Part III of VI

Let the Ladies Try Their Best

The sex trade didn’t begin in Bangkok, Thailand, once called Siam by the Chinese. Since the Thais, the Free, may have come from China, they were aware of the fact that many good parents have sold their good little daughters into slavery since the beginning of their world. The Southern Gentleman & his Belle helped the procreation of most valuable half-castes for the convenience of the man of the grand house & his growing boys to obtain the highest price for such slave.

In all wars “women” from 6 to 60 were every soldier’s war booty. But in independent towns, all citizens were free though often poor. In order to survive, the government & Church made prostitution almost legal & sanitary by monthly medical tests & lucrative for all involved. The city fathers got their taxes, the Church their “stained”, colorful glass window art & priests had little problems with bachelorhood.

Any avid tourist has his or her favorite big city in Europe. In one respect they are much alike. All boast of a “red-light district”, located next to the main church, cathedral or Dome. You can make up your own opinion about that interesting finding if you don’t know the true history. All amounts to the same revelation.

The money for the women (young, very young) was readily accepted. Some visiting priests or ministers were on the take while they made it also the subject of impromptu sermons. That is no double jeopardy at all. The subject(s) of the preachment may have fully agreed to the flowery, sexy speech, cried bitter tears & made public promises of bettering her (their) way. No better way existed for public advertizing of available services without additional fees.

In several of these famous attractions you find the red – light quarter now giving way to a new city hall, guild hall or court of justice. But architects seem to understand that they must not push the towns’ oldest attractions, the oldest profession, too far from the town center.

Those nations that made modern prostitution legal referred to its brilliant history & its important place in the economy. The present day argument stresses the “healthy” supervision of the members of the sex industry – monthly doctors’ examination & the secret use of condoms. In a few cases, pious hypocrites have publicly accepted the use of rubber protection to prevent modern diseases, leading to pandemics. Of course, in the great past, there were not supposed to have been man or boy prostitutes. But remember the First Crusade, preceded by the Children Crusade? Good Germans, Austrians & French subjected boys to equal treatment!!

In Poland & Germany all owners of land also owned its dwellers & manual workers. The proprietor had the Church – blessed right of “primae noctis”, the privilege of deflowering any virgin before she was handed over to her common man – husband. Considering the scarcity of money & food those blessed days, this sex trade was an important segment of the economy: Utility #1.

Since then skin & fur trade tried to play a greater part commercially. The family of the German John J. Astor (1763 – 1848) tried to take over much of the Hudson Bays Co’s Indian trade in kind. What he earned from his “American Fur Co.” was invested in Astoria, Oregon Territory & soon in Manhattan. He died without taking his wealth (the “mostest” in the USA) with him. His descendants made their marks & Dollars. Just think of the Waldorf – Astoria’s plushness & Nancy Langhorne who conquered Viscount Astor, got him to die & inherited his membership of Parliament where she fought for yet unobtainable women’s rights. Her club surroundings adored Hitler & gave Adolf’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, hope for a good reception when he claimed he had abandoned his idol. The Astors were all leaders of the capitalistic economy at home & abroad. Their illustrious Lady Astor made history in England. Our ladies have to raise themselves into equality & next into superiority.

In our time, Martha Stewart worked assiduously & honestly for the benefit of humble & practical house wives. That she dared breaking through the glass ceiling of leadership, enraged the male corporate world. Her ambitious, simple & rational work ethics did challenge male chauvinism, the more so when she proved that East-European families, not welcome by our WASP hornet culture in “their” country, could actually be their moral weight in gold.

Good working women who have been discriminated against by the pious Protestant work ethics were not surprised when our pious establishment used their legal & political hegemony to force this great lady into trying to combat the evil structure of their caputalism & make her “lie” to these characters without any character. To more honest judges of greater honesty in business, Martha is the epicenter of women’s constructive power which makes man’s chauvinism quake & conspire to whittle her down to the size they want & still obtain.

Give them the business, busy Martha, compared with bankrupting Trump, you are to trump all yet. Your few hundred millions are a good beginning. Your jail time must serve the world as a badge of honor which proves that the present American System, as underpinned by sycophant brokers of a criminal establishment of illegal laws, a mean Congress & deceitful administration is ready for the Fall. More good luck & good work & works to you, by you, Martha the Great!

Among great Jewish women, Henrietta Szold (1860 – 1945) & Golda Meir (1898 – 1978) are the greatest & somewhat intellectually entwined. The former was made multi-lingual & multi-motivated to share highest education & loving interest with the total world.

Motivated to Americanize immigrants from Slavish persecution, Szold established a night school for them. She moved from Baltimore to New York in order to centralize her various writing addictions. As a leading Zionist lady, she formed “Hadassah” with the special medical hospital services for Jews & Arabs alike in “Palestine”, the Roman & English invention for Israel. Arabs took advantage of her aid for their children but hated her people for trying to befriend them.

Golda Meir was a little girl who attended Henrietta Szold’s school in Baltimore after its founder had moved away but felt instigated by her model to become a teacher in Baltimore & a Zionist too. Also following Hennrietta’s love for Zion & the local people, Jews as well as Arabs, Golda became the woman power among Labor activists; she worked her way through Parliament & Ministries & became one of the few women Prime Ministers in the world. Huge losses during the war of Arab aggression in 1873 forced her resignation. During her last 5 years of life, she still tried to better relations with Arab neighbors. Even as an old woman in a man’s disguise she was honored by the King of Jordan who was assassinated for his attempts to please pacifists like dozens of other like-minded Arab would-be leaders.

Both ladies worked for the benefit of laboring people in their vain attempt to give modern capitalism a human face. Both helped industry & industrial relations. In their attempts to weaken the religious – patriotic basis of aggression, both became victims of that church-state alliance which is being made a holier Constitution of any aspiring democracy of these days.

Polish Helena Rubinstein (1870 – 1965) became a polished beautician with her first Australian beauty salon in her twenties when she was still worth looking at. The face cream which did a lot for millions of women’s faces didn’t do the job for her face as she gathered huge rewards for her secret family recipe. Of course, it was from New York that she created her cosmetic empire. As an aggressive amazon, she kept Elizabeth Arden a lifelong competitoress.

Elizabeth Arden (1878 – 1966), née Graham, came from our Northern neighbors. She felt competent to rival Helena R. in pasted cheeks according to scientific formulas. Together they ruin really pretty faces & caused, perhaps, new diseases. But as owner of willing race horses in Kentucky – fried races, she was an independent gambling capitalist. She never tried her lipstick to match horses of the same color. Why include more of the fashionable who also use pasties to save face? Some of the surfeit heirs are in jail. Their money faces investigations because transparently superficial, most damaging & often criminal.

