Capitalism & Socialism

SOMETHING SEEMS TO BE MISSING.

2011-04-13T10:46:00.000-07:00

STOCKS, BONDS, FOREX, COMMODITIES, FUTURES AND OTHER RISKS....
In a TV ad I saw General Motors give credit to NYSE for its comeback and progress, its recent innovations that seem to have come from the stock market. Not made was any mention of the massive financial assistance given by the Unites States for the bail out that first and foremost made it possible for GM to pause, restructure and trim the fat from their floundering operation.

Having read a great deal recently about the financial debacle we the country, nay, the whole World has suffered I have revised my thoughts on the NYSE. Not only the stock exchanges but the entire spectra of massive gambling in international finance: Options, Commodities, Futures, Forex, Stocks and Bonds.

Why should this be permitted at all?
The Brokers are bookies (socially accepted); they work for the house, the Dealers (legal). The platforms or trading accommodations are just instruments of gambling (slot machines); They are the odds makers, the financiers and facilitators.

Why should the general public be involved at all. The entire things is a no value function. We are delving into something we know little or nothing about just because there is the dream of a massive fortune to be made.. We are in a zero gain activity; there is nothing being built; there is nothing being created, nurtured or developed. It is simply a gambling activity where money flows back and forth with the vig (guarantee to the house), the spread, the fees, lost to the participants win or lose, accruing in the accounts of the bookies, the insiders. Bet a dollar on any pair in the FOREX market and you already have lost a good percentage... win or lose. This is the same as at a casino gambling table, a horse race, football game or bingo where one buys a card. The promoter, the bookie has his profit guaranteed.

Commodity trading is the same. Nothing is grown, nothing is moved, nothing is processed. Trading in commodities is just gambling with cash on a product that may or may not exist. The price of the consumer product at stake, perhaps, but no more crops are being grown, no more precious metals are being mined.

The Stock Market as a whole is a stand alone entity for the foolish, selfish, dreamers where the participant pays up front to participate and the manipulators can have their day along with the bookies/brokers, dealers/financiers and service support providers/facilitators.

Nothing positive grows out of all this. There is no net gain. The money taken out of the stream of legitimate commercial flow does not produce anything; It is only on a path of ill-gotten gains and meaningless use. If all the money was employed in building, there would be employment and industrial growth, education enhancement and plenty of funds to upgrade the medical and transportation infrastructure.

There is justification for a place where a person can go to raise money from the public. Participants should look for their income from the corporate activity and not be encouraged to buy into a company with the anticipation of future growth.

The hold out for future growth by corporate managers is the underpinning of massive seduction and even fraud. One glaring example of this is the Private Prison sector. A private prison company can make an excellent return on the services provided but when the corporation wants growth they have to depend continuing growth in the prisoner population or getting more contracts from BOP, States, Counties and Cities. For this reason, they lobby lawmakers with big bucks, bribe councilmen, mayors, Boards of Supervisors of Counties, state legislators and Federal elected officials and the administrators along the way. In addition, the seek to buy up all the competition so they can fix the prices or eliminate competition in bidding for contracts. That is not to isolate the private prison, is is to pinpoint a problem that is symptomatic of the system that is fostered by the current state of financial affairs.

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2011-03-06T21:28:00.000-08:00

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MICHAEL MOORE DOES NOT NEED TO BE DEFENDED

2011-03-06T12:20:00.000-08:00

HE NEEDS TO BE HEEDED.
"America is NOT broke...."
Michael Moore in Wisconsin: 'America is not broke'
via Crooks and Liars by Susie Madrak on 3/6/11

I love Michael Moore, because the man is a real American. There was a time in the early days of the blogosphere when most liberal bloggers ignored him - he made liberals "look bad," he "isn't our kind." I wasn't one of those bloggers, maybe because he is my kind -- a fighting liberal from a blue-collar family. (It's just hysterical when Sarah Palin calls this dyed-in-the-wool Michigander a "Hollywood" liberal.)

He marched with the Wisconsin protesters yesterday and spoke at their rally. He gave a wonderful speech called "America Is Not Broke", and we all should memorize it so that the next time a Fox News-loving person starts spouting the party line, you can set him or her straight. From Politicus USA:

“America is not broke. Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages and settle for the life your great grandparents had. America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It’s just that it is not in your hands.”

He then called the great conservative redistribution of America’s wealth a heist:

“It has been transferred in the greatest heist in American history from the workers and consumers to the banks and portfolios of the uber-rich. Right now, this afternoon, just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined. Let me say that again, and please, someone in the mainstream media, just repeat this fact once. We’re not greedy. We’ll be happy to hear it just once. 400 obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 now have more cash, stock, and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.”

“I have nothing more than a high school education, but Gov. Walker, back when I was in school, every student had to take one semester of economics in order to graduate, and here is what I learned. Money doesn’t grow on trees, unless it’s a palm tree. It grows when we make things. It grows when we have good jobs with good wages that we use to buy the things that we need, and guess what? That creates more jobs.

