I am beginning to understand how the federal deficit forms

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This is a laundry list of thoughts for the day with two current issues at the end –fah

--Federal deficit

I am beginning to understand how the federal deficit forms. When you’re expecting a bigger income in the future and you take out credit now to pay for what you want knowing that in the future you can pay for it. This strategy works and even makes sense, however it is possible to overborrow and spending decisions should always be examined critically. Even when you have enough money there is still the issue of wasting resources which is generally bad for the environment. To argue to conservatives, if you don’t waste when you have it, when you need it, (like for a war) you’ll have it.

--Using Logic as a framework for arguing

Politicians should be forced to argue the policy positions in logical proofs that are designed for mathematics or computer scientists – it would just make everything so much easier to sort out. This would require a string of logic based on assertions that leads to a point. Currently emotional irrational reasoning is used by many to obfuscate any coherent string of logic. Just because you have assertions does not mean all assertions are perfect and correct, but it’s easy to see where the argument breaks down and why it breaks down so that it’s easy to learn from the mistake and the lessons are not hidden.

--Ownership decides value

Owner holds ownership – talk radio host – if employee improves company or if outsider does it for free why don’t they get paid for that? -they do generate value –what is link between implementation and good idea?

--Government should have a standard work record

The standard work record should be a government function so a person can be checked out much faster – identity theft issue – digital photo of finger ? - The reason for this is it would be much easier to employ someone for a project basis than for a long term basis – currently the hiring process is very lengthy and time consuming for both sides – if all the information or a great deal of a person was written down in an organizaed way – which the government could provide – much easier for a company to verify who a person is and then hire and let og of people quicker. Current laws prevent companies from being very nimble and this effects how businesses develop. Eventually it may be good if more people act like consultants then like standard employees. It would meet company needs better who can alter their workforce quickly and employees could more quickly change jobs into some job that they want.

--Biometric backup for financial identity

Biometric in case of theft for bank access – if you lose your credit cards or all your personal verification information – could banks use biometrics as a safeguard to allow you access to your financial information.

--Substitute transaction identifiers

Banking industry – getting a standard substitute number for your items (so where items come from is not directly identified on the statement at user’s request – see earlier email. ) – and then having a master list of the substitute numbers on a separate page that only a manager can access as a teller shouldn’t need that – teller can only access a specific item’s name through the statement – teller doesn’t even need to see the substitute numbers on screen, those only appear on a customer’s statement.

--Collective development of projects would work best–Capitalism does not encouragethis

Competition works – but then collective development is better – pay out to attract the best people – or have all info be available for free. A model for – Capitalism encourages people to seek money, it doesn’t encourage people to strive to best serve society or make a product the best for society and yet needs tweaking there. One way would be to have everyone be consultants who get compensated for offering positive ways to change a product – let all changes and developments be public, but only the company getting them can develop the product – Still have to think this out – but could market economy be used to drive competition to improve a product if all the information about the product were kept public, but profits were shared. Right now owner can choose to keep profits made off good employee or outsider suggestions. There is something to implementation, but good ideas do win wars.

--How to debate an argument as an equal and then as a superior

It should become a precept to convince the other side rather to force it – force only in response to force – as the sides are equals – only a governor preempts this role. And that is how I would the argument that hopefully convinces people of why in one case the action is this and in the other it’s that. When the two parties fight they fight as equals, in which case force is not a viable weapon to convince the other side. Neither side as an equal has the right to correct the other with force and it should be agreed that persuasion is the limit that each can go to, and in a democracy that should be the rule that force is outlawed as a way to make the best idea come forward. The President deals on a world stage and on the world stage as much as the UN is a nice ideal and idea, the US is currently no one’s equal. The US whether acknowledged or not is the world enforcer and policeman currently: mainly because many other countries refuse to take on the responsibility.

--In a time of war . . .

