LET’S PREPARE OUR DEFENSE WITH A MAXIMUM EFFORT !!

A nation can be in only one of three possible states of affairs.

First, a nation can be at war, in an existential struggle, depending upon its defense.

To survive such an embattled state of affairs, a nation must continually prepare its defense.

Next, a nation can prepare defense with a maximum effort by using all of its idle resources to increase and to improve its infrastructure and its most important resource, its people, whose health and education are essential and can be improved most surely by providing free healthcare for all and free, expense-paid education for all. Such pr********n of defense needs maximum Congressional spending, which needs a maximum effort to prevent inflation, which needs adequate taxation of disposable income and no taxation of non-disposable income, which needs adequate and steeply progressive federal income and estate tax rates.

Such a provident nation would be well-prepared to survive an embattled state of affairs.

Finally, a nation can prepare its defense but WITHOUT a maximum effort to increase and improve its infrastructure, NOT providing free health care for all and free, expense-paid education for all, being more concerned with budget deficits and tax relief for the rich and their heirs while mired in idleness, poverty, trafficking, addiction, crime, and mass incarceration.

Such an improvident nation (ours!) is now ill-prepared to survive an embattled state of affairs.
Citizens opposed to free healthcare and expense-paid education for all, including free trade schools, will v**e for inflation due to sk**led labor shortages, for military recruiting shortages due to poor health and education, and for medical cost bankruptcies. V**es against maximum Congressional spending will guarantee destructive poverty, decaying infrastructure, and a sub-optimal defense that threatens our survival in an embattled state of affairs.

A provident nation will be not only the most prepared nation but also the most prosperous nation because that nation’s spending would generate the largest annual federal budget deficit, which is exactly equal to the sum of its annual trade deficit plus its annual domestic net private savings. That sum represents the nation’s consumption of foreign goods plus its private after-tax earnings, a necessary source of investment for growth. Therefore, that sum is directly proportional to the nation’s prosperity, that which trumps all taxes, sustains its social health, and encourages its youth, perhaps the most important element of its defense.

So, preparing our defense with maximum effort is also our best economic policy, as proven by the decades of post-war prosperity created by our huge World War II deficit spending on salaries that were saved as “War Bonds”, eventually cashed in for homes, cars, and kids, creating the prosperous suburbs that since exist all over America. Ask Granny for details!

Citizens intelligent enough to understand the above will v**e for the provident nation!

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How do we pay for free education and free medical care? The same way we pay for a dozen aircraft carriers and all the airplanes on board and the pilots and the crews and the port facilities and fifty years of operating expenses. Tell me how we pay for all that and I will tell you how to pay for anything!

Use your brains. Try to imagine a woman in her sixth month of pregnancy who finds, after an examination, that the fetus is not viable. She can either terminate the pregnancy or wait for the birth. There are risks either way.

The question you should answer is not what she should do. You are not competent to answer, even if you are an obstetrician.

You should tell us exactly who should make that decision: the woman and her doctor?
Or a fat, bald politician? Your answer, please!

Under oath, he claimed that he never "blacked out". There will be the testimony of classmates who picked him up out of his vomit.

He is finished! Lock him up!

There are two problems to be overcome. 1. People have to learn how to reason with statements that are obviously true and that use deductive logic. 2. People have to learn how to recognize and accept such statements.

For example, we sometimes discuss Congressional spending and taxing without changing opinions. Let's try overcoming those two problems by the following attempt at reason and see how many minds are changed:

1. The primary goal of a rational economy is to produce maximum infrastructure and prosperity.
2. Maximum Congressional spending yields maximum infrastructure and maximum after-tax savings (deficit spending).
3. Maximum progressive taxation yields minimum inflation.
4. Maximum Congressional spending plus maximum progressive taxation yields maximum infrastructure plus minimum inflation plus maximum after-tax savings (prosperity).

Will any conservative argue with that reasoning? No!
Will every conservative accept that reasoning? NO!

That's the problem!

THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO PROSPERITY!!

Like the proof of a geometry theorem, the following statements contain only facts and logical conclusions.

You can follow this proof even if you flunked out of geometry!

1. Our Constitution empowers Congress to “…coin Money…” without limit so its spending can exhaust not dollars but only physical resources: fuel, sk**led labor, etc.

2. All payments to the federal government for taxes, bonds, tariffs, etc., are effectively destroyed1 before crediting any account. So, federal income taxes and Treasury bonds cannot fund Congressional spending. To spend, Congress “coins” money!

3. If the IRS does not collect all of Congress’ annual spending, the Treasury borrows the value of the remainder, our Annual Federal Deficit (AFD), adding to federal debt.. The deficit is a necessary addition to the money supply, which grows with the economy.

4. If our annual imports exceed our annual exports, the excess, our Annual Trade Deficit (ATD), a portion of the AFD, exits circulation into foreign bank accounts. Any remaining portion of the AFD is our Annual Domestic Surplus (ADS), which exits circulation into domestic bank accounts. So, AFD = ADS + ATD and ADS = AFD - ATD. To avoid a negative ADS (depleting our savings to buy foreign goods), our annual federal deficit (AFD) must exceed our annual trade deficit (ATD).

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A Constitutional amendment requiring a near-zero average AFD planned over any period would drain our savings into foreign banks, causing inevitable recessions/depressions!

