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How the U.S. system of health care and the economy were destroyed

Attacks upon the economy are timed to coincide with adverse events such as the dust bowl, World War II, or the current exhaustion of U.S. oil reserves. The theory is that the attacks fit in well with other adverse economic factors. Defrauding the public and tax payers is as American as apple pie.

In some cases a corrupt system of justice deliberately allows nothing more than a play on words to get crooks off the hook. "That isn't grand larceny. That is a breach of contract." or "Those aren't insurance schemes, those are credit default swaps." 

The motive behind attacks upon the economy is greed. They provide an opportunity to bilk investors and tax payers out of trillions of dollars. The world has not seen such a brazen display of government and banking corruption in peace time since the Russian mass murder of Ukrainians in 1933. War profiteering and spending sprees to squander tax revenues add to the damage. The U.S. is no longer an oil rich nation and currently is in a state of rapid decline. Ultimately unconstrained corruption will leave the public with two inalienable rights: 1) The right to be robbed, and 2) The right to be murdered. 

The attached article, economy.txt, saves the reader thousands of hours going through tens of thousands of documents to find out how the United States economy was attacked over the past ten years. Destroying the U.S. Economy, Part II, will be out soon. It deals with the expansion of corruption to destroy the entire country, not just the economy. 

A typical review of the U.S. health care system can be found at www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2009/08/design_for_corr.html
Enter "united states health care system" with the quotes into an Internet search engine for a complete run down of the U.S. health care system. The French system is rated number one, the U.S. ranks 37th. This letter and the attachment may be republished, broadcast, rewritten, and redistributed. 


Bob Grant, 12-24-2009

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Destroying the U.S. Economy and Health Care 

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Foreword

The damages caused by corrupt government, banking and health are truly incredible. Money has been reduced to nothing more than worthless colored paper. Controlling criminals is a problem made far more difficult by the wonders of modern technology. At the present time the United States is degenerating into a classic out of control corrupt nation.     

It was George Bush who presided over the destruction of the U.S. economy over the 2000-2010 time period. Large scale economic mismanagement started with the Reagan administration back in 1980 with the devaluation of the dollar from $35 an ounce of gold to $350 an ounce. A brief lull in large scale mismanagement occurred between January 1983 and January 2005 due to presidential re-election concerns. A massive increase in unemployment was produced by the stimulus/bailout spending spree that  started in October 2007. The attack upon the economy consists of three basic components: 

I. Destruction of the economy and the monetary system
II. Health care, fraudulent medicine
III. Population plagues and over-population

Thinking "outside the box" may in fact be required to resolve the current crisis. A malfunctioning Congress or White House definitely can be put in the trash can and replaced by a properly functioning organization. The country CAN have a prime minister as a chief executive officer.  The country CAN have a legislature that consists of a single body that has been carefully selected. There are many possibilities. 

This article saves the reader thousands of hours going through tens of thousands of Internet documents to find out how corruption destroyed the United States economy over the past ten years. Destroying the U.S. Economy, Part II, will be out soon. It deals with the expansion of corruption to destroy the entire country, not just the economy. This article may be republished, broadcast, rewritten, and redistributed.  


Bob Grant, 12-24-2009, economy.txt 

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Article I - Destruction of the economy and the monetary system 

********** 1. Introduction, greed and corruption out of control. 
There are hundreds of well known tactics to sabotage an economy and most require little effort. Many were discontinued at the end of World War II but never were outlawed. Richard Nixon resurrected these back in 1971. They include rationing, wage controls, price controls, abuse of monopoly power, price gouging, alternate day purchasing, manipulation of supply, manipulation of demand, sabotage of goods, sabotage of services, mismanagement of the money supply (too much or too little money), store shutdowns, trade restrictions, the misuse of labor, malfeasance and dereliction of duty by management, the misuse of resources (e.g. using food for fuel), etc. The net effect of mismanagement is a reduction in the performance of the economy. 

Even when no criminal intent is involved, most decisions by humans are wrong decisions. It pays to investigate new projects to ensure that they are not motivated by greed, malice or criminal intent. Once it becomes obvious that a wrong decision was made, corrective action should be taken immediately. Unfortunately, the Bush agenda has become the Bush-Obama agenda with no significant corrective action in sight.  

