Squeaky Bubble

The Recession Was Avoidable

By Leonard C Tekaat

Basically what has happened to our economy, the means of exchange has decreased significantly.

The Committee For Economic Reform and a Better Economic Future has developed an Alternative Economic Stimulus plan to restart our economy. It does not require the Federal government to create a huge deficit, to return consumer’s deposable income.

CSUB Professor of Economics Mark Evans was quoted as saying, we are going to have to live with large deficits for a long time, and there is no other way. We disagree with that statement. The Committee believes that there is another way. President Obama is relying on Keynesian Economics. John Maynard Keynes policies put governments into massive debt, to stimulate the economy and return people’s disposable income. Over time more government programs are created, increasing the size of government, as our economy cycles through periodic periods of recession and inflation.

Consumption and home creation represents 75% of the economic activity in our economy. The economy will not fully recover until the consumer’s financial condition and confidence improves. Investor confidence, in making long-term investments, needs to improve also. This will happen as the economy improves and when we enact the Zero Inflation Taxation Policy.

When the Federal Reserve lowered the Fed rate and the banks and other financial institutions could not follow the Fed’ lead, of lowering the cost of the means of exchange, the collapse of employment and the stock market occurred. If lower interest rates had been available, for credit worthy borrowers, the money supply would have quickly expanded, creating enough of the means of exchange for our economy to continue to work.

The recession would not have gotten out of control, causing the massive layoffs, decreasing people’s disposable income, there-by causing the economy to continue its downward spiral. Consumer and investor confidence was thus lost.

The enterprise economic system cannot operate efficiently, without the correct amount of the means of exchange (money) being in balance with available supply.

They are asking you for your endorsement and support of the Alternative Economic Stimulus Plan. They are asking you to please review it at their web site. They also want you to read the other economic policy papers first, so you will obtain a complete picture of why we are repeating the mistakes of the Great Depression. Without the changes we need to improve our economy, we will continue to repeat the mistakes of the past.

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The Impact of Industrial Reformation and the Birth of Inequality

By Howard Hehrer

In the original human society, people traveled together in groups of about 30 or 40 people, gathering food and supplies as they went, and rarely had any need to trade. Because of this, everyone had about the same amount of everything, and for the most part everyone was equal.

In the next stage of interaction, people discovered how to breed animals and grow plants. This created the first supply surplus, and thus inequality was born. People began to live in a single place; their groups grew larger, and for the first time were able to focus on tasks other than finding and consuming food. People began to splinter off to create new, useful supplies such as leather, weapons, and so on. Some began to accumulate more possessions than others, and the effects of this change remains with us today.

One of the major landmarks in human development of inequality came with the invention of the plow. This made land much more productive and much more easily cultivated. The results were agricultural societies. Even more people were freed from the need to produce food, and more division of power and labor shortly followed. Trade expanded, and trading centers turned into cities. Power shifted from the agricultural community to ruling elites. The result: great political, economic, and social inequality.

Another invention that furthered the effects of inequality was the birth of the steam engine in 1765. This land marked the arrival of the industrial society. Because of the usefulness and ease of machine operation, societies created a surplus like the world had never seen. This also encouraged trade, thus more inequality. Some people even opened up factories, exploiting their employees for minimal wage and long hours of work. As these elites gained wealth, they began to use it to gain influence in politics, as well - corrupting and buying up political positions to further their interest in industry.

As may be expected, as surpluses grew, the emphasis changed on the production of new goods to the consumption. In 1912, sociologist Thorstein Veblen coined the term “conspicuous consumption” to describe this shift in people’s orientations. He noted that the Protestant ethnic identified by Weber - and emphasis on work and savings - was now turning to a desire to gain wealth for the sake of flaunting it to others.

In 1973, we saw a new type of society emerge. To refer to this new society, sociologist Daniel Bell used the term “postindustrial society”. This included six distinct characteristics: a service sector so large that it employs mostly workers, an even greater surplus of goods, extensive trade among nations, a wider variety of goods, an “information explosion”, and the globe is linked by faster communication (global village).

