[GJM] Discussion Digest, Vol 38, Issue 9

Tue Nov 7 23:02:26 MST 2006


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>    1. #11 TK Wilson And Lurban Kohler On The Inner
> Structure Of TOP
>       (The Optimum Policy) (Wesley S. Burt)
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> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:49:10 -0500
> From: "Wesley S. Burt" <wesburt at juno.com>
> Subject: [GJM] #11 TK Wilson And Lurban Kohler On
> The Inner Structure
> 	Of TOP	(The Optimum Policy)
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> 	FixGov at yahoogroups.com,worldcit at googlegroups.com
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> Hello again old friends of the Republic,
> 
> Now it seems that members of list FixGov want the 
> existing machine (the US economy) to be destroyed, 
> instead of fixed.  Perhaps I am mistaken in my
> reading 
> of Wilson and Kohler.  If so, I hope they will
> explain why 
> Fix-Gov writers have been so reluctant to comment on
> 
> TOP [the optimum policy for any species of
> reproducible 
> productive assets] or TWP [the wrong policy for any 
> species of reproducible productive assets] which is 
> about 110 years old in the US and about 2981 years 
> old in the Commonwealth Nations and the Middle East.
>  
> 
> Keep in mind, that the accepted method of 
> reducing the population of any contemptible 
> species of pests is to impair their reproductive 
> process.  When the pests are people (six billion 
> and counting), the accepted method is called: 
> Genocide Done Slowly, as done since BC 975 
> with a few short intervals of TOP.  I know of only 
> two such intervals: the USA from 1789 to the 
> 1890s, and the economic miracles of Japan 
> and Western Europe from 1946 to the 1970s.
> 
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Lurban Kohler <lurbankohler at yahoo.com>
> To: FixGov at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 08:17:34 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: [FixGov] TK puts it in a nutshell
> 
> 
> --- T K Wilson <ommani at getgoin.net> wrote to list
> FixGov:
> " . . . . . . ..  we are slaves in the literal sense
> of the
> > word. Whether or not we help in forging our own
> > chains is really beside the point.
> > 
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Snip ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 
> > Until the military industrial complex is entirely
> displaced 
> > and destroyed; until the entire corporatist
> (fascist) entity 
> > is demolished, we will continue to suffer.  In
> point of fact, 
> > without an all encompassing change in our cultural
> > behaviour and outlook, we will suffer anyway, no
> matter 
> > what system we create or accept as a replacement
> for 
> > corporatist capitalism.
> 
> Urban: exceptionally well put TK. ----seems like
> we're
> irretrievably trapped, & maybe that's why scenarios
> eco or I or John DeSantis or Zazbali Khan or John
> Gelles or anybody can come up with to extricate our
> planet from the parasitic growth of which we are all
> participating elements, all end up sounding like
> pipe
> dreams of Eugene O'Niell's loser characters.
> 
> I have to imagine there's a way out of this. If
> everybody understood it (and believe me I'm aware
> that
> hardly anyone does, because I'm visiting my extended
> family, with whom I can't even broach the subject
> without being treated like a pariah!!) --if
> everybody
> understood it maybe we'd find a way to ignore the
> current power structure until it withered. Hope
> springs eternal in the human heart. I personally
> must
> cling to it, but also MUST hear the voices like TK
> who
> point out the unwelcome realities of most stuff so
> earnestly and well-intentionally proposed. 
> 
> We can only "do what we can do"
> ~~~~~~~ End  TK Wilson And Lurban Kohler ~~~~~~~~
> 
> The US economy, inspite of its faults, evokes the
> envy 
> of every other industrial nation.  Big and powerful 
> corporations rise and fall with scarcely a
> disturbance 
> on the surface of things.  When the US work force
> decided 
> in 1896 to stop producing a "bakers dozen," in the
> vain 
> hope of reducing employment below 4%, the US economy
> 
> shifted from a modest deflation rate of 1.2%/year to
> a 
> modest inflation rate of 2.3%/year which continued
> for 
> seven decades until 1971.  Unemployment, of course, 
> continued well above 4%.  Today's commentary on 
> money seldom reaches back beyond 1971 and the 
> closing of the gold window.  The great events of the
> 
> 20th century: the income tax amendment and the FRB, 
> WW I, the roaring 20s, the great depression, WW II, 
> and following wars appear as only minor
> perturbations 
> of that 2.3%/year inflation trend line.  And famous
> men 
> denied the declining value of the dollar while their
> 
> attention was focused on the business cycle.
> 
> After President Nixon closed the gold window in
> 1971, 
> and Paul Volcker corrected the resulting financial 
> instability in 1981, the economy operated at a
> constant 
> inflation rate of 3.3%/year until 2003 when a new
> period 
> of financial instability was started by George W.
> Bush.  
> By 2005, the inflation rate had reached 4%/year as 
> reported by my mentor, Dr. W. Curtiss Priest on list
> 
> cyber-soc.  All of this financial history is
> captured on 
> attached Figure 2-3e.gif, US Money Supply M1 and M3.
>  
> Read it, and tell me how and why M1 was held at 
> $1,200 Billion from 1994 through 2003 after the ten 
> year run up from $500 Billion in 1984.
> 
> The second attached Figure 17h.gif, The Inner
> Structure 
> Of TOP and TWP, has been revised.  Some redundant
> text 
> on the right hand side of the figure was replaced
> with 
> an end view of the continuous process which produces
> 
> the wealth in a local, state, national, or world
> economy.  
> Notice that there is nothing in the system but the
> people,
> the land they occupy, the capital assets they built
> on the 
> land, and a medium of exchange M1c-A = $385 Billion,
> 
> which circulates 26 times per year to produce the
> 2003 
> US GDP of $10,000 Billion/year.  Pay no attention to
> the 
> World Market at 0/360 degrees nor to the Labor
> Market at 
> 
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