********** 2. Mismanagement of the financial economy. 
In January 2001 criminals successfully infiltrated the U.S. Department of the Treasury and immediately began an eight year program to sabotage the U.S. economy. By every measure, GDP growth, jobs, median incomes, unemployment, bankruptcies, financial-market performance, George Bush stacks up as the most destructive President on the economic front since Herbert Hoover. 

The Federal Reserve still refuses to release its extreme deflationary death grip upon the U.S. economy. The annual growth rate of the money supply, instead of its correct (neutral) 4 percent per year growth rate, has been maintained at an extreme deflationary zero percent growth rate since January 2005 (see federalreserve.gov, money stock, M1 or M11). The rate was an extreme inflationary 7 percent from January 2001 to December 2004. A 4 percent growth rate is neither inflationary nor deflationary. This has completely disrupted the banking system. An extreme inflationary monetary policy is also known of as creating bubbles. An extreme deflationary monetary policy is also known of as bursting bubbles.  You are dealing with the type people that would murder their own mother for an ounce of gold if they thought they could get away with it. 

********** 3. What drives the process?
Criminals view any adverse economic situation, such as Worldl War II, as a golden opportunity to defraud the public of trillions of dollars. The current situation is one of depleted oil reserves in the U.S. The gas gauge reads empty, but the country keeps right on going as if the gauge says Full.  A sabotaged economy can make trillions of dollars for foreign interests as well as special interests within the United States. War profiteering is part and parcel of corrupt government. The concept of a never ending war remains popular in the Pentagon. A war diverts public attention away from massive economic fraud. Destruction of the U.S. economy was part of the Vietnam war also. 

********** 4. The return to deficits.  
When President Bush took office in 2001, Republicans and Democrats in Washington had built a strong consensus on the need for fiscal responsibility. Bush blew that away with a return to deficit spending. His tax cuts and spending increases and refusal to bring deficits down put one more nail in the economy's coffin.

********** 5. Iraq and Afghanistan, the war is a disaster.  
The cost of invading and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan has been extremely high. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost between one and two trillion up to FY-2008. Up until October 2007 it was the biggest contributor to the budget deficits. The idea of a never ending war is still very popular in the Pentagon. First they want 75,000 more troops, then 150,000, then 300,000. Like Vietnam, destroying the economy is part of the process. 

Although there are plenty of war costs to the general population of the United States, other than entertainment value, there are no benefits. The motive is entirely to enrich relatively small special interest groups.  The largest of these groups has become known of as the military-industrial complex (war profiteering). Wars also are used by corrupt governments to cover up criminal activities. Who guards the fox that is guarding the hen house? 

********** 6. Health care profiteering.
While war profiteering has been the way to get rich quick for thousands of years, making millions of people filthy rich with health care is relatively new. See Article II below. The United States is becoming a nation driven into poverty not by expensive wars, but by an extremely expensive health care system.

********** 7. Tax cuts for the rich. 
Most people know just enough to do everything wrong. They never know enough to do anything right. Incompetency is not the same as criminal intent. Criminals deliberately do what they know is wrong. Thus criminals are non-viable mutants with a uniquely destructive orientation. Nothing would please them more than to wipe out humans as a specie. 

When Ronald Reagan slashed taxes on capital gains and high earners in the early 1980s, inflation was pushing the middle class into the top tax brackets. Income inequality had been declining for almost five decades. When Bush repeated Reagan style trickle down economics, it caused severe damage to the economy.

********** 8. Financial Regulation. 
There were no significant increases in regulation during the Bush years. Bush-era deregulation was in fact a refusal to enforce what few regulations did exist. Bush opposed any financial regulation, existing or new. Deregulation makes it easy to defraud the public. Even the Madoff Ponzi scheme was ignored.  

