Great Depressions – Part and Parcel of the Republican Party’s Economic Management

America has never experienced a great depression or a great recession that did not show the economic management capability of the Republican party.

Since 1929 certain Republican types have been at work trying to change a huge country into something that their demonstrated ability can manage. And 300 million people is too many for the Republicans, of right wing persuasion, to manage. Down-sizing America by crushing the middle class and the poor appears to be the neocon solution to creating an America their skills can manage.

Can the democracy tool give the neocons the leverage they need to downsize America? No! But one neocon got publicity in America’s CURRENT EVENTS news pool by pointing out that the name “Democrat” is close to the name democracy. A name change was suggested.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his 1938 speech to Congress, warned America about a creeping “malaise” that was showing-up in American politics. He alerted America to its democracy being “consumed” by fascism.

A fascism tool can allow a small minority to control a huge majority – even while vestiges of democracy remain intact. Employment can be the tool of choice to expand the votes of big people(minority).

Already, a cheeseburger maker in Ohio(since 1980 Ohio has had a high profile in politics) has made that “one small step” for employer control of employee votes. Putting the votes of employees in the hands of business can help give birth to a fascism type government.

When BIG PEOPLE feast on the treasury of government, countries die fast. It only took 4 years to kill the treasury of a wealthy country that is hundreds of years old.

2003 State of America’s Economy:

The U.S. Economy – IBR\INDIANA BUSINESSREVIEW Willard E. Witte

The U.S. economy during 2003 has been an exercise in cognitive dissonance. By most measures, the economy has performed quite well (and quite close to the outlook we presented a year ago).[...]

http://www.ibrc.indiana.edu/ibr/2003/outlook04/national.html

2003 Action On The State of that Economy:

BBC News

7 January, 2003

Bush unveils tax-cutting package

[...]” By speeding up the income tax cuts, we will speed up the economic recovery and the pace of job creation”[...]

President Bush

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2635557.stm

Four(4) Years After the 2003 Action – A New Economic State was produced:

the NATIONAL BUREAU of ECONOMIC RESEARCH

The NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee

[...]The committee identified December 2007 as the peak month, after determining that the subsequent decline in economic activity was large enough to qualify as a recession.

Payroll employment, the number of filled jobs in the economy based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ large survey of employers, reached a peak in December 2007 and has declined in every month since then.[...]

http://www.nber.org/cycles/dec2008.pdf

Four years after President Bush’s economic plan was put into action, the nation went into a serious economic decline. What Mr. Bush did to a good, working economy in 2003 was touted as increasing jobs: but the exact opposite happened.

Economic depressions and/or recessions are not “out of character” for elements of the Republican party.

If a political party spends a country’s treasury like HELL while cutting a country’s income like HELL, what moron could not predict the outcome?

Economic contractions(serious ones) follow the neocons. The neocons spent trillions of dollars on a war that netted BIG OIL the 2nd largest oil reserve known.

And of all the stupid things to do, the neocons wanted to upgrade another country’s military while America was in a great recession. And they did this while cutting taxes to the bone.

Abraham Lincoln:

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

http://www.1-famous-quotes.com/quote/21268

Apple holding more cash than USA

BBC NEWS

29 July 2011

Apple now has more cash to spend than the United States government.

Latest figures from the US Treasury Department show that the country has an operating cash balance of $73.7bn (£45.3bn).

Apple’s most recent financial results put its reserves at $76.4bn (£46.9bn).

The US House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill to raise the country’s debt ceiling, allowing it to borrow more money to cover spending commitments.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14340470

A message to Congress on the Concentration of Economic Power:

Franklin D. Roosevelt

April 29, 1938

To the Congress of the United States:

Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people.

The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe, if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living.[...]

http://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/faculty-research/new-deal/roosevelt-speeches/fr042938.htm

America’s Economy in 2003(just before President Bush Fixed it):

The U.S. Economy

By Willard E. Witte

Associate Professor of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington

The U.S. economy during 2003 has been an exercise in cognitive dissonance. By most measures, the economy has performed quite well (and quite close to the outlook we presented a year ago). Yet the “man on the street” by most reports believes that things are not going well. In this national overview, I will first look at the good news from last year and dissect the fly in the ointment. Then I will outline our relatively optimistic view of what we can expect in 2004, along with some things that could cause problems during the next year.[...]

http://www.ibrc.indiana.edu/ibr/2003/outlook04/national.html

President George W. Bush and his 2003 impact on America’s treasury:

Bush unveils tax-cutting package

President George W Bush has unveiled details of an economic stimulus package aimed at invigorating the sluggish US economy.

