2 BIG 2 Work
Red Sky Morning
02/August/2010 11:00 Filed in: Oikos
Thoughts | Web News
For
some reason, early Friday morning I awoke, and
normally my first instinct is to look out the
window to see if it is still dark, then check the
clock. What I saw outside was an unusual pink glow
in the eastern sky. When I looked to the clock it
was about 5 AM. I confirmed the window view again
and decided this morning’s red sky was so intense I
needed to go outside and check it out further.
Out on the deck, to the South the sky was almost black, like it was about to rain heavily. To the North it was just and overcast gray, but that eastern red sky morning was still very intense, illuminating the summit of the mountain across the river, were the sun will eventually rise to the point where direct rays will hit my place about two and a half hours later. I stood there watching while the red slowly return to the normal predawn grayness. I decided to go back to bed.
As I lay there I began to think about the old sailor’s rhyme, “Red sky at morning — sailors take warning. Red sky at night — sailors delight.” It had been very dry and hot for the last few weeks, so I thought a little, or a lot of rain would be a relief, but I mused that natural red sky weather report may also be a reality report on our economic future.
Most of the procrastinators and the pundits have stated that the recession is over but slow economic growth seems to be with us for some time. Even FED chairman Bernanke coined a now oft repeated “unusually uncertain” term to describe this current morning. When you look towards the sky further to the South however, you hear the dark sky reports of the bad weather of a stormy future — of maybe even a double dip recession.
I guess what that all means is that all the people who make the big bucks and those who don’t, really don’t have a clue to what the future holds, and that is especially true in the unnatural world of global economics. It seems to me, if professionals, who spend their whole life trying to figure out the economy, should be able to do a better job.
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Out on the deck, to the South the sky was almost black, like it was about to rain heavily. To the North it was just and overcast gray, but that eastern red sky morning was still very intense, illuminating the summit of the mountain across the river, were the sun will eventually rise to the point where direct rays will hit my place about two and a half hours later. I stood there watching while the red slowly return to the normal predawn grayness. I decided to go back to bed.
As I lay there I began to think about the old sailor’s rhyme, “Red sky at morning — sailors take warning. Red sky at night — sailors delight.” It had been very dry and hot for the last few weeks, so I thought a little, or a lot of rain would be a relief, but I mused that natural red sky weather report may also be a reality report on our economic future.
Most of the procrastinators and the pundits have stated that the recession is over but slow economic growth seems to be with us for some time. Even FED chairman Bernanke coined a now oft repeated “unusually uncertain” term to describe this current morning. When you look towards the sky further to the South however, you hear the dark sky reports of the bad weather of a stormy future — of maybe even a double dip recession.
I guess what that all means is that all the people who make the big bucks and those who don’t, really don’t have a clue to what the future holds, and that is especially true in the unnatural world of global economics. It seems to me, if professionals, who spend their whole life trying to figure out the economy, should be able to do a better job.
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Redux Rendezvous I
26/May/2010 08:00 Filed in: Weekly
Column
In Monday’s,
“The Wealth Creation — Tax & Debt
Redistribution Continuum” we offered the
thesis that wealth creation was an inalienable
right given to humanity by the Creator. We, who
have been blessed to be immigrant citizens to these
shores, also have the benefit of a codified
structure for national development, outlined in the
Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
For a broader context we also posted this article
under the blog tabs at Deep Woods
Moola and The Creation
Leadership Center.
As a founding right, given to us by God, wealth creation belongs to the individual in the literal sense. We proposed that not only was wealth creation an inalienable right it is also a fundamental right of all Americans. Upon further reflection, it is not really a stretch at all to state that the wealth creation right, is essentially the Absolute inalienable fundamental right of all Americans, for the concepts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness all flow through this highest of all birthrights.
We further proposed that new wealth is basically an ex nihilo creation in the mind of an individual that combines the energetics of faith with the information of the enterprise to form a wealth seed. Through the introduction of equity liquidity, meaning a total commitment, not just debt involvement, this seed can sprout and become a viable product, service, profession, or vocation.
Taxes and debt can serve as means to grow the germinated seed, either directly or indirectly, but contrary to what has been promoted through a half century of a diseased American Federalism, debt and taxes can only redistribute present and future wealth through money, they cannot create fundamental new wealth.
