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Course 101 – Part I of VI

When I was a serious & hardworking little kid before World War I, I was already an eager searcher for books which our family didn’t own. But I often managed to grab our partisan newssheet before my father settled down with it. I finished reading faster than Dad & asked my many questions of all I met on my way to farmers in our surroundings who were mostly small-holding peasants without “advanced” abilities. So I had to get acquainted with 3 different Adam Smiths before the great one impressed me with his great knowledge, wisdom & human appeal. Thus I was held down & backwards until “city” hall started a library before we had electricity, a phone, a flush toilet & refrigeration box. Of course, there was no ice to be had out of season for a few more decades.

The mayor’s assistant was ready to lend me a small large-print book as I held my 4 choices stubbornly to my chest. “Is that small-print Smith one of our 2 teachers?” he asked me who didn’t go to school yet. Whatever I may have answered, got me my treasure pile. I took them home for the weekend. Three of them were kidstuff which I finished reading before 10 p.m. when the night forced inactivity on non-adults.

By the rise of the summer sun, I began to peruse pages here & there to get some idea about Adam Smith’s ideas in “The Wealth of Nations”. We had no map to find Scotland or a calendar to tell me what his life from 1723 to 1790 might have been like. And I had no idea how Glasgow schools & Oxford prepared impecunious students for life.

Leaving college early, he must have immersed himself in intensive private studies. Believe it or not, at the age of 25 he had the temerity to offer public lectures in several unrelated spheres of knowledge; and he began to make famous friends & even some admirers. Everyone had soon sympathy with Adam’s sympathy for the lowly workhorse which he also applied to the hardcore of obvious human self-interest. In fact, in his “Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations” he kept reconciling the demands of just Providence with the selfish motivation of pushy & inhuman humans.

An “invisible hand” published this first great analysis in the year of U.S. Independence, to indicate that his realistic analysis contradicted in odd ways his own good feelings, his rationalism in the Age of Enlightenment & the pro-worker sympathies of all his new & mighty friends of subdued revolutionary, charitable, just & fair feelings like the French Encyclopaedians’ Helvétius, D’Alambert & the colonialist Physiocrats Quesnay & Turgot.

He may have burned most of his manuscripts in old age because he had seen too much self-interest in the movers of his time. By giving most of his earnings to charities, he may have wanted to proscribe his immoral motives for business of his time. He never dismissed the decision-making forces of demand as against offer in a slow economy. Nor could he yet discover labor’s attempts to minimize as much as the wealthy price setters who hated to pay even wages below a subsistence level. But he didn’t repudiate the entrepreneurs’ right to take some extra profit for the risks they took.

It seemed to the very young reader that Smith hated what he revealed in the first great enterprises of the 18^th century & subsequently in his masterly analysis of commerce.

About a decade later, I discovered John Stuart Mill, almost a year before I found sympathy also for his father James. In my case the reverse must be assumed rather than “like father like son”. James Mill (1773 – 1836), another great Scot, inherited some beneficent radicalism & supported it by his stress of the freedom of the press which prevailed in Edinburgh if not in the London of the Georges.

This Mill wanted decent government; he helped push the 1^st Reform Bill. In his “History of British India”, he laid bare errors & crimes of the English colonial government. Also, he saw the absolute equality of Man negated by the consequences of the Great French Revolution. But he also believed in restriction of population increase. He anticipated even Karl Marx by measuring the value of merchandize solely by the amount & cost of labor.

No wonder that his eldest son, John Stuart, (1806 – 1873), became early on imbued with his father’s social & moral sympathies. For 8 years his father was his only tutor-teacher, teaching him Greek, Latin, history & all known Mathematics, so that the kid could teach his younger siblings. But I beat him in the study of Adam Smith by 10 years.

Well instructed in French in France, he was only 16 when he was appointed an Examiner in India House. He could afford to enrich his father’s colossal library & manage to study, little by little, all in its original language. Apparently, he remained delighted in every phase of culture he devoured. He was feeling his oats & dared writing, first for himself, all sorts of clever essays. Why did nobody appreciate his theoretical attempts to solve the tragic Irish crisis?

Can we believe that it was Mrs. Taylor, née Hardy, who made him the great political economist? But with the India Co. in trouble, he had to be its defender at the time of his beloved wife’s death. Yet, it was during his trials without error that he gave birth to the most fascinating booklet “On Liberty” which made me an idealist in spite of the dryness of Economics.