When a government becomes infested with criminals, their victims are destroyed. Nazi Germany and communist Russia are two of the most notorious recent examples. Bankruptcy courts pretend they just can not understand the strange and mysterious corporate management practices that lead to bankruptcy. While most bankruptcies represent losses for those that are bankrupt, in a corporate setting, top executives can be left filthy rich. In addition there are well known procedures that make it possible to declare bankruptcy without cooking the corporation's books. 

Mismangement of the money supply is a clever way of cooking the books of every business in the country. An inflationary monetary policy creates a false impression of prosperity, while a deflationay monetary policy creates a false impression of a down economy. In the simplest possible terms 1) what happened from January 2001 to January 2005 is exactly what an extreme inflationary monetary policy produces, the M1 (or M11) was rising at a 7 percent per year rate and 2) what happened from January 2005 to the present time is exactly what an extreme deflationary monetary policy produces, the M1 (M11) is rising at a zero percent per year rate. The legitimate range for the annual increase in the M1 is between 3.5 and 4.0 percent. Economic chaos is produced by rates outside this range.  

********** 9. Encouraging waste.  
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Bush didn't call for sacrifice. He called for living the good life. It was part of a broader pattern of encouraging financial irresponsibility on the part of everyone. It would bolster the administration's popularity and help to pile up a huge debt. The fact that the United States is no longer an oil rich nation was immaterial. The population has grown accustomed to an extravagant life style. When the oil has been totally depleted there will be a sudden impact with reality. 

********** 10. Energy policy.  
The unwillingness of the Bush administration to take serious steps to reduce the country's dependence on fossil fuels left the country vulnerable and way behind the rest of the developed world in preparing for a post-oil future. Problems caused by oil price manipulation were part of the attack upon the economy. 

The simple fact is that oil reserves in the U.S. are nearly depleted. It is not difficult to look at countries like Japan or England to determine the changes that will have to be made. The United States is no longer an oil rich country.  

********** 11. Deceiving the public. 
Every administration hides the economic truth from the public. The creation and then bursting of the housing bubble was one more program calling for deception. All is not George's fault. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) now lists the cost of gasoline as zero and the cost of housing as zero. This was done by Congressional mandate. Lung cancer is caused by asbestos, not tobacco - another Congressional mandate. The big lie is now as prevalent in the United States as it was in Nazi Germany, or any other socialist country.

********** 12. The financial stimulus/trust/bailout/TARP funds. 
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was the mastermind of economic policy in the final years of the Bush administration. It was no surprise that Paulson's financial rescue was strictly to enrich Wall Street, and had nothing for Main Street in it. The so called financial bailout was in fact a financial bonanza for Wall Street. 

Any business subject to massive public and private financing prospers. Any business subject to massive taxes and operating expenses, and a lack of financing quickly fails. This tactic is extremely effective in producing massive unemployment by drawing cash out of the public in the form of a wide variety of ever increasing taxes and other adverse cash flows and putting it into the pockets of the rich and super rich. It is very important to note that the public lives in the U.S., while a large percentage of the rich and super rich are outside the U.S. They include foreign governments and corporations as well as individuals. There has been a massive adverse impact upon imports and exports. This is a "Just when you thought corruption couldn't get any worse" issue. 

********** 13. Devaluation of the dollar. 
The sudden devaluation of the dollar to more than $1000 per ounce of gold was the largest since the Ronald Reagan years. Long term investment in the U.S. has been wiped out. Several other currencies, such as the Japanese yen, have shown far better long term stability. 

********** 14. The property tax gouging spree. 
This was fueled by the extreme inflationary increase in money supply (money stock, M1 and M11) from January 2001 to January 2005. Not only did property values go up, but many jurisdictions increased their property tax rates as well. The United States has not lost its distinction of having the highest property tax rates on Earth. The impact upon the economy is devastating. An odd side effect is that although taxing authorities have never delayed a second in increasing assessments, many are reluctant to decrease assessed property values. Many have increased property tax rates as well. Property tax gouging is as American as apple pie. It is not unusual to find taxing authorities collecting more than fives times what they need to provide essential services. Government officials pretend to have budget shortfalls when in fact they have a glut of tax revenues.  If tax revenues were to increase by a factor ten they would have no difficulty in finding ways to squander the resources. A 10 percent per year reduction in property taxes over 10 years is easily achievable.   