You are not ultimately better than your enemy when in a race for survival, you have the same options available – what determines who you are is how you use them. Saying you won’t do something you’re enemy will is dishonest, there exists a situation where any response will make sense and facing that and learning that lesson and seeing that there is a dark side to you just like your opponent is something that allows one to better tackle the actual challenges in life. The most empathic and sensitive person would probably be the best torturer in the world if he or she turned his empathy against a person and used her or his ability to read emotions to cause pain and attack in those weak points.

--H1 Visas

H1 Visas – Hearing an interview from Charlie Rose with the head of an Indian computer firm called Wipro – who is doing reverse outsourcing in America (An Indian company staffing in America.) and he cannot retain American workers working for him in America for his country because of the scarcity- he has lower retention in America than in India for workers. The people who complained of their being too many foreign computer professionals wanted a higher salary and wanted the jobs they used to have. I am 33, I have 5 degrees one of which is a BS in Computer Science. Currently I make 8k a year and am very happy and am willing to take a job for 12-15k. They demand more than 50k as something that is their birthright. My top degree is in architecture from Carnegie Mellon – a “world class University” even though that’s an illusion to a large degree in my opinion and I don’t think that going there means I get 50k. The education system that sets up the objective of education that you are worth 50k if have it is flawed, none of those people loved their jobs enough to make changes or to take a pay cut from the essential 50k which is about 5 times what I live on. Although my lifestyle has gotten odder as time goes on, in 2006 I did live on 10,000 for the year independently and it was a fair statement to say that that is what I lived on. The American dream of a big house and car and “good job” is fundamentally flawed and doesn’t encourage people to contribute what they can to society, but it does contribute to environmental destruction with all the large houses that are LIABILITES and not assets when you do the actual math. (yes if you look at it, you’ll find that most of the general public is investing poorly by investing in single family homes as a money-making investment.) If America wants to lead the world, it’s businesses that have US based operations need to be staffed. AN INDIAN COMPANY IN THE US CAN’T STAFF WELL NOR CAN BILL GATES – stop funding greedy people who just don’t get what life is today. I could be a millionaire over time getting 20k a year with good investing, people don’t need a 50k job to be successful and the government should not help them at the expense of American business. If these people loose in high tech who want guaranteed high wages for wither they’re degree or experience, they want something that isn’t real. If they loved what they do they would make their wages competitive with the foreigners. One guy mentioned his world class degree and wanted help job training. Really going to a community college which isn’t costly and getting current skills or going for a Microsoft certification would be the way to get re-employed in that industry- having a CS degree that is a few years out of date – that is not worth a lot if you don’t know current programming code (watching this gentleman on the Newshour and I’m basically saying there’s a big hole in his argument in the CS industry because you don’t get employment with just a degree – that does not guarantee you have current needed computer science skills and I have seen 50 year old computer science people who want their jobs go back to school to learn the new languages, that is what is expected – it’s not like law or architecture or other professions where the degree counts alone. You can have the degree and be unemployable.) People like that aren’t going to produce a good product. (If he was or the woman was the money or the degree would not be a barrier they would either lower their salary or get extra education to re-enter the workforce) If American business is held to have to deal with those people, our companies will lose competitive edge and will cease to exist and to the Democrats Microsoft employees shop for cars and at Starbucks and if Microsoft falls to a foreign competitor because it can’t staff its workplace or Steve Ballmer decides to move to India because he can’t get foreign workers and he needs them then there won’t be a Microsoft or a Google in America. To put the political calculus in a simple way – foreign workers paid at Microsoft buy cars and goods here and employ people in the Democratic base by doing this and Microsoft is happy if it gets them and stays here and the Democrats have a few disgruntled people at the edges that I argue are not asking for realistic benefits and wages that are sustainable – we could have a few Pittsburghs where the Steel Industry leaves because the workers are greedy and expect a job anywhere and the population shrinks from 700,000 to 350,000. That could happen to like Seattle and San Francisco if Microsoft and Oracle and Yahoo and Google aren’t happy. The opposite scenario is that Microsoft moves, the people who were Americans who wanted high paying jobs don’t have jobs at Microsoft because it either doesn’t exist or is in India and none of the other manufactured goods or the services that any of the workers buy is now supported by those people and because they are at the top of the economic food chain they drive A LOT of other businesses – all the things they want are “techie toys” that help those businesses who in turn buy manufactured good to make their items and help those businesses . The chain of businesses and services a typical technology worker uses and supports is much greater than a simpler industry. It is in the countries interest to keep Microsoft, Google and the rest VERY happy and wanting to put jobs and business in this country. All of them have the technology to be elsewhere, it is their specialty to have it, and if they leave much of the Democratic base depends on them to buy their goods and will suffer. The Democrats hold the political votes, but are powerless over the ramifications of those and I guess I am asking them to consider them very carefully besides alienating the base eventually by not allowing in foreigners long term, they will hurt the country and give America a bad world-wide reputation as not being a place to do business.