What a man! What a great democrat! What an enthusiastic thinker! He dealt with all known economists & all who were involved in owning, leading & misleading his nation & others. Reform & fair, but not radical, Liberalism was his great cause. Few have strengthened the cause of freedom more that this Mill. He who was willing to learn from everybody didn’t find everyone willing to learn from this great genius. But in general for women to vote & decide their own destiny, the rejection of unearned increment to be added to wealth-possession & the cooperative movements, especially successful in Scandinavia became acceptable standards even if belatedly.

David Ricardo (1772 – 1823), was the son of a Jewish – Dutch member of the London Stock Exchange. In spite of his estrangement from papa’s business & family, he turned a liberal (Unitarian). Under remote influence of the Mill Family, he abandoned Mathematics & Chemistry. He soon impressed Malthusian bankers as an utilitarian broker in opposition to Malthus. Ricardo though accepted Malthus’s theory that rent or possession of land was the basic determiner of price for corn (grain, not meaning maize at that time.) But Ricardo insisted that wages did mostly set the market price, and all other costs were a small part of the equation.

His great concern was & remained that a rapid increase of the population would depress wages below the subsistence level. One must also remember that the land was owned by the never – working aristocracy. Therefore, farmers were only renters & subject to the owner’s will & command. The higher the wages the less the sales(?) but not necessarily the prices. Ricardo also made the Parliament insist that bullion was more valuable than its paper value. In a way, his friend, the elder Mill, gave expression to Ricardo’s vaguer theories if not in the masterly word power of J.S. Mill.

Thomas R. Malthus(1766 – 1834), though friend of the philosopher David Hume & the Romantic revolutioneer Jean J. Roussean, was cursed by his colleagues of the cloth for saying out loud that population would always increase beyond what could be produced for their needs. Especially, folks hated to hear the mathematics of it all: mankind would grow by geometrical progression while the means of subsistence would only grow in arithmetical progress. (the former by multiplication, the latter by addition). He couldn’t imagine the “wonders” of modern over-production.

Malthus determined that social happiness was wishful thinking for most unless contraception, war, diseases & “Acts of God” put great restraints on unstoppable populating, sex urges; the farmers needs of cheapest labor of his children and the slaves’ human production pleasures. The dole is bad for the economy. Hunger works wonders.

Together with his friend Ricardo he thought that low wages might encourage sexual restraint. That irked those who considered children the gift of God & gods &, therefore, real riches. (Let us forget Bentham among the classical (political) economists.) None of them created jobs to feed people. Theory is not always an incentive.

Another child prodigy, Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832), started to read history at the age of 3 & read in Latin & Greek like many other privileged kids. He earned his Oxford degree when he turned 15. He deemed himself happy to listen to Prof. Blackstone’s lectures on all he considered the developing &, therefore, constitutional laws of England. But neither student nor teacher were completely frozen in custom & time. Yet Bentham considered the great collector & acceptor of the past as the presence an old fogy who rejected modernity & progress.

As a lawyer in his 30ies, Jeremy impressed Caroline Fox, daughter of Lord Holland, just as he had Lord Shelburne, later famous as Marquess of Lansdowne. Rejected as a candidate for marriage, Bentham grew grim against his poorer admirers. From his defence of harsh judgments, “The Rationale of Punishment”, he progressed to the “Defense of Usury.”

After having first enjoyed the social justice which prevailed in Adam Smith, he now praised a radical laissez – faire of individual traders & manufacturers with his own legalizing private interests above the public domain of any government. At the beginning of the Great French Revolution, Bentham was bent on protecting only the joy & happiness in owning much property in defiance of Christian teaching. Suddenly, however, he was back at a Smithonian “the greatest happiness of the greatest number.” This great line is what made him lastingly famous. Add to it his condemnation of pain as result of punishment under Blackstone’s law. That made him an honorary citizen in revolting France, like Ben Franklin, Tom Paine & Jefferson.

His cleverly expressed new principles made him an avid reformer. But earning too little from his utilitarian publications, he mistrusted politicians & statesmen. Still, he kept trying to better the world by his radical – reform “Westminster Review”. He forsook all Toryism & became a true democrat as his physical strength began to fade. But living to his 84^th year when the average life ended a quarter century earlier, he had the right to change a lot. Unfortunately, later economists concentrated on his over – conservative services & ignored his powerful appeal to fairness for all. That much of the classical start of political economy before it was to be considered the directive for economists.

Since the British classical political economy of 200 years ago had ruled the economy of the advanced & advancing world, nothing & nobody had ruled supremely over it. Came Baron John M. Keynes (1883 – 1946), a mathematical genius, trained & even educated by Cambridge University, the resting place of St. Thomas & the tiny but heroic Black Prince. (In the cathedral).