The package – expected to be approved by Congress – is worth $674bn (£420bn) over 10 years.

It abolishes tax on stock dividends and brings forward planned cuts in income tax.

The administration said the package could lift stock prices by 10% and would create 2.1 million jobs in three years.[...]

["By speeding up the income tax cuts, we will speed up the economic recovery and the pace of job creation"

Tuesday, 7 January, 2003]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2635557.stm

While Apple was increasing revenue the neocons were making sure that America’s treasury was decreasing revenue. And, as FDR warned in 1938, business is now beginning to challenge America’s treasury. FDR also mentioned jobs. And what the neocons have done to jobs and labor should not be allowed in a democracy that is of sound mind and body. Imagine a “cheeseburger maker” in Ohio edicting a political preferrence to its employees. What happened to America’s ombudsmen(voters)?

Its hard to reason with a mule. Leading him to water does not mean he will drink. Perhaps he is not thirsty? Perhaps he is just stubborn. Or – perhaps he’s just dumb.

Waiting to Thank Bush for What He Has Done…

In 2008 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, “People will soon thank Bush for what he’s done“. Almost three years has passed. Who, outside the neocon’s political base, is currently thanking Bush for what he has done?

Rep. Dennis Kucinich(D-Ohio) recently gave credit to former President George W. Bush for asking Congress to authorize the war in Iraq. That seems to be a “thank you” from someone outside the neocons political base.

But Ex-President George W. Bush did much more than ask Congress’s permission to go to war. He also gave a reason for going to war. He told Congress and the world of a Weapons of Mass Destruction threat coming from Iraq via a Niger-Iraq “yellow-cake” connection.

Human beings throughout the world searched and researched for that threat. But none was found. No one could validate the “yellow-cake” connection assertion that came from the Bush administration.

The Iraq war was one of the most expensive “endeavors” of the Bush administration. Over 6,000 American soldiers died and trillions of American dollars were spent. Why? Why did the neocons attack Iraq? Will people soon thank Ex-President George W. Bush for what he did in Iraq?

Iraq was attacked in April of 2003. From 2003 to 2011 is eight years. Eight years and no one outside, perhaps the ones causing the Iraq war, knows why it started.

Apparently America’s CURRENT EVENTS news pool has fallen short of TELLING AMERICA why it went to war with Iraq. Perhaps the World Court is listening?

And those 42 million adults Americans who can’t read are not at a disadvantage when it comes to reading why the neocons attacked Iraq.

There is, possibly, still time for historians to discover the reason why the neocons attacked Iraq. But if the historians fail, then it’ll be the turn of archaeologists to discover the truth about the Iraq war.

Condoleezza Rice’s “SOON” could possibly fall within several time contexts.

Obama: Rich should pay ‘fair share’ of debt reduction

USA TODAY

THEOVAL

By David Jackson, USA TODAY

July 25, 2011

As Congress weighs competing debt plans, President Obama said today that “the wealthiest Americans and big corporations” should pay their “fair share” to reduce the nation’s red ink if valuable programs are to be cut.

“Are we a nation that asks only the middle class and the poor to bear the burden after they’ve seen their jobs disappear and their incomes decline over a decade?,” Obama asked a supportive crowd at a National Council of La Raza conference.[...]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/07/obama-opposes-short-term-debt-deal-from-boehner/1

America’s neocons are now ready to risk America’s economic melt-down if their choice of budget cuts is not met. Of course a disastrous result would be nothing new to the neocons. Great recessions and great depressions are a part of their economic management results. Once again they want the middle class and the poor to pay for the greed-filled activities of their political base.

During the neocons management of America’s debt it rose to astronomical heights. In response to their spending habits, they rarely used the name “conservative” to describe their party. The word conservative, during the days of the real G.O.P. meant fiscal. So, among a string of aliases, they now add an adjective to the word conservative. You now hear “social” conservatives.

Just how did the neocons get America’s debt up to $14.3tn? A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words so lets look at a picture of how the neocons kept spending and spending and spending:

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

The neocons, perhaps speaking to a “kind” press made it appear that their management of the economy was normal – except when someone else made them make a mistake.

The red lines on the graph are “heading skyward”. That would be the neocon idea of national debt management. And some American ombudsmen(voters) may have believed what the neocons, mouthpieces, bloggers and the press told them.

