[GJM] 05-08-10 A Republic, If You Can Keep it

[wesburt at juno.com]

Dear Norman Kurland and John Watkins,

In reply to my three year old post "03-05-09 The 
Optimum Policy (TOP), Lost Since The 1890s," 
Norman writes on Sun, 30 Jul 2006, in part:

        Dear Wes,

        I know you heart is in the right place and you're 
        a person like me and others who are committed 
        to promoting a more just and peaceful world.  
        Nevertheless, I agree with John Watkins in his 
        friendly comment that he cannot understand 
        The Optimum Policy (TOP) that you espouse.  
        Neither can I.  The best I can understand is 
        that it is part of the genre of thought that I lump 
        together as "conspiracy theory." 
~~~~~~~~ End excerpt from Norm's reply ~~~~~~~~

In reply to my three year post "03-05-09 The Optimum 
Policy (TOP), Lost Since The 1890s," John writes on 
Sun, 30 Jul 2006, in part:

        A major question you should consider is--
        how long will it take for you to realize that the 
        words and illustrations you've used are not 
        effective communications? What can you do 
        to reduce the problem?
~~~~~~~~ End excerpt from John's reply ~~~~~~~~

Now Norm and John, I have no reason whatsoever 
to doubt the sincerity of your declarations that you 
do not understand TOP (The Optimum Policy).  You 
would be unlikely to invent it yourself, unless your 
day job required you to compute an optimum plan 
of production from a dozen or more continuous 
process plants, and execute that plan while the 
demand cycle for the product varied from 30% to 
90% of capacity during each 24 hour period, with 
supply held equal to demand during each second 
of the 24  hour cycle.

I did not invent TOP myself.  My day job only required 
me to mechanize the manual practice that had 
been fully developed by electrical engineers for 
the electric power industry by 1953.  You may 
explore the theory of the computation in a 1954 
paper by Paul A. Samuelson, THE PURE THEORY 
OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, Page 1224, VOL. 2, His 
collected papers, edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Let me suggest a new frame of reference for this 
discussion that might initiate a cooperative step 
forward toward our mutual goals.  In no sense is 
TOP an alternative competitor for the public acclaim 
and funding essential to the success of John Bunzl's 
Simultaneous Policy, not to John Watkins' Human 
Empowerment, nor to Stephen Zarlenga's Monetary 
Reform, nor to Norman Kurland's Capital Homesteading 
for Every Citizen.  Top is a technical requirement for 
establishing a "free" market which performs just the 
way Libertarians believe a free market performs.  

The US economy has practiced TOP in the corporate 
private sector since the onset of industrialization.  
The absence of TOP in the US public sector amounts 
to a $300 Billion/year obstacle (equal to the DOD budget) 
to each of the four reform movements mentioned above.
Before any one of those reforms can make any headway against the century
old status quo, that obstacle must be removed.  Then, all four reforms
will be required to undo 
a century of industrial evolution in the wrong direction, 
and achieve sustainability, liberty, and justice for all.

Now folks, with this new perspective, kindly consider 
the following one year old post and attached 37 year 
old visual-aid (Fig10c.gif) to see why this problem 
went unsolved from B.C. 975 to A.D. 1789 for agrarian 
societies and was not solved for industrial societies 
until Switzerland solved it in the 1890s, followed by 
Japan and Germany in 1946.  Sad to state, the English 
speaking intellectuals don't understand TOP so we 
cannot fix the problem in the English speaking nations 
until the second great depression begins.

Kind regards,

Wes Burt
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:38:31 -0400
Subject: "A Republic, If You Can Keep it," 
                  according to Ben Franklin

Hello again folks,

Each race, religion, and nationality has its small 
compliment of predators --  its thirteenth tribe of 
day-trading, carpet-bagging, Shylocks who see 
the rest of humanity as their natural prey, as an 
inferior species to be hunted for sport.  It is fair 
to say that this top (tribe of predators) will 
admit of "no alternative" to their divine right to 
divide, conquer, or obfuscate every principle or 
proposal which might favor their natural prey.

Below the top are the middle class of wealthy, 
healthy, intelligent, and powerful folks, our 
WHIPs, who are members of Chatham House, 
Pratt House, the White House, the House Of 
Representatives, the Senate, the Internet, and 
our private sector corporations.  They have 
exhausted the resources of our best colleges 
and universities but cannot get to the top 
because our best universities and colleges 
do not teach what the top teaches to its own 
members on a "need to know" basis.  Orders 
from the top to the WHIPs read: "Do as I say, 
you have no need to know what I know or do."  
So the WHIPs, in their dealing with working folks, 
follow the golden rule, and "do unto us as was 
done unto them."  They keep us on our knees: 
praying, paying, and obeying.  