********** 15. Property rights.
>From a medical standpoint, criminals are simply mutants that have a reversed sense of social responsibility. Like mongoloid idiots, they are non-viable mutants. If the population were made up entirely of criminals, you would have a large mass of people making a living by robbing and murdering each other. The resulting zero level of productively would make it a physical impossibility for the group as a whole to survive for more than a short period of time. Unfortunately their life from birth to death is one of doing nothing right. In a densely overpopulated big city environment a normal human engages in little or no reproductive activity. The criminal breeds like flies since it is the wrong thing to do.

A thousand years ago the concept of land ownership was that peasant farmers were a part of the land. Since most were illiterate, they had no way of knowing that persons in the King's castle wrote up clever laws that said that the king owns everything in the land. Kings always are very pleased with these laws, since it means that Kings can do as they please, accountable to nobody. 

Private ownership by persons other than the King is a completely different concept. Once private ownership is established, the concept that the owner can buy and sell his property can be introduced. Property can be used as loan collateral. It also can be seized by the King if taxes are not paid. As far as the King is concerned, the fact that the peasant has no money is no excuse. Since money comes from the King's treasury, he can make sure the peasants do not have any money to pay taxes or repay loans. This leads to the development of a slave state, with plenty of slaves to be handled as property. Any property that the King does not like can be disposed of. The problem is much larger than just the criminal nature of property taxes. Etc. 

********** 16. Corporate counterfeiting - Still legal
Stock markets can exist only in cultures that are extremely tolerant of criminal fraud.  Over time corporations absorb every penny provided by investors, leaving behind nothing but worthless paper. Everybody knows what counterfeiting does to the value of negotiable securities whether they be dollar bills, bonds, or stocks. Counterfeiting by corporations of their own stock is done by printing stock that is not sold on the stock market, but that is held in escrow to be dumped onto the market at a future date as non-cash compensation for employees. For anyone that finds this hard to understand, an example should help. 

The world famous Megasoft Corporation went public in 1996 by selling 2,200,000,000 shares of stock that were quickly gobbled up by investment bankers for some $90 billion. No sane person on Earth would pay more than $20 billion for Megasoft after looking at their annual earnings. Mr. Softy, a founding father of Megasoft, on 28 April 2006 dumped 500 million shares of stock when he left Megasoft. It knocked the price from $27 a share down to $22 a share, but he still got $12 billion for it. The amount of stock being traded was 2,200,000,000 shares on 27 April 2006 before the dump, and 2,700,000,000 after the dump. The value of Megasoft Corporation stock on 28 April 2006 was some $59.4 billion. The drop in share value defrauded stock holders (except Mr. Softy) of $12 billion. This is the largest case of grand larceny by one person in recorded history. There are tens of thousands of corporate executives that pull the exact same stunt every year, but at a level nowhere close to $12 billion.

There is another point never mentioned in the media. This is what drove the collapse of October 1929. What if the top ten Megasoft executives decided that they all would dump their stock onto the market on April 28, 2006? Collecting $120 billion from a pool of Megasoft stock that is worth only $59.4 billion would be quite an achievement. What happens is that Megasoft stock becomes worthless. It would sell for zero dollars per share, except nobody would want any.  

With insurance schemes such as credit default swaps and derivatives, the defrauding of investors has reached a level far beyond anything seen before.

********** 17. Government money supply mismanagement - Still legal
Everybody knows what counterfeiting does to the value of negotiable securities whether they be dollar bills, bonds, or stocks. Counterfeiting by governments of their own money is done by printing money that is not backed up by gold or even silver. Gold reserves back up a larger and larger number of paper money dollars circulating in the economy. The result is rampant inflation. It is important that the increase in paper money circulating in the economy (see federalreserve.gov, money stock, M1 or M11) matches the growth of the economy. Too much or too little causes severe economic damage. 