Estée Lauder gave her native Queens, N.Y., “Youth Dew Beauty Oil” which did nothing for beautiful people but made the first billion to the maker. Her cosmetics filled shelves in all stores & were great money – makers in department stores as well as in specialty shops. She was among the few to market through donating free samples. Her maiden name Mentzer changed when she married Joseph Lauder, her business partner.

The late lady wasn’t business-like careful in her pro – creation of a family of bad heirs. One of the richest of those chose the idle life of a criminal. He has the time of a long life behind bars to mend his ways. Some are business – crooks & violent agents of their trade. Outsiders commit crimes as their private enterprise.

But it was a man who founded “Avon calling”. Their Chinese tiger balm was my favorite skin healer. Avon keeps calling.

The perfume industry developed from luxury scents for the haute vole to universal popularity of stink water & skin – ruining cancer powders. That began a billion dollar affair for L’Oreal, Proctor & Gamble, Arden and the many concoctors of plain toilet water. Here the allusion to urine never pro-duced ruin. But heirs to the richest, here & elsewhere, may be flagrant children & grandchildren of toilet water who don’t swallow their inheritance & give no stomach pain to avid readers or TV news swallowers.

Moisturizers & skin improving fraud may soon play the minor sister to complete overshadowing of skin, face & other deficient body parts. This multi-million rejuvenating industry is already sky-flying & flaying by the billions. If aging is the preferred standard instead of slowly dying in barrios here & in 3^rd world countries, the sensitive rich want to beat the odds even if there threatens the occasional disastrous operation which can only be recovered by million-dollar lawsuits.

In general, I don’t understand fashion – underwear & upper dress codes. Let Calvin Klein, Victor Papanek, Candace Wheeler, Elizabeth Arden, Marcel Breuer, Oleg Cassini & especially these rich ladies who know what they want to cover their flaws & their men. Whichever are fashionable for a season or less time to favor & adoration. This business should cover a trillion dollars & pounds of our economy.

I knew some great lady – fashion designers in Shanghai. But when Communists took the Mainland of China so easily, Mao Tse Tung’s worker’s clothes became the fashion for a few decades. Only in Hong Kong, cheap but beautiful men’s suits could be ordered & tried on within a day. Now Shanghai may become again the fashion capital of the world – if the Milano Mafia permits.

Shortly before I took my German – American fashion model to the new fashion center in Milano, I watched a T.V. interview of a young Italian who declared himself the fashion tsar of the Sicilian Mafia. American interviewer apparently know that &, therefore, could ask leading questions which nobody in the T.V. studio doubted. In fact, all were worried about his safety in a country which had fought the Mafia under J. Edgar Hoover. No longer were Paris or San Francisco fashion centers.

The elegant Italian could explain in perfect English that he was well-protected by U.S. police which respected the thousands of dollars he paid to them.

Young Moriah bused North Italy with me for 2 weeks. We got our hotel room within walking distance from the Fashion Centro. The next day was set for the young lady’s interview there. We had to zigzag our way through several guard doors – all gates & doors were locked behind us.

After long waiting, we were greeted by a German – born Konan who had hiked with me & my Kona Hiking Club when she was about 6 years old & her mother 38. Now she was a nervous chain-smoker with ashes all over her lovely silk dress. She liked my suggestion to have her fantastic legs insured like Betty Grabel?

The boss ignored me completely until I asked him whether he was the man who was interviewed on U.S. TV on such & such a show by a famous talk master. I didn’t have to ask more. He kept talking to me, Moriah & my former hiking companion for hours. How his Mafia had ruined San Francisco & Paris fashion centers & their significance. He & his Mafia had made Milano the world center of every woman’s desire. That he had the best designers, cutters & dressmakers available & also the most beautiful models, mostly Germans or part Germans: “As long as I am King, blondes will remain in fashion.”

I had to go back alone to the hotel by myself & wait there until my Swiss and German tours began. The night before I was to leave, Moriah & the pretty – legged smoke – fiend visited me a last time. Their 2 bodyguards checked whether there was a window ladder by which Moriah could get away & then retreated to the lobby. The hiker soon kissed me good-bye. Moriah was allowed exactly an hour of privacy before she cried her good-bye. I never saw her again.

Her grandmother & youngest brother brought me 2 of her calendars & mentioned that our model had done her fashion work for a year. Her boss took her on his yacht & asked for his dues. Moriah jumped overboard & swam a few miles until saved. She joined her numerous stepfathers & more siblings in Stuttgart. She let me know she was through with modeling. She would study to become a teacher. That was the fashion I liked. Women like Jacqueline Kennedy – Onassis spent thousands on one of their 250 dresses like Mrs. Marcos on her thousand pairs of shoes. Who pays the bills so the wealthy can develop their own billion – dollar economy?

Trillions are invested in Art & Unart as the emperors, empresses, kings, industrialists, gamblers, & politicians can prove by the general arrogance of those who own, admire or want art, art & more of it, even if they have to bribe & bully art historians, museum directors, auction-house owners or mere stock exchange bandits to declare what is art to their homes or pockets.

A late friend of mine learned from the great Spaniard, Picasso, that he couldn’t earn his daily bread with great oil paintings but then earned a fortune by smearing thick paint on canvas with his workhand behind his back & not even looking at the canvas. That may explain why this millionaire turned Communist in order to show his contempt for rich art lovers, art fakers & art imitators. Impressionism didn’t impress him.

But Hermann Goening, Hitler’s right hand jovial eater, knew what his vandals & murderers should serve him up for after – dinner peaceful contemplation. The murdered art-possessing Jews couldn’t defend their arty property. If there are surviving heirs, they can rarely prove what should or could be theirs. But we don’t think that those possessions amounted to a billion &, therefore, are not a big slice of our economy or what some of our richest art collectors stole from the corpses of a formerly cultured civilization.

The Zales, Kays & other assorted sellers of jewelry used to depend on the diamond monopoly of Oppenheimer of segregationist South Africa when Blacks in hard Carbon mines could be X-Rayed to verify their swallowing of “every girl’s friend”. Now that black politicians have their say, genuine diamonds just have an inflationary over – value. For the U.S. economy it is no mass industry or economy factor except for the investment value of a diamond’s genuine “drilling” worth.

From my lay view, most of the great profit remains where the refinery (grinding) takes place – Tel Aviv, Antwerp, Amsterdam & now Bangkok & New York. The profit there is relatively large to make it a substantial part of their economy. We are mostly stuck on the poetry & popularity of the huge, shining, rock in the engagement & wedding rings. How many divorcées had to return this obvious wealth? What if any, is the relationship of hardest Carbon, diamonds with Rock & Roll? Or with the pledge of you are the Rock etc.?