One might notice, in the above graph, a sliver of yellow after 1980. That first sliver of yellow was President Bill Clinton turning America’s national debt in the right direction. But the neocons impeached President Clinton, regained control of America’s treasury and returned to their reckless spending. The neocons love wars.

The Iraq war was a bonanza for some big people. Imagine gaining control of the world’s 2nd largest oil reserve and giving it to BIG OIL. The cost in American lives – over 6,000 American soldiers. And the cost in dollars? Lets take a look at how much of America’s debt may have gone toward a very suspicious war:

The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More

The Washington Post

By Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz

March 9, 2008

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as a free war. The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far beyond loose mortgage lending. You can’t spend $3 trillion — yes, $3 trillion — on a failed war abroad and not feel the pain at home.[...]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html

And in continuing with the – its only money(and government money at that) attitude, the neocons wanted to spend US dollars to modernize the Polish military[...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7287843.stm

President George W. Bush had worked on America’s tax system:

Bush unveils tax-cutting package

And America’s tax payers benefited:

America’s Richest Taxpayers See Federal Taxes Dramatically Drop

Study finds many corporations pay tax rate of effectively zero

But “trickle-down” ,apparently, didn’t seem to work:

“Trickle Down” economics was a “Trojan Horse”

Rich Americans Save Tax Cuts Instead of Spending, Moody’s Says

And the chickens, as they frequently do, came home to roost. But they were directed away from the neocons’ political base:

Republicans Move to Cut U.S. Unemployment Benefits to Ease Business Taxes

Is the Socialism Tool of Use to Neocons?

Even if you are among the 42 or so million American adults who can’t read – that does not mean you are stupid. What do you make of the neocons’ strong objection to socialism expressed by way of the “almighty dollar”?

One neocon saw government sponsored health care as socialism. Another neocon, while visiting Germany and looking out at what used to be called the Berlin Wall, may have had a “burning bush” type vision of socialism. He took that profound moment to remind his “at home” American ombudsmen(voters) of the ills of socialism.

What aspect of “socialism” seems to house the neocons greatest concern? Well…the neocons would rather see one man get 1 million dollars than to see 1 million men get 1 dollar. That was evident as the neocons fought like Hell against assisting General Motors while ignoring million dollar bonuses to BIG people for “managing” a capsized economy.

The neocons are concerned with the distribution of America’s wealth – very much concerned with the distribution of America’s wealth. And they use socialism as a tool to prevent America’s wealth from going to small people. After the Republicans political base(BIG PEOPLE) gets done “getting theirs” there is nothing left for anyone else – nothing even left for the country.

Now the neocons are telling America that what America needs is a balanced budget. How stupid can Americans be? For twenty-some-odd years of neocon rein the neocons spent(including giving tax money away) like crazy. They fought against a balanced budget. They fought against a balanced budget until the Obama administration became responsible for the “crap” they left behind.

In 2003 the neocons  took a good economy – focused on tax cuts and investors and within four years they wrecked America’s economy. And of course, they blamed their results on others.

And now the neocon problem is to again fatten up America’s treasury so that it once again is attractive to BIG PEOPLE. And since little people are paying the price – there is no motivation for BIG PEOPLE to stop what they have been getting away with since 1929.

[As joejolly has said before: Monkeys have no need for money. And NO money is being flown to Heaven by Angels. Money is used by human beings and only human beings. But some human beings feel their need/greed is a much higher priority than other human beings' need. And thus the Socialism tool is born. If one gets the money it is capitalism. It the other gets the money, it's socialism. The neocon American government used American troops in Iraq to get oil for BIG PEOPLE. Does that sound like capitalism?]

GOP Makes Big Gains Among White Voters

Especially among the Young and Poor

PEW Research Center Publications

July 22, 2011

As the country enters into the 2012 presidential election cycle, the electorate’s partisan affiliations have shifted significantly since Obama won office nearly three years ago. In particular, the Democrats hold a much narrower edge than they did in 2008, particularly when the partisan leanings of independents are taken into account.

Notably, the GOP gains have occurred only among white voters; a two-point Republican edge among whites in 2008 (46% to 44%) has widened to a 13-point lead today (52% to 39%). In sharp contrast, the partisan attachments of [...]

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2067/2012-electorate-partisan-affiliations-gop-gains-white-voters

Are America’s days numbered? The neocons, by whatever name they want to call themselves(even (G)rand (O)ld (P)arty) either don’t know how or is unwilling to manage an America from sea to shinning sea. That’s 300 million Americans. And that large number could signal “SOCIALISM”.