This wealth creation reality is part of the general revelation of God in nature; hence its status as the Absolute inalienable right, but it is also part of the specific revelation the Bible. Monday we used the Apostle Paul’s constructs of Faith, Hope, and Charity, found in 1 Corinthians 13. In the legal definition of a corporation, since it is a creation of man’s laws, it does not live outside of the legal code; therefore it has no real life, no soul, or true creative ability, except what is given it, through legal precedent. Only a real person in the natural sense, can plant the wealth seed in faith, hoping for a growing wealth producing plant, relying only on charity of others should the opportunity fail.
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As a founding right, given to us by God, wealth creation belongs to the individual in the literal sense. We proposed that not only was wealth creation an inalienable right it is also a fundamental right of all Americans. Upon further reflection, it is not really a stretch at all to state that the wealth creation right, is essentially the Absolute inalienable fundamental right of all Americans, for the concepts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness all flow through this highest of all birthrights.
We further proposed that new wealth is basically an ex nihilo creation in the mind of an individual that combines the energetics of faith with the information of the enterprise to form a wealth seed. Through the introduction of equity liquidity, meaning a total commitment, not just debt involvement, this seed can sprout and become a viable product, service, profession, or vocation.
Taxes and debt can serve as means to grow the germinated seed, either directly or indirectly, but contrary to what has been promoted through a half century of a diseased American Federalism, debt and taxes can only redistribute present and future wealth through money, they cannot create fundamental new wealth.
This wealth creation reality is part of the general revelation of God in nature; hence its status as the Absolute inalienable right, but it is also part of the specific revelation the Bible. Monday we used the Apostle Paul’s constructs of Faith, Hope, and Charity, found in 1 Corinthians 13. In the legal definition of a corporation, since it is a creation of man’s laws, it does not live outside of the legal code; therefore it has no real life, no soul, or true creative ability, except what is given it, through legal precedent. Only a real person in the natural sense, can plant the wealth seed in faith, hoping for a growing wealth producing plant, relying only on charity of others should the opportunity fail.
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Why Me? The General Governance Theory
14/April/2010 10:24 Filed in: Weekly
Column
As I was writing Monday’s post on “2 BIG 2 Work,” I
began thinking about the concept that perhaps the
problems now facing the United States and really
the broader world concept of globalization stems
from the reality all have gotten 2 BIG 2 fail and
simultaneously 2 BIG 2 work.
What a better closing paradigm for this “Why Me?” series! Failure isn’t my fault because everything just sort of quit working because of bad karma, and since I only think good thoughts about everything, except a few bad stuff moments, I am completely off the hook for all the bad stuff that happens.
Now I will have to admit the 2 BIG 2 Work concept was stolen from Dan Henninger of the Wall Street Journal. Whether it was original with him I do not know, but it surely does describe a whole lot of what is happening all around us. In the context that I heard from him, he was talking about the Federalization of too big to fail financial institutions, but what if the whole country at the national level is getting simply 2BIG 2 Work.
Albert Einstein gave us the Theory of Relativity, but he then spent the rest of his life trying to develop a scientific General Theory of Why, but was never able to get there. I would submit that without God it is a philosophic tautology, and with God it becomes undefinable, because of the natural limits of human created capacity. So if a real general theory is impossible for man, why not dumb it down and talk about just the universe of human governance?
We must begin in Ivy League prose where it goes something like, “The cognitive limited diversity of our educational paradigm provides incongruous perceptions of natural reality.” In the media perception of the Tea Party movement, “Wees’ jist don’t knows no betta!”
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What a better closing paradigm for this “Why Me?” series! Failure isn’t my fault because everything just sort of quit working because of bad karma, and since I only think good thoughts about everything, except a few bad stuff moments, I am completely off the hook for all the bad stuff that happens.
Now I will have to admit the 2 BIG 2 Work concept was stolen from Dan Henninger of the Wall Street Journal. Whether it was original with him I do not know, but it surely does describe a whole lot of what is happening all around us. In the context that I heard from him, he was talking about the Federalization of too big to fail financial institutions, but what if the whole country at the national level is getting simply 2BIG 2 Work.