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The Boyz of Wally Street

By Colin Tipping

For all that I go on about how money is just energy, has no meaning other than what we attach to it, and how there is no shortage of it, I still find myself feeling a lot of anger towards the guys on Wall Street who took an average of $12 million each in bonuses.

The fact that they took the money in spite of having brought this country to its knees and created a crisis from which it is still not certain that we will ever recover from accounts for some of my anger. But I notice I feel it more viscerally when I just think about any individual earning that amount of money and feeling entitled to it. It just seems obscene to me somehow and it makes my blood boil, which just goes to show that I am still stuck in the old paradigm where money is concerned. I am still thinking that if they get all that money, it must mean that I have proportionately less. This, of course, is not true.

So long as they spend the money or otherwise create value with it, it really doesn’t matter whether one person spends $50 million, say, or 1,000 people spend it. The money is still moving about the system and creating value and there is no reason why some of the money they spend shouldn’t find its way to you through the Law of Attraction.

I once heard Deepak Chopra say that the chances are very high that each one of us has at some point in our lives breathed in at least one molecule of air that Jesus breathed in and out 2,000 years ago. In the same way, that air keeps forever circulating around the globe giving life to those who breathe it in - so money does the same. The Wall Street ‘Wallys’ may have a lot of it for a while, but it will circulate eventually and find its way to you. The trick is to stop feeling angry towards them - the equivalent of holding your breath and not allowing the air in - and becoming a magnet for the amount of money you need using the technology of Radical Manifestation.

To the degree that my anger was liable to block that flow, and before I could write this piece, I had to do a Radical Manifestation worksheet to keep the channels open and a Radical Forgiveness worksheet on the ‘Boyz of Wally Street’ to clear my own energy field. I had to forgive them totally by opening up to the possibility that what they did was divinely guided and purposeful in a way that is not yet fully revealed but may well have something to do with the imminent shift in consciousness that seems set to occur around 2012.

Breakdown always precedes breakthrough so why not open up to the possibility that the ‘Wallys’ are actually angels whose spiritual mission was to set things in motion? It seems rather plausible if you consider how massively successful they have been in collapsing the current financial structure worldwide.

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Lemonade Stand Plan For America

By Cory Geffre

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I started rethinking about the state of the country and the economy this weekend when my kids started a lemonade stand. They made $12.50 each for 4 hours of work. It brought me back to my childhood that involved not only a lemonade stand, but also an earthworm farm, handmade fishing lures, and a lawn mowing service. I first thought that maybe my kids had picked up the entrepreneurial bug from me. After watching as several of the neighborhood kids joined the lemonade stand sales team, I realized that the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well inside each one of us.

Over the last couple of years and especially the last few months, we have all watched as big business after big business has failed us. We have gotten away from the spirit that made America great. It was the small business.

Those of us who own small businesses know that we are the grease on the wheel of the American economy. Yet it seems that law after law and politician after politician try to snuff out the small business. New taxes, forced employee benefits, mandatory wage hikes are just a few of the problems plaguing small businesses today.

No fear, I have a solution! I always say you can never complain about anything unless you have a solution ready to make it better. My solution is to make the entire workforce of America independent contractors. For the businesses this is perfect and for great employees this is even better!

For the businesses, they get the relief they need from burdensome government regulations and they get to get back to what they do best which is running and growing a business. They no longer have to spend half of their day “babysitting” employees and managing tons of government red tape. The business can fire the independent contractor at anytime for any reason, so the independent contractors will always give more than a 100% of their effort. They will not lie, steal, or cheat and they will come to work when they feel only 70%, but they will still give 100%.

For the employees, great employees, they can demand what they are worth. This program only works for great employees or employees striving to be great, because lazy and unmotivated employees would rather be paid regardless of their contribution or true worth. Great employees become invaluable, because they now have businesses begging them for long term contracts at an amount that is several times what they are making now.

I imagine this plan will have its fair share of critics. I would be willing to bet that they would be “bad employees” or “heavily subsidized business”, but remember - you can’t knock it until you have a better plan.

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