“It grows when we provide an outstanding education system. An educational system that then grows a new generation of entrepreneur, inventors, scientists, thinkers. The people who will come up with the next great idea for this planet, and those ideas create jobs, and the jobs produce tax revenue, but the few who have the most money don‘t want to pay their fair share of the taxes.”

Moore spoke about how the rich tax dodgers crashed our economic system. “They’d rather invest it in a gambling casino known as Wall St. betting for or against the stock market or against your home mortgage, and the entire population suffers because that wealth has been removed from circulation. What’s so cynical about this is that the very people who don’t pay their taxes crashed our economic system. They created the unemployment which has cost us tax revenue and states like Wisconsin have ended up with a so-called budget crisis, but Wisconsin is not broke.”

"What are three biggest lies of the last decade? Let’s repeat them. Number one, Wisconsin is broke. Number two, there’s weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and number three, the Packers needs Farve to win the Super Bowl. The nation is not broke, my friends. There’s lots of money to go around, lots, lots. It’s just that those in charge have diverted that wealth into a deep well that sits in their well-guarded estates. They know. They know. They have committed crimes to make this happen.”

Jason Easley and Sarah Jones wrote:

Moore did something brilliant. He shifted the narrative. Republicans want the Wisconsin story to be about the budget. Early on, Democrats were focused on the issues of liberty and collective bargaining. Moore broadened the message and created a third narrative about how decades of pro-corporate and pro-wealthy economic policies have redistributed the nation’s wealth from the people to a small group of super-rich haves. This is the story that terrifies both conservative politicians and the network of billionaire wealth that owns them.

Wisconsin isn’t only about freedom, unions and collective bargaining. At a deeper level, Wisconsin is about the systemic redistribution of wealth that the Republican Party has overseen since 1980. It is about creating an economic caste system where the rich always stay rich and rest of us are destined to serve them. Conservatives have expertly hid their true motives for years with distractions like the culture wars, and sometimes shooting wars like in Iraq. While America was focusing on the terror alert level, George W. Bush was picking up the mantle of Ronald Reagan and redistributing wealth.

If Republicans and their puppet masters are successful in breaking the back of organized labor, then millions of Americans will be returned to a form of economic serfdom that was once thought to have been banished decades ago.

Wisconsin is the battle field and unions are our last line of defense, and nothing less than economic liberty, and the American Dream hinge on the outcome.

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WIKILEAKS: PERHAPS THE GREATEST THING FOR FREEDOM EVER

2011-01-19T10:35:00.000-08:00

ONCE WE KNOW THE TRUTH, WE HAVE THE ONE TRULY NECESSARY TOOL TO SECURE OUR FREEDOM

More Power to the Whistle Blowers, the mechanics and the operator(s) of the WikiLeaks program. There will be no turning back. The censoring of citizens who reveal mis-deeds and mis-speak now in matched by the WikiLeaks people. It may not prevent with the undercover operations of governments and police, the mis-deeds of leaders, the cruelty and slovenliness of dictators but it will bring about more transparency.

There will be more caution on the part of politicians, legislators, bureaucrats who have been put on notice: YOU ARE NOT FREE TO DO AS YOU LIKE. You are being watched.

Now, there will be more available evidence for progressive and aggressive action by International agencies who try to convict international criminals.

Dictators now will know the are dealing with an informed and advised international population.

Good times ahead.

Republican Tax Proposal Would Double the Deficit FROM SLATE

2010-09-16T09:11:00.000-07:00

Republican Tax Proposal Would Double the Deficit

As senators return from summer recess, Republicans are girding up for a fight to make the Bush tax cuts permanent—for everyone, including America's richest families. They've unveiled a legislative package designed to do just that, but as the Washington Post's Lori Montgomery points out, their plan is slightly at odds with one of their stated goals: deficit reduction. "Even as they hammer Democrats for running up record budget deficits," Montgomery writes, "Senate Republicans are rolling out a plan to permanently extend an array of expiring tax breaks that would deprive the Treasury of more than $4 trillion over the next decade, nearly doubling projected deficits over that period unless dramatic spending cuts are made." That means the GOP proposal would be four times worse for the deficit than health care reform and the stimulus package combined. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky defended the plan, insisting, "We have a spending problem. We spend too much. We don't have a taxing problem. We don't tax too little." But he hasn't proposed linking the tax cuts to any spending cuts, leading Matt Yglesias to declare, "Conservatives don't care about the deficit." "If conservatives in the Senate wanted to pair tax cuts with spending offsets, they could have written a bill that does that," he says. But they didn't, leading him to conclude that one of their primary areas of concern is "reducing taxes on rich people....

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INSECURITY IN AMERICA IS ON THE RISE-- AND WAS EVEN BEFORE THE GREAT RECESSION

2010-08-04T07:11:00.000-07:00

The Rockefeller Foundation just released a study of economic insecurity in America, which was developed by Yale professor Jacob Hacker and measures harsh changes in circumstance: For example, it reveals how many Americans have been subjected to a staggering decline of 25 percent of "available household income," either from loss of income or sudden, unanticipated out-0f-pocket medical costs, and how many were without the savings to buffer the damage. Brutal losses such as these take six to eight years to recover from, the report said.

YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO READ THIS ENTIRE ARTICLE FROM THE WASHINGTON POST.

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2010-05-29T19:01:00.003-07:00

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SHOCK DOCTRINE UNPEELED

2010-04-03T14:06:00.000-07:00

This is a good slant on the Shock Doctrine and its evil.....

Entry simply to laugh at Friedman

April 2nd, 2010 | Author: Vegard

Hi.
So, I am currently reading a book called “the Shock Doctrine: rise of disaster capitalism” by Naomi Klein. I have not read all of it, I am currently lost somewhere in the third chapter. But it is sufficient that i feel the need to point at Milton Friedman, the guru of right-wing contra-revolution and laugh.
He is basically the guy who started the ideological movement of rightwing fanatics from University in Chicago, a group of dumbfucks that figure if you cause enough trauma to a country, you will subsequently have the opportunity to introduce a sort of *shock-capitalism* to said country because whatever opposition will be distracted by the trauma of war, invasion, ethnic cleansing, genocide, you name it. So then you have the window to introduce the ultimate free market, with deregulated toll barriers, tax cuts, privatization and the works.

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http://brbcoffee.com/2010/entry-simply-to-laugh-at-friedman.....

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GET THE NAME RIGHT

2010-03-26T14:49:00.000-07:00

THIS IS NOT SOCIALISM... OR MAYBE IT IS. I LIKE IT BY ANY NAMA
Lloyd Winburn

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock, powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watch this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress, and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door, I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After work, I drive my NHTSA bar back home on DOT roads, to a house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log on to the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post of FreeRepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can’t do anything right.

BARELY HANGING ON: MIDDLE CLASS INSURANCE

2010-03-17T11:56:00.001-07:00

GET THE FACTS
They may affect you.

The Census Bureau estimates that more than 46 million Americans are uninsured.

A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds that middle class Americans are the ones "losing their health insurance faster than any other income group," the Huffington Post reported.

Lower income earners, if dropped from an employer-sponsored program, are likely to be covered by Medicaid, a government program.

Only two-thirds of people considered to be in the middle class—those whose families earn between $45,000 and $85,000 per year—are covered by an employer-sponsored plan.

And "for a lot of middle class Americans, the individual market is not a real option," said Brian Quinn, Robert Wood Johnson's research and evaluation officer. (A PDF of the complete report can be viewed here.)

Lloyd Winburn from SLATE

SHOCK DOCTRINE:Disaster Capitalism

2010-03-16T18:15:00.000-07:00

Read it along with me. Shock Doctrine: Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. Take the mystery out of Capitalism.

Read how the capitalists screw the working class, the middle man... the small man (the one without a massive balance sheet.

If you cannot get it at the library or cannot afford to buy it, let me know. I will see that you get it.

This is a message you must read.

Prepare yourself for a chance of direction in your thinking.

Lloyd Winburn

LET'S START HERE
LET'S GET IT STRAIGHT..... Starting with the definitions.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
CAPITOLISM PREVAILS

1.

Capitol (Capitalized): the building in Washington, D.C., used by the Congress of the U.S. for its sessions.

2.

Capitol (lowercasehttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png) a building occupied by a state legislature.

3.

the ancient temple of Jupiter at Rome, on the Capitoline.

4.

the Capitoline.

[Origin: 1690–1700, Americanism; <>capitōlium temple of Jupiter on Capitoline hill, Rome, taken to be a derivative of caput head; r. ME capitolie <>http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png]

CAPITOLISM: Neither Capitalism or Socialism. A hybrid. An economic theory growing out of indifference, economic stupidity, fostered by self interest and lack of knowledge or basic economics, history or social needs of either of the two different approaches. An economic system without direction, coherence or reason. The practice brings to regulations, laws and budgets confusion and the consequence being economic disaster. UrbanDictionary.com

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Socialism: A theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.

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Capitalism: An economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.

LLOYD WINBURN

CAPITALISM: ALIVE AND WELL IN THE UNITED STATES

2010-03-08T08:43:00.000-08:00

SOMEWHAT TOO AGGRESSIVE, TOO HEAVILY CATERED TO BY THE POLITICIANS, UNNECESSARILY WORSHIPED BY THE IGNORANT, Capitalism is alive and well in the United states. There is a tendency to think that there can be no sin committed by capitalism... and that is stupid. One thing sure, the past couple of years have bared to the bones of the laisse faire approach to regulations.

The stupidly naive would allow capitalism rule every thing. But the time of the Christopher Cox administration of the SEC was a prime example of how the know nothings, do nothings, monkey blind...No see, No hear, No tell... approach to regulation can mess everything up. It was the personification of the whole Bush era. George Bush the lesser, particularly.