The man was strong – fisted at Versailles according to defeated Germany, but always repented his pressure politics. He wrongly predicted that too great demands of German reparation payment would threaten Europe with economic collapse. He was wrong. What caused the collapse & worldwide Great Depression, was President Hoover’s & Secretary Mellon’s decision, their forgiving Germany the huge repayment of their neighboring victims (as I explained elsewhere).

Yet, it was Professor Keynes’s furious attack on President Wilson & British P.M. Lloyd George which made Keynes an international economist & leader in this only partly mathematical field. For 2 decades he remained lord over Western economic theory. Nobody doubted his novel theory that demand of consumer-goods was caused by expenditures, & not the reverse. Loudly & clearly he demanded cheap money policies, so that the governments & its bankers would finance a galloping economy which also would eventually overbridge any recession. Workers would be employed. Their earnings would be spent on all consumer goods. Manufacturing would bloom & bustle.

Keynes book on “The General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money” was swallowed by F.D.R’s New Deal experimenters. The result: Millions of jobs, American reconstruction & common satisfaction until – the idiots of the Hoover financier, their Supreme Court’s 9 old men & the Republican old-fogy brigades boycotted, hindered & cursed the whole thing after the New Deal had become ready for war production which always puts a nation to work & delivers billions to the least worthy with best political & economic connections. But Keynes was right until Nixon, MacCarthy with his Robert Kennedy shut up the Keynesians & their liberal rages. Came the reactionaries imbued by the Communist – educated fascism of Ayn Rand & her disciples in Milton Friedman’s style of patriotic slander & pious devotion. But Keynes had finished his great job at Bretton Woods & planned our “International Monetary Fund” & our “International Bank” although our rightwingers had given him a heart attack.

The stinking corpse of the late Joseph MacCarthy still controls the theory of the trickle downers, the financial bosses, our big bankers of the Federal Reserve System & the so – called conservatives (read: revoltingly radical exploiters) & largest corporations, actually all thieves of our former national weatlth, destroyers of our fairly recent budget surplus & creationists of 8 trillion never payable national debt.

But Bush II who wouldn’t recognize an imitator of Keynes in himself in spite of his dee – gree in busy – nace Eddy – cation: It is his huge & aggressive government waste (investment?) in materials of mass – destruction & well – paying war jobs which “creates” a few thousand well – paying jobs & more for his pals, multi – billionaires. Curved on averages, the homeless, the starving, the sick look almost as rich as the oil roughnecks at the top of home – made terrorist pyramids. If you still call this dismal swamp of crocodiles & sharks economists in a dubious economy, you made the most out of idiotic Republican enemies of their nation. (no longer spelled with a capital “N”)

Milton Friedman, almost too old to think, like myself, made New York happy by getting marooned in Chicago. That Ph.D. in Economics still maintains a best – seller in “Free to Choose”. Which is true for only a handful of exploiters, thieves & terrorists. He doesn’t condemn desperate unneeded consumption because it produces the best income for its racketeers. Shame on this man who created what he discovered as a “national rate of unemployment”.

His Chicago school did not think if, or feel for, the millions they crippled or forced to live as rejects. He made truth out of the big employers’ wish for a huge supply of labor saboteurs – millions who could break a strike & always form additional vast pools of cheap labor. Like Reagan, they condemn our leaky border fences, but secretly they hide a million or more unwanted, illegal immigrants for cheapening Labor, for reducing wages & for refusing to pay their share of health & accident insurance, teacher pay for their kids & never any retirement & old – age insurance. To a conservative guru like George Will? No! Anna Quindlen has “The Last Word.”

There is only one thing & fact you can learn from this flight through mind, might & politics: Economics is no economy. More important is that you can be made to feel that economics is no science, has no scientific basis or relationship. There are just a million glass houses constructed by economists, industrialists, commercialists & other prevaricators, including all the recipients of Nobel Prizes for expressing verbalism on one minor, nonsense factor, a smallish aspect or despicable non-truth.

But what else is there to be done by the ones who call themselves social scientists if they are neither social nor scientists?

Yet, all philosophizing is naked theory. The emperors’ clothes matter the most. The makers, shakers & takers of all cash & all they can carry move the economy. Whether we like it, hate it or just ignore it, the captains of industry are the core & everything else in any economy. We said it often enough that Great Britain was the first center of this modern world’s 1^st industrial revolution because great France was too deeply addicted to mere theory.

Antoine Lavoisier (1743 – 1794) proved by his chemical experiments that we shall overcome the bloody English. But the Britishers were the ones who begged the revolting French prosecutors & executioners to spare the life of this greatest researcher, finder & applier of so far unknown elements. Had he been allowed to dedicate the rest of his life to his country instead to its tax collection ( a true Publican like our modern re-Publican), France could have rivaled England if the other aggressive fool, Napoléon Buonaparte, hadn’t taken the other scientists to Syria & Egypt to come back only with the Greek – Egyptian stone of Rosette. What a waste of national energy! But our Bush involves himself in bigger & more idiotic dissipation.

