Beyond Linear Thinking

Our universe, as it unfolds, constitutes not just a self contradiction, but a walking contradiction, a changeless changer. Yet, here it abides. It cannot be explicated, appreciated, or controlled merely by import of bivalent logic or a rule of non-contradiction. This is because logic and science are its derivatives, not its creators. Appreciating universe and one's role in relating to it necessitates more than value quantifiers such as logic or science. It also necessitates value qualifiers such as empathy and intuition. Fortunately, even though empathy and intuition are not entirely reducible to logic or science, they are self evident, in that they are evident to conscious selves. Appreciating universe necessitates more than constructing a logic system or hierarchy of a priori fundaments and consequent derivatives. It necessitates an empathetic quality for appreciating a spiritual system of holarchy.

From A.T. -- Re: "Both capitalism and socialism work on paper. It's when you introduce human nature into the equation that problems arise."

Very well put. Too many linear thinkers push simplistic formulas that look pretty on paper, but avail no insight concerning what happens once their formulas have followed results off the paper, beyond the Bell curves, where weird phase shifts occur and quantitative shapes shift into different qualitatives. We are at a point where insight is sorely needed because old paradigms simply do not work well. Examples: Giving international corporations large tax breaks hardly incentives more production in America when the money is simply siphoned all the faster to overseas markets run by gangsters, where labor is cheap and senses of entitlement are low. Same for giving laid off workers welfare benefits forever. At some point, thinkers need to begin looking past the money and other second-order abstractions to that which money is supposed to facilitate: people trading their talents, production, and wills to work. It's no good simply to pour out revenues --- either down the hole of welfare addicts who are content in their holes, or into the siphon pipes of dismantling cannibalizers. Either way, the larger the role government plays in pouring "stimulus" revenues into such welfare holes and corporate siphon pipes, the faster America, as patient, dies of blood letting. Modern government is panicked, doing the same things that don't work, only faster, much like the bleeding doctors who stimulated Washington's early death. Until government gets more insight, it should follow the first rule of medicine: First do no harm. Then put aside the old linear models. Think about how to stop pouring out money. Instead, think about how to start getting out of the way so people can look out for themselves. Then think about how to assimilate and defend such a people as a nation. Stop the staking out of our nation onto a feast table for international, sociopathic marauders, who begin by eating through the bellies of our politicians and then feigning to represent our interests.

FUZZ

Holistic Universe, in unfolding its story-telling via significations to be interpreted as substance, interfunctions and presents to us in discrete, quantum sequences of feedback, back and forth, from whole to parts, from parts to whole. Because of the nature of our perspectives of now-ness, we experience a shared illusion that the space-time of our universe exists as a quantifiable continuosity, as if it were substance-in-itself, a changeless-changer. Parameters for our identities are meta-fuzzed in a way that facilitates our experiences, to reconcile us with a synchronicity that preserves both the sequentiality of our experiential interpretations and the absolutes that limit our perceptions. Holonic fuzz facilitates various fundaments: the separateness (cracked symmetry) of patterns, forms, bodies, and identities of perspectives; the constant conservation of math and substance (matter and energy); the relative constants that relate to us as gravity (space) and light (time); the illusion of continuosity and sequentiality; the empathetic intuition of the moral worth of other perspectives of consciousness; and the wall of statistics that blocks access of mortals to prove, disprove, or subjugate their sponsoring Holism.


The fuzz efficiently blocks each perspective of consciousness from receiving information that would mark the destruction of the curtain that conserves the apprehensions of each perspective's experiences. Without the fuzz, all particular measures and perceptions of universe and substance would vanish. The fuzz is contemporaneous byproduct of that by which particular apprehensions are availed their kinds and degrees of freedom and dignity. The fuzz is intuited, but aspects of it are apparent, and indirect measures of it may be possible. Direct measures or controls over it are beyond mortals. In that respect, the fuzz is "dark." It doubles to constitute an aspect of what physicists may call "dark matter" or "dark energy."