--Migrant Housing

Immigrant housing – it’s better than what they have in Mexico – On NC – and this affects others – migrant housing should be brought up to standards. Having bad conditions makes Mexicans a potential recruiting force for terrorists as they feel little loyalty to employers or the US for treating them poorly. They may not have every facility in Mexico that is here – but that doesn’t mean they live in a slum – what 3^rd world or not US means is different and you have to go there to understand it. You don’t have every facility, but you still have a house that is tended. The farmers were giving very unfair characteristics there of how Mexicans live. Mexicans are other people and do support NC’s economy. What is being done to them by the farmer’s who say they don’t need a phone and can have 1 toilet per 20 people or 1 refrigerator per 27 is that the farmers are acting in an un-ethical manner which I believe for most north Carolinians would be against Christian ethics – that would not be a problem for me – but I do also consider the treatment unethical. Perhaps the problem would best be solved if Google or Microsoft competed with farmers for these workers and then farmers would have to worry more about filling their workforce. Because there is no competition you get to see just how Christian the farmers are – as the bible says – do unto others as you would have done onto you – that is the greatest commandment – the Mexicans do jobs Americans won’t do and can’t go anywhere else for work easily and the farmers feel it’s okay in many cases to take full advantage of that. The Republican labor commissioner of the state says that farmers don’t need any extra pressure because jobs are at stake. North Carolina has a growing economy unlike Pennsylvania that I just left and perhaps if the farmers truly can’t meet better worker conditions (although one on the UNC piece said he could meet much better conditions at a minimal price) then perhaps for the ethical good of the state we should allow some of the farms to close and allow newer businesses to fund North Carolina which have a better reputation for how they treat their workers in the high-technology sector. The farming conditions that are compared to being worse than prison conditions on the number of facilities such as toilets and showers available look to me like a throwback to SLAVERY which is probably as a northerner speaking something I would think North Carolina would like to leave in its past. Instead of having a reputation of abusing the poorest of the poor I would think North Carolina would want to change that. Yes the Republican commissioner of Labor in NC may know of people who live in worse housing. Why I am willing to bet that those people do not do vital work for the economy unlike the Mexicans. The Mexicans do North Carolinians a good service and we can afford to give them better treatment at least according to one farmer – If he can do it perhaps the other farmers could turn their businesses over to him and he could run them ethically if necessary. I personally don’t like abusing people who can’t fight back – I don’t think that is really part of Democratic or Republican ethics in either party. The fines given out for substandard housing should also show be more punitive – experiences with contracting, landlords and zoning inspectors tells me that. You need correction and money is important to the business owner. We do want to threaten them to do the right thing as their treatment of the Mexicans may one day cause the murder of North Carolinians and we will have only ourselves to blame if the Mexicans start to feel like Nigerians who see an oil pipeline running through their land and they get no money from the oil on their land. The Mexicans get little money in some cases from their labor and are treated as less than human. This is a good way to breed terrorism and sabotage in time. And the farmers are acting like the plantations owners of old. Things didn’t work out too well for them in the end.

-fah

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