Labor statistics without political spin

 

The Presidential tenure in the USA is four years.  Since the beginning of the labor statistics the average tenure has created 6 million new jobs.  That is the target for each President in the USA to meet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since 1939 we have created 105 million new jobs. This 105 million tells that the existing jobs tend to disappear fairly quickly while new ones are created.  So, don’t count on working the same job through your life as this change is even accelerating.  

During this recorded time we have had huge changes in jobs with largest monthly job losses reaching almost 2 million e.g. in September 1945 when the WW II ended.  This loss was followed by 0.9 million new jobs already in the following March alone. 

With 310 million population growing at 0.88% per year the USA should generate between 125,000 – 145,000 new jobs each month.  Since 1939 we have actually averaged some 125,000 new jobs per month.  

Unfortunately, during the current administration’s first tenure the new job creation has been the lowest recorded being as close to a statistical zero as one can get.  During the second tenure it appears to be clear that about 50,000 new jobs per month will be the final tally.  This grim as cruel for the ordinary people as it can get.  The country has lost about 7-8 million jobs during these two tenures and many of them deliberately.

What happened?   

 

 

Wars are supposed to create jobs as so much material and labor gets wasted and soldiers need plenty of support personnel to keep them doing their duties. 

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were simply too small to counter the deliberate export of the so called simplistic jobs overseas by our corporations.  The most naive ideological theory of the “neocons” was to create almost overnight new consumers to places like China and India that would buy our high value added products and with that support our living standards.  They still do not comprehend that the people everywhere are much smarter than that. 

This whole effort was camouflaged and sold to American people under the mantra of helping the people by spreading democracy and all the related nonsense while we actually were reaching for supremacy on all energy resources around the globe.  Of course everybody out there knew what we were after including perhaps even  90% of all Americans.  The official policy just did not admit to any of simple observations that all painted a crystal clear picture to everybody else outside the “denial circle” and more so outside the borders of the USA.  Those outside just played the game as the big guns have had always a destructive power.

 

 

Why give GM $18 billion – buy it and start generating millions of new jobs!

Why give GM US$ 18 billion when the tax payer can buy it with US$ 3 billion?

Here is what the Congress should do instead. The Europeans, the Chinese and the Japanese are doing it already

1. The Government should use this US$ 3 billion and buy GM to have the ability to redirect all GM’s activities as outlined below (2-12).

2. Chrysler became worthless after they abandoned the smarter guys at Mercedes Benz. Chrysler is bankrupt and it would be best for all of us to let it disappear. If not, then the only option left is to merge it with the new GM immediately after the Government owns it.

3. The management in Ford is smart and the company will survive without any help from Congress or anybody else.

4. As Michel Moore said, transporting Americans is one of the most important functions our government must address. Here the only real way to do it is to buy GM to force this change to happen. The guys running it will never do it. They just burn that US$ 18 billion and after the smoke disappears they just come for more.

5. Franklin Roosevelt when facing a huge crisis ordered the auto industry to stop building cars and instead build tanks and planes – and it was done!

6. Our current crisis is different and the solution is also different.

7. In Europe, e.g. in Spain the country is building high speed trains and train lines all over the country including the connection to the rest of the Europe that is waking up to the same change. Why will they all recognize this needed change?

8. It is because it is less expensive and more convenient for people to use a high speed train on all flights that last up to about two (2) hours.

9. This results to huge saving in the use of the fossil fuels.

10. The airplanes can be competitive only on the long flights as most of us has always “known”intuitively.

11. The Big 3 (now 2) are to build only cars that do not use fossil fuel as their primary source of energy and even more importantly they must start building trains, buses, subways and light rail. A corresponding public works projects across the country will build the rail lines and tracks.

12. This all will not only save millions of jobs, but will create millions of new ones

What happens next you can check from http://www.galacticwind.com/eternity/Future.htm

Global Warming – The Untold Part of The Story…

The Helium content in the sun has a major fluctuation period at 100,000 years as is visible from the last 650,000 years of ice core records taken from Antarctica.  This heating / cooling cycle works like a candle after the heart burrows itself into wax creating a cavity.  When this cavity becomes deeper the flame starts flickering at a steady frequency.  The reason is a periodic lack of oxygen that prevents the wax from burning properly.  A large flame forms when oxygen is readily available and the heated air expands the same time.  The oxygen is quickly consumed und the flame starts dying while the hot air raises up.  The flame is now almost gone but oxygen can again reach the heart of the candle and the cycle begins again. 