 

 

The Author of the fuzz may well correlate, synchronize, and reconcile all surrounding perspectives to an opportunity to interfunction with an eternally, perennially present interpretation of a manifestation of the Author's truth, empathy, and music. From time to time, expression may be availed through a special messenger, envoy, or exemplar. In each case, the Coordinator who facilitated the envoy would be one and the same God. The envoy would be supported by inspiration and miracles. Indeed, some talents are blessed to be expressed by some people in ways so beautiful or compelling as to defy any probable explanation through mere evolution from nature. Regardless, the miraculous character of the Envoy would NOT be supported by proof in logic or science. This is because logic and science could not very well prove God without being superior to God ... which they are not.

 

 

In variously expressing points of inspiration for those all around, the Author would NOT be exercising an all powerful or all knowing capacity. Rather, the Author would be seeking to win us, while respecting our freedom and dignity. Even so, the Author would retain access to all the power and knowledge that at any present time may abide and have accumulated. From availing our various degrees of freedom and dignity, there may from time to time and place to place arise violence, disorder, and angst, as God coordinates our spiritually represented signifiers with our substantively represented signifieds. From time to time, violence may become more conducive to getting The Word out. Regardless, violence for the sake of violence is not God's way. God may carry an aspect of angst, which God generally banishes from God's better inclinations. That angst, however, may grow as God's spiritual challenges grow ... in ways beyond our fathom. So, Hell may be real, as a temporal byproduct. However, the invitation to serve God is eternal.

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From RichB, at http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110428113119AApBPcQ:
“The major flaw [in C.S. Lewis’ argument regarding Jesus] is the assertion that there are only three options and that those options are mutually exclusive. I think this is known as a false dichotomy (or should that be trichotomy?)

Even with the original 3 options, you have to consider the possibility that Jesus was a liar AND a lunatic, or lunatic AND Lord, or possibly all 3.

Lewis provided just 3 options because he was talking only about the Bible's depiction of Jesus. His basic argument was that the Bible doesn't give us the option of saying "I think Jesus was a good moral teacher, but I don't think he was the son of God". If you take the Bible story at face value then if Jesus is not God, he'd either have to be lying or delusional (or both), and neither of those qualities would make him a reliable moral teacher.

But if you don't take the Bible at face value (which even many self-identifying Christians don't, and people who argue Jesus was not the son of God CERTAINLY don't!), then all options are on the table, up to and including the possibility that Jesus never existed at all.

Another option that still fits in with the Biblical account of Jesus's existence is that Jesus was not the son of God, but was tricked by others into believing that he was. This would make him neither a liar nor a lunatic, it would just make him gullible.”

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For my part, I suspect there have from time to time occurred at least composite demonstrations through envoys and exemplars such as Jesus. Some of the talents are simply overpowering. Philosophically, I don’t see that as being beyond the power or inclination of God. I have no need to consider the envoy as being other than an avatar for a representation of God’s then and there interests. I also have no need to try to use that which is inferior to God, i.e., logic and science, to try to prove God. Rather, I think intuition, experience, logic, and science join to avail a reasonable belief and faith in God. As one pursues a philosophy that can respect both science and purposefulness, I think a kind of intuitive, trivalent logic eventually leads one to apprehend God.

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Regarding the C. S. Lewis Trilemma:  It should be rephrased at least as a quad-lemma.  There are these possibilities:  Liar, Insane Person, or Truth Teller.  But there is also at least a fourth:  Uncertain Unknowing Believer.  That is, God Himself may have all the power and knowledge that abides, and yet be uncertain of it, and un-knowing of what He may determine to do with it.  The fourth is consistent with my belief, for it is based on faith, not knowing certainty, and it is also based on belief in human freedom and dignity, even if only on loan from God.

