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         SHE ONLY HAD TIME FOR...WE INTERRUPT THIS ARTICLE FOR A SPECIAL

                                          BULLETIN ON COMMON SENSE

                                      SUB-TITLE: WOMEN INTERRUPTUS

                                                 by Richard DePersio

    (All comsats listed and described at groups.google.com/group/rickcosmos-eclectic)

EDITOR'S (Rick) NOTE: Article is a potpourri - delicious - including, a Moon Proposal and

a return to subsidies.

      Teddy Roosevelt was a lousy progressive and a republican. Progressives became

      known as lousy liberals circa 1950. The last famous liberal-republican was Nelson

      Rockefeller. Teddy Roosevelt did three good things: A) He was a Rough Rider in the

     Spanish-American War; B) He gave permission while president for the Teddy Bear

     to be named after him; C) He coined the phrases:

                                               "bully pulpit"

                                               "Speak softly and carry a big stick"

                                               "lunatic fringe"

                                               "My hat's in the ring"

                                               "Good to the last drop"

    Citizen Reporter coined an alliteration: "Lousy, Little, Lying Liberals."

We were having discourse through cyber-space, Cyber-friends, about subsidies and stated

on the record that the Trinity considered them to be unconstitutional and socialistic.

Fed gov has no authority to give taxpayer money to certain industries or particular

companies. We're opposed to all subsidies of this type, including, subsidies to oil

companies. COMMON SENSE dictates that we let them drill for more oil in and around the

U.S. of A. The Pasticcio Nuts object. Is it preferable for us to spend hundreds of billions

of dollars on foreign oil - we get most imported oil from semi-enemies or, if you prefer,

semi-friends (is the glass half empty or half full?) - with much lower safety and environ-    mental  standards then us! And, part of it winds up in the coffers of terrorists. Don't give me solar and wind. Shut up! Experts say that we will only be able to get up to 30% of our energy from those sources by 2030. (NASA might be able to guarantee 30% -plus add  up to 20%. Of course, demand for energy between now and 2030 will increase by 2- to 3-fold  More on that later). Fed gov should not give hand-outs - corporate welfare.

       With must abandon Bush/Obama Concept of Too Big to Fail. Most companies -

oil, utilities, corporate farms, etc. - will find a way to survive by introducing a new

business model for their company. Auto companies should have gone to bankruptcy

court while banks and insurers should have restructured.

      Fed Gov is opposed to monopolies and yet it has dysfunctional ones, such  as, the U.S.

Post Office. It has been losing money for years; last year over $8 Billion! We could save

$100 Billion over 10 years (each year, Post Office is more in the red then the previous year)

by allowing private companies compete over deliveries to businesses and residences. We

heard a liberal say the Fed Gov should give more money to this semi-independent federal

agency! It is reminiscent of city-level wherein part of your taxes support transportation

but you still have to pay bus and train fare. The lib suggested that Post Office needs to

create 21th Century business model - let private sector do it. What happened after we

allowed private companies deliver parcels? We told you in our last article that the U.S.

Treasury Department's U.S. Mint uses a private company UPS rather then the gov's USPS

to deliver its coin sets to people even though they charge more! Why? Much greater chance

of delivering when scheduled to do so, much less chance of loss or damage and fully

insured.  Remember when we discussed three times as many drivers choosing to pay  

 a toll for a highway lane owned by a private company rather then the free public lane

in the few states that allow citizens a choice.

Where are we? Thus far our proposals are: 1) Return all the land stolen from states by

fed gov except land where federal buildings and military installations are located; 2) cut

corporate income tax from 35% to 25%; 3) cut capital gains tax from 15% to 10%;  4) end

subsidies, including, subsidies to SpaceX (Falcon 9 Project) and Virgin Galactic;  5) procure more oil and natural gas domestically; 6) extend lifetime of shuttle for 3 years, use Ares           R & D, build Orion.

Henceforth, but not retroactive, no more unsupported mandates! If fed gov tells states

that it most do something then fed gov must completely pay for it.

The states must call for a Constitutional Convention to once again define Commerce

Clause according to Constitution and Federalist Papers and decide how to deal with unsupported mandates of the past and how to implement nullification concept- it would constitute a Constitutional Convention-plus!  Commerce Clause was meant to regulate trade between the states, it has PROGRESSIVELY been used since the 1870s, especially, the 1930s  by the fed gov to take powers from the states and rights from the people through     regulations having naught to do with commerce or having to do with intra-state commerce.  

Republicans have proposed restoring spending to 2008 budgets for fed departments,

agencies and programs. We say "yes" but A) Freeze it for 10 years except, perhaps, allow

an inflationary adjustment and B) There should be certain exceptions to this general rule.