A distinguishing feature of this ancient social 
order, if permitted in an industrial economy, is 
that the rate of production of wealth [(units of 
value)/year] lags by 2-4%/year behind the rate 
of money disbursed by the WHIPs [$/year] to 
produce the wealth.  An industrial economy 
based on slave or prison labor would expend 
the labor directly with no need to disburse 
the money.  So, with or without money, in 
such a society where the people are a prey, 
the production of wealth lags by 2-4%/year 
behind the expectations of the WHIPs and the 
production schedules of the top.  

If we agree that the industrial age began when 
King Henry the Eighth separated England 
from the Church Of Rome and enclosed 
the common lands to raise sheep, then the 
industrialization of England provides the 
primary example of wealth production 
lagging behind the production schedules 
of the top.

There must be many other sources of this data, 
but this one effectively makes the case.  On page 
356 of THE GREAT RECKONING, 1993, by 
James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-
Mogg, the chart of South English consumer 
prices shows a steady trend of increasing prices 
from 1502 through 1981.  As the authors put it: 

        "Taking an even longer view, prices have 
        been rising for five hundred years, over the 
        whole period of Western predominance in 
        the world.  But they have never risen as fast 
        as they have in the last fifty years."

In marked contrast to the English and Continental 
condition, the profile of the US C.P.I., from 
1787 to October 1966, when it was published by 
FORTUNE magazine, attached Fig10c.gif, clearly 
shows that Ben Franklin's Republic was truly an 
exceptional nation.  I know of no other nation 
that enjoyed a whole century of declining consumer 
prices with an ever increasing production of real 
wealth, except during wars.  The change from a 
1.2%.year increase in the value of the dollar to 
a 2.3%/year decline in the value of the dollar is 
the change from a man working for his own 
account on his own property to a man without 
property working for a corporation under the 
constant threat of unemployment caused by a 
3% of GDP shortage of purchasing power due 
to TWP (The Wrong Policy).

Is it any wonder that English and Continental 
top economists, since they lost the American 
Civil War, have labored diligently to persuade 
the US WHIPs that sustained inflation is the 
Will of God, is too sacred to be studied, and 
that "there is no alternative" to the shortage 
of purchasing power, the unemployment, the 
inflation, and the wars of the 20th century.

Here was a nation founded by WHIPs who 
were regarded as traitors to their class, and 
were treated as such, by the English and the 
Continental tribe of predators.  The founders 
paid dearly for establishing an alternative, TOP 
(The Optimum Policy), to the ancient social 
order of the top that had existed since the 
"Folly Of Rehoboam" (I Kings 12, 1-15, 
B.C. 975), was reaffirmed by the Decree Of 
King Artaxerxes (Ezra 7, 24, B.C. 457), was 
universal elsewhere in the world until Japan 
and the Euro nations adopted The Optimum 
Policy (TOP) in 1946.  

But as shown in both Fig10c and Fig10e, by 
the 1890s, the old order rocked back into place 
in the US public sector while the US private 
sector continued to develop as a chaordic 
organization with sovereign corporations 
seeking their common goal of stability with 
a minimum of political structure and a maximum 
flexibility.  The US private sector presents an 
example of effective decentralization that has 
not yet been matched by the European Christian 
principle of Subsidiarity.  But it won't last much 
longer if the US public sector policy is not also 
restored to conformance with the "Laws of Nature 
and of Nature's God."

We are taught Ten of the Twelve Commandments 
and the Second Tithe which paid the top an average 
income of four times the average income of the 
Twelve Tribes.  The US still pays its government 
WHIPs about four times the national average 
family income of $50,000/year.  Meanwhile, the 
top pays them $1,000,000/year for campaign 
expenses.  Perhaps four to one was adequate in 
an agrarian society in B.C. 1471, and in an agrarian 
society in 1789, but obviously four to one has 
not been adequate in our US industrial society 
since the 1890s.  

Democracy, without the "Laws of Nature and of 
Nature's God," is a sorry substitute for a Republic, 
based on the whole Divine law, which we enjoyed 
from 1789 to the Great Transformation in the 1890s.

Kind regards,

Wes Burt

           The Optimum Policy (TOP) is shown on
                Dr. W. Curtiss Priest's web site at:
       <http://www.epie.org/cyber-soc/default.htm>
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