CIVILIZING HOLARCHY

CIVILIZING HOLARCHY:

Often, that which one thinks of as relationally-measurable, inanimate-substance can be conceptualized as consisting of meta-placeholders (holons) for operators, signifiers, and representations of various forces, interfunctioning (within a holarchy) in mathematical obedience to variously synchronizing formulas. Some of the operators happen to become designed to effect or force discrete generations and quanta, in accord with mathematical randomness. Some of the operators happen to become designed to be responsive to meta placeholders for representing non-random, directional forces for entangling, transposing, unifying, splitting, vibrating, attracting, or repulsing. Some of the operators happen to become designed to seek to consume others, to add or reduce complex patterns of fractals, chemistry, and biology. Some of the operators happen to become designed to effect forms and bodies in order to seek self preservation. Some of the operators happen to become designed to effect, associate, and identify with forms and bodies that experience and express awareness that they are seeking to self preserve. Some of the operators happen to become designed to experience and express SELF AWARENESS that they are effecting, associating, and identifying with forms and bodies that express awareness that they are seeking to self preserve. Some of the operators happen to become designed to experience and express self awareness that their EMPATHIES extend beyond the forms of their bodies and brains, to begin to express understanding, fulfillment, and enlightenment in relation thereto.  (Note:  When I refer to "design," I don't mean pre-design. Nothing that unfolds needs necessarily have been pre-designed. However, everything we now sense is becoming designed, under a process of guiding, unfolding apprehension, in digitized two-stepped feedback between The Holon and its particular perspectives of Itself under the holarchy, in all its signifying and signified aspects.)

When that which is signified comes within the fuzzy sphere of interest of two or more field operators of more or less equal capacity to signify their influence, the successful field, in each discrete and successive sequence, will be the one that first asserts itself, therewith simultaneously becoming the more powerful for effecting such assertion.

Thus, ultimately, the relationship between and among particular perspectives of awareness (mortals) and the holistic perspective (God) is availed via a discrete dance of meta feedback. The unfolding character of that dance relates to a way in which the separateness of each particular perspective is buffered or fuzzed. By definition, a perspective that identifies with a part will not have the perspective of the whole. Nor will the perspective of the whole necessarily fully apprehend the quality of the perspective of each part. Still, the perspective of the whole may well map or record a coordinate appreciation of the quality of the perspective of each part, with which it may, on the demise of each part, absorb. Thus, there abides meaning in the adventuring of mortals.

Thus, a function for apprehending and appreciating choice-making (God) operates in a circle dance with a function of force-directing (Nature). The medium for such interfunctioning is meta (Mysterious). In this, there abides no necessary violation of logic, experience, science, or intuition. However, there does abide a basis for appreciating meaningfulness. Thus, there abides a basis for inculcating and inspiring societies to encourage empathetic appreciations and communications within their civilizations.

Bottom line:  It is logically, empirically, and intuitively unsound to search for scientific measure or demonstration of a cartesian ghost or soul or mind in the machine or body or brain.  Rather, the machine, the body, and the brain are to be explained in terms of The Ghost, i.e., The Holon!  And The Holon is beyond measure or replicative demonstration.  Rather, IT simply abides, and we abide simply as perspectives of IT.

Holarchy

When we sense and measure things, we don't sense them as things-in-themselves, but in relational respects. When we seek to manipulate things, we don't sense ourselves as directly manipulating any thing in itself, but as manipulating relational aspects. How we approach a manipulation will depend on relational purpose and context. The same model of approach will not work for all purposes and contexts. Thus, models rely on analogies, which rely on metaphors and figures of speech, i.e., models facilitate attempts to approach appreciations of one kind of thing in terms of another, even as we remain aware that such comparisons, while practical for some purposes, will not be precisely accurate or literal for all purposes. Example: A cosmologist discussing the "flatness" of the universe need not mean that the universe is literally a flat disc, but simply that light rays need not curve back into any geometrical center.