       Increase military spending by $100 Billion over three years and then freeze its budget

for 7 (don't spend the $100 Billion remaining from Obama's failed stimulus project). The

U.S. Constitution gives fed gov responsibility for 16 areas, it doesn't include: Departments

of Education, Agriculture, Housing/Urban Development, Transportation, Interior (we already

proposed restoration of stolen land). Reduce their budgets by over 75% over 10 years with

2/3 of savings going toward reducing deficit/debt and 1/3 increase in funds that fed gov

gives to states for education, transportation, etc. The now mini-departments will exist to

make recommendations to the states and to monitor how fed money is spent. Money comes

with no strings but states will have to pay a penalty for reckless spending. They can create

and pay for programs that states can except or reject. 

      We must double spending over the next 10 years on the following agencies which are under-budgeted: border security; INS, DEA, FBI, Coast Guard, federal prison system - not

Department of Homeland Defense except for inspections at our harbors. The areas that we

ear-marked for an increase - some are part of DHD and some aren't. The bulk of budget

should return to 2008 level.

      The FICA Tax which supports Social Security taxes income up to 95,000; it should be

increased to 100,000. The age of retirement should be raised to 67 in 2025 and 70 in 2035

(presidential bi-partisan commission proposed 67 in 2050 and 69 in 2075) for we need not

only to save money but experience. The graying of America - couples are having far

fewer babies and people are living much longer. The situation is approaching a crisis in

Japan. The converse is the case in country like Iran where 1/3 of population is under 35.

     In order to bring down the cost of healthcare, we must allow health insurance companies

to compete in more then one state, put a cap on medical malpractice claims and import

loser-pay from UK as regards all suing, allow small- and medium-sized companies to form

associations so that they can get health care for their employees cheaper. Medicare and

Medicaid are billions in debt and fraught with fraud. Let's not dig a deeper hole. Let's

let private sector compete for those on Medicare with money spent each year on this

program being placed in medical savings from which recipients can use to purchase

health insurance and only health insurance. Three years ago, Medicaid recipients were required to get Medicaid through a private insurer. All M & M would have to do in the future   is monitor.

    We should decrease to three tax rates: 10%; 25%; 33% (Obama commission is proposing

10, 20 and 30 with no deductions). Those in the 33% bracket will receive a full deduction

for primary mortgage (1) and full charitable deduction; those in 25% the same plus

secondary mortgage (1); 10% - mortgages, dependents, standard medical and charitable. We

don't wish to hurt housing industry. Americans per capita are the most giving people in

the world and likely wouldn't give less to charities and non-profits if deduction were

eliminated but why gamble.

MOON BASE waste of money or our savior when it comes to producing energy and so

much more.

                                        To be Continued.

Congratulations...Thank you. Why are you congratulating us?...You didn't A.D.D. the

article.

 

      

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Editor's Suggestion: You might want to read article proper first: Title: "She Only had Time

for a Short One" and Subtitle "Married to Cynicism, Hopelessness and the  Veiled :Lady."

                                                by R. DePersio

Let's Amplify...The President's Bi-Partisan Commission has announced its proposals to

deal with deficit and debt - and going contrary to popular opinion - we are use to being

in that place! - we whole-heartedly embrace them with one exception: we need to invest

in restoring NASA as a potent technological engine of our economy for a virtual guarantee

of sustained economic growth. 

        One of its recommendations: Cut the Corporate Income tax from 35% to 26%. Ours is

the second largest in the world; Japan has 40%. After all of this time Citizen Reporter was

finally heard. He recommended doing this way back at the peek of the Clinton-ACorn-Fed-

Housing-Frank-Fanni-Freddie -Caused economic/financial crisis and has been promoting

ever a since as a major way to generate jobs, increase R & D, expand existing factories and

create new ones. We also proposed cutting the Capital Gains Tax for the self-same reasons.

Wait a minute and hold your horses!: How is this an Add-on!?! Go for the meds...Back...We

spoke of subsidies. We should phase-out subsidies as per suggestions in article proper. We

should do so over a ten year period to enable economic adaptation. Perhaps, there should

be a trigger mechanism of sorts to be triggered only in the case of a dire emergency and

after careful consideration of all other options.

