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POPS'The Empathic Civilization': Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era The point in short: "Recent discoveries in brain science and child development, however, are forcing us to rethink these long-held shibboleths about human nature. Biologists and cognitive neuroscientists are discovering mirror-neurons--the so-called empathy neurons--that allow human beings and other species to feel and experience another's situation as if it were one's own. We are, it appears, the most social of animals and seek intimate participation and companionship with our fellows."
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POPSBig Stock Swoon Not mentioned here is the increasing US deficit. We are spending over a trillion more than we have annually as far as the eye can see. The government doesn't take balancing the budget seriously. Unfortunately, while the government may think it can spend what it wants with no consequences, the market will stop them. Despite the hatred of the free markets from the big spenders on the Left and Right, the free markets have a way of auto-correcting the excesses. Unfortunately, the American people end up paying the price.
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POPSThe Geezers’ Crusade Revolution by Grey Panthers is advocated in The New York Times. Historically, revolutions have been the business of tiny minorities with clear and powerful aims. Surely, "generativity" -- making sure the is a world for their grandchildren -- is a clear and powerful enough aim.
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POPSObama's Strategy of Manufactured Crisis [understanding what makes him tick] Not NEW but bears repeating!!! Obama mentors Cloward-Piven; their strategy -- to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about A CHANGE in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth. -- Wake up to our RADICAL President America! - Read the full article on American Thinker.
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POPSThe Value of Nothing We definitely need new definitions of success. Do we need new measures? Or perhaps, it is the measuring which is behind the problem in the first place. What if success is about doing more with less, voluntary / clever poverty, rather than in having more of anything including money. Before anything can be measured, a purpose needs to be agreed.
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POPSPOLL: aMERICANS, AND MILLENNIALS LACK CONFIDENCE IN GOVT A year into the Obama administration, we find that Americans — and younger Americans — are having a crisis of confidence,” says Carl Anderson, CEO of the Knights of Columbus, the group that commissioned the poll. “People are increasingly pessimistic about the government’s ability to handle the economic crisis and a majority believes that increased government regulation will hurt the economy.”
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POPSMr. Freeze: Why Obama’s Latest Budget Change Won’t Put His Agenda On Ice
Obama's "Freeze" By Philip Klein President Obama is set to announce a three-year "freeze" in non-security discretionary spending during his State of the Union as part of his efforts to convince independents that he cares about reducing the deficit. I say "freeze" in quotes, because some programs will go up, while some will go down -- thus providing the Obama administration wiggle room to say that Obama isn't reversing his position on an across the board freeze of the kind that he criticized John McCain for during the campaign. "An across-the-board spending freeze is a hatchet and we do need a scalpel because there are some programs that don't work at all," he said (video here). My position is, yes, this is mainly a symbolic gesture -- after all, the White House claims it would save $250 billion -- less than a third of the cost of the economic stimulus bill alone. It's only a temporary, three-year freeze that follows years of unprecedented spending and it comes as ....
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POPS Experts See Another Global Dip Ahead As many expected, the debate on regulating big banks also stoked passions. The push for more stringent regulation has accelerated in Europe and around the world since last week, when U.S. President Barack Obama's administration proposed a plan to tax and curb activities of big banks. Financier George Soros said he backed Mr. Obama's plan to curb the activities of big banks, though he said it was both insufficiently broad and "premature," coming before banks had the chance to earn themselves out of their problems. The world faces a long, slow recovery "ending in subpar growth," with the risk of a renewed recession along the way, said Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University who accurately predicted the financial crisis in Davos three years ago. Mr. Roubini was uncharacteristically optimistic about the growth prospects for the world's emerging economies. But even there he found nits to pick in the form of China's risk of bubbles ....
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POPSElizabeth Warren is on your side! Us middlers need to understand why we are losing our grip on a decent lifestyle for our families. Elizabeth Warren has a spotlight pointed in the right direction. Maybe we should check out what she is pointing to before some of us go to that next tea party.
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POPSThe Demise of America's Middle Class Obama's State of the Union address did not show that he is serious about rescuing the middle class. Us middlers are in real trouble, and there is no big scheme to bail us out like was done with the banksters....just more rhetoric, and politicking! We need Harry back! We need FDR back! We need somebody who is on our side....the people's side!
