The Left Column

Politics for Poets

commmitted to excellence?

I'm not afraid of yesterday. It's gone away. He is not here today. He came but he couldn't stay.

When you think about politics think that wouldn't it be nice that if the people who think that they 'win' would understand that they are suppose to also govern and be good for the well being of even people who didn't vote for them. It would be better if one put one's backing into a person who's job is politics and then they get to proxy your vote on the bills in the legislature. That way we wouldn't have to hav these stupid expensive elections where all of the hypno-minons go whoring off to their bed-bug motels. Wow, maybe they aren't. Maybe I'm being too harsh.

So here is the plan: people register as politicians. They agree to take the income of a cloistered cleric. They agree that all of their public conversations will not be on the permanent record (with little listen wasps that hover around them and take video from multitudes of angles). Wait a minute, the engineering to do all of that is probably too expensive. . . listen wasps are secret and may not, in fact, exist anywhere outside of my novels (please look for my novels some day because they are real but not yet available to the public). In any case obviously we can't have over-bearing surveylance that is used to harm the public. However when bad people do their nastiness everyone appreciates a good face shot of the (alledged) perpetrator (I say alledged out of habit, it is a form of Newspeak required of us by the lawyer-drones who rule the office of fine-print that no one reads or pays attention-to.)

If your job is politics what will you do if there are no more elections? The artificial cycle of elections is a blight on the seasons of holidays and life. A four year atrocity that can be designated as past tense. But how would we do it. Well we could start by just doing it. WE could start some kind of club or alliance, or maybe even a new party, that allows us to have representatives that we select ourselve and status them on a common page with protocols that are similar to what social media allows. So, for example, say I like someone like Cindy Fine, an outstanding spokes man for what is good and grand in the world. And I like her so much that I assign her as my proxy for matters concerning, say International Relations. Well, I cna have a different person for issues of Farm Policy. And maybe someone else for my stand on letting people live. It starts to sound complicated. So if I find a person has a lot of integrity then I can say that this person has my vote in the legislature.

Of course all of this has probably been thought out before. And it's just a fact that when your candidate looses you do not have a voice in the legislature anymore. In a spoils system were people are looking over your sholder and can quess correctly (for the most part) how you will vote isn't really a perscription for fair representation.

I suppose back in the day when these ideas were meshed out by the Founders who wrote the Constitution of United States, they didn't expect that the elections could be so totally polarizing and earth shaking. The amount of power that comes to one person who wins the big prize of President of the United States of America is too large for just one man, just one mind. Clearly the people who are there now have no concept of continuity of process. they are out for themselves and do not abide the publics concern with good governance. Am I being unfair? Did I say 'all'? I guess it seems to implie that in one sense. Don't take me wrong, I used to be a government guy, working in the buerocracy. Most people who work for uncle Fed are benign and do a good job. they are nine-to-fivers who put in a good days work and expect a modest pension at the end of it all. They are not out for great wealth through graft and corruption.

Are there people who are out for graft and corruption? Are there? Well what do you think? Didn't you know when trillions of dollars were allocated to 'save the world' a few years back that it would be a grand cleptocratic act? The manner of how the theft occurs is very subtle. Even people who work high in the financial industry don't necessary know how the theiving goes on. You see it when commodity prices soar. People suddenly have money to speculate on various critical and necessary staples. And prices get high really fast. People make a lot of money. Inflation kicks into high gear. Suddenly tax revenues increase and the corruptocrats are thinking that they can raise taxes and take a bigger piece for themselves. They go on and on and on about wanting to raise taxes but it makes no difference if they do or if they don't becaues the increase in the money supply that is occuring through 'easement' is so much vaster than any money that would be collected through increased taxes. And then, ask the question, because I've never been able to really figure out the answer to this one myself: Who exactly, praytell, are we paying the money back to? Ourselves? So if it is ourselves (and I am not convinced that it is) then why do we need to raise taxes? if we needed to have less money out there then how does it make sense to take the money from people who are suddenly starting to put things back into the world. Remember every dollar that is made from the artifical booms that happen when printing presses go crazy is worth less than the ones before. But the corrutocrats don't chagne the tax rate based upon some rate of inflation. As a matter of fact they don't even admit to inflation and a lot of the ways to measure it just produced numbers that seem as random as the patterns of clouds in the sky or pebbles on a beach. Everyone knows that it has no meaning and yet the necessary ritual of these funny numbers comes out periodically, usually by the month. Then revised again. It's all meaningless. It used to speak to people when it actually meant something. But the took out food and housing, so what is meaningful that people need to live on that is or is not inflationary that doesn't include that?