Albert Einstein gave us the Theory of Relativity, but he then spent the rest of his life trying to develop a scientific General Theory of Why, but was never able to get there. I would submit that without God it is a philosophic tautology, and with God it becomes undefinable, because of the natural limits of human created capacity. So if a real general theory is impossible for man, why not dumb it down and talk about just the universe of human governance?
We must begin in Ivy League prose where it goes something like, “The cognitive limited diversity of our educational paradigm provides incongruous perceptions of natural reality.” In the media perception of the Tea Party movement, “Wees’ jist don’t knows no betta!”
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2 Big 2 Work!
12/April/2010 08:48 Filed in: Special
Report | Week in
Review
The bellyachers are
giving me a headache. Well, actually they seem to
be more akin to a pain at the end of the alimentary
canal, but unless it is phrased in that way, it
becomes politically incorrect. Let me see if I have
got this straight? You have a beef with the fact
that you have to pay way too much income tax when
you and yours gross six figures a year and nearly
half of the American households pay nothing.
It is really too bad that your mortgage is upside down by about 50% and your 401k and the rest of your investments lost about the same, and you still are not back on track to retiring early, with only your four thousand square foot McMansion in the ‘burbs, and your two thousand square foot second home in the foreign paradise. You can cry me a river, but I really don’t care. Welcome to the real world.
Bah! Bah! Bah! You went to work everyday, did the best you could, never took any real risk and suddenly you were a millionaire. Well, at least you were a millionaire. Nobody ever called you a sheep, sheep can’t leverage a mid-level professional job, with really only bureaucratic skills, into a million bucks. Truly this was an absolute miracle, helped along with cheap credit, marketing, and educational propaganda. After all you are worth it, and you have the room full of seventh place trophies to prove it.
Suddenly the 2 BIG 2 work vultures from the government want you to pay what they call your fair share. It isn’t just the Feds, it’s the state, the county, and the city too. Even the home owners association wants more money to keep the water feature pumping. Just like me, they all don’t want to hear your story of an American Dream of a pampered upbringing turned into gentrified nausea. You had it all, peaches and cream, and now it is time to pay the dues.
Perhaps you didn’t DVR Alan Greenspan on C-Span last week when he said he thought he was doing the right thing during lllooonnnggg his term at the Fed, and now in hindsight there may have been just a few tweaks of the economy that might have led to a continuing-continuum of eternal prosperity. However now that this bubble burst and after ObamaCare has passed, old Alan has some fresh insights that we might not be able to pay for everything at the same time.
Maybe you should send him one of your seventh place trophies for a reward!
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It is really too bad that your mortgage is upside down by about 50% and your 401k and the rest of your investments lost about the same, and you still are not back on track to retiring early, with only your four thousand square foot McMansion in the ‘burbs, and your two thousand square foot second home in the foreign paradise. You can cry me a river, but I really don’t care. Welcome to the real world.
Bah! Bah! Bah! You went to work everyday, did the best you could, never took any real risk and suddenly you were a millionaire. Well, at least you were a millionaire. Nobody ever called you a sheep, sheep can’t leverage a mid-level professional job, with really only bureaucratic skills, into a million bucks. Truly this was an absolute miracle, helped along with cheap credit, marketing, and educational propaganda. After all you are worth it, and you have the room full of seventh place trophies to prove it.
Suddenly the 2 BIG 2 work vultures from the government want you to pay what they call your fair share. It isn’t just the Feds, it’s the state, the county, and the city too. Even the home owners association wants more money to keep the water feature pumping. Just like me, they all don’t want to hear your story of an American Dream of a pampered upbringing turned into gentrified nausea. You had it all, peaches and cream, and now it is time to pay the dues.
Perhaps you didn’t DVR Alan Greenspan on C-Span last week when he said he thought he was doing the right thing during lllooonnnggg his term at the Fed, and now in hindsight there may have been just a few tweaks of the economy that might have led to a continuing-continuum of eternal prosperity. However now that this bubble burst and after ObamaCare has passed, old Alan has some fresh insights that we might not be able to pay for everything at the same time.
Maybe you should send him one of your seventh place trophies for a reward!
Read More...