The Zales, Kays, Justins & hundred more shops for the wealthiest don’t care for statistics. They are more interested in Bush tax breaks for themselves & their perpetual customers. The credit rating of poorer marriage & divorce prospects is of no significance.

In retail business watches go well together with jewels. In manufacturing these are 2 worlds apart. Swiss watches had it over those of other nations. Is Timex still one of the most expensive? I am an addict of Walmart’s cheap Chinese timekeepers even if the battery which empowers the “work” dies within a few weeks of the purchase.

Gorbachëv sent me a Swiss one with his wife, Risa’s, niece. It got lost when Hospice made me move out of my former home (and Richard Boone’s, “Paladin”) The manager had hired Colombian thieves who pretended to be refugees from Honduras. Although well wrapped & better hidden in a small box within a larger one & that one in a huge carton with clothes, my watch vanished.

In some stores cameras are featured in the vicinity of jewels & watches to be watched for their values by security police at the same time. Once the German Zeiss which ground great telescope lenses, had a near monopoly in cameras, too. When Russians were in command there, George Eastman (1854 – 1932) S. Kodak Company’s heirs took advantage & produced cameras & films as a near – monopoly.

U.S. competition, Honeywell, did well for some time until Japan swamped the market with the marvelous Canon still & photo products, better & better in time & some great & affordable movie cameras. Their imitation of US Polaroid showed great technical & fast processing.

If President Lincoln had shaved off his beard, there might be many more cleanly shaven men without the help of chemotherapy. King C. Gillette (1855 – 1932) hated the blood – sucking, very sharp razor blades because the leather on which they were sharpened was sometimes used by fathers to belt their obstreperous boys when he was not ready to take his leather belt off his precariously held-up pants.

Gillette kept improving his original safety razor, so that its blade could be expelled when blunted & replaced by a brand-new blade. He established the Boston Gillette Safety Razor Co. His millions allowed him to remain a sharp president even from Los Angeles where he wrote his utopian views in “A People’s Corporation” which found few takers in the World of our murderous capitalism.

Schick made the entire shaver disposable & cheap. They claimed that the built-in Protective Safety Cap keeps the blade sharp for “close comfortable shaves”. I heard that no blood is being spilled in the shaving process. But I usually manage to produce a few drops of the red substance. Some men will need lots of them if they go traveling as the chic Schicks suggest.

John Hammond (1910 -87) may be our first big music industrialist. By keeping up with ever – changing jazzy trends & recordings the voice & instrumental sounds of possible stars, he made Columbia Records his record enterprise. From New Orleans to Harlem revival he helped Benny Goodman to bridge a beginning racial gap. From legal trials to illegal errors, his press relations kept artists alive & the heavy hand of morality laws silent & dead. His autography is modern music industry & the billions it commands. Was a Hammond piano involved in some of his recordings?

When I was a scholarship student at an international school in Seesen am Harz, we had short Sunday walks to the Steinweg Park. Steinweg’s modern version of our pianos made him rich when he opened big in the U.S.A. & called it & himself Steinway. Some older models are still huge, melodious & expensive.

Of course, nobody can deny Elvis Presley (1935 – 77) the kingdom of sexofrenetics on earth. The former choirboy didn’t shy from overt body manipulation of the wilder animals while strumming the guitar like a baby cat. The kitten from Tupelo (In its vicinity Lewis of the Clark Expedition committed suicide or was robbed & killed). Elvis moved to Memphis (Tennessee), to Louisiana & then to the entire world. He set the tone for the rocky roll of body & mind. The Beatles owe him much of their success & also marriages & divorces & violence in art & in life.

The more gifted & better trained vocalists, instrumental stars & gifted composers usually chose old – fashioned opera, operetta, Symphony, Kammer Music & related culture. They need lots of expensive training but fill music houses & school performances to their parents’ & friends’ delight. But not even the greatest of legitimate stars can compare in income with loud crooners & body-gymnastic outbursts.

The English Beatles were better educated & less vulgar than the “King”. They chose the world above the homeland. They would not settle down in Tennessee. They didn’t perish in controversy. Only one death in the group made him a post mortem genius.

My little understanding of the music, dance & other art of the second revolt, must give Duke Ellington (1899 – 1974) all the credit. He started as a student of painting & piano, even if Lester Dishman dished out ragtime to him & the South. Groupies of that trend smelled success at Broadway, New York, where the Prohibition could not entirely outlaw the spirit of alcohol. Harlem offered more opportunities for Black culture. From there he orchestrated also old Europe.

With the help of arranging composer Bill Strayhorn, Duke became the center of a billion – dollar industry. He made popular music almost defeat operatic style before Black classically trained music wonders became equals of white stage stars. In his train, music recordings became also billion – dollar capitalism’s freest enterprises. Between Harlem & New Orleans, the power of music made it one of the hugest enterprises, only slightly disturbed & vacationed by the New Great Flood.

Along with these styles of music, modern dance made its appearance. Freed from its slavery, the foot took its independent tour stepping high. Even as Black culture began to rule the white stage, the various footing forces went off on their own in all that Jazz.

In between, we had a short rule of untrained “also singers” who, as recitatorians & crooners, made millions in popular halls of Las Vegas & the recording industry. Did Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra & the rest of these crooners learn to read notes, to understand what real singing was & to deserve the billions their silliness earned? But that too is, was & will be a big slice of our industry.

Al Spalding (1850 – 1915) was a damned good baseball great as a pitcher for the 1^st organized baseball league. As a promoter & manager he invented our Abner Doubleday as the originator of this popular game. His inventive genius did not shrink from manufacturing sport equipment, starting with a monopoly of his baseball. Who in his family had the guts it took to make tennis rackets, footballs, basketballs, volleyballs, bats & all sports sweaters or real uniforms with socks & simple sports shoes?

Nike, Reebok & competitors took advantage of poor kids’ expectation of making their fortune not by studying but concentrating day & night on sports of their liking. Especially those without spending money made their family buy the most expensive gym-shoes with fancy names, fancier coloring & fanciful prices.

Everybody knew that the sports shoes were fabricated by the poorest kids of India & Pakistan.

Wholesalers & sportshopkeepers wouldn’t admit that good American millionaires enjoyed the blood, sleeplessness & pain the small boys & girls in sweatshops suffered. Only recently, Walmart had to admit that very many of their wares originated in the dirtiest sweat shops of the poverty – stricken ghettos in East Asia. That is even a greater crime that making prisoners in China do delicate jobs. No wonder then that among the 10 richest persons in this world there are 5 Waltons, the Walmart exploiters, who have also specialized in hiding illegal immigrant laborers, paying them next to nothing & not offering insurance and some other safety features.

The huge sportive economy swims in money, chews & spitting matches. The courts or fields quickly become slippery enough for the slide-down & slips of stars. The coaches cannot teach their players to start right, to serve correctly or even coach human conduct; they try to make up for their failures by cursing their match-up, their losing the ball or catching it, stopping it or making even tennis & volleyball indecent contact sport (?)

