[GJM] #828, Again, The Biology Experiment On US Citizens

Wed Jul 18 10:08:46 MDT 2007

Dear Sixth Graders and other members of our Clerisy,

Here is a two year old reminder that we are 
still "Losing Ground," as author Charles Murray 
put it in the 1980s.

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2005-09-14 The Biology Experiment On US Citizens

Hi folks,

My one week vacation in New Hampshire turned 
up a thirteen year old book that illustrates how 
ineffective our democratic mechanisms have 
become for directing our public policy. The book 
is "A License To Steal," 1992, by Benjamin J. Stein 
(The Untold Story Of Michael Milken And The 
Conspiracy To Bilk The Nation). In 218 pages, 
author B. J, Stein described "the entirety of the 
Milken/Drexel junk-bond scam and how it worked: 
the wheeler-dealers who started Milken on his 
career; the powerful men with checkered pasts who 
kept him afloat; the academics whose flawed work 
perpetuated the scam; and the journalists, the 
politicians, and the government regulators who 
were either cheering from the sidelines or asleep 
at the switch." 

We live in a society that has all of the mechanisms 
of an effective democratic Republic still in place, 
and still in working order, but yet the selfish interests 
exercise an undue influence on public policy, to the 
detriment of the environment and our quality 
of life. 

The closest analogy I can think of, to illustrate 
our condition, is the biology experiment which 
begins with a stable and healthy colony of 
laboratory rats. Rats, as you know, are in the 
middle of the obnoxious species continuum, 
somewhat larger than cockroaches but a bit 
smaller than people, and we can learn a lot 
about people by experimenting on rats. The 
experiment calls for restricting the rat colony's 
living space and reducing its daily food supply. 
I have never seen the experiment performed, 
but I hear that all sorts of social pathologies 
are demonstrated and I also hear that it takes 
a strong stomach on the part of the biologist 
to continue the experiment to its logical 
conclusion, or "die-off" of the rat colony. 

Our human condition is much like that of the rats. 
There is no direct connection from the biologist 
to the individual rat, nor from our public policy to 
the individual citizen. The experiment imposes less 
space and less food. Our public policy has imposed 
for the last hundred years and more a 2-10%/year 
decline in the value of our money, sustained 
unemployment of 4-10%, and a 5% of GDP 
deficiency of purchasing power among US 
parenting families. 

But the unique imposition on either the rat colony 
or the nation produces a different response in 
each rat, and a different response in each citizen, 
so it requires a mind stretching intellectual effort 
for the rat, or the citizen, to reason from his own 
response back to the root cause of the collective 
response. 

People can easily see the cause of the rat's 
collective experience because people are outside 
the rat's system. They cannot see the cause of 
their own collective experience until they find 
a valid conceptual framework and make the 
intellectual effort that lets them examine the 
system operation from a vantage point outside 
of the system. This is what drawings, charts, 
and visual-aids will help people to do. That is, 
to stand outside the system under discussion 
and look at the whole system in operation. 
Notice that the system operates according to 
its own laws; regardless of whether or not we 
look at it, understand it, neglect it, or change it 
to our heart's desire. 

At URL http://www.epie.org/cyber-soc/default.htm, 
you will find several visual-aids which constitute 
such a conceptual framework. Attached Fig7-9.gif 
is the center piece of this conceptual framework 
because it illustrates the Whole Divine Law which 
satisfies John Rawls' "Theory Of Justice" and 
enables a human community to establish both 
liberty and justice for all of its members. 

The other figures and charts show that the 
present adverse trends of the US economy 
became perceptible in the 1890s and have been 
slowly accelerating to date, with no public 
discussion what so ever of the root cause of 
these adverse trends.

The attached Fig7-9.gif, "a micro model of any 
industrial economy," traces "The Optimum Policy" 
(TOP) from the book of Genesis to the competitive 
pricing policy of today's corporations and is 
sufficient for reasoning from our present condition 
back to the root cause of our present condition, if 
the US WHIPS (our healthy. wealthy, intelligent, 
and powerful folks) are ready to allow a public 
discussion of the question. 