Lloyd Winburn

RAMPANT CAPITALISM AT WORK

2010-02-12T11:47:00.000-08:00

IS THIS WHAT YOU MEAN WHEN YOU SAY.... KEEP GOVERNMENT OUT OF OUR BUSINESS.

READ THE ARTICLE ON GOUGING BY INSURANCE COMPANIES

Health insurers take heat for rise in profits

By Noam Levey

The five biggest companies covered 2.7 million fewer people last year but earned 56% more, says a report by Health Care for America Now.

Without government regulation, Capitalism will run rampant... It will kill democracy in the interest of GREED and indifference. Capitalists are takers, selfish and blood sucking and need to be regulated.
Lloyd Winburn

A NEW LOOK AT HENRY GEORGE

2009-12-01T11:10:00.000-08:00

IT IS TIME that we take a look once again at Henry George:
Statement of purpose

In accordance with the philosophy of Henry George, the Henry George Institute holds that all persons have a right to the use of the earth and that all have a right to the fruits of their labor. To implement these rights it is proposed that the rent of land be taken by the community as public revenue, and that all taxes on labor and the fruits of labor be abolished. The Institute believes with George that "liberty means justice and justice is the natural law," and that the social and economic ills besetting the world today are the result of non-conformance to natural law. The Institute pledges itself to bring this philosophy to the attention of the public by all suitable means.

I Believe....
Lloyd Winburn

BE WARNED: CAPITALISM IS NOT ALL GOOD

2009-11-10T07:09:00.000-08:00

FROM INTERNATIONSL SOCIALIST REVIEW:
"Hothouse Earth: capitalism and climate change" by Chris Williams. Part I of II that exposes not only how capitalism's rapacious lust for profit is on the verge of destroying the planet's ecosystem, but shows how woefully, painfully inadequate the market-driven "solutions" offered up by corporate shitheads like Al Gore (who did a lot to destroy the environment while he was Clinton's right-hand man) are, like cap-and-trade schemes, ride your bike to work to save the turtles, etc.

Also documents how the worst polluters have launched a PR campaign to convince us how "green" their operations are, and proves that corporations and industry bear the bulk of responsibility as opposed to individual consumers (for every ton of trash a consumer produces, industry produces 70 tons).

Warning to liberals and liberal environmentalists: you may not be able to stomach the inconvenient truths contained in this piece, and you may drop your allegiance to the Democratic Party in favor of overthrowing the whole system as a result of reading this. You have been warned.

THE RACE IS NOT BETWEEN CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM

2009-09-15T08:54:00.000-07:00

THE TRUE RACE IS BETWEEN AMERICAN STYLE DEMOCRACY AND TOTALITARIANISM

(See FORGES magazine for this week September 14, 2009)

America's durable democratic institutions, due process, independent judiciary and freedom of speech, religion and press are the reason its economy accounts for 23% of world gross domestic product; why 65% of world reserves are in the U.S. dollar; why 17 of the top 20 universities are in America; why we lead in global innovation with 92,000 patents awarded to Americans in 2008; why we lead in global philanthropy and conservation; why we have the deepest financial markets; and why our naval tonnage is larger than the next 17 navies combined.

Our democratic form of government supports and reflects our culture of optimism, openness, transparency, mobility and flexibility.

China's autocratic form of government reflects its closed and suspicious nature and the interests of the leadership of the Communist party, a body Friedman describes as a "reasonably enlightened group of people."

In my view, it is anything but and its stubborn insistence on keeping control of its economy and political system will in the end prove to be its downfall.

JUST LET ME ADD

The current disgusting behavior of the FAR RIGHT *Republicans* is more harmful to our Democracy than all the dictators in the world. Hate, envy, unbridled racism, suspicion,distrust, misguided religious fervor, intolerance of others' opinions, selfishness are enough to smother any progrissive movement upward.

Lloyd Winburn

WOMEN OF THE WORLD, UNITE! YOU HOLD OUR PEACE BETWEEN YOUR LEGS

2009-09-14T13:02:00.000-07:00

A Sure Way to Peace:

Lysistrata ("Army-disbander") is one of the few surviving plays written by the master of Old Comedy, Aristophanes.
Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War.
Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace, a strategy however that inflames the battle between the sexes.

The play is notable for its exposé of sexual relations in a male-dominated society and for its use of both double entendre and explicit obscenities.
For PEACE we need all Thetools we can get. Women, focus upon your power.
READ ON:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata

Lloyd Winburn

2012: WHAT PLANS DO YOU HAVE

2009-09-10T11:23:00.000-07:00

THE END OF THE MAYAN CALENDAR.... DOES IT MEAN THE END OF OUR WORLD?

There will be a lot of interest in the question and with good reason. The Nostradamus prophecies and the state of our world, both politically and environmentally add to the interest.

It would really be great to have your thoughts: Call and talk to em at 1 919 741 5113 or email me at lloydwinburn@gmail.com

Are there real threats? Are there opportunities? Are there preparations to be made? It is really the End Times?