********** 18. Credit card, debit card, etc. abuse.
Many people think a credit card looks like a piece of money. If a rat did not think that rat traps and bait look like a good source of food, they would not work. Some mistakes, such as mandatory health care, add up to extinction for the victims. In a market with rising house prices, a foreclosure is not a disaster but a cash bonanza for the bank. Some internet sites advertise legitimate products (bait) and then ship fake products (switch) making huge profits off of criminal fraud. Everybody knows what a speed trap is. The tricks and traps game is a way of life in the United States. 

********** 19. Profiteering from corruption.
In theory the huge increase in corruption should result in an equally huge drop in the demand for corruption. This has not happened. Congress is vastly expanding corrupt health care in the U.S. War profiteering in the middle east is expanding. Banking is becoming more corrupt than ever before. The political system is rotten to the core and getting worse. Economic damages have gone from hundreds of billions of dollars per year ten years ago to trillions of dollars per year today. Without any efforts to stop corruption, the country is going into end stage disintegration. 

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Article II - Health care, fraudulent medicine  

At one time war profiteering was the only way to get rich quick. Why get involved in a dangerous war when banks can defraud depositors and investors of trillions of dollars in one year? Defrauding health care patients of trillions of dollars is even easier. Why phase in the French health care system over a five year period when it would stop the looting?

The modern all-American health care system is based upon seven fundamental principles:
1. Always claim the origin of disease is mysterious and unknown.
2. Always use therapy that is the most expensive and the least effective.
3. NEVER cure anything. Diseases are TREATED, not cured.
4. Since 95 percent of disease is caused by bad diet, ALWAYS encourage bad eating habits (alcohol abuse, etc.). 
5. If therapy causes the mutilation or death of a patient, it is the patient's problem, not the health care system's problem.
6. Adverse reactions to prescribed drugs, the improper prescription of antibiotics, unnecessary medical and surgical procedures, unnecessary hospitalization, and price gouging are rampant in the U.S.
7. The objective is NOT to cure disease. The objective is to bankrupt the patient.

The current system is strictly greed oriented. A refocus upon a performance oriented system is badly needed. They have never even tried the the French system of health care! Yet they "know" that it could not possibly work! A five year phase-in followed by a five year evaluation is extremely easy to implement. An evaluation after ten years would verify that the expected benefits have in fact been achieved. 

The most stunning statistic is that the American medical system is one of the leading causes of death and injury in the US, with treatment killing an estimated 100,000 patients each year. By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2008 was 820,800, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 565,650. Price gouging by drug companies results in patient under-dosing with insulin and other drugs. This results in an estimated 89,000 excess diabetic deaths each year. When price gouging amounts to nothing more than mass murder it is a criminal act that needs to be stopped immediately. The initiation of meaningful reforms is long overdue. US health care spending reached $2.7 trillion in 2009, representing 18 percent of the nation's gross national product. No reversal of the trend is expected in the near future. 

The United States is unique in that the objective of health care is not to cure disease, but to leave the patient bankrupt. In 2005 the average medical debt for those who filed for bankruptcy was $12,000. 68 percent of those who filed for bankruptcy had health insurance. 50 percent of all bankruptcy filings included large medical expenses. Every 30 seconds someone files for bankruptcy as a result of a serious health problem. 

MYSTERIOUS BLINDNESS SYNDROME
Got a bad anthrax vaccine that causes some severe brain damage? Just call it Gulf War syndrome. Drugs like Fentanyl are used to deliberately kill patients. Having great fun blinding patients with drug reactions? Just call it mysterious blindness syndrome. The eye problems began some 50 years ago with a minor tonsil operation. Although the snakes refuse to cure anything, they love to cause permanent injuries. They know how it is done, but for some reason never tell patients. Large doses of silver nitrate and boric acid cause severe eye damage. A good possibility is injected penicillin with plenty of thimerosal (mercury). There are other possibilities for causing severe myopia. Such as a large dose of aspirin. The yeast in fresh bread can contain dozens of different types deadly microbes. There are many drugs that will cause severe permanent injuries to a child before they are born. These include alcohol, tobacco, the tannic acid in tea, antibiotics, antihistamines, etc. 