Among the GRAND OLD PARTY’S (GOP) list of “accomplishments” are dope selling, penis slicing, caging, Iraq war, great recession, spying on Americans, much rhetoric and poor performance.  That list was not made in Heaven. But apparently Satan is not the only one who might be proud of such a list.

Some of America’s ombudsmen(voters) seem to be proud of that list. The dope selling and caging were directed toward black neighborhoods. And of course America has had a long history of racism. There were “boll weevils” long before there were “blue dogs”.

The neocons needed more votes than could be provided by BIG people. They needed to attract LITTLE people. So “joe the plumber” was born and the idea of “no seat left” at the health care center came into play. Combine those with crack cocaine and caging in black neighborhoods  and the neocons’ bottom surfing of America’s ethics may have caught somethings or someones.

The neocons’ spread their brand of ethics throughout much of America – including Ohio. However it is possible that the “contagion” will be confined to America. While America ignores the contagion, other countries are attempting to quaratine the worse attack on civilized behavior since the rack and wheel.

Will Competing With Google Boil Down to Competition?

News Corporation, with the help of “we”, wanted to kill Google. A gang of American companies got together for a business decision but left Google out. An American judge decided that Google’s reception of electromagnetic radiation along public streets might just be, in Google’s case, a violation of wiretap Laws. Where is America heading? If you look at the “data trail” you might come to a conclusion that where America is heading is not a nice place to be.

Google is a tough competitor. But Google does not really seem to be emphasizing competition. Google seems to be full of ideas that are coming into fruition. But those who believe they are competing with Google – can’t stand it. Even a consumer website is after Google. Weired! But is there a light at the end of the tunnel.? Perhaps there is. Lets look at what Microsoft is doing:

Microsoft opens Garage to spark innovation

cnet News

JULY 19, 2011

by Jay Greene

REDMOND, Wash.–It’s typical for Microsoft to show off its latest wares at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, if only to amp up partners’ enthusiasm for hawking the software giant’s goods. Some of the biggest gasps from the partisan crowd of 15,000 partners at the Staples Center in Los Angeles last week came for a nifty little program, the Lync Conversation Translator.[...]

[...]You might think that the program, which works with 35 different languages was the result of a detailed product roadmap concocted by a team of Microsoft employees. Turns out, it was pretty much the brainchild of Harry Emil, a senior test lead in the Lync group, who ginned up the original prototype in his spare time.

Emil worked on the idea during his off-hours at the Garage, a Microsoft inititiative to encourage innovation among employees.[...]

Competing with Google ought to “boil down to” competition – the business type. No gangs should be needed. No judges should be needed. No consumer magazine should be needed. The public should not be exhorted to ‘help” a Google competitor kill Google.

Google got to where it is via innovation. Google did not invent JAVA SCRIPT. Google did not invent the Internet.  But Google put the two together and came up with something revolutionary. There could have been several cases of long lips saying : ” why didn’t we think of that”?

It is disheartening to see how many American organizations seems to be lacking in innovation. By and large, American large companies seems to have “bought” innovation via smaller companies. But that doesn’t seem to offer much competition against Google.

Someday, if America is lucky enough to recover from the neocon era, it may again see business compete with each other using innovation. Currently the organization that was exhorting American ombudsmen(voters) to “kill” Google may now have to come face to face with its own ethics.

Google is Good!

Google is Good for You!

Google is Good for Me!

Google is Good for Mankind!

Google is Good!

Fox News Trails Far Behind Rivals in Murdoch Coverage

20 July 11 Fox News dominates the ratings in prime-time, with popular hosts such as Bill O’ Reilly and Sean Hannity. How have they responded to their own parent company being in the news? The answer is they haven’t considered it nearly as much of a story as their rivals. [...]

http://pewresearch.org/

FNC TRAILS FAR BEHIND RIVALS IN MURDOCH COVERAGE

July 20, 2011

24 – Number of weekday prime-time minutes Fox devoted to the News Corp. scandal from July 6-15.

Fox News dominates the ratings in prime-time cable, with popular hosts such as Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. How have they responded to their own parent company being in the news?

The answer is they haven’t considered it nearly as much of a story as their rivals.

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism analyzed the content of four hours of daily prime time and an hour a day of daytime programming. The analysis finds that the Murdoch- owned Fox News Channel devoted about one-fifth as much time to the story as MSNBC and about one-sixth as much time as CNN.[...]

Some time ago Fox News used to tell you its news was “Fair and Balanced”. Perhaps that “fact” was not discernable in their news content or perhaps their readership was not able to see the “Fair and Balanced” attribute of their “news” articles?