Lloyd Winburn

SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT BEING PAID

2009-08-14T14:56:00.000-07:00

SOME WHO PAID ALL THEIR LIFE INTO SOCIAL SECURITY ARE NOT BEING PAID. ARE YOU SURE WILL BE PAID?

Old Prisoners Denied Their Social Security by James Ridgeway

Old Prisoners Denied Their Social Security
by James Ridgeway from his blog Unsilent Generation
July 21, 2009

Not long ago I described in the briefest of terms, the plight of the growing numbers of older prisoners now filling up the country’s prisons and jails.They receive bad health care and are subject to cruel and inhuman punishment in any number of ways,i.e. requiring people with bad arthritis to climb to the upper bunk to sleep, or making it next to impossible for inmates in wheelchairs to access parts of prisons available to younger people, such as getting into and taking a bath from a wheelchair..Among the worst sites described to me by a medical consultant were ill women forced to get out of bed at 3 am,then stand in lines,to obtain medicine in one Alabama women’s prison.

There are other difficulties faced by older prisoners.Among them is what to do about Social Security earned for years before conviction of a crime.

David Hinman, a prisoner in Iowa is 65 and when he was in the “free-world” contributed to social security. He is not eligible for parole for a number years.”Currently the government will not pay people in prison social security,’’he writes.“I am speaking about paying social security to those who paid into the fund.Payment is based on what they paid in. Even though I am now 65 and paid into the fund, since I am in prison I am not allowed to collect unless I am released from prison. By not paying inmates the social security to which they are entitled, I believe this is in some manner, theft.“My question to readers is: should prison inmates who paid into social security and reached 65 be allowed to collected social security while incarcerated or not.”

(You can reach David Hinman (#25374), Anamosa State Penitentiary, 406 North High Street, P.O. Box 10, Anamosa, IA 52205-0010.) (Additional essays by David can be found at http://www.realcostofprisons.org/writing/)

Asked about this situation Paul Wright,editor of Prison Legal News, the excellent magazine which tracks prison issues,wrote me,
“Part of the problem I have with this is that someone can work their whole life, pay into Social Security, commit a crime at a later age, and go to prison for the rest of their life and never see a penny of the money they paid into SS. The lie used to justify this is prisoners have no need for money but that is not true. I think it is a backdoor way to trim the SS.rolls.I think this is the exception. To put it into context, retirees can get their pensions in prison, veterans can get their VA benefits in prison. It follows that if you earn something you are entitled to it. It is not a freebie the government can take away because it doesn’t like you and that is exactly what they do here.
Wright attached an article from a 1998 isssue of Prison Legal News that sets the situation into the bleakest of terms.

Denial of Social Security Benefits to Prisoners Upheld

The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that a statute denying Social Security benefits to prisoners is constitutional. Robert Butler is a 77 year old Nevada state prisoner. Butler was granted social security retirement benefits in 1983. He was later incarcerated and the Social Security Administration (SSA) determined he was not entitled to benefits while he was incarcerated pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 402(X). An administrative law judge affirmed the SSA’s decision. Butler filed suit in federal court and it was dismissed for failing to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. The court of appeals affirmed.The appeals court noted that every court to consider the constitutionality of 42 U.S.C. § 402(X), this includes the Second, Fourth, Eighth, Tenth and Eleventh circuits, had upheld the law. Congress has wide discretion in administering welfare resources. The court held that § 402(X)’s ban on social security benefits to prisoners does not violate constitutional guarantees to due process, equal protection and protection against ex post facto laws and bills of attainder. The court also held that Butler was provided with ample due process before his benefits were terminated because he participated in the SSA hearing by telephone. Since the statute leaves no room for agency discretion and the only fact issue was whether or not Butler was a felon doing time in prison, the telephone hearing was sufficient to safeguard Butler’s due process interest in his social security benefits. See: Butler v. Apfel , 144 F.3d 622 (9th Cir. 1998)

Thanks to:

http://unsilentgeneration.com/

Lloyd Winburn

RESTRUCTURE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

2009-08-10T11:49:00.000-07:00

WE HAVE TO BITE THE BULLET

IT IS TIME
There must be a restructuring of the health care system... the industry.
There must be PUBLIC SECTOR participation:
Everyone must be covered.
Everyone must pay something.
Government participation will bring down costs
This will pay for the coverage of the low end (poverty level or uninsured)
Those who want to "keep their doctor on his welfare program" can pay more.
Cap the liability of professionals and medical facilities
Criminalize mal practice. Gross negligence is an unforgivable situation.
Encourage coop, innovative, prevention, self insurance, approaches
Do it all at once
Include a tax package that balances the system with present day costs and hold the line
Help people wanting to enter the medical profession... make them do public service for the help but must pay back the loans, grants, etc.
Reward innovation
Encourage healthy living measures... it does not cost... it PAYS.
Put the schools back into the personal hygiene situation with required courses
Every child must exercise at school.. That old time gym class. No substitutes like math, marching, or cooking
Enhance education in ways that get more hours to dedicate to health care, family planning, diets and eating, and keeps kids away from the TV and off the streets.