Research has shown that people with myopia are far more likely to develop sight-threatening medical complications later in life. Myopic people are three times more likely to develop glaucoma (high eye pressure) which can lead to vision loss or blindness. People with myopia more often develop retinal detachment, which can lead to severe visual loss or blindness, and requires surgery to reattach the retina. In people with severe myopia, retinal detachment occurs 33 times more often than in people with normal vision. 

One of the stranger statistics is that the number of smokers is declining. Did the Government do something? Nope, except for massive tobacco farming subsidies, the Government has done absolutely nothing. Did Phillip Morris do something? Nope, except for massive pro-tobacco advertising, Phillip Morris has done absolutely nothing. The simple fact is that when a product such as tobacco or American style health care kills customers, over a long period time all the customers are dead. 

There is a negative correlation between the amount of health care a person receives and life expectancy. In plain English, this means that you are more likely to injured or killed by health care than you are to experience improved health. 

UN rankings are at www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html .  Note that the U.S. is 37th, with France at the top. The French system could be phased into the U.S. over a five year period thereby solving the problem.  But again, this would be telling the truth.

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Article III - Population plagues and over-population  

The United States has the distinction of being the most over-colonized country on Earth. Immigrants have always been welcome to come on in and take over the country. If dandelions and Norway rats could do it, so can you. With a state of severe over-population this is the worst possible national policy. A more responsible leadership is required. People keep the door to their house closed and locked knowing that if they do not, everything from bugs to burglars will come storming in. 

There is a complex interaction between the gravity of the moon and temperatures (determined by the day of the year). Weather patterns repeat every 19 years as the lunar year realigns itself with the solar year. There also are other patterns such as 48 year cycles. Thus the locust plague or the big drought that occurred 48 years ago may repeat itself again this year. Ocean currents also impact weather. Although weather conditions cannot be controlled, they can be monitored to provide advance warning of impending disasters. Today disasters are modified by modern technology, corrupt government and sometimes an invading army to make them more frequent and worse. 

The importance of controlling infiltration can be seen in the development of national borders with unique national languages. Damage can be caused by slow immigration or by a rapid armed invasion. The point is that good times lead to gross overpopulation (phase 1), gross overpopulation leads to the food running out (phase 2), and the food running out leads to swarms of people or insects looking for more food far from home (phase 3). One very important note: The three phases apply to everything from bacteria to elephants. The laws of nature cannot be broken. However, it is a good idea to prepare for the worst.

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An important note on global warming: The Earth's orbit precesses. Think of it as a vibrating drum with the sun at the center and the Earth's orbit the rim of the drum. The Earth's orbit bounces up and down relative to the sun. It is currently midway between a 25,000 year period when the south pole gets more sunlight and a 25,000 year period when the north pole gets more sunlight. It is going in the direction of greater illumination of the north pole. In plain English, the south pole is cold with a 2 mile thick ice sheet. The north pole is relatively warm with a melting ice sheet. Could a large (25 miles in diameter) asteroid impact 65,000,000 years ago cause the Earth's orbit to precess? Yes. 
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References: 
1. Health care - France is number 1, the U.S. number 37. See
www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html 
2. A state by state comparison of health care
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/
3. An international comparison of government corruption
http://www.transparency.org/
4. Employment data can be obtained from
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm
5. For employment graphs see
http://www.data360.org/report_slides.aspx?Print_Group_Id=95
6. Current unemployment data is at 
www.workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/press/2009/
7. For the money supply see, money stock, M1 or M11 at 
federalreserve.gov
8. Legal documents (eg 18 USC) can be obtained from
http://uscode.house.gov/download/download.shtml
9. For a look at the 1964 Vietnam invasion decision making process
seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/15664
10. Information on the California retirement system (corrupt) is at  http://www.calpers.ca.gov/   The root directory is ca.gov
See also 
randomnotes.newswires-americas.com/?p=4689 
11. A typical case of corporate fraud (Enron) is at http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-10239964/What-went-wrong-Accounting-fraud.html 

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Capitalism - How the All-American System of Capitalism Works

Introduction: There are three basic types of business. The preferred business type is the price gouging monopoly because it is the most lucrative. It is easy to identify because the prices are ten times what the products are worth. The second is the limited competition business that achieves high prices, but not as high as a price gouging monopoly. The third type is least popular and least lucrative because there is no business at all. In simplified terms that anybody can understand, Joe the plumber working in New York city is our example: 