        We are hesitant in this regard for we question the very nature of subsidies. Un-capitalistic

- absolutely; Unconstitutional - likely. We opposed the auto bail-out but supported the

financial one. Employing hindsight, we believe that the president should have issued an

executive order to the effect that no entity, foreign or domestic, could lay a financial

claim against financial institutions for a 3-month period while those institutions engaged

in re-structuring.  Constitutional? Far more so then the bail-outs themselves - the loans

to the financial sector which Obama turned into virtual stocks and maintains that

commercial banks, investment banks, combos, and insurers - those which received

loans ans those which didn't  - whole industries - must clear decisions with his

financial czar. The auto industry should have gone to bankruptcy court. Instead Obama

played bankruptcy judge - BIG-TIME UNCONSTITUTIONAL - - not part of the president's

constitutional job description. Why did he do it? A bankruptcy judge would have spread

the pain. Obama wanted to give the shaft to corporate execs and stock- and bond- holder's

and spare union bosses and workers too much discomfort. Certainly a matter for the new

House to take up as possible grounds for imp......investigation. And, returning to the

target, our reticence for a trigger-mechanism as regards subsidies and one a liberal

president made invoke prematurely and not allow free-market forces to operate for they

disdain capitalism as much as they disdain OUR Constitution! 

The states want and should have the land that the fed gov stole from it returned. The

Constitution gave 16 responsibilities to the fed gov and management of state land

wasn't one of them! This will enable us over a ten year period - adjustment phase - to

substantially shrink the Department of the Interior and the EPA (we think that

semi-independent federal agencies are unconstitutional anyway, therefore, it would

constitute a two-for!). It would afford states time to decide how it wants to allocate ITS

LAND with respect to energy independence vs, environmental protection (it would     determine proper balance with state profit as an important factor) and which fed laws and  regs, including, environmental ones, it wishes to retain or modify or forgo. (Another

two-for: we would reduce deficit/debt and diminish size and power of fed gov!).

Well, there you have it until next time when we will show up with more proposals on

saving taxpayer money...Not so fast. Perhaps, our evaluation was premature: Article

proper was your first non-A.D.D.-ed article and we applauded you for it. Were we hasty?

Proper - fair; Addendum better. Perhaps, we should allow Citizen Reporter be who he is

and without too much help from his little 'friends!'

Fwd: SHE ONLY had TIME for a SHORT ONE - Part Two

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                    Subtitle: Married to Cynicism, Hopelessness, and the Veiled Lady

                                                 by Richard DePersio

      (all comsats listed and described at groups.google.com/group/rickcosmos-eclectic)

                    Why Does the U.S. Mint Use a Private Firm - UPS - to Ship its Coin Sets?

                

                    "Why would anyone, even a government agency, the boringly

                     reliable United Parcel Service when it could experience the

                     excitement and sense of danger in using the United States Parcel

                     Service to ship its coin sets. By using the USPS every orders fate

                     could be a potentially unsolved mystery.

                     Of course, every governmental agency has its own budget to worry

                     about. If a government office feels it can save money or save time

                     using a private company, it is under no obligation to throw its business

                     to a government agency.

                     The U.S. Mint actually does use the USPS to deliver some coin orders.

                     ...Department of the Treasury {spokesman}: 'In making the determination as           

                    to which service to use. we look at the product we are shipping and the

                    cost involved, taking into consideration value, weight and distance.

                    Cost is a concern to us. There are substantial savings to be realized in

                    shipping coins by UPS. On an annual basis, we save...by using UPS...

                    UPS insures all packages against loss or damage.

                    The Mints programs are self-supporting. It is our responsibility to manage

                    the coin programs in the most effective and economical manner as

                    possible...'"

                                                              " Do Penguins Have Knees?" by David Feldman

Obama's healthcare reform will give fed gov control of an additional 20% of the economy

and pave the way toward socialized medicine. Gov control of Medicare and Medicaid:

billions of dollars in debt and fraught with billions of dollars of fraud.

The post office, Amtrak, the airline industry, the auto industry, the mortgage industry, 

the public school system, social security, urban development etc., etc. and etc.are in a       mess because of gov and/or unions. Unions dictate to fed, state and local govs.

There are a few states in which drivers can use public highway lane for free or private company lane for a price and most choose latter: no pot holes, disabled cars quickly  removed. From a constitutional and economic perspective much of what gov does should     be privatized. Things would be more efficient and less costly or, in some cases, people     would be willing to pay for better service.

PAID NOT TO WORK...Phase out subsidies to utilities, oil industry, corporate farms, etc.

and let free market forces operate. Gov. will pay farms to produce less so the food

prices won't take a precipitous fall and hurt the agricultural industry. It is

used in some industries to prevent prices from going too high or too low, to encourage

hiring, preventing lay-offs, to help an industry which is chronically unprofitable, make

certain U.S. products remain competitive against imports.