Those pious souls who believe that our global system was created by “Intelligent Design” are sure, as much as the atheists, that Nature remains mastered, bullied & destroyed by “Acts of God” from earthquake & its tsunami (tidal wave) consequences, volcanic eruptions which are closely related to earthquakes, heavenly rains, like in God’s ancient Flood, civil wars, uncivil foreign wars & self – destruction like fighting the Tokyo Protocol, using atomic power, the poison power of fertilizers & similar bio – chemical politics of disasters & mass destruction.

States like Hawai’i, California & Florida could, within 5 years, get nearly all their “driving” electric power from sun, wind & the saltwater of the ocean. But politicians, statisticians & economists keep preventing necessity to develop mills of legs, wings & strong stomachs. We don’t need a jealous or terroristic Providence to destroy us. We are the Terrorists (spelled with a capital T (the original Roman cross) who will crucify mankind after destroying humanism & its humanity. Chertoff in charge of our defence against terrorism & Braun as commander of the FEMA guarantee the end of a living world.

Greater evil results if desperation begins to read the up & down curves of our income graph; the actuary’s showing of the average will detract US from the truth:

That the little guy pays all the taxes for little service; that the corporation darlings pay no taxes although they need all the protection of our fighters against terrorism; that the adored, or be-jealoused million, prospers by billions & thousands of those by a few trillions; that the hardest working 100 millon cannot make ends meet etc., etc. - - -

Then a bloody revolution cannot be avoided, stalled or battled. But again, like in all national revolts, ours will be led by a few liberal – minded, socially – conscious or religiously inspired millionaires.

What else is new in any economy or among economists? Like everyone else, they too live to die to the $ profit of the churches, the undertakers & the writers of ever – recurring turmoil which proves that humans are on the lowest rung of the Primates. Any Gorilla & Chimpanzee grins when hearing such silly truth.

Economics 101

This spoof is meant to be an introduction into Econ 101, an introduction to the basic introduction. This might even be a poor thinker’s replacement for classical “political economy.” It may even mean something for someone’s somethings.

Why should any individual bother about the management of his or her household, their estate & jobs our government has intruded into all & everything. American individualism – one for all but never all for one – died when our holloword Constitution tried to lay down the law & made it stick in the fossil minds of Supreme Court-iers. Since John Marshall decided that a corporation was a stymied person, the corporate state of irresponsibility has reigned supremely over any poor person’s eagerness to be a responsible worker, manager or ruler over a small empire. We have all been reduced too tax paying corpus delicti. Only the biggest, most influential, most greedy & most ruthless economic terrorist has the power over US all and his or her supposed government.

But once upon a time there were mythical mandates measured by man’s needs, will & duties once feudalism was declared dead & for ever done with. John Locke philosophied freedom, enterprise, the will to serve & to do good as being the mainsprings of humanity. His idea of mercantilism soon aged into a coalesced system by that name and title, and the end if it was a new beginning. Political economy seemed to be the monopoly of English thinkers before jealous Frenchies contributed their bit in smallish bites for the student of political economy, for the political executors of their colonialist plans &, of course, for the rulers of economic empires and empiricism.

Calling the domineerers of the dependencies abroad “physiocrats”, was their introduction to big babbles which caused bubble after bubble from Mississippi to Louisiana, from Vietnam to Iraq. Such adventurism abroad created temporary billionaires, bilious enterprisers & political monsters. The common man suffered it and always suffered from it. His allowance went into the public pockets of the nastiest of the malicious Herrenfolk, to the most conservative and super – pious entrepreneurs in human blood and sweat without tears. That was, is and will remain the human experience and history, all to remain stepchildren of our economic tyrants. They, of course, also determine what patriotism is for the common crowd.

Jacques Turgot was a poor man’s version of this school of thought and action. He was destined to define the system, to make it work for the Kings of France and thus prevent the “levée en masse”, the resistance to him and all political rulers. But how many times can a bloody revolution cure the ills in governance, in the human heart and in the evil terrorists who can talk humanism but will counter – revolutionize the formless and leaderless masses who are forced to be born to serve as industrial slaves and cannon fodder?

If our Southern Liberal, Thomas Jefferson, meant what he said about regular bloody re- solutions, he would be unmentionable in our present confederate absolutism of Texan creationism. Yet, he saw much of the initiation of his enjoined blood-letting and still preferred revolutionary French savagery to British high – mindedness of an insane King.