A problem with scientific experts is that they tend to bind themselves narrowly to the linear, often non-dynamic math that defines limits for their favored models.   When devoted to explicating reality in respect of a particular model, a scientist may not see much beyond the fuzzy borders for his model, because no single model can avail a complete, coherent, consistent map of reality.  Separate models, once pushed to their limits, cannot avail precise mathematical translations among themselves. The way a term is measured for one model may not avail a same meaning or measure for how aspects of it may be referenced for another model.  Math itself may show that the identity of a "physical thing" that can be scaled in terms of one kind of thing or aspect (charge, polarity, entanglement, spin, orbit, level, vibration, direction, locus, inertia, angular momentum, amplitude, frequency, intensity, density, size, shape) may not unambiguously translate across its being split, eaten, or scaled in respect of a different kind of thing.  Values cannot be scaled in respect of one kind of thing (or identity) and then taken and unambiguously scaled in respect of a different kind of thing.  Rather, translations in qualities expressed among quanta occur in discrete leaps, interludes, and fractals. During or across such leaps of quanta, no mortal can predict precisely how, whether, or why a particular pattern or result will emerge.  A cookbook may make predictable a practical translation from one quality to another, but it will not precisely explicate the quality of all that is done during or across the transposing interlude or instantiation. Indeed, by definition, the  qualitative aspect of a translation across boundaries of kinds of sets cannot be quantitatively reduced.  One cannot take components of a cow, rearrange them into a different kind of beast, and then non-arbitrarily measure the Frankenstein in terms of its "cowness."


There is also the qualitative aspect of what it means to try to sense, think, and predict as a cow. That is, there abides a problem of infinite regress in trying to quantify the quality of experiencing consciousness as a cow. An infinite regress consists in this: To be of objective service, the math for each model must be treated as if exterior to one’s subjective consciousness. Yet, one’s subjective consciousness is part of reality. Yet, one cannot very well quantify or plug a prediction of one’s future behavior (or of the future behavior of anyone else) into a formula and then build on that to predict subsequent results. Why? Because at the same time one predicts one’s future behavior, one will have simultaneously altered the factors that will constrain one’s future behavior, as well as the behavior of all to whom such prediction was communicated. Knowing what one intends or is likely to do, one simultaneously becomes free to alter it. And so on. When you compound this by similar degrees of freedom availed to every human (or other) perspective of consciousness, you begin to apprehend a many-faceted problem in math. Thus, an infinite regress marks our incapacity to reduce our own consciousness to mathematical precision, prediction, or control. The infinite regress also marks our incapacity to comprehend the mystery of how various perspectives of consciousness somehow synchronize to avail coordinate signification and meaningful communication among themselves. We may intuit a reconciling Source for such synchronization of perspectives of conscious experience, but we cannot objectify, predict, or control IT, or how IT may guide that which is to unfold as our future.


If our universe somehow constitutes an a-temporal, one-of-a-kind class unto itself, as a Qualitatively-Quantifiable Holon (of a class of one, with capacity to leverage its oneness into appreciations of countable math), then intuition suggests it carries an holistic aspect, nature, or character, which somehow correlates with Its capacity to Be, yet also to always be in a state of Becoming, or changing (its only constant being that It constantly changes?), and to transmit that aspect with various (kinds of layers and levels of degrees) of perspectives of Itself. That transmittable aspect would not itself be a severable part of a hierarchy, but an indivisible aspect of a holarchy. IT finds, experiences, prehends, apprehends, appreciates, and synchronizes qualities of changing expressions by attaching and identifying Itself with variously temporal, fluxing, quantifiable, measurable significations of feedback within and among Itself ... as a holon. In some meta-mysterious way, IT has one-of-a-kind circular capacity to will Its destiny based on feedback appreciation for the unfolding of Its destiny. How IT expresses Its perspectives of conscious will cannot be reverse-engineered by the kind of tinkering that is availed to our incomplete sciences and mortal perspectives. Our "scientific" attempts to quantify Spirit or to measure or find the locus of conscious Mind ("the ghost in the machine") in some part of the brain cannot but come to naught.