Go get it.

Lloyd Winburn

ARGUMENT FOR MORE SOCIALISM AND LESS CAPITALISM

2009-08-10T08:59:00.000-07:00

WITH A SOUND "SOCIALISTIC" MEDICAL INSURANCE SYSTEM THIS WOULD BE PUT UP ON THE TOP OF ORDERS FOR DOCTORS AND OTHER MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS AND INSTITUTIONS....

GREAT NEWS! John Hopkins Update Needs Circulation. Let's force it.

After years of telling people chemotherapy is the only way to try ('try', being the key word) to eliminate cancer, Johns Hopkins is finally starting to tell you there is an alternative way.

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors..

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs...

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

A. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

B. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

C. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

D. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment.. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day.. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

E. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the Bo dy into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters and this information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well.
Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.

Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us.

He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.
Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin.
So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.

Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food.. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

Good eating.....
Lloyd Winburn

BANKRUPTCY ON YOUR HORIZON?

2009-07-19T09:53:00.000-07:00

MAYBE YOU ARE OUT ON A LIMB, BROKE, UNDER PRESSURE, STRAPPED FINANCIALLY...

Well, you are just one more in the crowd. Many are looking for a way out or a way up. Some even consider sideway in the job market.

What ever. ARE THINKING BANKRUPTCY? DON'T! Join the hundreds or even thousands who are going straight in the face of creditors and their misfortunes. In doing so, they are saving much or many of their assets, avoiding legal fees, court costs, expert fees, appraisal fees, and a lot of time and headaches.

THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO BANKRUPTCY..... In this book, the alternative is spelled out in honest, factual, realistic terms. MAKE YOURSELF A HERO.

LESSON LEARNED SHOULD MEAN GREAT ADVANCES

2009-07-19T09:45:00.000-07:00

THE ECONOMIC CRISIS HAD BEEN A GOOD TEACHER.

The hue and cry for privatizing the Social Security program has died down and should have gone to its eternal resting place.

There was a great push to have Social Security go private... that is, get into the market and free the government from the responsibility for permanence. People pushing hardest for the change were the same people who hood winked, connived, inveigled, and otherwise hungrily tried to get access to the massive funds available in the SS Fund.

Now, I ask you, where would the SS Fund be now if it had gone private?

TIMES,THEY'RE NOT A CHANG'N; OR MAYBE, JUST MAYBE THEY WILL.

2009-05-02T23:28:00.000-07:00

YOU HAVE TO SEE THE TRUTH IN THIS.

"The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it."
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 5

EISENHOWER Addressed it in his farewell speech: Beware the great Military Industrial Complex.

Read the book. Think a little. Feel a little.

Lloyd

IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND IN THE CARIBBEAN

2009-03-16T13:01:00.000-07:00

THERE IS A RISE IN LIBERAL LEADERSHIP

The failures in Latin America and in the Caribbean of the US failures in aid and diplomacy has brought about the boost of liberal candidates being elected in those areas.

What they democracies there are doing is displeasing to the money class, the oligarchies... so be it.

Our aid has been self-serving; our diplomacy has been strong handed and arrogant.

Governments are responsible for citizens. If there are not jobs created by US style capitalism, then you can expect that citizens will turn to the governments for jobs or assistance. So be it.

I have not been into Venezuela for twenty years. It would be informative to take a look now and see just what Chavez is doing. I fear we do not get the real picture from the media or from the politicians.

Lloyd

CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, RUSSIANISM, CUBAISM, CHINAISM, MODIFIDED CAPITALISM: HOLD YOUR HAT

2009-03-08T09:49:00.000-07:00

CHANGE IS IN THE WIND

Read this assessment of the present trend: HERE

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/business/economy/07jobs.html?ref=todayspaper

I am convinced this is the era of change. We must change to meed different needs, furnish assistance, guidance, regulation of a new age.

There is no conspiracy. Partisan, it is not. Creeping, it is not; rather, it is a galloping rush to automatic correction of markets, housing, financing, and health.

This has not been brought about so much as it has evolved. Darwin was right.. And there are many areas other than the biological that must change to meed the challenges of time, experience, trial and error, stupidity, wastefulness, selfishness and greed.

Have a good day

Lloyd Winburn

NATIONALIZING THE BANKS: CAPITALISM ON THE RUN

2009-03-04T09:34:00.000-08:00

REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE IN JUST A FEW YEARS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE NOT DONE AND SHOULD HAVE....

Whe banks will not or cannot act, something has to be done. That means bringing nationalization upon themselves.

A day after the stock markets reached new lows, White House officials seemed to be on a mission to instill hope in the American people that things will get better as the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department launched a program to finance new lending for consumers and businesses.

FORCED TO DO WHAT UNREGULATED, REASONABLE, UNJUST CAPITALISM WILL NOT DO... OR CANNOT DO.