        You are hollering: Some of those things are good and make sense. Problem:

subsidies are renewed annually. They should only come into play when absolutely

necessary and as a last resort: a dire emergency situation and that shouldn't include

keeping a perpetually failing industry afloat!

       Another form of a subsidy: Gov guaranteeing a lender payment if a borrower

defaults: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, student loans, small business loans, etc. We are

suppose to be in a capitalistic society: Lender takes a risk or not, Uncle Sam shouldn't

be responsible if an unwise loan is granted by a lender or a borrower is unable to meet

his obligations. Obama took over low interest student loans from banks - that isn't a

constitutional role for gov. Banks issue student loans based on family income and can

refinance. Obama will quickly assume bad student loan at taxpayer expense. Your money

is his money!

     Another type: National Science Foundation. It was created to give colleges and

universities grants to do basic science or pure science. You know how gov programs are.

You create a monster that must grow. Over time grants extended to engineering (an

applied science), social and behavioral sciences (studying gay Eskimos! - true.). Science

and math. Education. Private companies do their own pure and applied science

research and give more grants to colleges - let them do more - - they profit from it. NSF  should return to original mandate. Let rich alumni do more too.

 

And another thing: Give land back to states!!! Fed gov owns between 3% and 75% of

every state for national parks (determine size of parks; profits shared with states - states  should get all and determine which portion of land can be used for drilling

or lumbering (money from leases shared with states - states should get all - - its stolen land!).

Let me be the first to congratulate Rick: He didn't A.D.D. His first non-A.D.D. article.

Of course, he got by with a little help from his 'friends'!

                               TO BE CONTINUED...

                     

Fwd: SHE ONLY had TIME for a SHORT ONE Part One..............................................

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                                             Subtitle: Post-Game Wrap-Up

                                                by Richard J.* DePersio,

        (All comsats listed and described at groups.google.com/group/rickcosmos-eclectic)

For our critics: "We do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts

                          for the time with reality."                                          -Winston Churchill

                   

Editor's (Citizen Reporter) Note (or Lost and Found Department): We hereby notify our estimated

50-plus readers to expect five to seven posts over the next two weeks followed by semi-active

status:  monthly or  fortnightly (a nod in the direction of our British cyber-friends) posts; you will, of

course, be notified of their availability and our policy of making them available at a discount shall

remain unchanged.

*We shan't make you suffer until article's end for an explanation. 'J' is for John; John is

our late father. John chosen as Confirmation Name; used it in signature until questioned

legality as middle name when about age 25. Stopped being a participant in Catholicism at

age 18. Developing a "Theory of Everything," including, God, Heaven, angels, quantum     physics, beyond, 4-dimensional universe, cosmos of relativity, etc. in "Plato's Cave" series at

comsat-ak.blogspot.com (You're always self-promoting...Earned a certificate as a "Certified

Media Placement Specialist,"  as well as, docs of completion from seven institutions after   high school...Promoting and bragging Self...Which Self?; Our loyal readers and                      cyber-friends should get to know us better now that we are on our way out!). Speaking of

letters...Who was speaking of letters.... Keep quiet; you're getting on our nerves. Our

website "comsat-ak" - the 'a' is for Alexa and the 'k' is for Katie - our perfect nieces; our

regulars and, perhaps, some of our irregulars know that we mention them periodically.

Boy! This is a classic example of extreme A.D.D. He's going out, way out there. What a

way to go! Was this a size 13 footnote!?!

Article proper...And, it's about time!

                                  "Mr. Tumbull had predicated evil consequences...and

                                   was now doing the best in his power to bring about

                                   the verification of his own prophecies."

                                                                                       - Anthony Trollope

Applicable to U.S. gov. Anthony Trollope in a return performance:

       

                                 "...government is not the worst government England

                                  can have. It has been the great fault of our politicians 

                                  that they have all wanted to do something."

As regards the former: it is indeed our fervent desire that our dire prediction does not

come to pass. Is it too late? Does it make a difference at this juncture which party

controls the White House or the House or the Senate. Have we returned to yesteryear

when in 1968, George Wallace (Blacks adored him and still harbor fond memories

of 'the man.'), "There isn't a dimes worth of difference between the two major parties."

For back then, 50% of dems were liberals and 50% were moderates; 50% of repubs were

moderates, 25% Rockefeller libs and 25% Goldwater conserves.

       We hate to sound like cynics but we think that 33 1/3% is optimistic as regards

undoing a century of progressive and later liberal chipping away at our Fonding

Docs through legislation, judicial decisions. executive orders and executive branch

regs that virtually little remains. 