Each particular perspective of Mind coalesces in concert with its self-identifying in relation to a contextually-embodied, quantifiable frame-of-reference and point-of-view. The clarity of a perspective's severable coalescence will depend upon the fuzzy character of the cluster of undecided and unchosen possibilities that accompanies the unfolding experiencing of its perspective. All that buffers and separates each perspective of Will from being re-absorbed into the holon of Mind is correlated with that fuzz. Simply put, the aspect of each perspective for being separate will not be found in any correlative, physically-measurable "thing" or part of the brain. It is the Holon's meta capacity for dividing its unitary perspective by interposing patches of fuzz that avails each-perspective-that-experiences-Itself-as-being-separate with an illusion of being wholly derivative of "nothing but" the substance that it measures around itself. However, the experience of each perspective flows in a stream of two-way feedback, from the whole to the part, and from the part to the whole. Thus, each mortal perspective has no logical, empirical, or objective basis by which to disbelieve its "Intuition" (if such it has) that the Holon (God) experiences an entirely correlative and empathetic dance with ITs various perspectives of consciousness (that is, that the experience of consciousness among every perspective is shared in a same, fundamental, reconciling, unifying, holistic quality and aspect).


That said, in practice, we do TRY to model and bend our future to mathematically objective controls. For that, economists and other social and political mathematicians and “scientists” tinker with techniques and leverage models that often astonish us in their unintended, dynamic consequences. However, there is no math by which to leap, convert, reduce, control, or objectify the DYNAMIC back and forth dance between models, between the subjectivity of the eating signifier and the objectivity of the eaten signified. To the extent we cannot roboticize human beings or model the subjective quality of consciousness, our scientific models and the math we apply to them will never avail us the foresight to apprehend all of that which our inventiveness may or should next leverage. To hope to receive vision and guidance that can bend beyond the puny math of our practical and political constructs, one must be receptive to empathy, insight, and vision "from on high." Yes, we can construct various models and myths to our hearts’ content, and we can make the Math Within The Limits Of Each Model just as rigorous as we want. Still, there will always remain a fuzzy interface that will preclude the unification of our various models into any grand construct that could possibly allow a mere perspective of consciousness to measure its touch to the face of the holistic field of consciousness.

Thus, mortal mathematicians and modelers do not have capacity to divine that which society should do. To let math fool non-mathematicians into believing they can our should surrender their responsibility for their own empathies and choices would be to surrender their dignity as individually responsible beings of consciousness. Math modelers CAN avail us with techniques and telescopes by which to focus on various layers and levels of exterior reality. Within limits of Bell curves, modelers may interpret how an exterior reality of “Y” will likely follow “X.” They CANNOT tell us what will likely happen when a situation or model becomes heated or consumed beyond its descriptive parameters, when more and more events begin to fall off the Bell chart. Nor can they reconcile all the many perspectives and models that avail color and character to our unfolding choices.

Bottom Line: No team of scientists in service to a despot can be qualified, top-down, to best regulate and distribute all aspects of society. This is because the best system of regulation is that which best avails the responsibility of individual perspectives of consciousness, bottom-up. That is an issue for spiritual empathy, not for scientific determination. Except in service of Bilderbergers falsely claiming to be more spiritually evolved, scientists can hardly assert a decent claim to expurgate spiritual empathies from the public square. Rather, to twist top-down scientific determination in order to force spiritual empathy is to subjugate heaven to hell. Mutually imposed hell is what Anarchists, Atheists, Islamists, Socialists, Fascists, Crony Capitalists, and Despots would subjugate the world to. Scientifically coerced destruction or redistribution is NOT individually responsible charity. Rather, Coerced Charity is the lying calling card of Big Brother, owning and operating and pillaging Big Government, posing as Secular Religion. The Obama Regime carries all the hallmarks of unspiritual unsanity. Neither Truth nor Justice is in its science or its intuition. What is in the Regime is a near-naked confidence and aggress in the corruption of will to absolute power; that is, a reduction of humanity ... to Eloi ... by Morlocks. Obamaginem esse delendam.

