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April 29, 2009 at 12:47:15 Permalink
Obama offers more malarkey that I'm not buying

Diary Entry by John Kusumi (about the author)

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Sheesh.

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Sheesh.

It's the 100th day of Barack Obama, and I don't really have time to write an eloquent article with my roundup / review of his administration thus far. (It would largely reiterate things in my previous articles, like 'American Politics 2008,' and 'I Refuse to Unify,' and 'The President of Bait and Switch,' and my movie review of Alex Jones' 'The Obama Deception.') In other words, what I think of Barack Obama is already public knowledge -- my articles are on the record. The trouble is that for me to write a compendium article, it would take a lot of time to research and restate my previous statements. Phooey.

I enjoy the theme of a recent Atlantic article, which notes that we / the United States have become like a banana republic, because political and financial corruption are at levels that -- for any other nation -- would bring IMF intervention.

Has Obama repealed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000? Or the "mark to market" accounting rules? Has he reinstated the Glass Stegal Act? Has he brought even one U.S. job home from China?

No, no, no, and no. At least George Bush sent out stimulus checks, like $600. In the case of Obama, it's been a worse deal for the people, because his "stimulus" included only a $13 boost in the average worker's weekly paycheck. Bush was on to something -- consumer demand has to be stimulated to lift the economy. Obama went for a Keynesian measure, and made it "trickle down" at the same time. All of that stimulus money is inserted at the state and federal levels. The populace can wait for it to trickle down to them, in Obama's unimaginative plan. It was like cribbing from a page by FDR, and also from a page by Ronald Reagan.

A minimum wage raise could cause a huge boost in consumer demand. It doesn't even take federal money. Seemingly, no one in the Obama administration has enough imagination to think of consumer demand as important to stimulate.

Another boost in demand could happen if social security benefits were raised. In that case, it does take federal money, but we owe it to our senior citizens. They've been cheated by falsified inflation statistics for many years. For that matter, the federal government ought to stop falsifying its inflation statistics.

But -- I began by saying "phooey" to the idea of writing an erudite article. Instead, I'm trying to have a brief diary entry.

At lunch time today, Wednesday, I caught a broadcast of Obama speaking in Missouri. He was explaining the danger / hazard / peril of global warming. As my headline suggests, Obama was offering malarkey that I'm not buying.

I absolutely refuse to worry my head about global warming caused by human-instigated carbon emissions. Does that mean that I'm in the camp which disputes the accuracy / scientific validity of global warming? --Well, not really.

For the sake of this blog post, it may or may not be true that the planet is warming, and it may or may not be true that any such warming is caused by humans. It doesn't matter -- my blog post stands in any case.

What's true is that I've previously advocated that we should move to a solar / hydrogen economy. That was in my platform when I was the teenage independent candidate for U.S. President, 25 years ago. Solar and hydrogen would replace fossil fuels for electricity and vehicle fuel. And, when they are applied in practice, they have no carbon emissions.

Actually, my push for a Solar Power Satellite system began in 1980 -- I began political advocacy at age 14. Later on, at the age of 18, the Solar Power Satellite system was joined by hydrogen in my platform of "practical idealism" for America.

So, I am a man who can say "America, I told you so." If we had started 25 years ago to implement a solar / hydrogen economy, that shift would already be finished by now. We would be emitting no carbon.

Now, Obama is having the bright idea to TAX carbon. Refer to my headline -- Obama offers more malarkey that I'm not buying. We need hydrogen cars, not taxes!

However, I refuse to worry my head about this matter. America already had my offer to travel the road to a solar / hydrogen economy -- and rather than take me up on it, America chose to re-elect Ronald Reagan instead. So, my conscience is clear and it's not my problem.

Now, if you are on the side which believes that global warming exists, then I can offer you my thought which is the inevitable conclusion of the above story: Global warming is a consequence of not listening to John Kusumi.

Q.E.D.