Some well-known basketball coaches cannot even teach sure hit free throws from the foul line. Nor do they tell their ball boys to expect every aiming for the basket to fail & , therefore, jump from 3 or 4 sides to catch the most likely errant ball instead of attempting an idiotic foul when an opponent has already his grip on it.

Punishing, punitive, eventless events, cause the wrath of independent referees &, thereby, the loss of the match. But arrogance alone can also win a match.

Our sports heroes command public interest comparable to movie stars who marry 6 or more times while raping their way to costly lawsuits. Just watch the childish, self-advertizing movements, gestures, jumping & chest beating gorillas, & you may no longer enjoy their more civilized antics.

The once harmless Volleyball sport offers now self-praise & mutual hand shaking in case of good-luck & hand – or – shoulder holding to admit & even enjoy the social acceptance of one failure or dozens of them.

Types of sport fairly new, can be advertized into multimillion dollar business. New stadia are built at enormous cost for middle schools, high schools, colleges & pro – ballers, bawlers & boilerrooms.

A good deal of gambling, inhouse & outhouse kind & unofficial wagering do not ruin reputations for ever. Even his critics forgive Pete Rose because thousands of others involved in such betting on himself could be named by the inner circles. I bet that Pete Rose will yet be entered into the baseball hall of fame. His then expected autobiography may earn him another million in imitation of thousands of greater sport scoundrels who maintain their star rating. After all, doesn’t our economy sponsor the accumulation of wealth instead of a fair commonwealth? The beer industry does its best, sponsoring all sports & sportsmen. Thanks to the boozer industry one drinks after victories, or sometimes too soon, as the great Australian sport stars still do.

We knew the Honolulu – born missionary kid, Luther Gulick (1865 – 1918) as one dedicated to the education of the whole child. As a physician, teacher & physical education specialist before its time, he worked for the Y.M.C.A. & its development of the basket ball game. In New York, he presided over public schools’ physical education programs. With his wife, he founded the Camp Fire Girls. If the good man knew his Basket Ball created many basket cases because its stars either became millionaires or dropped out of school, entering the schools of violence which is furthered by the mean contact sport, schools sports have become.

Now even the umpires are often blind to the truth in spite of immediate replay. They punish coaches & players with “technical fouls” like unworthy judges who jail those who express their contempt of court. It isn’t any longer fair play in volleyball & tennis. The evil spirit of our murderous capitalism affects all our doings, not-doings & undoings.

The 2 Robert T. Jones, father & son, made their millions from designing 500 golf courses as architecture and art, so that golfers could earn billions without sweating it out. In most places they have to use golf carts to avoid walking. That is considered a sport, too.

As long as Golf was primarily the one dubious sport of the rich members of country clubs, their stars made millions without deserving them. Now any attractive stars of all sports & similar enterprises earn equally many millions if their agents know how to catch commercial sponsors.

Those who want to sell their special uniforms or footwear, use Walstreet methods to get them made by prisoners & kids in low-price economies & sold at whopping prices. Tourists from the USA walk around in sneakers. They are already initiated among our friends & enemies. What is convenient, sometimes sets a trend, too, and fabricates great fortunes.

Something Revolting in the Second Industrial Revolution

William H. Russel (1812 – 72) was a Vermonter who went West. With Alexander Majors he instituted the Pony Express. The best riders & fastest guns carried the mail between California & Missouri, usually in 10 days. When the telegraph destroyed this now too slow horseplay 1 ½ years later, the good man started a freighting company the slowest but not the safest way. He belittled laws which protected private property & was taking punishment for it. Forced to sell his freight company, he lost nearly all the price of that well – meant investment. He gamed with goodly funds, became famous & notorious but didn’t amount to much in our economy except for lots of honorary mention in silly history text.

Jay Gould (1836 – 92) was a surveyor who authored history volumes. He also was a gambler & financier & lots of everything else. Together with David Drew & James Fisk, they robbed Cornelius Vanderbilt of the controlling power over the Erie Railroad. Whatever they controlled, they manipulated its stock quotation & thereby stole from the investors. You see, by comparison, that Enron & Texans were not such swindling engineers. Gould’s cornering the gold market, brought on the Black Friday Panic of 1869. It lost him the control of Lake Erie etc. However, that freed his & borrowed capital to master other railway companies allover the USA. At one time, he took control of Western Union Telegraphy Company. He even blackmailed the Union Pacific which bought his toleration with many millions of dollars, enough to control the Union Pacific. Even his own newspaper, “New York World”, didn’t bewail his early death.

But a good Irishman, John W. MacKay (1831 – 1902) had already cut down Western Union to size. His experience in timbering mines had won him the Bonanza which made him a wealthy banker, financier & inventor in railroads & communications of any type. His “Comstock Lode” sufficed to buildup his own MacKay Telegraph Company.

I couldn’t tell the difference when I janitored for his already decrepit firm under a different name (I forgot) & Mackey Radio in the same big building right across the then Key System train station in San Francisco. Under new ownership after W.W. II both tried (with my help) to finish the monopoly of the revived Western Union in radio-telegraphy.

Henry Wells (1805 – 78) & William Fargo (1818 – 81) swallowed smaller fast – mail companies to establish the “American Express Company” which remains a ranking delivery service for express money, credit cards & and the now superfluous travel cheques.

Wells & Fargo also ran several successors to the Pony Express & helped to win the West; they called the American bison buffalo before their near extermination together with Plain Indians in memory of their Buffalo headquarters.

A revived Wells – Fargo protects the transport of cash from businesses to banks & vice versa. Strong young women who can use their gun are among the sponsors of this essential but unnecessary cash & valuable certificates’ voyages. It seems that a new industrial revolution may work only on credit systems.

But there always was & will remain the American fear of fellow robbers. Where greed is king, emperor & pope, ambitious & industrous exploiters fear unwanted competition. Bankrobbers know “where the money is”. There are too many true professionals in that train of lucre. Can drug trading compare with direct assault on wealth via Wells – Fargo or on any bank or cashiers’ cash register? It takes all sorts of people to run our & their economy.

It isn’t well known how much banking the modern Wells Fargo is doing. But everyone can watch their armed trucks transport cash & cash-like notes etc. from thief – proof (?) treasure houses to banks & stores & vice versa. They add millions to retail prices.

John Pierpont Morgan (1837 – 1913) became in NY what his fore – fathers were to London, the richest & most powerful banker with great political influence. These early billionaires handled lots of the WWI armaments & decided the Owen D. Young conference on German reparations!! Instead his former connection with Drexel, he became closely related to all the Andrew Carnegie & United States Steel power pushers.