       What if repubs gain control of one or both houses of congress will the old guard

and the Tea Party-ers be arguing all of the time instead of doing the people's business.

Will Obama be willing to moderate and compromise with the new house speaker a la

Clinton in '94 - N.G. - - we won't attempt to spell the former house speaker's name! Obama   has been president for less then two years and already he is one or two or three as far as

signing the most exec orders and being responsible for the most regs. The Founding     Fathers never intended the power of executive orders to be abused but used in emergency

situations only and not to be used along with with regs (meant to flesh out congressional legislation) to bypass the will of congress. Doug Sloan, pollster and political analysts 

appearing on "NYLife"'s "Digital Age"  contends that he will choose to rule by exec orders

and fed regs and attempt to pretend the congress exists. If Doug is right, we might even

move further away from what ids left of our beloved Constitution. Will Obama be practical     or dogmatic? My bet: 75% of his being dogmatic And, what about those of us who feel like   we are exiles in our own country and feel that we shouldn't have to compromise. We

demand "Declaration of Independence." "Constitution. including, 'Bill of Rights,'"               "Federalist Papers" - capitalism and traditional morality.

      You can't maintain that "progressive secular 'living' constitution" is just a different

interpretation of Constitution - it is a different species, it might be in a different genus.

It calls for lib judges creating laws, violating Founding Father's desire for a Christian (the writer  is no longer a Christian)and  Capitalist nation and it allows congress to create Rights

and major continental shifts without Constitutional Amendment Process - "New Deal,"

"Great Society," "Tarp." "Stimulus,"  "Healthcare Reform" (20% of the economy), 

"Financial Reform" and more.

      Undo a century of damage would take a decade or more and would require certain    major steps being taken over the next three years, including, a "Constitutional Convention"

- if we are going to do it Right. (More on what's necessary in part two). As we stated at

outset: a 33 1/3 chance constitutes being generous.

We stated on numerous occasions that 42% of Americans identify themselves as 

conservatives, 28% as moderates, 20 as liberals and 10% are out-to-lunch. Yet, libs control

public elementary and high schools, as well as, public and most private colleges; unions;

most of music, movie, television, newspaper and magazine industries; they seized control      of student loans; they now control auto and banking industries (big-time unconstitutional); they are taking measures to control internet. We informed you in the last article that fed       gov seized control of all water,   including, the puddle in front of your house! Fed Gov on   steroids. Founding Fathers warned us that big and powerful fed gov would not only be incompetent but DANGEROUS.

      Atheists and agnostics comprise 13% of Americans (it was 10% in 2005). Let's make

some educated guesses: 10% are fiscal (fiscal and monetary policies) and social (moral

issues - they are amoral or moral relativists - some would, include, domestic - non-defense

matters in this category) and  weak when it comes to defense and foreign policies - libs

A to Z; 1 1/2% are libs in two areas and moderate in one and are secularists; 1 1/2 percent    are lib in one, mod or lib in another and conserve in one   (fiscal; rare   breed -    example: execs at CBS, NBC and ABC) and are secularists. It is reasonable to assume that 11% identify    themselves as liberals and, of course, never attend services. That leaves us with 7% who are liberal in all three areas and  believe in God or some abstract concept of a Supreme Being with 5% attending services regularly or semi-regularly (we feel generous) and are secularists.        B    By the way,  63% of Americans attend services regularly or semi-regularly; 88% consider themselves Christians, it was 99% when  our nation was founded.

     This is what we are up against if we want to get a derailed America back on track.

What about the Tea Party-ers. They want restoration of Constitution, spending and tax

cuts. They don't mention social issues. We maintain that was a good strategy so as not

to alienate moderates and libertarians. Yes, we share this view with other pundits. There

are those who worry like Richard Cizik, president of Evangelical Partnership, who while appearing on PBS's "Religious and Ethics Weekly," "The leadership is libertarian. They'll

take the Evangelicals for granted. They will use us. They will forget us."

     Side note: according to Doug: 55% of Americans want a third-party; one-third of

TPs voted for Obama.

     Statistics from "Public Research Institute" and "American Values Society": 81% of

TPs are Christians and 63% oppose all abortion or all abortion minus jeopardy of life

of the mother; 22% of Americans are active or semi-active in Christian conservative

movement while 11% drink tea full-time or part-time; 52% of TPs are also involved with         CC movement.

     If TPs can wrest control from republican old guard, there is a chance that social

issues will be at the forefront as they were in 2004.

Who are we kidding? 33 1/3%! 66 2/3% chance that we will become secular socialist or

communist nation. The only question is: How Soon!...Don't listen to him, don't give up;

one-third is better then nothing.