As said above our Sun is a Hydrogen fusion reactor that is held together by her own gravity converting Hydrogen to Helium at a steady pace.  However, the Helium is also fuel for yet another very hot fusion reaction but the concentration of the Helium must first reach a certain level, density and temperature before it can ignite.  That happens at least once in each 100,000 years.  This happened last time some 15,000 years ago and Helium is still fusing and the earth is heating up.  It appears that this Heliun fusion reaction might last 30-40,000 years and dies away.

In the next phase the the ice cap above Greenland becomes unstable and “falls” more or less orderly way into North Atlantic and with that the level of all oceans raise 6-8 meters.  With that the earth’s ability to absorb heat from the Sun gets diminished as more of the radiation from the Sun gets reflected away from the larger water surface.  Another perhaps even more important factor comes to play simultaneously as the now the cooler oceans can absorb more gases from the atmosphere, including all greenhouse gases. The earth starts cooling down.  Unfortunately the Helium reaction in the Sun may not be over yet and soon enough like 5 to 10,000 years later the temperature of the earth starts going up again.  The ice cap on Greenland has not thickened that much as of yet and depending on how long the heating continues a small part of Antarctica, about equal in size with Greenland is becoming also unstable.  If that ice cap section follows the path of Greenland we get yet an added 6 meters into Ocean level.  However, with this we have now enough fresh cold water in oceans to cool them down even more and that starts clearing the atmosphere from the remaining greenhouse gases.  With this going on the earth is in “free fall” to another deep freeze with ocean level dropping some 120 meters below the present.  It would go even further but now the 100,000 cycle is complete and the Sun has enough Helium that ignites again.

As recently as only 20,000 years ago the earth was at the bottom of the last “deep freeze” and at that time the water line was low enough to provide a “thousand mile wide highway” for everything to move freely between Alaska and Siberia. 

We know that we can do plenty to reduce the extremes already with our current knowledge and perhaps later we can even control this phenomena equally like we have built dams on rivers to tame the floods and to provide water over the dry season.  The process is in principle similar, it only requires taming the heat.  This will involve water, ice, plants and atmosphere, all in all it is a little more complex than a river dam but it can be done if we have the political will to do it.  But do we really have a choice – the alternative is a global war over resources and survival of the fittest! (theory by M&M, what we can do and should do is shown at http://www.galacticwind.com/indwarm.html ) 

Health Care – Hillary still does not get it…

There is absolutely no need of any bureaucracy to dwell around our basic health care.   

An insurance means that someone out there will get a cut from our health care payments.  Today this someone else maintains a phony image of an important insurance business that is necessary to bring the “best health care” in the world to the Americans.   It appears just unnecessary to know how the other well to do countries manage without this specific insurance layer.  

Funny as it sounds, but as these countries do not have this specific insurance layer it is actually very easy to understand why people there are healthier and live much longer and even happier lives!   

Somene will likely now simply say, just go there and stay there you idiot!   This is a more serious issue as today perhaps already several million of the better to do Americans are  considering just that.   It would not be only them, it would be their pensions and their wealth.  We can not afford that regardless how walthy we think we are.   Each one million of them could easily take a wealth of US$ 1 million with them and that adds to US$ 1 Trillion.  That is about equal amount of money than the cost of the war in Iraq has been so far and the pensions would still be running.

It also appears to be totally unknown in the USA that people in the free world are free to buy anything they want, and that include also a private health care insurance.  Many there actually carry one.  For them it is a little luxury like a second or third car here and it is used exactly like the second or third car is used here.

As Hillary has it, we will still have an all inclusive private insurance system regardless how she packages it.  As a result there will be huge hoards of people involved who do nothing but shovel unnecessary paperwork back and forth to allocate and sort the bills to large number of insurance businesses with a much larger number of insurance policies.  These policies all contain an option to reject practically any claim if the profitability of the insurance company ever is threatened.   It is important to realize that not even one from these insurance businesses will ever provide any kind of health care to the people here.

In comparison:

We do not buy defense and intelligence insurances against hostile Nations - we pay our military and intelligence services from our taxes.