Lewis T. Preston, 15 or 16 years my junior, worked for J.P. Morgan to sustain his breath during the modernization of all banks. After cowtowing too much & too low to big monopolies, he became the remaker of the old Scot by controlling the Morgan Guarantee Trust.

Lord Keynes recommended Preston to head his creature, the “International Bank of Reconstruction & Development” by which the U.S.A. controls poor nations & makes them ignore their poorest citizens, so the new local leaders can enrich themselves.

After Preston’s masterpiece work abroad, mostly from US, Bush considered him to possibly become a worthy successor to the overaged two-term heady head of our Federal Reserve System until he found a more educated candidate. Congratulations, Lewis, you could have become the fourth branch of our government after Congress, President, Supreme Court & can fool the 3 more stupid branches whose fate will be in your hands. You will decide whether we want a bit of inflation, some deflation, some more unemployment & lots of deflated egos.

But the man of that hour, months & years, at least, the huge gorilla of savage capitalism was the Scot of America, Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919). He didn’t need a lot of schooling to inhale the principles of making money, investing in power in all phases of life & death & controlling all the wherewithals so dear to the ignored have-nots.

Warped a bit by strenuous labor in various industries in Pittsburgh, he finetuned Civil War telegraphy. The war over, Andy sought new killing fields of his own as a steely ironman. All his own & borrowed money was invested in the latest machinery & men of latest learnings in business, production & customer service. He even made it his business to make friends among the famous & used influential ones in politics.

Lowly laborers disgusted him enough to have his Pinkerton hoods, state militias & federal troops shoot them down if they were insolent enough to want to earn a few pennies more, working some minutes less or expecting some more human treatment.

But the bloody Homestead Strike (1892) he watched from Scotland. Henry C. Frick used all deadly means to teach workers lasting lessons if they dared organizing anything at all in their hope for better working conditions. Carnegie knew he would go to the Presbyterian heaven because he taught piety & good morals in Sunday school. Knowing that he couldn’t take his wealth with him, he finally invested a few hundred million in foundations of charity, all being educational or super-pious.

Partner Henry C. Frick also didn’t need much education to produce the coke for Carnegie’s steel furnaces. They paired off miraculously to coke & cook money. But this Henry was lucky to survive the near-deadly attack by a Russian anarchist (Alex Berkman & his planning aide Emma Goldman) Frick assisted Carnegie in the establishment of “U.S. Steel Corporation”. Forgotten & forgiven are the cruel misdeeds & selfish ends of Mellon, Carnegie & Frick in Pittsburgh. All public placards & memorial marble plaques concentrate on their multi-contributions to all the essential cultural foundations of old Fort Pitt.

Andrew Mellon (1855 – 1937) made his father’s small Pittsburgh bank the center of an industrial empires. He was part-founder of the local Union Trust Co, the Gulf Oil Corporation, Pittsburgh Coal Co., the Aluminum Co. of America (Alco) & the Panama Construction Co. A Secretary of the Treasury of 3 Rep. Presidents, he was among the last Rep. to reduce our national debt which had been the true wings of these political birds. In spite of his British connection, he tried to become popular with German revanchists for the Versailles peace treaty (dictate). So he induced an ignorant Pres. Herb Hoover to forgive for some time of recovery German debt installments which gave huge interests on loans by US bankers to the German govt. which paid war compensation to England, France, Belgium, Holland, Luxemburg & Denmark & thus kept all the world in cold cash when most needed. Mellon’s friendly idiocy stopped most business, started hunger outbreaks, depressions, inflations along with devaluation & our own worst depression President Hoover: “There is nothing I can do; there is nothing anyone can do.” In spite of riots & mass suicide FDR & his New Deal refounded these United States of America while his WPA & other public works kept US from starvation.

Surprisingly, the obvious conflicts of interest & secret dealings led to no good. Even an indulgent SEC chairman had to investigate & hit some firms over the knuckles.

Great crooks, knowing how to handle the top Republicans of the IRS, SEC & state ombudsmen are getting away with murder or driving poorer investors to insanity & suicide. If they pay for the reelection funds of influential Congress people of either House, they won’t be jailed – just pay a little of their daily income. Corrupting a Democrat is cheap. For the reelection of a more indulgent Republican, the evil brokers pay at least double as much & often a larger multiple. That is their definition of free enterprise & Am. Capitalism.

California born Amadeo P. Giannini (1870 – 1948) worked as an agricultural & nursery produce vender like those thousands of Italian immigrants without any education. But he became the lucky executor of his in-law’s will & testament; he developed his “Bank of Italy” as the small – loan lender for Italians in trouble. The San Francisco earthquake which choked Caruso’s voice offered Amadeo the opportunity of his life.

Thousands of suffering Italians needed a loan of $100 to make their tiny enterprises survive. None of them protested when they received only $80, or less, as they signed their stiff obligation interest-wise to repay their $100 loan. All his fellow patriots considered his doings liberal & generous during hard times.

So Giannini was already stinking rich when the Great Depression prevented thousands of small farmers to continue paying even only the interest on their loans & leases. This great patriot took hold of the poor laborers & had their real estate auctioned off; he became the biggest private banker.

Mussolini loved this financial supporter & fellow – Fascist down to his last billions. But finding themselves on opposite sides through Benito’s foolishness in W.W. II, the Bank of Italy was born-again in California as the “Bank of America”, the biggest booster of rape-capitalism. Long after the founder’s entering Heaven, his many branch – banks still hired only Italians & very white WASPs.

When Blacks demanded jobs, the then president of this biggest bank told them that he had already hired a member of the minority. He thought that this first Jew under his wing absolved him from hiring Mexicans & Negros. Still, whenever this Bank of America slipped from #1 status, the good old governing people blamed it on their adoption of anti-discriminatory regulations, meaning that those illiterates mess up good counter service, correct accounting & noisy advertizing. To punish the late Giannini, the good Lord made 20 Japanese banks the biggest & richest ones in the world until they bought up everything loose in the big world & repented it.

US enjoined 2 Supreme Court justices of the name of Chase. Thomas Jefferson attempted to have the first one impeached. But the founder of Chase National Bank was no relative although in finance everything remains very relative. With David Rockefeller’s training in socialistic city government of New York under Fiorello La Guardia, David got acquainted with all the Goliaths of investment banking. Thus, he got to rule the former Chase National Bank & made it as powerful as the Bank of America &, occasionally, stronger and richer.

Nobody ever explained why this Rockefeller happened to be in Egypt of known financial incapacity when Egypt, in alliance with a handful of other Arab aggressors, attacked tiny Israel.

Renamed Chase Manhattan, this N.Y. biggie could take turns with New York City Bank, also infested by the Rockfellows’ gangs, altered as #1 of the world with the immortal Bank of Italy, also renamed for reasons of great patriotism when they can hold our government responsible for their faked losses in the developing world.