Tom Jefferson was born into Adam Smith’s “Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.” Both believed that labor is the most productive pursuit of man. Thus only the laborers should earn the most reward for their – which neither one dared say. Maybe so in theory but never in practice and application.

In fact, both pioneering minds condemned the existing mercantilism but said nothing – at least, did nothing – for the slaves of their labor, because that was what made them tick. Both didn’t stress money as the means, the moving wheel & the aim of work and commerce. In theory, they were solely interested in the effectiveness of labor, in the productivity and the amassing of wealth everywhere.

Smithie also overstressed specialization and concentration of mental and physical efforts and thus sort of predicted the deadening assembly lines which made labor to toil, sweat and bleed with large rewards only for the boss of all bosses.

But as children of the Enlightenment, Smith and Jefferson started out with humanitarian ideas, plans and exertions. They were not the prophets who could forecast a born – again economy under the thrall of their wealthier, more cruel and most patriotically – pious politico – economic monsters. No decent person could have foreseen the coming of heaven only for the most undeserving tyrants over hearts, souls and pocket books of the hardest – working common man.

Adam, the Smith, forged a system of benevolent competition of benevolent humans. He didn’t like or want trade barriers. If class interests didn’t move the government to support & restrain the individual, the free play of true freedom could leave price, quantity and quality of goods to the market place where demand and offer were the real scales to weigh commerce, trade, income and profitable enterprise.

Smith didn’t anticipate modern robber capitalism of Mafia – like, over - powering, over – threatening monopolies. He condemned privileged treatment by governing forces. But what would he say about the hoodlums and terrorists to be in charge of all the powers that be? The meanest and most selfish, rudest & blood – thirstiest hoodlums to have over-powered all branches of our government tree, the administration, both Houses of legislation, the Super Court, the Federal Reserve System, the once independent press, the pious controllers of all our belief systems and whoever else controls the controllers?

Poor Adam, little did he foresee that Heaven has no room left for the meekish humble when the cynical, hypocritically pious self- promoters can buy entrance to paradise with billions of cash or equally horrendous credit – certificates in mass murdering. Yet, it is this modern capital – crime, capitalism, which is worshiped at every prayer institution and the halls of the White (washing) House and all D.C. centered institutions.

In the beginning, political economy thought of the pricing must – rules primarily only of cost of raw materials, cost of labor and renting price of land and factory (even if the manufacturer owned all). Profit as a normal additive motivated additional pricing. Next, we added the percentage of capital invested if it was given instead to loans banker – like. It wasn’t long, however, when scarcity of capital goods drove up the prices beyond any reckoning. Certainly, retailers charged their ever higher prices in the poorest ghettos. With their banks as allies, they took profitable risks, over-burdening the have nots with loans at enormous interest heights, life – threatening enslavement and starvation of the indebted.

Even with John Stuart Mills and Charles Dickens as humanists and humanitarians, nobody could save working stiffs most shameful exploitation. These “good old times” produced the misery, wretched poverty, starvation, debtors jails, early deaths, child labor with its sexual exploitation for up to 95% of the population in industrial states and their colonies. Old – time capitalism had become their hell on earth with the hope – promise of churches for Heaven after an early death for suffering humanity. The oldest among the still living remember the vicious capitalism of the past and equally fear that their dubious future is also in the dirty hands of faking fascists now in control of destiny.

The greatest lie in all book teaching economics is, of course, that the “Captains of Industry” produced the mighty power of our democracy and the only remaining super – power. Those captains surely produced the greatest riches for themselves, the powerful ownership of most wealth for them alone and for the rest threatening unemployment, perpetual fear, hunger, loss of homes, diseases rampant everywhere, suicide and destruction of families.

Only Socialists like Robert Owens & Utopians like him, tried to better lives for as many as their wealth, intelligence and their spirit of enterprise could manage. But few Englishmen and fewer fellow Scots appreciated what he had done for them and what he had sacrificed to be a real messiah of the poor and the paucity of capitalists’ sentiments of humanity.

Early on, feeling people doubted that there would always be a labor force large enough to handle a permanent expansion of the economy. For accidental deaths, plus natural ones would reduce numbers which veritable population industry, as commanded by most religions, could hardly replace. But their remedy was obvious, radical & violent to those who had jobs even if poorly paid – favored move from rural out-of-reach rustics into the original rust belts of big industrial entrepreneurism. In addition, good advertizing and big lies about workmen’s paradises attracted ever more and faster transmigrations of work-o-holics from far away countries and not-yet-developed continents.

