked a simple question, which you studiously have avoided answering: “What do you suggest doing with all those thousands of legally aborted fetuses?”

Instead, you avoid the question by going into long-winded, hyper-dramatic arguments against abortion and liberals. But, you’re preaching to yourself, for I am not arguing in favor of abortion or liberals.

Let’s say that abortion and liberals are the worst things ever created and SCOTUS was completely wrong, as are the majority of Americans, all of whom will be punished in the non-existent afterlife.

Now. Today. Dead fetuses exist. What should be done with them?

Garbage or research? Choose.

Of course, the insults continued, and of course, there were no answers. Trying to get past the emotion, especially the religious emotion, that prevents rational discourse, I suppose one might make the case that selling body parts could lead to murder and abortion.

As for murder, I’m not aware of many murders that have taken place in order to obtain and sell cadavers. Perhaps it has happened in the past, but the incidence today must be vanishingly rare.

And as for Planned Parenthood having a profit motive that leads to abortion, I don’t understand how that would work. Planned Parenthood itself does not do abortions. So how would the profit motive lead to more abortions?

     Planned Parenthood: “We need to sell more baby cadavers.”
     Doctor: “O.K., I’ll do some unnecessary abortions.”

     Doctor: “I could use your baby for experimentation.”
     Mother: “O.K., in that case, I’ll have an unnecessary abortion.”

Perhaps that too has happened. Doubtful, but if so, surely it too must be quite rare.

So where does that leave us? The notion that somehow Planned Parenthood increases the number of abortions so they can make a profit, defies imagination.

But what doesn’t defy imagination is the absolute fact that medical research has saved and extended millions, perhaps billions, of lives.

Unfortunately, though we can point to lives saved by research, it is near impossible to point to lives lost because of lack of research.

How many people did President Bush kill or maim, and how many lives were shortened and will be shortened, because of his rulings against stem cell research?

No one knows.

But we do know that if medical research benefits billions, the lack of medical research must harm billions.

I won’t explore the motives of those who are more concerned about the fate of already dead fetuses than about the fate of living children and children yet to be born.

At best, these “pro-life” (actually, “pro-dead”) advocates are misguided and have the wrong priorities. At worst they are evil.

That is my opinion.

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
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
Monetary Sovereignty

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

–The best article yet re. the Presidential race

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 poor.
•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’s early, and so far the lead challengers are Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. That will change, especially on the Republican side, but here is the best article yet, about these three hopefuls.

I didn’t write it. I wish I had. Anis Shivani did.

I’ll give you a few choice paragraphs, but you should read entire article: Fascist Trump, Neoliberal Hillary, and Progressive Bernie: Three Contrasting Performance Styles

Here are a few of Mr. Shivani’s comments about Donald Trump:

Trump’s entire spiel is centered around how they–the immigrants, foreign countries like China and Mexico–have screwed us out of the wealth and prosperity we deserve, and how he, the duly elected strongman will outwit and outmuscle these wily powers.

Trump is a continuous stream-of-consciousness articulator of all the ignorant resentments–against uppity women and gays and African Americans and Hispanics and Asians, against Germany and Japan and Korea whom we still “protect” at great cost without getting anything in return, against Middle Eastern countries whom we strengthen and support at the cost of our only ally Israel.

Trump’s spiel is a compilation of every uninformed, simplistic, and delusional component of the conspiratorial narrative of grievance held by “real” Americans against those who are said to have falsely appropriated the label “American” for themselves.

Trump, like all the ignorant demagogues preceding him, claims that he will clean up this mess and separate the true Americans from the phonies.

For Trump, as for all his fascist predecessors, it is democracy itself which gets in the way of achieving greatness, performing those heroic deeds, for which the tired, weakened, aggrieved nation of true patriots yearns.

It is democracy itself which must be circumvented and sidelined. Except in the case of Trump, it is not Middle Eastern domination or the end to terror worldwide that he’s after, but simply negotiating better deals with China and Mexico.

Consider the originator of fascism, Mussolini, and notice the remarkable similarities between his and Trump’s performances: the same supercilious mockery of democrats, journalists, liberals, human rights campaigners, do-gooders; the same puerile postures and gestures, hard to imagine on a national stage except that it is actually happening; the same denial of past history and present circumstances in favor of creating a brand-new reality in accordance with the wishes of the adoring masses; the same preening self-admiration as the hero who alone embodies the wishes of the outwitted, outmaneuvered, outgunned people and will lead them to salvation; the same identification of nation with leader, until Mussolini (or Trump) becomes the nation, until the nation is unimaginable without him as its singular reincarnation.

In short, Trump is a nascent fascist, and the people who cheer for him are the same people who cheered for Hitler and Mussolini — the haters, the bigots, the morally depraved and mentally weak, the blamers and finger pointers, the useless additions to a raving crowd — people who want to believe that making America great requires, in some unexplained way, ripping 11 million men, women and children from their homes and shipping them out of the country.

And now a few of Mr. Shivani’s comments about Hillary Clinton:

Hillary wants to continue the necessary segregation between real and fake Americans as assiduously as Trump–Hillary wants to give a chance at a better school, a bigger home, an entrepreneurial venture, a path forward in the professional world.