Since all need a few intelligent Jews, anti-Semitism is slightly supressed. Yet, all 3 have often shown their jealousy campaigns against smallish Jewish private banks & too honest, tiny investment firms. But even Merryl – Lynch couldn’t exist in this complicated world without them. Just like Walter Disney’s world of fantasy.

As controllers over our Federal Reserve system, the hugest banks, plus a dozen also big ones, control our anti-inflation policies by letting their smallest clients bear their interest – determinating fascism. If Social Security did prevent a full – depression, the big financiers wouldn’t mind robbing all the little guys of their sparse savings & tiny investments.

I had a personal grudge against Laurance Rockefeller (1916 – 200?) the 5^th of the rich brothers. When his brother, then Vice president Nelson, visited Laurance’s Mauna Kea Beach Hotel in South Kohala on the Big Island of Hawai’i, he wouldn’t allow me to take my customary buffet lunch seat at my Thursday’s only pleasure. Nelson heard my curses & refusal to move & knew who I was from my papers for him although we had never met yet.

Laurance gnashed his artificial teeth when his brother begged me to sit with him as his guest of honor to the delight of all employees to whom I was the passion-fruit man.

These days, the late Laurance is considered a leading conservationist as the founder of the nonprofit “Jackson Hole Preserve” near Grant Teton National Park & the nearby winter – pleasure area for the richest Americans. I believe he was almost selfless when he donated lands for the “Virgin Islands National Park” on St. John’s Island. Wasn’t he also in command of the Citizens Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality?

Please, pardon this aged sceptic if he dares to remember a hint of our good Governor Burns when his Hawaiian government built the widest highway from Waimea to Mauna Kea Beach Hotel & later continued it to the Keahole Airport, just under construction & finally, much later, to Kailua-Kona, the biggest place on the West (Lee) of the Big Island.

Slightly sick already from killer – cancer, the former Montana policeman whispered that he hoped to use his new second home every summer of his fading life. Good God! What corruption & unnecessary destruction of ancient Hawaiian memories & conservable nature of Madame Pele. This was the endearing gift by the Laurance Rockfeller, the developer of South Kohala.

The Citybank of New York appeared as the competitor of Chase Bank but soon had many common directors with eachother. Laurance Rocky never bothered about conflict of interest when he became the big one of both. Such conflicts of interest & everything else is apparent all around out banking non-system. Only smaller fry goes to jail for this, especially members of minorities. Never the ones with a plurality of such conflicts, even if their timely sale of hundreds of millions of stock gives them an extra billion. The cases of Dr. Frist and his family’s medical monarchy & Vice President Cheney with his retirement income from his Halliburton oil income prove nothing or everything.

Not gone to Vietnam like a million others, he & his followers manufactured the Iraq war from which Halliburton drew “no bid contracts” of enormous figures without bookkeeping. He was the big shot, bigger than his President in 2000, who shoots a hunter when the game bird season begins for the riflers & telescopic heroes. An accident? I wonder. Unless you consider the Cheney of events a political accident.

Now misspelled (spelt?) “citigroup”, it includes Smith Barney, Travelers umbrella & what not. (My memory confuses me.) Banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies & related money-hungry collection agencies are again permitted the monopoly game. No breakup like Standard Oil & a few of our vast empires while Busco & his Bushmen rule supreme(ly).

Charles R. Schwab, our contemporary modest broker of great fame & leadership, was successful in San Francisco, managing neutral funds for small investors. Known as the one who was the only (?) true & good investment counselor to laymen who knew nothing. For some decades he charged almost negligibly small fees unlike the big thieves who took what they could from careless aged or sick investors. It was only recently that he, too, succumbed to the greed & thievish instincts so rampant in this trillions of dollars’ industry & employees of masses of those who wanted also to strike it rich in a hurry. I certainly could recommend only 2 good guys among their employees. Both got fired & felt that as great relief.

Sir John Templeton, just a few years my junior, needed a Rhodes Scholarship to forget his Tennessee home. Post W.W. II, he established the “Templeton Growth Fund” as a worthy competitor to Charlie Schwab’s discounted charges to clients.

Similar animals roar their ads allover weekly & monthly magazines. Personally, I abhor mutuals because they encompass many of those falsified, partly tax-sheltered state & city bonds for fast profit. The bigger the company the bigger the fraud, not publicized as much by co-guilty government officials, ombudsmen & the Attorney General of N.Y. who flights only for voters in his state.

Carl Icahn was a great singer, a bit of a physician & a practical philosopher. He became a typical broker, a corporate raider & a successful reconstructor of Kaputt businesses of immense sizes. He made some fortunes, enriched his more silent partners & even small investors. He almost saved Marshal Field, Phillips Petroleum & Transworld Airlines. Had that flighty company’s other headmen not followed my advice to run that old airline themselves, they wouldn’t have sunk in the hole dug for them by Arab terrorists with Aryan Iranian consent. Muslims can do as they please, thanks to Allah, the free entrepreneur.

Among teachers, mutuals were explained as the safest & most – income producing securities. I learned from experience that such investment is most profitable for crooked share manipulators.

Fidelity investment still promises, huge long – term interest added to the original customer’s payment. Franklin Templeton may have been guided by his Tennessee investment King who became a British Knight. From Templeton’s Growth Fund to Templeton World Fund we are promised possible gains of 17.49%. Mutual friends cannot promise more.

Our local Jew – hater met me at the invitation of the Oppenheimer Fund some decades ago. We both were then satisfied with their operation of Mutuals.

Goldman Sachs had the similar, good reputation although I never tested their waters full of mutuals which I later began to hate as fraudulent. However, during good & best times, nobody cares whether one can do a little better otherwise & elsewhere. Fidelity investments remained strangers to me.

Double entry was invented by Lombard bookkeepers around Milano. Non-historians know German jokes; they changed it stupidly into triple entry – one for the owner, the second for a partner or officers of his corporation and the third for the authorities which wanted a share of profits and even a substantial part of the working assets which had not yet produced profits. There remained Lombard Streets, Lombard drafts and Lombard Banker for cash in all possible currencies which had developed into banks, insurance agencies and bourses (stock exchanges). Dutch and soon Belgian stock exchanges often trumped those of Copenhagen, Venice and even London.

All economic thinkers had accepted the stock exchanges as necessary interlopers as long as they publicized need for more investment in important expansions of local economies. The Aryan Schumpeter wanted ideas, ever more ideas, to support the triumphant journey of business organizers, inventors and managers. But ever so often some famous conservatives considered to close all patent offices because not much could be added to the huge lists of needed goods and services. How wrong they were!