Have I made people angry with my rant here? Calling people corruptocrats can't make them like me. Maybe they don't even think that I am real. I am a bot process on a paid-for server out in the cloud. These rant-tastic writings serve to make your synapses fire. Hopefully you will see the holes in my rants and come up wtih some better banter that better explains what the real deal is with inflation and printing copious currency. Inflation hits like a brick. Some people are special and will be isolated from it. Others will have a very hard time making things happen.

Who is it that causes it? Why does it happen? Depends on your ideology the story that people will tell. And it will mostly be in hushed tones, I'm not saying that I'm saying what the story is. . . what the story is. . . And you sit there at the picnic and the old sage guy is really just a drunk uncle. He doesn't understand finance either and is as dumb as a finance major,doesn't know but he's had some thoughts.

No one really knows who caused the financial crisis. There can not be consensus in the realm of politics in this matter because anyone who thinks that they might get blamed will have a stack in agreeing to disagree. But some things become more obvious as people ponder on the facts of history. We don't really need to write out an explanation. The pieces are fairly large and clear now. And the forgettery that keeps people from comprehending is done away with due to the enormity of the clamity.

So there are smart people who have pretty good understanding of the History of the last thirty years and why we are where we are, and who it is that were the 'players' who had major effect in making all of what-it-is that has gone done (what it is). Am I such a person? Not really. But I do know that the explanations that are given on talk shows or on the news are suspect because the hosts of those shows, or the news writers of the new-wash-media, are just as in the dark as the body politic. We are all in a collective state of scratching our heads but someone out there is writing the grand history of the last thirty years and that book will be published and the culprits will be presented and then . . . one by one probably acquited because, despite the enormity of their cupidity, what did they do really? Steal trillions of dollars? if so then who did it and where is the money? Why don't we have a grand international audit, open up all the book of every bank and institution and see what money is in whose names. Everyone ready to do that? I didn't think that you were.

And so, I guess the real question for a poet is 'are these dangerous times?' The answer is that if you are a good soul, rich or poor, it is never really dangerous in a very large sense as long as you keep your wits about you. For anyone who is an actual craven minion and a worst case corruptosouras who doesn't share what he/she pillages from the buerocrcaies, then those people do need to fear and tremble. They should start by making atonement for what they ahve done. Throw themselves at the mercy of the IRS. Admit to their evil schemes. Give the money back.

I quess that won't work either because . . . well you know how government works if the money is 'given back' it will most likely be pilfered by someone else in the buerocracy. So, if you really are a craven minion and you want to regain your humanity I suppose yo need to become a great humanitarian. Be as Robin Hood.

If you are afraid of heights then why take a job at the pinnicle factory where you place the top on the the tippity-top?

please note, all of you code heads who look at the document code, the colored text in this file is colored with span elements and associated styles to set the desired color. I amy post up some things about this in Coders edge (or maybe not). So, if I do, read all about it.

Sept 6, 2012

A vote for unity is a vote for America. Vote for America.

well . . .

I think I've blogged enough today.

Life goes on.

Thank You Veterans!

~ OK Now.

 
 I'm not out
    for just a midnight ride
  on this boat
     but I want to bring
  the drunk guy home to his wife
      so he can wake up
   in the morning
      and be free.
  So he isn't out drunk and driving at night
      and running his pick-up 
                  into me.
    

        
 Today is rainy
     and thus the gloom
  
  

Wake up!

The solution to bad governance is
   good people.