Comments by DannoS

Yes, let's go popular vote! Then get more than 50% of the voters on welfare-like benefits. Guess how that will work out? I will move out.

Originally, Electors could make up their own mind (similar to how the Senate was originally elected), but tended to follow the popular vote. The U.S. Constitution architected a government to reduce Faction Emotions. If the major wanted disadvantage the minority, then go with Popular Vote.

Taxing employment discourages it. That is a tax law: Taxing anything decreases its demand. Apple has its regional iTunes HQ in Belgium to reduce corp income tax. There is an article in the NYT today about that. But the writer spins it not mentioning the developing welfare state in California that is causing many taxpayers there (many I know) to consider moving (very easy to do in America). The solution to this deduction game is to:

1) Come to agreement on the purpose of government and taxes.

2) Come to agree on WHAT should be tax in order to not harm economies with arbitrage etc.

3) Agree a flat tax across all taxed entities is the goal to prevent arbitrage and make filing simply and transparent. There would be no deductions to distort the economy (e.g. the US housing bubble).

4) Ban all corporate lobbying and implement term limits for all offices including judicial.

5) No bailouts will be granted. Private losses will not be socialized.

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Buy a quality urine pH strip kit from Germany. Eat a bowl of oatmeal, wait 3-4 hours while drinking only water (not mineral water), then take urine test and look at reading; it will probably be about 5.5. If your blood is in acidosis, then the body harvests calcium from bones and teeth. There is plenty of pubmeds peer articles that document how the human body processes fats, proteins, and carbs. But believe what you want.

Whole grains create acidic blood leaching calcium from bones. Eat sparingly. Humans evolved before farming grain and has not evolved since for them to be needed. Get all you need in fiber and nutrients from fruit, veges, and healthful nuts like walnut and hazelnut.

Amerca's political situation is not the cause but the symptom of the American Problem. What is that problem? It is a Financial Oligarchy that has bought off Congress and consequently the Executive branch too through osmosis. The largest financial fraud ever in America and no bankers prosecuted yet???

Indeed! Over time these inflationary boom/busts have created the economic dislocations that made persons susceptible to the government's warm handout. It seems helpful at first but overtime it kills local economic moxi and ultimately leads to the mother of all crashes. The good news is most currency crashes only last about 1.5 years so build a nest egg and wait it out.

From a recent WSJ article (February 14th 2012, Reilly) "Banking Whales Leave Minnows Behind":
"In the second half of 2011, commercial and industrial loans, the main category for business lending, grew by nearly 6%, according to Federal Reserve data. Such lending was the driver of an almost 3% increase in total bank loans and leases.
But the growth wasn't equally spread, according to an analysis of bank regulatory filings by FTN Financial. Practically all of it came from six of the biggest banks—J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bancorp and SunTrust Banks, which together account for two-thirds of all U.S. commercial bank assets. This means all other banks, in aggregate, saw business-loan growth of about negative $1 billion during this period, according to FTN's Jim Vogel."
A debt crisis cannot be fixed by more debt. That is absurd. Humans are animals and live by nature's rules. When an imbalance happens, nature fixes the imbalance.

Beethoven would not like digital because he could not have fine control over the sweep of the music as analog affords. It is why persons still go to the Symphony Orchestra for sound experience.

The problem is akin to MS Office use. Persons use MS Office, but the results are not so good. Digital manipulation makes the 80% think they are masters when in fact it is the common denominator of mediocre. Was this a factor in the build up to the largest financial crisis in the history of the world? Part of the false pretense, stamp it as AAA, no lube action that sent the masses off the cliff?

If you are ever near Indiana USA, try Three Floyd's Alpha King Pale Ale, an outstanding example of American Pale Ale.

It worked for Latvia and Iceland. Would you prefer massive inflation? Real inflation in the USA is ~11%. Europe is similar. Lie with stats!

The secondary bond market is demanding higher interest rates and the central banks, especially the ECB, risk much greater inflation (it is under-reported currently in the USA) if money printing continues with no attendant economic pie increase.

Food stamps are traded on the secondary market and many grocers accept food stamps for steak and such. WIC is a much better program. I like the term Safety Net better. Ms. Melton did not give up, and, hopefully, with her skill set she will find a better job in another industry.

Do Politicos not understand that Fractional Banking works in reverse in a credit crunch? In the USA, leftists keep complaining "banks are not loaning enough money". Well, there is much less base money to lend! Cut credit lines 50%! Everyone should visit "Khan Academy" and view the video on fractional banking.

Do Politicos not understand that Fractional Banking works in reverse in a credit crunch? In the USA, leftists keep complaining "banks are not loaning enough money". Well, there is much less base money to lend! Cut credit lines 50%! Everyone should visit Khan Academy and view the video of fractional banking.

Fiat money and fractional banking created the debt issue in Euro land. Same happened in USA but USA has sovereign FED but still $ucked long term, reserve currency and all.

Europe endured some 1,000 years warring among themselves. Maybe they forgot the bullet point on the Euro architecture doc: labor must move freely among Euro countries. Why is this needed? When fiscal policy is poor, citizens must be able to get up and go (as happens in the USA). It looks like Euro countries were not ready to create a true federation of state entities. Looks like Italy will default in the next 6 months.

Reform the tax code: for example, lower corp rate to 15% and remove all tax loopholes. In fact, make all tax 15% or some X% to prevent tax arbitrage and no loopholes. Do not encourage dole-life; have safety net with incentives to get back on feet.