Also, these clever conservatives economists, like their liberal and forward – looking colleagues, couldn’t have foreseen what the richest members who had paid their admission to the rulers of their stock exchange groupies were going to make out of good services of this traditional command ship.

Instead of nicely and orderly assigning individual and companies’ contribution to expansions and faster development, the stock brokers acted as if they owned everyone’s shares. Since they received too modest percentages from these occasional flows of capital, they began to deal with it in daily buy & sell tricks with the customary commissions.

Some 55 years ago, a Smith of the San Francisco area who (or his son) now swims in millions of $ made me borrow $250 when my weekly paycheck amounted to $34. He swore oaths to explain that he controlled a sure winner of huge profits if I invested this money in a mercury mine.

Not hearing from him for many months, I visited his plush office. That scoundrel laughed: “Good advertizing talk is protected by our Constitution – you know the free speech etc. – Caveat emptor, May the buyer beware! It was up to you to believe me or not”. So he admitted that he was lying to a poor student when he tried to study again for a higher degree.

I wanted to see the court declaration of the bankruptcy of his Quicksilver mine. He got it from a file & swung it away from me. I grabbed it fast & discovered that the date of that court decision was long before the evil broker offered me the $250 dollar share. Those days no lawyer worked “pro bono”, free until a court paid him & me royally for that theft. My phone calls to lawyers met only requests of another $200 down payment which I didn’t have.

Only Jon l’Orange whom I had watched growing up in Kona made all possible efforts to be my honest broker-counsel. I mentioned him & his firm (now part of citigroup) when a McSomething, then V.P. of Merril – Lynch branch in Hilo cheated me out of nearly $2000 by delivering some sort of Hawaiian Trust mutuals after I had insisted on tax-exempt Haw. Bonds. Mentioning the name of Mr. l’Orange that big thief just insisted that honesty bankrupted his firm.

Jon is no longer a stockbroker. His former firm cannot even make a change of address after my 7 attempts to make them do it. But they haven’t cheated me like Dean Witter & Edward Jones.

The Hilo Mc(Nut) even scolded this already octogenarian for being stupidly trusting mere words: “It was your fault to assume that I was obligated to get you HI tax free bonds when you asked for them over the phone. This is a free country. You can leave your HI Trust & make a good profit sometime in the future when there may be too much cash but too few solid stocks. If you insist on getting your cash back, you will lose nearly $2000.”

I accepted the beating but wrote them over to Dean Witter whose local V.P. was Bobko who was also director of our Family Y.M.C.A. That big busybody swore he would never cheat me like the Mc of Merry Lynch. If I really wanted only Haw. Tax-exempt bonds for all my assured interest earning, that would be what he would supply although I never saw any previous or future bonds with my own eyes because all brokers use them for their daily stock & bond policies – mutuals.

What a nice broker who made me only contribute $300 to “his” Y’s summer fun for paying kids. For a few years, he seemed only tough on “his” children who wanted pleasure without too much sweating. But when he got wedded to a rich French heiress, he added her name of distinction to his own. This born-again broker became less broke when he forgot his sacred pledge. He didn’t explain to an ancient know-nothing why he had to cash in my bonds which rewarded me with high interest which was not taxable.

Bobko – Hillinaire pledged to get me even better Hawaiian bonds with potential huger profits. I kept insisting they had to be tax-exempt interest income and should not cost more than the 100% face value or a little less. Like all our business, it was done over the phone. How phony it was! And it had been done already some time before without my knowledge.

A few weeks later, I was informed that, as I had “demanded”, Bobko – Hillinaire had got me the non-interest bonds at the rate of 10.59. I had no idea what that meant and phoned his Kona office. The nice lady – in – waiting “admitted” that she had neither any idea and added that her bossy boss had left with his newly-wed the moment he had registered my deal with him. Did he say to his bride: “Now we can pay all our expenditures?”

Long before I received his feedback, the now bigger and better erst- while Dean Witter rebirth explained in a monthly statement I had acquired some 5 Hawai’i Trust Bonds at 10.59 I didn’t understand but smelled the treachery, abuse of trust, terrorism to the then octogenarian and obvious robbery.

Some months later, I reached the terrorist at his YMCA office. With the taxation information already in hand, I had to learn that the dishonest bastard had forced on this then already very sick elderly victim his company’s mutuals which made me pay only a little income tax but a lot of capital gains taxes. The “Y” people wouldn’t fire the crook, but I didn’t spare my worst lingo on that despicable vice of a president when he asked for another $300 don-ation.

I immediately signed them over to Prudential who sold them at a moment they were quoted at a monthly high of just over 10. My loss was about $2000 plus waste of vain efforts to get various state agencies and the S.E.C. to give them a good rubbing for robbing. All excused themselves. Also, chairman Leavitt of the SEC ordered again mediation. I needed no mediation on this general deal which, I knew, would cost me much more than the $2000 loss.

Then the brokerhouse of Edward Jones proved to me that no frail – looking aged investor should trust any broker, especially not manager Manual “Roberto” (= “robber too!”). On the day he picked for the transaction, 2 former broker friends showed me on the computers that they were sold at a discount of some 550. But the criminal charged me the full $10,000, its nominal value (face). No Hawai’i state help & the same rotten indecency of SEC. My 2 broker friends were fired and now I must assert that there is no honest broker left in the world.

All brokers use every client’s stocks & bonds as if they owned them. They get ever richer by buying & selling them several times every business day. Thus brokers could gain every year more than 300 times their “small” profits. Those handling huge investments, easily got ever new billions of dollars profit every tax year.

They invented ever new kinds of shares by choosing collections of available stocks for their own “mutuals” and similar unsavory creationism. Before the junk bond began to limit these robbers a little, they could convert their dishonest earnings into new stocks about stocks. The biggest thieves gave them fancy names to deceive those small investors who looked too old or sick to find out their disloyalty in their supposed situation as “counselors” to the ignorant.

Vice presidents, presiding vice, of Merryl Lynch, Dean Witter and Edward Jones invented names such as “Hawaiian Trust” for their piratal mutuals and “sold” them to the uninitiated as state-managed tax-free bonds. When their victims finally found out the fraud, they could only sell them back to these hoods at the lowest possible notations.

Of course, the state ombudsmen and other possibly bribed officials advised the very aged, relatively poor and incapacited victims of daylight robbery to try and get the help of the federal S.E.C.

After many months of delay, the Security & Exchange Commission again did nothing to police these rich monsters. Some of the low – level bureaucrats suggested the grieved robbery victim should hire some good lawyer(s) and make him mediate this matter. Thanks a lot, crooks of the S.E.C. who had first lowly jobs with rich broker houses, were hired as experts by the S.E.C. and were willing to work a few short years for the ferals (federals) at lower salaries. Making there all the great connections with purchasable politicians, they could go back to their brokerage as highly paid legal and economic advisors at millions more every year. No wonder that hundred thousand more stockbrokers can make billions, pay the political campaigning expenses for all crooks from President down to county dogcatcher.