Joejolly certainly failed to see, in 2004,  the “Fair and Balanced” of Fox news. In 2004 joejolly sent an email to one of the popular employees of Fox News. Joejolly was trying to understand the Fox News “GROWLING DOG AD” in support of Mr. Tom DeLay who had just, with the help of the neocon House of Representatives, escaped congressional accountability for an accusation of money laundering.

After joejolly’s email to Fox News, joejolly’s in-box became filled with emails – none of them on the letter-head of Fox or that ad agency that created the “GROWLING DOG AD”. Joejolly’s inbox went from one to two emails per month(one from his ISP reporting payment of the monthly charge) to at least five to eight emails per-week. And the email topics had nothing to do with politics:

Elongation of the male “fundament”.

Pornography.

Viruses(joejolly killed some and his ISP killed some).

Early on – the neocons challenged the Liberal Press. And they have made one hell of a mess out of Kiplings 6 honest serving men. And during the neocons’ rein and influence, two journalist died. America’s ombudsmen(voters) have been lead to water but like the mule, you can’t make them drink.

Irish PM in unprecedented attack on Vatican

BBC NEWS

20 July 2011

Irish PM in unprecedented attack on Vatican

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has launched an unprecedented attack on the Catholic Church in parliment.

He said the recent Cloyne Report into how allegations of sex abuse by priests in Cork had been covered up showed change was urgently needed.

Mr Kenny said the historic relationship between church and state in Ireland could not be the same again.

He said the report exposed the elitism, dysfunction, disconnection, and narcissism that dominated the Vatican.[...]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14224199

The chickens, all over the world, are coming home to roost. It is more than unethical to put the sexual monkey on the backs of little children. The loads of “reading, writing and rithmetic” are heavy enough. And for the male on male cases – some of those little children may want to visit America’s New York when they grow up.

Are we there yet – HELL, I mean?

The Neocon Era And Journalism – Trying to Make Journalists Extinct?

Even if you are among the 42 million or so Americans who cannot read, you are likely to have heard of terrible fates that befell journalists who revealed what BIG POLITICS and BIG BUSINESS wanted kept secret.

The neocon era has “provided a setting” for some of man’s worse behaviors. Selling cocaine in minority neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California to finance an adopted war in the jungles of South America and spying on the privacy of politicians and others are all indicators of a breakdown in civilized behavior.

What happened to the journalist who revealed the neocon’s American dope pedaling? What happened to Gary Webb? Gary Webb exposed an American government(neocon) connection to dope pedaling in his news story the “Dark Alliance”. What happened to Gary Webb? Lets ask Wikipedia:

Gary Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was a Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist.

Webb was best known for his 1996 “Dark Alliance” series of articles written for the San Jose Mercury News and later published as a book. In the three-part series, Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly smuggled cocaine into the U.S. Their smuggled cocaine was distributed as crack cocaine in Los Angeles, with the profits funneled back to the Contras. Webb also alleged that this influx of Nicaraguan-supplied cocaine sparked, and significantly fueled, the widespread crack cocaine epidemic that swept through many U.S. cities during the 1980s. According to Webb, the CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and the large shipments of drugs into the U.S. by Contra personnel. Webb charged that the Reagan administration shielded inner-city drug dealers from prosecution in order to raise money for the Contras, especially after Congress passed the Boland Amendment, which prohibited direct Contra funding.

Webb’s reporting generated fierce controversy, and the San Jose Mercury News backed away from the story, effectively ending Webb’s career as a mainstream media journalist. In 2004, Webb was found dead from two gunshot wounds to the head, which the coroner’s office judged a suicide. Though he was criticized and outcast from the mainstream journalism community, his reportage was eventually vindicated as many of his findings have since been validated: since Webb’s death[...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

It is not just the battlefield of war that poses a threat to the lives of journalists. Revealing truths when lies are what BIG people want may be a hazard to the health of journalists.

Sean Hoare, recently joined Gary Webb in that great journalist hereafter. Sean Hoare, the journalist who revealed phone hacking at the News of the World is now dead. Kiplings 6 honest serving men are having one HELL of a time at some of the world’s “news” sources.

[ Did the military man, involved in the CIA Contra cocaine affair find a job? He did and you'd never guess where.

Neocons want to link jobs to political ideology. Imagine that "cheeseburger" seller in Ohio(Ohio has had a high profile since 1980) requesting its employees vote neocon]