Orwellian Foundations

Of Orwellian Foundations:  Communism needs to be clarified. It's not communalism. Only a master Orwellian would characterize it as taking from each according to abilities and distributing to each according to needs. In the real world, Communism reduces to the use by the corrupt of the stupid in order to rule the capable. It makes little difference whether you call communism demonic socialism or demonic capitalism. Either way, it's demonic.

Bilderbergers give, so that highbrow foundations can enthrall us with wonderments, such as “Piss Christ,” the celebration of which was sponsored by the NEA, whose Communications Director eventually became Yosi Sergant, later suspected by Andrew Breitbart of having participated in a conference call directing artists to promote Obama's domestic agenda. The William J. Clinton Foundation gives us the Clinton Climate Initiative, helping to convince people to want to line up for the privilege of buying carbon credits. Check out the report about foundations that was given as far back as 1912, by Basil M. Manley, Director of Research and Investigation. He declared, "Control is being extended largely through the creation of enormous privately managed funds for indefinite purposes, hereinafter designated 'foundations." Not only does the sponsoring of such "philanthropic gifts" not promote democracy or enlighten decent society, it insults decent society. Thus, the middle class has long slept while evil has been funneling money through despotic corporatists into tax exempt foundations and tax shelters, so most of us can now have the privilege of being allowed to dig into our own serfdom.

 

 

It’s the Middle Class that defends our ground and gives us the actual ministers, doctors, scientists, historians, and artists who help make sense of our lives and man the medical, police, fire, shelter and other safety nets and charities for all society’s derelicts. Problem is: Derelicts prefer not to appreciate safety nets as charities provided by devout middle class workers and volunteers, but to take them as entitlements. How easier to capture entitlements than to align with that other entitlement-minded segment of society, Bilderbergers and their fawning elitists? The middle class, so preoccupied with hard and good works, has hardly noticed the unholy gathering of entitlement-minded derelicts and corrupt elitists, until the wannabe plundering derelicts and their self-styling chiefs and kings have now surrounded nearly every decent, trusting soul.

 

 

Taxing Bilderbergers' INCOME is counterproductive. They'll simply take it back, in political kickbacks. The only way to reach them is by taxing how they spend their WEALTH. To do that, all consumption ought to be taxed, and the translation of wealth into political consumption ought especially to be very "progressively" taxed! We punish insider trading in securities. Why not at least tax insider trading of wealth for political influence? Indeed, when wealth is used to grease political influence, why not confiscate it entirely, and return it entirely to cities or states? Sure, let money talk and enjoy political free speech, but tax the hell out of it when it is found to have talked in too furtively a fashion.

 

 

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One soon notices how the richest foundations often serve as tax dodges, availed by ordinary Americans to help plutocrats fund ways for putting rings through the noses of the masses. All this has been played before. This time, perhaps the axis of entitlement-minded corruptocrats has played its hand too soon, and has forgotten that the American middle class is not the defenseless lamb of the past, but a mature ram. Meanwhile, however, Soros is quietly buying up all the gun companies. When foundations of Soros ilk are investigated, no doubt many bribes will be paid to enlist masses of derelicts and flash mobs to rain fire and brimstone upon every American who tries to uproot the communism, filth, corruption, constitutional treason, mind enslavement, and godlessness that are rampant in the land.