Immigrations produced a huge labor pool. If the job-holders protested or grimaced their disapproval, or even concern about the security of their job as source of survival, they could be fired. In early industrial development, child labor displaced their parents’ jobs and organized strikes which kept new hires outside the reach of labor’s fists and sticks were reduced to sham resistance by privately – paid hoods – in U.S.A. Pinkerton – Guard ruffians - & when insufficient, by militias of upper middle – class thugs or uniformed government troops. Because, then as now, the big enterprises had nearly all government and its military forces in their pockets. Although the New Deal revolution was decidedly labor – friendly before Reagan and the later Bush reintroduced the sole solar power over labor while moony attempts of free labor in a free democracy were hopeless and never ever successful.

The ultimate social, economic and political power in merrye old England was in the hands and big mouths of the landed aristocracy. It was strictly based on land ownership. Until Hitler dismantled the German Nationale Party of Alfred Hugenberg, that owner of many thousands of acres of land, of huge industrial operatives and an all-powerful publication empire entered his name as a Reichstagsabgeordneter and federal legislator as “Bauer” (small farmer). Like England like Germany.

So we can understand Ricardo’s respect for soil to be the measure of all things economical, the old-time gold standard. Land was the unchanging, most stable form of unchanging stability of the economy, the industrial meter of political hegemony. Our entire land is owned by foreign enemies. But manufacturing demanded an expansion of the mind, the family properties and the entire economy along with social and political extensions and ever more extensive development and power.

How could an entrepreneur expect scientific motivation with scientific progress without caring sufficiently for the education of his workforce and their children? Like the slavocracy, bigshots hated to contribute their penny to public instruction. In cynical defence, they rather called the “colleges” of the leisure class public schools.

Don’t we know that the born – again hypocrites underfund the true public education which lies under their feet but destroy the requirement of their holy Constitution, separation of church and state, in the false name of educational improvement. Just see and hear their manifest decrying of gambling in their town, county or state if a large chunk of the profits from gaming is meant for instruction and teaching tools in public schools. These scoundrels of anti-people sympathies take their surplus funds to Las Vegas, Monaco or gambling boats (cruise ships) while claiming their hatred of all money games and risks with the exception of church bingo for bimbos, their horse racing, dog racing but not that of game hens when they are roosters with a sharp cutting iron blade in the game cock arsenal.

I heard many pious ones explain their unnatural compassion for the underdog by the routine bravour talk: “I don’t want the poor guy to lose his last dollar”, even if they get hold of everyone’s last dollars for cigarettes, beer and unholy medicines in which these terrorists own stocks and bonds. No smoker will ever buy bread for his hungry family. He is trained by our big corporations to be selfish like them. He may not admit it, but he lets his kids starve rather than forego his trained taste for nicotine, alcohol and “prescription” drugs. The corporations, President Bush, Frist M.D. and Senate Majority Leader are the chief criminals in economic and political gangsterism.

What moneybags never care to appreciate is that they thus crush al hopes for a poor person’s psyche: Their tiny investment in a lottery ticket, wager of a dollar in a cockfight or equally small investment in winner takes all & fake bets keeps this “investor” alive with a tiny gleam of lust for life, work and toil for his family. This is what the passionate conman who calls himself a compassionate Republican Conservative tries to kill in any good man.

John Marshall (1755 – 1835) left log cabin syrup behind to join the American Revolution. Tried by other Founding Fathers in several important new government positions, he didn’t strive for fortune of money for himself but for the ones he labored for. Power, ever more power, for himself & allies was his utopian wish. He created the means & the way to exalt in it.

During his 24 years as our Supreme (Court) Justice he made the Court rule over our Legislature & Presidency (Administrations: His hardly

challenged proclamation in the Marbury vs. Madison case instituted Judicial Review. The President was a king fish, but the Chief Justice his emperor.

As a Federalist, he wanted the central government to be superior to state governments. But would a Virginian fall for Yankee business interests?

In Dartmouth College vs Woodward his Court decided that a charter was a sacred contract to be lived by by all parties doing business. This abuse, often in tiny print, gives corporations unusual power to rob & keep evil gains.

To help business in McCulloch vs Maryland, Marshall allowed Congress to create a Central Bank as all other nations have. But the General Jackson opposition destroyed the Marshalled idea, just like his protection of Indian lands which Jackson despised & ordered abolished.

Marshall’s legislating the validity of any contract led him to declare a corporation a person in which the presiding officers were not committed to pay the debts they had caused to their corporation. Did the “Great Justice” understand that he excused deliberate dishonesty, annulling the debts they made & allowing them to restart a corporation of a different name with the stolen funds? All they had to buy was a corrupt judge of the bankruptcy court. Trump managed to do it. Thousand other “pioneers” of corporations got away with bankrupting trusting small investors. It has endured as a corporation law & destroyed the Adam Smith democratic Capitialism.