CAPITALISM AT ITS BEST... REPUBLICAN STYLE

2009-02-17T18:26:00.000-08:00

VOTE AGAINST THE OBAMA PLAN AND PRAY IT DOES NOT WORK...
Now, if that makes sense, see me about some beach front here in Arizona.

REPUBLICANS CANNOT FAIL.... They pray for failure for political gain....

Republicans seemed to bet the future on a daring gambit: By unflinchingly opposing a popular president on the issue Americans care most about, they apparently hope to place responsibility for reviving the economy squarely on Obama's back.

So, the vote NO and sit back and pray that the Obama plan does not work.... Anything to get things going their way again.

Lloyd Winburn

WHERE ARE THE BOARD MEMBERS?

2009-02-16T11:28:00.000-08:00

I HAVE BEEN ASKING THIS QUESTION FOR MONTHS.... It seems to me that this is a topic the Government should look at and legislate on. Board members get big bucks and in most cases serv as YES MEN for the top managers who are unrealistically involved in their selection.....

From the Washington Post Editorial Pages:
In the WP's op-ed page, Carl Icahn writes that while regulators and executives have been held to the fire for their failures to foresee and plan for the current financial crisis, boards of directors have largely escaped criticism. A company's board is supposed to represent the shareholders, but it's clear that "many were just not doing their jobs," he writes. "In this global meltdown we are seeing that many board members were demonstrably unqualified, abjectly remiss or simply too cozy with management." The current crisis should be used as an opportunity to "strengthen boards at public companies" and carry out "lasting changes to make them more accountable to stakeholders."
Lloyd Winburn

CAPITALISM FURTHER CORRUPTED

2009-02-14T11:15:00.000-08:00

THIS IS THE TYPE OF THING THAT MAKES SOCIALISM LOOK GOOD...

FROM SLATE.COM

Two Pennsylvania county judges stand accused of sending thousands of teenagers to juvenile prison in exchange for $2.6 million in bribes from the privately run detention facilities.

Now I tell you that private prisons are breeding grounds for corruption of the system. The owners and operators of these entities have knobbiest in DC and in State Capitols working for bosses who profit from long sentences. Prisons are exclusively the responsibility of Government.. That does not make is socialism.

Lloyd Winburn

REPUBLICANS HAVE BROUGHT US TO A NEW KIND OF SOCIALIAM

2009-01-29T06:57:00.000-08:00

IF YOU DO NOT LIKE SOCIALISM, I SUGGEST YOU GET THE COUNTRY BACK ON EVEN KEEL THEN KEEP THE REPUBLICANS OUT OF OFFICE.

JOBLESS, WORKING POOR, FAILING BUSINESSES BENEFIT

Here are highlights of the $819 billion recovery plan passed by the House. Totals below are not exact because some costs were still being estimated Wednesday night, or are carried over several years.

SPENDING: $544 billion
New spending includes:

* $71.5 billion: Extend and raise jobless benefits through 2009; boost aid to poor, including food stamps.
* $153.2 billion: Subsidize health care coverage for jobless, help states with Medicaid, other health programs.
* $103 billion: Fund construction projects and repairs: highways, bridges, mass transit, federal buildings, water.
* $159 billion: Provide school grants, aid to states, other school programs; boost Pell Grants by $500, to $5,350.
* $53.4 billion: Support science facilities, high-speed Internet, other environmental, energy programs.
* $13 billion: Repair and weatherize public housing, help homeless, repair foreclosed homes.

TAX CUTS: $275 billion
Tax cuts include:

* $145 billion: Enact $500-per-worker, $1,000-per-couple tax cuts for two years.
* $23 billion: Expand $1,000-per-child tax credit and earned-income tax credit to more working poor.
* $10.3 billion: Provide $2,500 tax credit for college.
* $6.9 billion: Homeowner tax credits.
* $20 billion: Extend quicker write-offs for depreciation of equipment; help companies losing money.

Increase: $7 billion over 10 years
Tighten rules on firms that buy failing banks and merge them.

$48.5 billion: Subsidize local bonds for schools, infrastructure, economic development; extend energy tax credits.

Sources: USA TODAY research, The Associated Press

FROGS, FEAR, FALSE STARTS, LACK OF FAITH

2009-01-22T07:32:00.000-08:00

THIS IS THE STORY OF THE FROG, and how we can stew about things unadvisedly...

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Boiling Frog Metaphor

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

FOR ME, that tells it all.

Lloyd Winburn

BIG BUSINESS IS KING: A STUDY IN POWER

2009-01-12T16:32:00.000-08:00

THE OIL DEPLETION ALLOWANCE.... Day of awakening..... For those who are weeping for the oil companies and think that our Government is Socialistic.

This article http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKoildepletion.htm which I recommend you read provides a great history of just how capitalism works.

We know that the Powerful will do what they will; the weak will do what they must.