#1 The Price Gouging Monopoly: Joe the plumber uses anti-competitive practices. He got friends in City Hall to enact ordinance 32-249 that states that no plumbing license shall be granted to any plumbing business that has not had at least five years of plumbing experience in New York city. Joe makes sure that any competitors horning in on his monopoly are quickly arrested for operating without a license. What the balance sheet looks like: 

Gross annual plumbing business income: $10,000,000
Joe's income from plumbing: $9,720,000
Ten part time day labor assistants: $180,000
Operating supplies: $100,000
This year's bank loan (or IPO): $100,000,000
Investment bankers 6 percent commission: $6,000,000
Money set aside for ten years of 3 percent interest: $30,000,000
Amount of loan that goes into Joe's personal fortune: $64,000,000
What Joe says at the end of ten years: The company is bankrupt. We have no money to pay the loan interest.

Of course, price gouging with pharmaceuticals such as insulin results in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of victims who cannot afford insulin that is overpriced by a factor of more than 25 to 1. It is a case of government sanctioned mass murder. 

#2 The Limited Competition Corporation: Joe the plumber uses anti-competitive practices. Friends in City Hall make it very difficult for any new businesses to get started. Joe uses the world's most corrupt legal system to harass competitors whenever an opportunity arises. What the balance sheet looks like: 

Gross annual plumbing business income: $1,000,000
Joe's income from plumbing: $720,000
Ten part time day labor assistants: $180,000
Operating supplies: $100,000
This year's bank loan (or IPO): $10,000,000
Investment bankers 6 percent commission: $600,000
Money set aside for ten years of 3 percent interest: $3,000,000
Amount of loan that goes into Joe's personal fortune: $6,400,000
What Joe says at the end of ten years: The company is bankrupt. We have no money to pay the loan interest.

#3 Joe's Ponzi Scheme: Joe the plumber decides to quit the plumbing business, but keeps the company name, Joe's Plumbing Incorporated. Friends in City Hall invest in Joe's Plumbing and make sure Joe never gets investigated. What the balance sheet looks like: 

Gross annual plumbing business income: $0
This year's bank loan (or IPO): $10,000,000
Investment bankers 6 percent commission: $600,000
Money set aside for ten years of 3 percent interest: $3,000,000
Amount of loan that goes into Joe's personal fortune: $6,400,000
What Joe says at the end of ten years: The company is bankrupt. We have no money to pay the loan interest. 

% % % % % % % % % %

Any accountant producing candid and honest financial statements like these for a bank or a corporation would be fired on the spot. Actual balance sheets look like an EXE file loaded into a word processor. Courts, of course, see absolutely nothing wrong with the top executives of a bankrupt company having eight digit salaries and multi-million dollar bonuses for the past ten years.    

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An important note on global warming: The Earth's orbit precesses. Think of it as a vibrating drum with the sun at the center and the Earth's orbit the rim of the drum. The Earth's orbit bounces up and down relative to the sun. It is currently midway between a 25,000 year period when the south pole gets more sunlight and a 25,000 year period when the north pole gets more sunlight. It is going in the direction of greater illumination of the north pole. In plain English, the south pole is cold with a 2 mile thick ice sheet. The north pole is relatively warm with a melting ice sheet. Could a large (25 miles in diameter) asteroid impact 65,000,000 years ago cause the Earth's orbit to precess? Yes. 

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References: 
1. Health care - France is number 1, the U.S. number 37. See
www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html 
2. A state by state comparison of health care
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/
3. An international comparison of government corruption
http://www.transparency.org/
4. Employment data can be obtained from
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm
5. For employment graphs see
http://www.data360.org/report_slides.aspx?Print_Group_Id=95
6. Current unemployment data is at 
www.workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/press/2009/
7. For the money supply see, money stock, M1 or M11 at 
federalreserve.gov
8. Legal documents (eg 18 USC) can be obtained from
http://uscode.house.gov/download/download.shtml
9. For a look at the 1964 Vietnam invasion decision making process
seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/15664
10. Information on the California retirement system (corrupt) is at  http://www.calpers.ca.gov/   The root directory is ca.gov
See also 
randomnotes.newswires-americas.com/?p=4689 
11. A typical case of corporate fraud (Enron) is at http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-10239964/What-went-wrong-Accounting-fraud.html 