Well – reputed lawyers now work “pro bono” if a culprit is a high society spendthrift. If expected fines through a partisan jury can promise to yield huge amounts, famous lawyers are willing to work for the deprived at his yield of it, 20% - 60%. But when the evil robbers stole only a few thousand dollars like in my 3 cases, there is no legal mind with good oratory, better reputation or human understanding volunteering to work for chicken peas. My silly expectation was a joke to Smith: there was not enough quicksilver in the old mines. Your stock has no value. The engineering firm went bankrupt.

How dare these terrorists to the oldest & sickest victims call themselves counselors or “honest brokers”? Count Bismark of Germany assumed such title in international conferences which decided the fate of Turkey – only after he had cheated more Europeans. Only Henry Kissinger loved him & emulated him in shady deals. Indirectly, also Milton Friedman copied his pattern of conservatism.

Today’s biggest & meanest brokerage giant, Merrill Lynch, started as harmless & honest bankers. Charles E. Merrill (1855 – 1956) associated himself with Edward Lynch for 16 years of banking & a few other jobs. With various new partners & earned riches during war years they became big & bad monopolists. Does anyone still trust that monstrous firm? But is their competition any better? Selling & rebuying retirement securities, their daily routine has to be & remain gnawing away at the expected nest eggs of the oldest & sickest. How can a civilized nation tolerate the existence of such & similar institutions of robbery?

Drexel, Burnham, Lambert…were clever investment brokers who got rich & powerful by using high-risk, highest yield bonds to take over not – too – cleverly – guided large companies. Their “junk-bonds” were usually “secured” by vague promises but hardly ever by capital & available credit arrangement.

Joseph Kennedy got rich that way but as first SEC chairman he made that a sort of crime, so judged by some courts. When finally condemned as a crime, Michael Milken, their new initiator, paid for it in jail & immense fine. His Drexel…bosses who tolerated it, were just fine after a fine.

As mentioned often, you see prison sentences only laid on members of minorities. The billionaires laugh off fines of a few millions. Milken’s scholarships to thousands of decent students must be considered redemption of his promising youth. But do the Drexels & Enrons learn lessons? When does Kenneth Lay, the lying chairman of Enron go to jail?

Jerome Kohlberg & Henry Kravis were trained by large investment bankers. Together with Roberts they became the kings of the leveraged buyouts of valuable but less piratical corporations which became the pacesetter of the 1976 – 87 period of aggressively rude capitalism in secret alliance with Reagan’s politicking. They felt as one in their beginnings, invented “junk bonds” for which later users went to jail, especially some minority group descendants.

Papa Kohlberg was of great political influence during the years of combative President Truman. As head of the “China Lobby”, he led the “Flying Tiger” widow & Senator Knowland to make the “Nuke China Now” a possibility. China answered by making North Korea invade South Korea. That led loose Nixon & McCarthy to attack all Liberals as Communists until President Eisenhower made peace with everyone. A changed Nixon tried alliance with all Communist governments – if only Cuban refugees had agreed.

The younger Kohlberg married President Kennedy’s orphan daughter, Caroline, the first Republican – Democratic alliance. A few years after, the Shriver girl, Caroline’s cousin, married the muscleman from Austria, Schwarzenegger, & all his Nazi friends, the second Republico-Demos Allianza for Progress of some sort.

Certainly, when money meets, dates & weds money, all rules of private enterprise are their privy & nobody else’s business. The purpose proposes a sanctified need in the history of a economics. It’s almost classical if not caste & cemented in beton (mortar).

There is no ethical dilemma where there are no ethics. The Onassis intermezzo proves my point. Did John Jr. make a point when he skied into a stubborn tree which wouldn’t evade royal onslaught?

For decades have the republicans denied the ever – growing tax bible. Yet, it grew slowly until 2000. But since Bush ran interference, his tax manipulations in favor of corporations & tanks demonstrate lies of com(n)passionate Republicans. There are now 60,000 pages to study of which the latest 15,000 pages can hardly be understood even by learned accountants.

Wage earners don’t benefit from the 3 trillion Bush allowed the big guys. The big chief economic advisors praise the trickle down of what the invester doesn’t have to pay in taxes to the government. If he starts new business with old investments, the lucky topdog drops a bit of foul food into the pot of a heretofore unemployed. That will be partly correct if that enriched fortunate fellow didn’t invest all his loot abroad where he takes ever more of his wealth not to be taxed at home.

Allan Sloan enlightens us as to who are the most heavily taxed Americans. Not the corporations, their bigwigs, not the insurance & health super-earners not the hardly – ever – working biggest investors but the wage earners. He swears that ¾ of all American families pay more for Medicare & Social Security taxes. Up to an income of $87900 a year, those prededucted taxes amount to 15.3% of their income. Since few of those 75% earn much less than this limit, those with more income pay only 2% of up to their millions. Those with less income gained very little of George B’s goodness to greed. The millions with incomes less than $25,000 saved nothing. You got to be really poor and a very sick addict to medicines, to get some relief from pharmaceutical monster prices.

Singles are singularly hit if they earn under $40,000; they may get a 4% relief but ever more tax deduction if the earning is lucrative. Earning a millions, your tax get surely cut by 13%, & you know gimmicks which explain that great loot away.

H & R Block shows US how to take advantage of a complicated taxation terror. First he expanded his large office. Next he founded ever more branch offices until he seemed to own a whole empire of supposed tax specialists in federal (I.R.S.) & state income taxes.

The moment he commanded an army of those tax-educated office workers, smaller business – managements chose this source of income to earn their slice of an American economy.

First simple adding machines of 2 or 3 brands began to simplify the tax-preparation service. Next the computers took over this task in full, including the automatic filing of computation together with payment.

Perhaps the secret of his success is a little bit of a name change. In fact, the big founders of this convenience industry had inherited the name of Bloch from their grandfather who was a scout for the great & best-known scout in the West, Kit Carson, The thousands of Blok branches may prove that a name-change avoids anti-Semitic terrorism which, hasn’t paid anywhere.

Somehow H. & R. Block gets US from the Second to the Third industrial Revolution & above all, how to keep some riches within these United States.

Reagan wanted to degrade our federal government by first abolishing the Department of Education. Had he been educated at Eureka College well enough, he would have put his reputation behind every effort to make public education work better every year. Those evil Republicans, who only glory in private &, more so, in parochial education, want 90% of the people to tramp back into the shame of the Middle Ages when one religious authority

made everyone wear earplugs, muzzles or the black or red hood of the victim of the executioner.