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POPSStop The Spending Binge Petition...Please Sign On behalf of all taxpayers, small businesses and future generations, we urge you to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution mandating that Congress balance the federal budget. Add your name to the petition by completing the form on the right. Read the full letter to Members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives The federal government’s Ponzi Scheme on the Potomac endangers America’s already-beleaguered economic health and imperils the basic freedoms of American working families. Leaders in both parties have irresponsibly run up debt. And, since President Obama took office, the debt crisis has grown exponentially worse. The facts tell the story. The average American household now carries over half-a-million dollars in Federal debt. And it’s growing quickly: The Obama administration is now predicting that the federal budget deficit will exceed $10 trillion through 2019. Meanwhile, some economists are predicting that in about 15 years,
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POPSBanks must raise billions to fend off crisis, says IMF So, from where will the money come for the next wave of bailouts? Too bad some of those billions in bonuses was not re-invested in building banks' balance sheets. Still, it probably would not have been enough to make much difference, and bankers don't believe in going down with the ship. Sauve qui peut is their motto. (Rough translation - every man for himself.)
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POPSREWARD: For a Job Well Done! For better or worse, Bernanke has come to embody both the run-up and the response to the financial crisis that peaked in the fall Advertisement of 2008. Critics blame him for not recognizing trouble signs and for being part of a massive bank bailout; advocates credit him for launching aggressive countermeasures that prevented a financial collapse. Is the world upside down..............or am I standing on my head?
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POPSConvertible Community Haiti Relief This is a personal friend of mine. She knows her stuff...her info in the right hands can save many lives! If you donate to her the funds will be going to the right place...help for the homeless! Truly I can not say enough good about her and what she is doing!! Get involved and help!
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POPSThe House Democrats "Winter Of Discontent" Administration officials say they get it " with Axelrod recently admitting that Obama’s team is recalibrating and refocusing on the economy. Emanuel, for his part, is now pushing for a stripped-down health care bill that could be passed within a few weeks and force Republicans, for a change, to take a few tough votes. That may mollify some Democratic moderates, but it will further infuriate the liberals, who insist that the lesson of Massachusetts is that Obama has come on too weak, not too strong. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman captured the left’s winter of discontent Thursday with a blog post in which he wrote that he’s “pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31839.html#ixzz0dOiThE7F
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POPSChinese economy records fastest growth since financial crisis erupted All those bank loans for building unnecessary real estate and factories. The game is liable to switch from bank stimulous to bank bailouts, once the bubble bursts. The Chinese government saw what happened in Japan before the crash, and then the US, and they go and make exactly the same mistake. Why are economic policy makers, whatever their nationality, so stupid?
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POPSGive Up on Post-Partisanship
"Here's a symbolic, but smart start: Jettison those on the White House economic team whose slow, timid response to the crisis of unemployment and to Wall Street's obscene excesses helped create the conditions for the tea party's inchoate right-wing populism." "The Bay State offers another lesson. Barack Obama's decision to demobilize his base after his victory, in favor of an insider approach to governing, was a big mistake. I'm not a political strategist, but I don't know how you win elections by failing to rally the people who've worked so passionately at the grass roots to get you elected. It's time to re-mobilize the base." "And here's a no-brainer: After a year of being knifed by the GOP at every turn, isn't it time to give up on faith in genteel post-partisanship? Go after those who oppose your common-sense tax on big banks to recoup the taxpayer-funded bailout money." - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703699204575016873048085934.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADSecon
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POPSKudlow Should Run Against Schumer In November Kudlow is known to have beaten an addiction to cocaine which almost derailed his career. Schumer is addicted to special interest campaign contribution and that’s a bigger problem today. Kudlow is the kind of candidate who could raise tea party money across America . Kudlow could also command the Republican and Conservative nominations and might even be able to petition his way on the ballot as the Libertarian party nominee. Kudlow was mentioned as a possible candidate against Chris Dodd last year. Kudlow owns a home in Connecticut. Chuck Schumer is a corporate whore who was whole-hog for the expansion of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and is as responsible for the sub-prime mortgage crisis as anyone in America. Now he has crowned himself the King of New York, deciding who can and cannot run for public office. More and more New Yorkers are fed up with this self-serving schmuck. Run , Larry, Run ! by Andrew Miller big government.com http://bit.ly/4AD4Im
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