This is a call to all the weaklings out there to get off their hight horse and start complaining that Capitalism is bad and must be reworked, refined and controlled.

Lloyd Winburn

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKoildepletion.htm

ECOLOGY IN THE THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE CHRIST

2009-01-05T11:55:00.000-08:00

WOULD YOU BELIEVE?

Ezekiel many hundreds of years before Christ the importance (Or God-Like jesture) of preservation of water and other necessary elements.

- Ezekiel 34:17-19

As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: I shall judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and goats: Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture? When you drink of clear water, must you foul the rest with your feet? And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have fouled with your feet?

It does not make you a Communist or Socialist to demand that Your Government move aggressively on the matters of ecological importance like water conservation, smog control, parks and open spaces......

YOU VOTED FOR SOCIALISM

2008-12-23T08:21:00.000-08:00

THE ENTITLEMENTS, INCLUDING SOCIAL SECURITY, are something the American People have demanded. In retirement, health care, care for the miserable, roads, schools, and on.....

We want them and have shown repeatedly we know we have to pay for them...

Then came along Ronald Reagan and the idea that DEFICIT IS GOOD. Not taxing is bad and we must get back to it. We must pay as we go. The BUSH years, both the father and the son, have been horrible examples of CREDIT ECONOMY.

LOOKEEEE
But looking beyond the current crisis, an even greater challenge looms. I call it "The Coming Entitlement Meltdown."

According to the Treasury Department's 2007 Financial Report, we currently face $7 trillion in unfunded liabilities for Social Security, $34 trillion in unfunded liabilities for Medicare and $12 trillion in unfunded liabilities for public debt and civilian and military benefits.

That's $53 trillion... or $455,000 per U.S. household.

It is bad now and we will have debt hanging over us for many years to come.. You can forget a balanced budget for many years into the future. Now we have to spend to crank up the economy.... that is a given.

We must now, however, lose sight of the need to get the deficit down to keep us militarily strong, the pension funds sound, SS alive and medical care provided for everyone.

So, com on. If GREED is good for Wall Street. A little SOCIALISM is good for everyone.

Lloyd Winburn

THOSE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL SOCIALISTS

2008-11-18T09:42:00.000-08:00

THAT SOUNDS A LITTLE SOCIALISTIC TO ME....

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous,
tranquil contribution of all
to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism.
Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.

- Archbishop Oscar Romero

BANK NATIONALISM

2008-10-14T13:46:00.000-07:00

SOMETIMES CALLED SOCIALISM

How to intall Socialism.... the Conservatives approach.

Financial crisis. U.S. Forces Nine Major Banks To Accept Partial Nationalization

“The U.S. government is dramatically escalating its response to the financial crisis by planning to invest $250 billion in the country’s banks, forcing nine of the largest to accept a Treasury stake in what amounts to a partial nationalization.”

U.S. Investing $250 Billion in Banks

“The Treasury Department, in its boldest move yet, is expected to announce a plan on Tuesday to invest up to $250 billion in banks, according to officials.” Bush: U.S. stake in 9 banks needed to preserve capitalism “President Bush unveiled Tuesday morning a comprehensive plan to rescue the nation’s ailing financial system, confirming that the U.S. government will take ownership stake in nine U.S. banks and backstop virtually all lending in the country.”

EDITOR'S NOTE: Will they pull this capitalistic trick on the automobile industry next? STAY TUNED.

Bush - bailout needed ‘to preserve free market’

“The U.S. Government is to spend up to $250 billion buying direct stakes in banks and other financial institutions under a controversial emergency plan which President Bush insisted today was ‘not intended to take over the free market but to preserve it.’”

EDITOR'S NOTE:
Convoluted thinking: preserve something by killing it?

A WIN FOR SOCIALISM

2008-10-14T12:44:00.000-07:00

CAPITALISM BRINGS ON A MAJOR BATTLE

The man who stood up at a John McCain Town Hall Meeting and expressed his fear of Socialism was in the wrong place and fears the wrong people.

The people on Wall Street, the Banks, the Funds, Private holding companies… all the underpinning of run amok Capitalism are indeed bringing on the disaster
In one fell swoop, Capitalism has caused the socializing of Banks, Savings and Loans, Credit Unions, brokers and dealers and much more.

The non-regulation people as a bulk are always out there fighting regulation. Well, the payoff has arrived. The absence of proper and adequate supervision of the financial sector has brought us to the place where socialism has taken its major step. Most of the banking and credit institutions now have the Government as their majority shareholder.

Why is the this the case. It is clear that the greed, larceny and fraud inherent in Capitalism has been unfettered and without supervision and restraints, we see what happens.

So score one for the Capitalists. The have given a big win to Socialism. It will be years now before the Government can unload the holding they have in the industry. There will be scams, frauds, thievery and costly administration before the monster Socialism can be put back in its cage.

Good luck…. More on the way

REVIEW AGAIN

2008-10-11T16:44:00.000-07:00

THE DEFINITIONS we have posted on the left. There will be a test.