If we verify old Malthus and still believe again that industries and wealth grow in artithmetical progressions by addition but population grows in geometrical succession – double and keep doubling doubles – we could be wrong unless we learn to believe in the modern school of religious multiplication: Let every male semen and every female egg serve the Creator’s holiest purpose – create and procreate with the focus on fetus and its uninterrupted development. Holy cow! Calve and calve whether sick or unwanted and fill the earth with godlike creatures to creep along neglected or enslaved as most wanted and cheapest work fodder or cannon fodder until there is no standing room or food left for all.

For if the economy becomes as sick as the brains of these pious watchdogs, they can start a war of defence of our land by invading real or supposed enemy nations. The need for old – new war industries creates the best - paying jobs, no – bid – billion – dollar – creationist contracts and all the additive billions for corruption at the top of our religious pyramid the pious one needs and enjoys. High crimes and misdemeanor are not punishable in the time of crusading war needs. Bush, Cheney, Frist, Hasterd and other con – servative terrorists are witnesses to these facts of high life and expunging every notation of proofs of guilt during a yearlong assertion of separation of Administration from Legislative and Jurisdiction.

In spite of a violent form of expressed reluctance, our capitalist world is pressured by our rulers into ever fewer ways of survival for the common work person. Assuming that general bloodshed has had the desired effect of population control, the reduction of weapons of mass destruction (the religious mass?) & many special services & well – paying jobs, the future looks ever more simplified to the poor simpleton. In spite of all the tricky teachings at Harvard Business College & its Wharton competitor, jobs will be concentrated in ever fewer describable qualifications. In a word, many, very many, jobs will be gone and are still going for good. What remains will be ever more health workers on all levels; ever more interest in leisure activities and millions more in public insecurity. The pious T.V. characters will find ways to increase and vary their team parks instead of relying on the collection plates, the pledges of the sick and dying and other gimmicks.

Most charitable organizations are tied to religion. That is why you can manipulate through them your I.R.S. debt level with the hearty approval of legislatures and administrators in cities, counties, states and the federals. Never have these charities been more productive of huge and permanently secured income for families who know how to get such a gold mine started and prosper. Remember that with ”Christian Children Fund” at the top, a thousand of these charitable organizations write off cost of operations, mailing and professional collectors’ charges up to 95% of the inflowing money. Put together, they do better than federal tax collectors because these money mills don’t have to pay any taxes. Also, all the Rockefellers, Fords and Kennedys could survive in luxury if they never worked at all or volunteered for public “service”. Also, these charities control political power, added to their social and economic might.

I know that this contributor to over 20 charities has been receiving weekly, for many years, at least 2 new requests to contribute to old and also brand – new charities. Since then I have taken my own pick without spending money for the large alliances because they include small charities I don’t trust. During the last 5 years, these money collectors have forced on me several sheets of address stickers which I neither want or need because I already have a few large envelopes full of them.

I would command these insistors of ever larger contribution: Stop loading me with junk mail. If you want to help some poor souls, some defect bodies and the truly needed, use your own resources to do so. For I know some of these money – lusting organizers to possess enormous wealth by the many millions if not billions. You need not molest these oldsters who don’t know yet how much they will have to disperse under the Bush – Dr. Frist medical insurance plan which looks ever more like a reverse robbing Hood monstrosity to take from the poor and give to the richest, the medical empires. No doubt, all the organizers of big charity rackets employ large groups of helpers who all do well if they can handle their beggary via computer at home. Obviously, they charge rent of their vast estates as business expense. For charity & its entire structure is one of the big commercial deals for wheelers & dealers & great power interests. This segment of U.S. economy seems immortal.

The pharmaceutical giants never had it so good but still will do better and better by trillions in years to come. The networks of family “owned” hospital and clinic chains will always have great legislative and administration connections. Only a liar like Dr. Frist, Senate Majority Leader, can get away with selling multimillion dollars worth of stock when they are highest on their stock exchanges and still claim that he didn’t know about the wheeling and dealing of papa and the rest of the family. If he were a Jew or a member of a different minority, he would be in jail or, at least, lose his prestigious job while a grand jury investigated crooked dealing. (Did not the 2^nd man of the House of Representatives, Delay lose his for a short while?)

Remember the great speech of Precedent Bush? Grand promise of prescription drugs paid for all kids and senior citizens? Immediately Dr. Frist outlied his Führer: “All you have to do to get your prescription drugs paid is phoning the Social Security Administration. What a wonderful promise to those aged, sick, desperate and poor!

This writer may have been among the first to phone that given number. The nice – answering lady was stunned: “This is the first I heard about this trillion dollar treasure for those in need of real assistance.” While I held the line, she talked to her boss on duty, and he spoke to the headman still in the office to listen to their president. No answer yet.