Except that Hillary is not actually going to do a single thing for them; as she has explained in campaign speeches, these are the (righteous) folks who “fought their way back” on their own and pulled themselves up by the bootstraps during the economic crisis.

They’re not the ones who needed to be bailed out from unsustainable mortgage or student loan debt–Bernie’s people–they are the ones who made it. Every one of the people in her (introductory campaign) commercial smacks of liberal virtue, having paid their dues and followed every little rule on the path to success.

(She uses) the same empty rhetoric about “fighting” for the middle-class and wanting to be the president of “all” Americans, not just “the few.” She even wants to work across the aisle to keep us “safe” from terror, that’s one of her four fights; and there’s even “reinventing government.”

She who, along with her husband, jettisoned core Democratic principles such as single-payer health care, gave in to right-wing discourse on every single social policy, and gutted the New Deal and Great Society consensus on education, taxes, budgets, welfare, immigration, telecommunications, crime, banking, and trade, now wants to “fight” on behalf of the very people whose decimation is associated with Clintonism even more than with Reaganism.

And she offers not a single policy prescription of substance, besides platitudes about rewarding hard work and playing by the rules (just as her husband did).

Had she not left such a complete vacuum of policy and failed to address the real economic misery out there, there would have been no opening for Trump or other extremists.

In short, Clinton is a go-along, do-nothing, riding on her name, and with no ideas for helping those who need help or for growing the economy or for strengthening America or for doing anything else positive you can think of.

Her message: “If you work hard or marry well (for instance, marry a President), you will do fine. But if you are poor, it’s because you are lazy, so don’t ask me to help you, because helping you only will make you lazier.”

And finally, a few of Mr. Shivani’s comments about Bernie Sanders:

Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, offers specific policies–not just rhetoric–on each and every economic and social crisis that Hillary mentions and then sidelines in fuzzy words.

Before Clintonism demolished core Democratic principles, as in the endorsement of privatized health care, rather than the single-payer Medicare-type health care Bernie advocates, all of Bernie’s prescriptions used to be mainstream liberal aspirations.

He wants free higher education (which more or less used to be the case anyway for most students before rapid tuition inflation put paid to that in the last generation or two), a $15 minimum wage (already that figure is becoming outdated), and Medicare for all.

While I regret the element of economic nationalism that has crept into progressive thinking and feel sorry about the loss of faith in trade and globalization and openness in favor of a hunkered-down protectionism, this is something that infects the entire left, and is a legacy of the flawed inception of globalization in the Clinton years.

The only way to find our way back is to make ours a more humane society, with exactly the kind of redistribution downward that Bernie is talking about, so that a freer, more open, more trusting world can once again emerge on the horizon.

In that sense, I have total empathy with Bernie and his rhetoric (compared with) the perverted economic nationalism of Trump, rooted in white supremacy and a xenophobic victimization that has no basis in reality given our unparalleled national wealth and resources.

So there we have it, the style we need and deserve (Bernie’s, offering not just hollow words that have had all the meaning rubbed out of them after a generation of Clinton-Bush-Obama neoliberalism, but real solutions for real problems), versus Trump’s inverted populism, or fascism if you like to use that language (imagine every sane proposal offered by Bernie turned on its head, so it becomes a privatized, ruthless, brutal policy benefiting the rich even more than they already do, because after all we can all aspire to become rich like Trump).

O.K., it’s a commercial for Bernie Sanders, but a commercial with a great deal of fundamental truth: Donald Trump IS a rich fascist, whose empathy is for people like him, the rich, and who sneers at the poor and middle class, all of whom are “losers.”

Hillary Clinton IS a phony, who admires those who have “made it,” but will do absolutely nothing for those who need the government’s helping hand, because really, how much will they pay her for speeches?

Bernie Sanders IS a liberal who will lift the bottom and middle, and close the Gap between the rich and the rest.

I always felt Joe Biden’s entry into the race was imminent once Hillary persisted in her vacuous campaign–running on a platform of absolutely nothing substantive.

The establishment narrative has it that Biden is the Democratic party’s insurance policy in case Hillary implodes due to scandal.

But I rather think that Hillary desperately wants Biden in the race–just as the Clintons injected Wesley Clark as the attack dog in the 2004 campaign to scramble the equation and put Howard Dean on the defensive and eventually doom him–because she has no capacity to go one-on-one in debates against Bernie.

I suspect Trump will see his numbers decline, as people grow tired of the same old entertainment, and in a fit of desperation, Trump either will join the Republicans or create his own political party, which will be called “TRUMP” in great big letters.

I don’t know who the Republicans will nominate — the entire crop is lame — but my WAG (Wild Ass Guess) is Marco Rubio, who has as much qualification to be President as I have to be Pope — but he’s a Latino, and if you add Latinos to bigots and the selfish religious (religion and its love of God now having been turned on its head to personify mean, cruel selfishness and hatred), you can get quite a few votes.

I suspect Clinton will receive the Democratic nomination from the Powers That Be, because she is a charter member of the club, not for any plans, ideas, goals or leadership, as she has none.

Personally, I wish Elizabeth Warren were running, but caring about the poor, the unempowered and the needy is not stylish in today’s “me-first, me-last, me-only” environment.

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
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
Monetary Sovereignty

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