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

[ram prasad]

What if we define the formula

Business = eBusiness + iBusiness

as
TOP = eBusiness + iBusiness

?

Ram Prasad
--- wesburt at juno.com wrote:

> 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 
> 
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