We do not buy police protection insurance – we pay our police from our taxes

We do not pay international border violation insurance – we pay our border guards from our taxes

We do not buy road and bridge insurance – we pay our roads from our taxes.

We do not buy education insurance - we finance our public schools from our taxes.

Etc, etc….

Summary:  Hillary and the others do not really care and with that it will be business as usual.   We continue to have the same two parties with the same ”old boys and girls” going back to Congress after next elections to “write in laws all the premade decisions that impact our future”.   The sad part is that less known elitistic think tanks make all the decisions that affect us.   This is the real reason why nothing ever changes regardless which of the two parties is in power – some in Congress are well aware of this elitism but still have no ”gusto” to make the right decisions for our Nation.    A real third party might help breaking this lock but these two will never allow this to happen.  Perhaps when the recent immigrants realize their hopeless faith they learn to ignore their differences and finally get it done.

See also the one below…

Hillary’s health plan is Irresponsible

None of the Presidential candidate health plans including Ms. Clinton will fix our broken Health Care System.  The plans actually prevent any meaningful health care reform from ever happening.   It all would be hopeless but the 50 plus generation is waking up and it also holds a trump card that no political party dares to challenge.  This generation is much more than upset from everything that is done in the name of the health care to the Americans!

1. We don’t need health Insurance, we need comprehensive tax payer funded Free for All Health Care.

2. The Congress must leave the Insurance Industry and Pharmacies free hands to do whatever they want to do.  The purchasing of medicines from abroad like Canada must be legal.  The public will take care of the rest. 

3. Clinton & Al., should only do the above and then step aside and stay aside.  The health care of the people belongs to the hands of doctors, nurses and hospitals, just let the people decide it all. 

4. Mingling with the Insurance Industry has been very costly for the tax payers.  Today this waste is already US$ 800 Billion per year to be exact.  Of course this same US$ 800 Billion is the reason why the Congress wants to be involved but that has to end.

5. Never forget that our Health Care Insurance Industry runs the largest industrial scam ever implemented in the civilized World.  This scam is even larger than the war industry has been able to assemble.

To read the facts and details check: http://www.galacticwind.com/eternity/index.htm

Zero Taxes to Corporations brings in real Democracy…

Claiming that corporations today pay or must pay more income taxes is an oxymoron.  We the people have always  paid 100% of these taxes one way or the other.  Use your head instead of a mantra that was given to you during your formative years to "mislead" your logic.  "Mislead" is the right word!

 

If we want to develop our current democracy the first ones to go are corporate and inheritance taxes.  "Over my dead body" - I hear your loud and clear shouting.   This is the real voice of the real ignorance.  We are conditioned and brainwashed to be ignorant on all issues that carry any value.  Why would those in power ever happily share their power with the simple minded plebs?

You may though agree with me with one important issue:  A drill press or a coffee pot do not eat, do not get tired, do not pay taxes nor do make any decisions.   And like all the other, more complex machines, some run by computers, they all together form a seamlessly working "Black Box" that makes our society highly productive.  Sounds stupid but understanding this concept is much more important than any Government.  There is much more to it but let's leave it to another Blog and go to taxes...

This year our Government uses about US$ 2,400 Billion as take-out slice from the GDP estimated to be US$13,700 Billion.  That mounts to 17.5% of GDP and IRS collects this all one way or the other.  This all is called taxes and/or added federal debt whenever dollars are printed.  Our one time war business forms a "separate" story (will be paid later).

 

You should be aware that about 70% of GDP goes through our own hands while the remaining 30% keeps the businesses (=Black Box) alive.  This 30% that the businesses need to operate include all taxes, profits, investments, daily operations, maintenance, marketing, sales and everything else to the last penny.  Be assured that every penny of this all is added to the price of all products we buy.  Translating this to Pidgin English we give the tax money to the businesses so that they can earn interest with it before transferring it to IRS at the end of the following quarter. 

Regardless we the ordinary tax payers pay directly 80% of all taxes, and then the remaing 20% indirectly through the corporations.  Accordinng to "formal" tax statistics we will pay 14.5% of the taxes while the corporations pay 3.0%.  This transfer payment of 3% has been sinking slowly during the past decades - the lobbying "works"!

