Ecobloat

Looking over economic development on our globe since the end of the Second World War, a new social and historical phenomenon is observable without as yet a name. Let’s call it ecobloat. Economic production in the US during the war of military and civilian goods was gigantic. The US transitioned to mainly civilian production starting in 1945 at a time when the civilian production in Russia and Germany was stagnant or non-existing and all the other European countries had economies that were scaled-down. The US was suffering from ecobloat. Ecobloat creates an economic law that is now observable worldwide. Whenever a national economy expands much more rapidly than neighboring economies, some spillover from the richer economy to the poorer neighboring or nearby economies is inevitable. The richer economy rids itself of some of its bloat by exporting its corporations, capital and technologies to neighboring countries. No ecobloat economy can simply isolate itself from poorer neighbors and continue to bloat. The US postwar economy was the first to deal with ecobloat. It could not export  most of its products because foreign states were too poor to buy them so it exported its corporations and its capital to foreign states along with its advanced technologies which made poorer states richer. Chinese ecobloat is now spilling over into South East Asian states just as US ecobloat spilled over long ago to economies like Japan and Italy and more recently to South American countries aiding them to become richer. But the law of ecobloat does not always operate peacefully. The European Union is a case of collective ecobloat that is not spilling over into African states and Moslem states and is causing unregulated immigration and terrorism. Germany recently tried to solve its ecobloat (it has already been been debloating in Poland) by voluntarily importing massive amounts of immigrants. This is at best a partial solution. The European Union can only solve its ecobloat problem by obeying the law of ecobloat. It must export its capital. corporations and technologies to poorer countries in Africa and the Near East or become economically obese. The US has never allowed us Americans to suffer the bad consequences of not treating ecobloat properly. It has kept us prosperous but lean by a long history of exporting our technologies, capital and corporations worldwide.

Daniel McNeill

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The First Clinton/Trump Debate

The first debate between Trump and Clinton was not about America. It was about whether or not the US Federal Government should continue its now traditional role of governing the world militarily and economically. Trump argued that the government makes trade deals and political deals with foreign states unfavorable to American states. The deal with Mexico, for example, allows products from Mexico into the US tariff free while products entering Mexico from the US are subject to tariffs. Jobs are regularly sent from the US to foreign countries. Most big American corporations operate globally without benefiting Americans. America pays 78 percent of the cost of European defense by monies paid to Nato. He gave fact after fact proving what Americans and the world know. The Federal Government does not pursue a national agenda aiming at the advantage of the average American. Clinton, Trump argued, has been supporting this policy for years as a member of the political establishment in Washington. She explained with some detail her plans for America, better jobs, better infrastructure, investment in new technologies, fairer tax laws,equal pay for women and so forth. Trump said it was all talk and he was right. But she was right that it was the talk that an experienced Washington insider needed to talk to get elected President and continue using the power of the Washington government for the benefit of the world first and Americans second. The people with the most interest in what was said were not located in the 50 United States. They did not see and hear the debate about whether Trump would put America or Clinton would put the world first. Clinton won the debate. So did the world.

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The Political Black Hole

Like the black hole in our galaxy, the political universe of our planet has a black hole. There is some odd power somewhere pulling the regular laws organizing our states towards some new formation. Once inside this  black hole, the laws that keep the 177 states on our planet in order vanish. The political black hole has its own laws, is not a state, and sucks down any state that comes near it threatening its uncanny power into a maw of political and economic oblivion. Do not ask where the black hole is. You can not see it and the best course for any state to keep going normally is to believe that there is no black hole. For how is it possible that states on our planet can be maneuvered surreptitiously by a political power acting as a state that is not a state?  There must not be any such entity. Scientists for centuries had no idea that a black hole existed in our galaxy sucking our planets into it. Everything went on in the natural world according to principles that could be discovered logically. Suddenly a chasm was discovered sucking us into it that had nothing to do with the principles that regulate us. Do we dare to look carefully with scientific logic for the political black hole? It is a terrifying business. If we find a political  superpower that is not a state acting like a state and if this false state is discovered diminishing the powers of real states, it would be shocking. It would be too terrible for our citizens living according to the normal laws of states to accept. Better not to think about it. Let it go on pulling us towards its abyss. As long as our political leaders keep convincing us that the normal laws of our states need no adjustment to protect us from the black hole, we don’t care  that there exists somewhere some powerful political black hole where our normal political laws do not exist.

Daniel McNeill

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In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right

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can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected

and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards

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Are Americans Out Of Options?

We are out of options if we reduce our outlook to the piddling goals of our politicians. They all act and speak as though we must limit our hope for a better future to America and the American economy. They do not tell us (some of them don’t know) that there is no separate American economy. America is one part of a worldwide economy. Washington is go-go for the economy outside of America. We in America are falling behind other economies. We could instead be richer and more developed at home than the rest of the world if Washington could somehow scale down its go-go influence militarily and financially in foreign states. But it will not do this because it would cause an economic catastrophe in the global economy. We Americans can expand our economic opportunities only by expanding America itself by admitting new states to our union. Over a period of 170 years we admitted 37 new states. Every new state admitted gave every American new economic opportunities. Why should our children be limited to 50 states? Why not admit 20 or 30 states? The European union of states admits new states regularly. Why can’t we do the same just as we have actually been doing for 170 years? Any new states admitted would not upset Washington’s go-go influence developing foreign economies. It would make its efforts to make states secure for foreign investment easier and lasting. If you want a better future for yourself and your children, write your congressman and remind him/her that Article IV Section 3 or our Constitution gives Congress the right to admit new states. Let’s make America itself bigger. Let’s make it huge. Let’s make it worldwide. Let’s make the united states of America the united states of the world.