 

 

When Buffet says he'd rather be charitable to his foundation than to the government, what he means is that his foundation is meant to be among those that will help push all governments under the noble rule of an international syndicate of corporatists who know best. Political Economics 101: Unchecked and absolute wealth translates into absolute power, which translates towards the corruption or belittlement of every decent person and thing. What kind of educated fool would believe plutocrats are promoting socialism just so they can live among the common people? Evil has long been growing strong under tax codes designed to enhance control by the most wealthy. Their grip is now much too strong to expect any presidential candidate to have a chance unless he or she first passes muster with Bilderbergers. Unless the American people somehow turn a Bilderberger into their own double agent, the arch structure now in place for worldwide reimposition of serfdom will not be turned. For Bilderbergers, ordinary people will soon be considered as one of two things: neutered pets or feral pests. A Screwtape toast to rot: All praise be to Obama-Soros.

 

 

Illusion of Being the Driver

Both Rinos and Dinos want to destroy the middle class. Rinos don't want competition on their clouds, and Dinos don't want anyone that causes them to feel shame for what they may have failed to achieve. Dinos prefer an aristocratic oligarchy. That way, since the only way to break into the elite class would almost always be to be born into it, Dinos need never feel shame, and Rinos need never feel threatened. The only thing lost will be freedom to think for oneself and to communicate about it. But why would a peasant or billionaire care about such a trifle? (Sarc.) A small price to pay for the economic Utopia of Collectivism that will be owned and operated by elites, and the Umma for which Imams will enforce bowing five times a day.

 

Whether Rinos believe it or not, they have Dinos convinced that: there's nothing special worth preserving about America, capitalism is always corrupt, elites and scientists know best, national borders are obsolete, the entire environment is endangered, forced competition with third world labor is fair, families are repressive, the material world is a one time affair, immediate gratification is an entitlement, and God is dead. Every significant institution is owned and operated by those who run Rinos and fool Dinos. Thus, we have wonderful ideas, like global warming, carbon exchanges, depopulation, and free trade with gangsters. We even have Americans fooled that, but for a world market and free trade with despotic regimes, our economy could never have flourished. For awhile, we were even told we lacked energy resources and rare earth materials to make it on our own, without free trade. Lol. While Bush had us attentive to 9-1-1, did he willingly do the least effective thing to shut down the border? How long did he let Ramos and Compean rot? Why did he try to turn port security over to Dubai? How little did he respect aspirations of middle class people of the Tea Party? Look around. Which viable Republican candidate denounces the Bilderberg-spooned Agenda 21 sponsored by the UN? Anyone? Anyone?

999 and the Home Owners Deduction

999 would not hurt the housing industry; it would stabilize it. Like most swords, the income tax deduction for making interest payments for buying homes is double-edged. Yes, it can encourage booms in the housing industry. (Not that booms are necessarily a good thing.) Obviously, people are attracted to put money in things conventional wisdom counts on to appreciate in value, especially when doing so reduces their tax rates. However, There Is No Free Lunch! The slack will be taken up in increased costs for new buyers. So this is just another kind of gimmicky pyramid scheme, for making younger generations pull burdens imposed by elders. The benefit of the income tax deduction is temporary, being most prominant for those who get into the game early, but less likely to flow through to very much benefit for following generations. Further, young families need to move more often to follow the job market. Home ownership, especially once the market stagnates, becomes an anvil around their necks. The popular benefits under home buyers' interest deductions are a lot like robbing younger Peter to pay older Paul (and the gimmick man in the middle). This cynical kind of connivery occurs every time government engages in stumulus shenanigans! Every time, these schemes blow unsustainable bubbles into the market. If government could be Made To Butt Out And Confine Itself To Its Proper, Limited Role, the market would become more balanced and less enticing to sharpies, panderers, and race baiters, who are practiced in arts for leveraging gimmicks, credit default swaps, and other unsane hedges, but who otherwise constitute drags on society. If the market were freed to balance home needs, people would be more inclined to rent while their jobs were in flux, and they would be less inclined to take speculative risks by buying homes that are larger than they need or can safely afford. Landlords would still build and rent housing, just more realistically coordinated with the market. It hardly takes an economist to spot a ponzi scheme. The goal should be to make Congress as unneeded as possible.