Needless to say, they were not ready to take the 
question public in 1946 when CFR members 
Douglas MacArthur and John J. McCloy put 
Japan and Germany on the TOP path to overtake, 
and exceed, the US GDP/capita by 1970 and make 
the Marshall Plan a success, where as all other US 
efforts at "nation building;" 1865, 1898, 1932, 
and post World War II efforts through Iraq have 
been failures. 

Our WHIPS were not ready to make the intellectual 
effort in 1976 when CFR authors Harold van B. 
Cleveland and W. H. Bruce Brittain of Citibank 
raised the question in National Planning 
Association Report 148, THE GREAT INFLATION.

They were not ready to make the intellectual 
effort in 1994 when this author wrote to CFR 
members Katharine Graham, Daniel P. Moynihan, 
Peter G. Peterson, and others. Subject: 
#157 TOP---The Optimum Policy for an Urban-
Industrial Society.

A sullen silence prevailed again when #157 TOP
---The Optimum Policy for an Urban-Industrial 
Society was distributed by e-mail in 1995. As 
shown on FIG2-3.GIF, The Washington Post 
stopped publishing the M1 money supply data 
on 01-25-91. The Washington Times stopped 
in 04-08-94, so the public has been in the dark 
about the profile of its money supply for the 
past eleven years.

The excerpt below from my April 26,1995 note, 
suggests the conclusions to be drawn from 
Fig2-3b.gif, when we finally decide to make the 
intellectual effort to look at the whole US 
economic system:

~~~~~~~~~~~~ Begin excerpt ~~~~~~~~~~~~

From: WesB- at AOL.COM 
April 26,1995

        This note invites your attention to Japan's use of 
dependent allowances to facilitate their economic 
recovery after W. W. II. The fact that the Japanese 
followed the domestic policy of Switzerland, the 
Scandinavian nations, and West Germany rather than 
the domestic policy of the UK and the U.S. was not 
mentioned in Edwin O. Reischauer's 1977 book THE 
JAPANESE, was not mentioned in James Fallows 
1989 book MORE LIKE US, but was concisely 
described by author John Lacerda in his 1946 book 
THE CONQUEROR COMES TO TEA, and strongly 
criticized at that time by General MacArthur's sixteen 
man advisory mission on labor policy headed by Paul 
Stanchfield, formerly with the U. S. Office of War 
Mobilization and Re conversion.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ End excerpt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The conclusion to be drawn is that the US is 
stuck with a second best public policy because 
our WHIPs believe that their unearned income 
will decline along line "B" on Fig11.gif, if they 
correct the US policy, while the Japanese and 
German WHIPs are enjoying unearned income 
along line "A" on Fig11.gif. The 30 year run up 
in the world's money supply, 1965-2994, lead by 
US M1, had no other purpose than to swamp the 
dependant allowances which stabilized the labor 
markets of Japan and Western Europe during 
their post World War II reconstruction under the 
Marshall plan. 

In this way, The Great Satan could drive the rest 
of the world back to the Washington Consensus 
which disburses only 50% of the First Tithe to 
under-capitalize the expense of human development, 
as shown for the US on Fig11.gif.

Was author Bertrand Russell mistaken when he 
wrote on page 121 of his 1938 book, POWER:

   "There is, however, no reason why all organizations 
   should be mortal. The American Constitution, for 
   example, does not invest any man or body of men 
   with the kind of reverence that leads to ignorance 
   and impotence, nor does it readily lend itself, except 
   to some extent in relation to the Supreme Court, to 
   the accumulation of habits and maxims which 
   prevent adaption to new circumstances."

Mr. Russell was probably correct in 1938. but the 
US has been "Losing Ground," as author Charles 
Murray put it, since the 1890s and the US Congress 
has not enacted a progressive piece of legislation 
since the 1942 G. I. Bill which paid for this writer's 
BS ME in 1947. They did, however, cap the 12.4% 
social security payroll tax at $90,000/year. Perhaps 
they will do the same for the personal income tax, 
and claim a "FlatTax" above $90,000/year for 
Mr. Milken and associates.

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>
If you can't refute it, then make it public knowledge.
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