Daniel McNeill

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Bono Says America Is Not Just a Country But an Idea

Finally, among the indecent and unthinking squabbles and name-callings of Trump and Clinton in the presidential election campaign, pumped up for us daily on the media, finally, finally a person of international note said on the media what the election is about, an idea.  All that Americans have to do to study the idea is read the Constitution or else at least look at what it says on every bill of their money: The United States of America. The Irish rock star Bono today in an interview on CBS morning news said that “America is like the best idea the world ever came up with”. He explained that his country, Ireland, or Great Britain, are only countries but “America is not just a country...America is an idea and that idea is bound up in equality and justice for all”. Norah O’Donnell, one of the CBS reporters, was so inspired by Bono’s interview that she repeated Bono’s thought “that America is an idea, it’s more than a country”. Finally it is out in public what we have been saying over and over. America is not a nation. It is a union of states that embodies “the best idea the world ever came up with”. The presidential election is about the life or death of the idea that is America. Should the idea behind our union of states that has been resulting in the admission of new states for almost two centuries die? Should the financial and military efforts that our government makes daily to unify the world for democracy and peace and prosperity die?  Trump and his supporters want the idea of America that is the motor for good worldwide to die. Clinton knows because of her wide experience not only that it is dangerous to try to stop the unraveling of the idea of America worldwide, but also that it would be a disaster for us Americans as well as the world. The Irishman Bono sang today another beautiful song for the world. If Americans vote for Trump and kill “the best idea the world ever came up with” then the punishment for their political murder will be the end of all music in their souls.

Daniel McNeill

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In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right

from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it

can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected

and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards

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The Last Days of Independent States

The only function that is realistic for a postmodern state also happens to be morally good. A state’s purpose is to use its riches only to increase the wealth of each of its citizens. They can never reach this goal by remaining fully sovereign. Full sovereignty implicitly means they must undertake duties so costly and so difficult to accomplish effectively that they necessarily reduce the wealth of their citizens. Take the retirement system in Italy. Government officials with the best will in the world have designed it and modified it and administered it over the years yet it works so badly that its results, without being anyone’s fault, are disgraceful. The Social Security system in the US works completely independently of any government. It is not based on paying out retirement benefits from public tax revenues. All such revenues, as is common knowledge, are subject to ineffective or corrupt usage by public officials. A fund for retirement in the US separate from taxes is paid into by all present day workers and businesses as a percent of their current salaries or profits.  It works in spite of the ineffective actions of public officials. Italy and every other independent state must get rid of all activities that can be done better at much less cost by the central government of a union of states. It is much cheaper and more effective for states to pool their money together and give all military power to a central government. Independent judicial systems in independent states can not eliminate corruption. States need two complimentary judicial systems, a state system covering most cases and a federal system empowered to assure just actions by officials of both the central government and state governments. It is interesting that business corporations regularly get rid of divisions that are not working profitably. State governments should do the same. They should stop trying to run worldwide diplomatic operations or wasting businessmen’s capital paying excessive taxes or dealing with unnecessary tariffs set up by bureaucrats. Imagine a state trying to run a universal health system for 60 million people! It is nothing more than a continual effort to keep an unworkable system from becoming a disaster. States should pay for all the medical needs of their citizens to doctors and hospitals from the funds they can gain by avoiding using funds for activities that are fruitless, costly and wasteful. I live in a state in a union of states. It pays nothing for military and diplomatic services. It has no state-run medical system but it paid last year 52 billion dollars for medical benefits for its citizens or $8500 per person. It has a large coastline and pays not a cent to guard it. It pays for its own police but it pays nothing for the support given to it by the police of the central government. It pays for its court system but pays nothing for the federal court system that backs it up and regularly tries and convicts corrupt state politicians. Fully independent states are seeing their last days. They don’t see the dwindling days but everyone who looks at states objectively sees them.

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In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right

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can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected

and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards

one liberating ending to all its beginnings.

The End of Bourgeois Individualism

In postmodern life, you have to find at least part of your identity by joining a corporation. But it has some good because it’s a condition something like life in the Middle Ages with the guilds. All work took place then in organizations with wages and prices and the quality of goods regulated so that all the factors of production came together harmoniously. The bourgeoisie got rid of the guilds so they could raise prices, cheat on the quality of goods for more profit, and lower wages. The bourgeoisie had narrow values that they claimed were universal in order to reinforce their power. Everyone had  to be an independent individual to count. Money assured individuality and since money was scarce, it had to be earned by opposing all individuals without money. Riches were for the few. Workers worked exclusively to make riches for people who were against them politically and philosophically. In the nineteenth century, the values of corporations were bourgeois. They were for themselves but then technologies advanced and they began producing in spite of their narrow values living wages for their workers. Now corporations are even beginning to take on positive public activities not designed to make money. They need educated workers and they have all learned that well paid educated workers can be trusted with responsibilities that expand corporations. Human goodness is good for everything including profits. Especially profits. The richer the workers, the greater the demand for the products of corporations. Easy profits produce not only greedy humans but virtuous humans pure and simple. Money talks but it talks louder and louder with happy workers. Individuality makes less and less sense if it means relating to other men as the bourgeoisie once taught us how to relate. Make a worker an object and you just make a human an object among objects. Make a worker also a subject and you turn an object into a creator. The key to it all however is still riches. But the pie gets bigger so every piece of the pie gets bigger. If corporations continue baking the way they now bake, they are bound to create more and more bigger and more delicious bites for most of us. And what they can not provide all of us, our states should provide us by taking a just percentage of corporate riches.

Daniel McNeill

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a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother

46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five

In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right

from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it

can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected

and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards

one liberating ending to all its beginnings.

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