Within a week, I think, I got my first shock in form of the package to my address with my more-than-half-a-century-old S.S. number behind my name and address. I was told to fill out enclosed forms, so I can join the Social Security members and know how to pay my weekly or monthly contribution to unemployment and retirement insurance and assure my right to that great insurance. As well as the promise of retirement benefits.

Did these bureaucrats try to shock this nonagenarian into a heart attack and thus free their President and Senate Republican majority liars and crooks of a critic? Then, some time later, I got, like every worker and retiree, the fabulous offer to ask one of the numerous health insurance profiteers for an application to join his or her merry company. Obviously , these were among the characterless characters who had bought all the powerful politicians by paying their electioneering expenses plus throwing big and plush parties for the party of their choice plus a small bite for the opposition, just in case that…..

And now these gangsters, corrupters and destroyers of true democracy will force the “lesser people abroad to adopt their style of “democracy”, our social and economic system and force our merchandize on them even if made in China or elsewhere. Is ours an economic system or systematic destruction of a true economy according to the great principles uttered by Adam Smith and his liberal, generous and humanitarian followers? Their introspection followed humanitarian feelings & designs.

The Canada – born James Couzens (1872 – 1936) astonished every other liberal U.S. Republican as he was chosen to become general manager of the Ford Motor Co. Of course, he had helped Henry Ford financially in spite of their arguments over Henry’s racial prejudices.

More astonishing was this Republican U.S. Senator as he authorized our graduated income tax, so the poor should not carry 80% of US tax burden. As fellow Republicans began to avoid his fascinating companionship, Couzens also praised public ownership of all utilities. Portland, Oregon, followed his advice & maintained low & fair rates for decades. It took a more modern Publican revolt to deny “we the people”s rights & inheritance, so that some free – booting, right – wing exploiters earned huge, unmerited salaries plus stock dividends for smoking their cigars when occasionally sitting in plush offices.

Yes, Mr. Bush, the top Republican earners raise your national average income; but how long must that right of exploitation be protected to the disgrace of Western civilization?

Charles R. Crane (1858 – 1939) went the opposite route. As a powerful supporter of President Wilson’s dreams he also planned to convert the successor – states of the decrepit Turkish Empire to his anti – Semitism. He worked hard against British promises of a small homeland for exiled Israel. Through the American Colleges in Istanbul & Beirut he instigated hatred of Jews & Judaism among the Arabic elite that had long resented Turkish ownership of all lands while some rich Arabs were allowed to lease large but uncultivated tracts of territory. He & the ones he sponsored feared that the hard work of Russian Zionist might yet give rebirth to the ancient Juda & Israel.

Only his gifts to the Marine Lab of Woods Hole saved some old reputation as a generous lover of nature & ecological recognition.

Also note worthy is a more recent turncoat. He was my friend when he was chairman of the Department of Education of the then San Francisco State College. It was one of the better teachers colleges before graduating to a state university after the hippie years.

The most liberal Dr. Campbell was blackballed by our Armed Forces. He was rejected as a speaker to soldiery because of his known generosity in education, economics & politics. I visited him a last time at Chico State College. He had improved its rank among teacher – education institutes while he was president.

Before our last embrace he mentioned laconically that he could never receive me again because he had accepted the presidency of the American University in Beirut, Lebanon. I had seen that Arabic center of Aramco (“Arabic – American Petroleum Corporation”) & noticed a hundred times a day that our oil industry was at the center of fast – spreading hatred for now – Israel. Many signs in print & handwriting demanded the destruction of the Zionist State.

During my talk to the then- president I commented on recent discussions by German professors of now known nature: “When Hitler hated only Jews we didn’t care. When he also killed gypsies & our own multi – handicapped, we took notice but no action. As soon as scientists & professors were also persecuted, it was too late to protect ourselves. Everyone has to pay a price when hatred rules the nation.”

Dr. Campbell understood the meaning well enough. He also was a major in Economics beside General Education & Administration: “You must understand that my salary is only $60,000 (mine was $6000). In Lebanon I get paid 9 times that much.” Good-bye forever Mr. moneyheart!

He was right. I was right. In matters of dollars, we are all corrupt & like it that way. The U.S. oilers & their Arabs, all other Americans along with every Israeli & all Jews with their defenders & friends. We caused 9/11. Nobody else could. Can we ever change?

P.S. I apologize for errors in dates, data & spelling of proper nouns. When a mid-ninety ex-historian cannot remember what he did or wanted to do seconds ago, he also doesn’t command the best memory over what he studied or taught more than 7 or 8 decades ago.