Thursday, April 30, 2009
IMMIGRATION III
Does anyone deny that it is reasonable for a society to establish a formula for allocating its yearly-maximum-number of immigrants among the societies of the world?
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
IMMIGRATION II
Does anyone deny that there is a theoretical yearly-maximum-number of immigrants that a society can absorb and that it is reasonable for the society to include such a number in its immigration policy?
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
IMMIGRATION I
Does anyone deny that it is reasonable for every developed country to have an immigration policy?
Monday, April 27, 2009
SPENDING SPREE I
Does anyone deny that the WPA and the Interstate Highway System were "spending sprees"?
Friday, April 24, 2009
NATIONAL SECURITY I
Does anyone deny that our international relations are a standard for measuring how an administration has “protected” this society, a standard for national security?
Thursday, April 23, 2009
NIGHTCRAWLERS
Does anyone (track kids excepted) deny it is good to have the night crawlers back this season?
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
INTERROGATION I
Does anyone deny that a distinction can be made between interrogation of a combatant, and interrogation of a non-combatant?
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
COME LET US REASON IV
Does anyone deny that "come let us reason" beginning with an honest exchange of the differing parties objectives allows a full range of resolution options ranging from 1) finding no conflict in fact exists, 2) agreeing on an acceptable middle ground; and, 3) civilly, mutually accepting that there can only be an agreement to disagree.
Friday, April 17, 2009
COME LET US REASON III
Does anyone deny that the spirit of peaceful coexistence is a fundamental predicate of come let us reason?
Thursday, April 16, 2009
COME LET US REASON II
Does anyone deny that a fundamental predicate of the reasoning process is to clearly define the issue(s), to be “on the same page”?
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
COME LET US REASON I
Does anyone deny that given the rate at which the availability of weapons of mass destruction is increasing, both in sheer numbers and variety, “come, let us reason” is now more important than ever?
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
UNITED NATIONS I
Does anyone deny that forceful United Nations action against piracy is long overdue?
Monday, April 13, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
EINSTEIN'S INSANITY UPSIDE DOWN
Does anyone deny that perpetually refusing to do that which is right and just, that which is moral and ethical is insanity.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
CAPITALISM XIII
Does anyone deny that if someone goes to Los Vegas and loses a bundle, virtually no one blames Los Vegas?
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
CAPITALISM XII
Does anyone deny that at present investments are regularly made, not on the balance sheet of a company, not on the merits of the company, but on an expectation of what the market as a whole is going to do?
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
CAPITALISM XI
Does anyone deny it is in the best interests, and the responsibility, of John and Johnette Q Public that the U.S. capitalism mechanism be hound’s-tooth-clean?
Monday, April 6, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
CAPITALISM X
Does anyone deny that United States foreign relations, perhaps now at an all time low, would benefit from a hound’s-tooth-clean capitalism mechanism?
Thursday, April 2, 2009
CAPITALISM IX
Does anyone deny that if the capitalists were to voluntarily develop a computer model for predicting recessions and specifying with precision how to most effectively recover from recessions it would, at a minimum, go a long way towards staving off regulation?
CAPITALISM VIII
Does anyone deny that a significant monetary expansion, printing more money, has been used to recover from prior recessions?
CAPITALISM VII
Does anyone deny that a thorough study of the ‘99 financial services deregulation legislation is in order?
CAPITALISM VI
Does anyone deny that public stimulus money, particularly bank bailout money, forces substantial numbers of have-nots to “invest” in worthless investments?
CAPITALISM V
Does anyone deny that if the capitalist system had created an escrow system using a self-imposed tax on trades, that not one red cent of public stimulus money would have been required?
CAPITALISM IV
Does anyone deny that private capital and private capital alone would be available to prop up capitalism during times of recession were capitalism to create an escrow funded with market transaction fees?
CAPITALISM III
Does anyone deny that the stimulus money is for the purpose of propping up capitalism?
CAPITALISM II
Does anyone deny that from about 1982 to date the market can be described as supercharged, and that, compared to the market between 1929 and 1982, the difference is a difference in kind rather than a difference in degree?
CAPITALISM I
Does anyone deny that SINCE the depression of 1929, including the present recession, there have been a total of 14 recessions?
CHARTS
CHARTS
CONSTITUTION V
Does anyone deny that war rhetoric can be a virtual, de facto, constitutional amendment?
CONSTITUTION IV
Does anyone deny that during each major military conflict this society has engaged in there has been verbose rhetoric, "war rhetoric", for the purposes of inducing participation in, and justifying the violence of, the conflict?
CONSTITUTION III
Does anyone deny that contract law has provisions for “renegotiated terms” such as those resulting from unforseen circumstances?
CONSTITUTION II
Does anyone deny that Constitutional rights are basically and fundamentally contract rights?
CONSTITUTION I
Given uncertainties implicit in cultural changes, a paucity of records, and unexpressed and even secret intentions, does anyone deny that interpreting the Constitution primarily on the intentions of the founding fathers is tenuous, at best?
SSA LOTTERY TAX
Does anyone deny that imposing an SSA-specific nominal before payout levy on lottery winnings would be a virtually painless way of increasing social security revenues?
NO PERSON ...
Does anyone deny that striving for a no person unfed, no person unclothed, no person unsheltered society, meritorious on its own, would reduce health care costs and increase the number of people contributing to gross national product?
DISPROPORTIONATELY BORNE
Does anyone deny that when it comes time for some dying to be done in this society, the burden is disproportionately borne by the below-upper-class segment of our society?
EINSTEIN INSANITY
Does anyone deny that, after 13 recessions, as Alfred Einstein said, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results would be insanity?
WEALTH DISPARITY PARALLEL
Does anyone deny that a wealth disparity parallel exists between the 18th century royalty and commoner classes, and the upper-class and the below-upper-class segments of our society?
FUNDAMENTAL PREDICATE
Does anyone deny that a fundamental predicate of this society is REDISTRIBUTION of WEALTH?
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