 

Sounds silly but most people do not recognize facts.  For them all businesses are greedy and they should  pay higher share of the taxes, why?  To use our money as their own cash flow and to earn more interest on these transfer payments while they linger at their custody for a few months?  This is called a subsidy to the businesses in Pidgin English.  Perhaps we have too much money in our pockets and can offer even higher "salaries" to all directors and the top management for their excellent progress in sending our jobs overseas!

 

Looping taxes through businesses produces nothing to us and the businesses will add even it's handling cost to the prices of all products.  We should rather use this money orselve the same way before sending it to IRS.  By doing so we could keep the interest while the money is in transit.  This would actually show up annually as about US$ 150 per an average tax payer.  With 10% interest US$ 700 billion (corporate taxes) add up to US$ 18 Billion in a quarter  (many pay more than 10% interest on credit cards). 

 

Are you still desperately opposing to give the corporation a permanent amnesty in taxes?  To help you to decide think how the Congress spends it's time.  It is most of the time tinkering the tax laws for the corporations and even for us.  Unfortunately, nobody outside or inside the Congress can understand how the tax laws can be ever made fair inside the Black Box.   The Congress loves to tinker but this effort is eqaully ambitious as would be for you and me to take a spade and dig a hole through the center of the earth and surface on the other side clean, smelling good, and dressed into a spotless tuxedo and evening gown.

 

We have recently heard even from Warren Buffet expressing an opinion of the tax issues in a TV intervie: “..it is disgrace that the ordinary employees in my office must pay taxes at higher tax rate that I pay.  Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do as taxes must be paid according to the laws…”   He also added:  “…I would not mind sharing the tax burden more evenly but it can not break the law of the land.”

 

You may still not be convinced but next are the few steps that we must take to fix the mess we are in.  It is actually simple and can be implemented it all within a few years including a three year overlap for the old and new systems to balance the books during the crossover.  Computers will do the math. 

 

Here is my proposal:

 

1.      no business taxes of any kind (it's our money anyhow)

2.      no inheritance taxes of any kind (after listening to a few seminars on this topic it is obvious that rich pay zero taxes) 

3.      a consumption (sales) tax

4.   a flat tax that starts from zero, say at US$ 100,000 and reaches it’s final value of 5%-10% at US$ 250,000 income level. 

 

You may not want to beleive but that is enough to make a major improvements to the quality our society and how our government will treat us in the future. 

Here is what happens next almost automatically without any further action from the Government:

 

1.      Our beloved lobbyists go home and stay there as the industries behind them have no work for them.  During the past two centuries these industry paid lobbyists have corrupted almost everything we have in this country. Currently most of the lobbyists’ money ends up to the coffers of those in Congress who have the keenest ear for their concerns.  This means in prtactice that the business of Congress can simply not change regardless whom we elect there.  The decisions are made by majority in Congress not by the voters.

2.      From now on the Congress can concentrate to the only job they understand and can relate to – how to maintain our environment and society attractive for the smartest in the world, and how to scale the flat tax rate and tinker the consumption (sales) tax scales.  

3.      The elections become suddenly meaningful as the lobbyists are no more there and the campaign coffers are more evenly filled.

4.      We may get the fairest tax system on the planet. 

5.      With fair tax system we will have a steady influx of young and smart brains looking for a new opportunity.  

6.      The inheritance tax schemes disappear as worthless.  The IRS is totally powerless against the richest estates while the ordinary people get slaughtered with their tiny estates.  Some countries have already abndoned all inheritance taxes.

7.      The businesses will get a shot in the arms as their competitive position improves dramatically.  This means increasing business activity and job opportunities both at home and overseas.

8.      The mystical and elusive 4 year economic cycle is reduced in magnitude as the corporations have no benefits of  their intervention.

 

Note:  Several countries are already thinking on these lines and if one of the majors adopt that country will leave the rest of the pack standing into a thick and slowly settling dust bowl.

For more see: http://www.galacticwind.com/inddemocracy.html

Liquid Coal is off the Table – Big Oil has Won!

Did somebody forget that our airplanes need fuel in the future?  Today the kerosene that we use contains all kinds of chemicals that will not burn fully in a jet engine.  With decades of flying this stuff is now present in every corner of the planet and all of it’s oceans.  