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Most commercially available vitamin D supplements contain between 400 and 1,000 international units. Over a 5.7 year period, patients who take vitamin D have a seven per cent lower risk of death than those who do not. The best life extending vitamin to take is ordinary doses of vitamin D - mega-doses are poisonous. Obviously vitamin D goes along with vitamin A and should be derived from fish liver oil.

Many people have a vitamin A & D deficiency.  Product number 4993 from Puritan.Com , Vitamins A and D, is a typical supplement. It is required for a healthy liver, heart, eyes, brain, skin, etc. NEVER CONSUME BETA CAROTENE - IT IS NOT VITAMIN A, BUT IS A POWERFUL CANCER CAUSING AGENT. 

The media in the United States has become far worse than the big lie machine created in Nazi Germany. It is a grossly false statement that beta carotene is vitamin A. Cod liver oil is real vitamin A. Most people cannot metabolize beta carotene. In addition it is a powerful cancer causing agent. It is found in yellow vegetables to kill plant pests such as people. 

Niacinamide is deactivated niacin. Niacinamide is a toxic poison. The vitamin is called niacin. Deliberately poisoned food has iron and preservatives added. Most preservatives are poisons that can severely degrade a person's health. What does the all-American system of health care say about iron? Our business is greed. Maximize profits by making food toxic enough to dozens of deadly diseases. Excessive iron causes heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. Anybody that needs more iron can take an iron pill. The red in red meat is iron. 

Colds, etc.
Puritan.com has allergy remedies, and Gotu Kola. An excellent tonic is Eyebright available from physicianformulas.com . Good for colds and the like. 

Most B vitamins degrade health in large doses. Vitamin C has optimal consumption amounts. Too much or too little is bad for your health. 

Those who take vitamin D supplements can increase their life expectancies by one to two years. The sunshine vitamin is not just good for strengthening bones but also increases longevity. Vitamin D deficiencies are associated with a higher risk of death from cancer, heart disease and diabetes - illnesses that account for 60 to 70 per cent of deaths in modern nations. 

Caffeine is a pain enhancing drug that produces paralysis. The more you take, the less work you get done.  The symptoms of caffeine poisoning are produced by an intake of more than 600 mg in one day.

Also avoid dairy products such as eggs, milk and ice cream. The lactose is very toxic to humans. Although it depends upon how much you are consuming, typically about once every ten years you will get a batch with toxins produced by bacteria (streptococcus) strong enough to destroy internal organs such as the liver and pancreas. Unlike botulism, heat does NOT decompose such toxins. They survive very well in candy, cookies, cakes, pies, and in dried and canned milk products. 

Beware of all-American quack health care system treatments. They are treatments, not cures. Their only purpose is to bankrupt the patient. They are very careful to make sure they NEVER cure anything. Profits are maximized by making the patient as sick as possible.

Although zinc makes a good sedative, nobody ever said stimulants, or tobacco, or alcohol were good for your health. Toxic food products include onions, grapefruit, celery, cabbage, tea, alcohol, tobacco, pepper, yellow colored vegetables such as carrots, and members of the nightshade family such as potatoes.

Ever wonder where the cancer epidemic came from? The nutrients that cancer loves are salt, sugar, and acidic food. Modern food has way too much salt and sugar. 

Acidic foods (bad) include items such as junk food, corn, most grains, meat and fish, beans, most nuts, coffee, cheese, eggs, milk , ice cream, liquor (beer), soda pop (extremely acidic), artificial sweeteners, condiments, fats/oils, and tart fruits such as cranberries. 

Alkali foods (good for you) are cucumber, green beans, lima beans, beets, lettuce, grapes, lemon, berries, apples, pears, hazelnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, olive oil, and minerals found in tap water such as calcium carbonate and magnesium sulfate. 

Now you know.

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