Perhaps none of you have ever talked someone living and having a garden next to a busy airport (take your Bose with you if you plan to go and check).   

If we are honest with our talk about clean air we should use only sythetic fuels in our airplanes until we figure out how to control the gravity (we have some ideas).   The liquid coal or natural gas are the cleanest synthetic fuels we can have.  When correctly done these fuels have a precise chemical composition, no impurities at all and the jet engine emits only CO2 and water vapor, see  www.syntroleum.com/Video/AF%20B52%20Fuel%20Test.wmv.

It is time for all involved and serious about global warming to realize that liquid fuels made of organic materials like coal are a necessity for us.  There is much more to this as you can find out if you follow the link shown later below.   The cheap demagogy against liquid coal that is used in this context is a disgrace.  While this demagogy is effective in getting votes from the least educated it will backfire on due time (Hitler was better in all demagogy anyhow).  

The recently promoted and established Ethanol insustry in the USA is a scam that is starting to show some stress signs.  For more go and check the price of a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread and a pound of meat in your grocery store - and do not forget the commodity prices either.

How come, ethanol is OK but liquid coal is not?  The commonly held claims do not hold water.   The ferocity of the fight against liquid coal in the political theatre including MoveOn and many other organizations indicate that somewhere real money pouring in.  The most obvious party supporting this “kill the liquid coal” movement is the Big Oil and it’s two brainchildren: Detroit and this new Ethanol industry.   We have been drinking ethanol in one form or the other for thousands of years and we have known equally long that this drink can support burning at elevated cocentrations.   A good drink and the same time one of the best selling tools to create a false promise that ethanol could solve our fuel problems.  

Unfortunately, we do not have the required excess arable land to take us to this mirage of never never land.   The 15% target as fuel for automobiles is BS and will die within a decade or two depending on how long the tax payers are willing to chip in.   

The Big Oil understands this all better than anybody else.  This would in any case fit perfectly into their long term strategy.   For them “helping” the Ethanol Industry is a perfect  delay tactic as they need all the time against liquid coal they can get.  This Ethanol nonsense was anyhow free for them as the tax payers picked the tab.   

In the real world Ethanol is not to be taken seriously as a solution to our energy problems. The Big Oil knew this from the beginning - for them the days of the Ethanol fuel ndustry were numbered before it was even born.  Fuel Ethanol will create a huge moral problem and solving that will keep our government busy for a long time.   

The Big Oil may not be the guilty here,  provided that they did not participate in plans that converted our high schools to subsidized day care centers for our teenagers.   When they graduate most of them can not read, write nor do math at sufficient level to study in a college or university without remedial courses. 

Perhaps you still wonder why during the past few decades oil companies have not built new oil refineries in the USA.   The Big Oil recognized the inevitable the arrival of an electric car already decades ago.   The last hurdle was the battery but that hurdle is now finally in history.   Detroit faught valiantly all the way against this electric thing but it’s over and they lost.   Detroit would never have built an electric car – it is too simple, too durable and especially too cheap when mass produced in less than a few years from now!   It does not use gas either and here Detroit and the Big Oil had a love affair.   For more, see http://www.galacticwind.com/eternity/Future.htm

In reality the Big Oil will not loose anything.   We still need all the oil they can find as is explained in details on the above referred galacticwind web site.  

Unfortunately the meantime, the highly frustrated Congress appears not to understand large numbers any more, as someone there figured out that we must tax Big Oil for their recent totslly unjustified, huge profits.   Relatively speaking there is nothing big in these profits but that seem to be too complex issue today.   This is insane, counterproductive and we will pay a price for this stupidity - this also will be discussed soon more in another Blog by the Surfer from Terrastan, stay tuned.

NOTE 1:  The Big Oil does not own any of the liquid coal nor closely related technologies.   These belong to tiny enterprises that have been fighting for decades to survive against the Big Oil and the enormous odds.   The Big Oil has kept the price of oil low “for us” and of course that is what we want.   But they had no goodwill in their mind, one of their targets was these small enterprises working on liquid fuel technologioes.  They wanted them out and dead to pick what they wanted from their ashes – like ripe plums.   As indicated above the Big Oil has attracted some of the smartest people on the planet to their ranks now for over 100 years and they still have their final strategy intact and in place.