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5. Federal deficit dollars (AFD) exit circulation either to buy foreign goods (ATD) or to be saved for investment (ADS), t***sactions with volume proportional to our prosperity. The more Congress spends, the larger the tax revenue, the deficit, the buying, the saving, and, thus, the prosperity that trumps the larger tax payments! So, Congress should spend until the onset of rising inflation due ONLY to exhaustion of physical resources (fuel, sk**led labor, etc.) which Congress must provide for defense.

6. To avoid rising inflation caused by a shortage of strategic goods (oil, etc.), rationing and price controls may be necessary, as during World War II. The Fed can limit rising inflation caused by excessive bank credit by raising the federal funds interest rate. Maximum building of infrastructure needs maximum Congressional spending, which needs maximum prevention of inflation, which needs maximum taxation of disposable income (but minimum taxation of non-disposable income!), which needs adequate, steeply progressive federal income and estate tax rates.

7. To control our federal debt, the Fed can buy unlimited amounts from the public (or from the Treasury, as proposed by former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke2,) returning 94% of its profit to the Treasury as required by current law. Also, maximum infrastructure spending will keep our economy competitive with other nations and our GDP growing faster than our federal debt3

8. If a corporate dividend were a deductible expense like interest cost, undistributed earnings and dividends could be taxed (once!) like wages. And corporate projects could be financed with equity just as well as with debt, yielding a much stronger economy.

9. Unemployment and extreme poverty can be entirely eliminated by a federal “Job Guarantee” by which Congress would stop current unemployment benefits and, at a minimum wage, hire the jobless, possibly disabled, to assist any government or qualified NPO in jobs they are capable of performing after being trained. The more Congress spends, the more prosperity for us, as explained in paragraph 5 above.

10. Municipal bond funding threatens to bankrupt communities and cripple states that now are forced to rent infrastructure, taxing their residents over twice the cost of construction! But, since a simple pothole can delay a vital shipment, infrastructure is a crucial part of our defense. Uniquely responsible for defense, Congress should pay for all US infrastructure - including potholes! - and eliminate all municipal bond payments. The more Congress spends, the more prosperity for us, etc.

11. Given that (1) our defense industry needs healthy, well-educated workers; (2) all US male citizens and immigrants must register at age 18 for military service; (3) over 75% of applications for military service are now rejected for deficiencies in education and/or health; and (4) all children deserve an equal opportunity to serve in the military; therefore, Congress should provide totally free healthcare and expense-paid education for all, including nurseries, childcare, trade schools, community colleges, and universities at all levels of instruction! The more Congress spends, the more prosperity for us, as explained in paragraph 5 above.

12. As proven by the 25 years of prosperity that followed four huge World War II annual federal deficits resulting in a wartime debt/GDP ratio exceeding 120%, poverty exists mainly because an austere Congress deprives us of needed infrastructure and the prosperity that spending would bring. Rational v**ers will v**e only for candidates who will maximize infrastructure spending. May there be enough rational v**ers!

1http://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/can-taxes-and-bonds-finance-government-spending
2https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2016/04/11/what-tools-does-the-fed-have-left-part-3-helicopter- money/
3http://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/?docid=1379

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LET’S PREPARE OUR DEFENSE WITH A MAXIMUM EFFORT !!

A nation can be in only one of three possible states of affairs.

First, a nation can be at war, in an existential struggle, depending upon its infrastructure.

To survive such an embattled state of affairs, a nation must continually prepare its defense.

Next, a nation can prepare defense with a maximum effort by using all of its idle resources to increase and to improve its infrastructure and its most important resource, its people, whose health and education are essential and can be improved most surely by providing free healthcare for all and free, expense-paid education for all. Such pr********n of defense needs maximum Congressional spending, which needs a maximum effort to prevent inflation, which needs adequate taxation of disposable income and no taxation of non-disposable income, which needs adequate and steeply progressive federal income and estate tax rates.

Such a provident nation would be well-prepared to survive an embattled state of affairs.

Finally, a nation can prepare its defense but WITHOUT a maximum effort to increase and improve its infrastructure, NOT providing free health care for all and free, expense-paid education for all, being more concerned with budget deficits and tax relief for the rich and their heirs while mired in idleness, poverty, trafficking, addiction, crime, and mass incarceration.

Such an improvident nation (ours!) is now ill-prepared to survive an embattled state of affairs.

Citizens opposed to free healthcare and expense-paid education for all, including free trade schools, will v**e for inflation due to sk**led labor shortages, for military recruiting shortages due to poor health and education, and for medical cost bankruptcies. V**es against maximum Congressional spending will guarantee destructive poverty, decaying infrastructure, and a sub-optimal defense that threatens our survival in an embattled state of affairs.

A provident nation will be not only the most prepared nation but also the most prosperous nation because that nation’s Congressional spending would generate the largest annual federal budget deficit, which is exactly equal to the sum of its annual trade deficit plus its annual domestic net private savings. That sum represents the nation’s consumption of foreign goods plus its private after-tax earnings, a necessary source of investment for growth. Therefore, that sum is directly proportional to the nation’s prosperity, that which trumps all taxes, sustains its social health, and encourages its youth, perhaps the most important element of its defense.

So, preparing our defense with maximum effort is also our best economic policy, as proven by the decades of post-war prosperity created by our huge World War II deficit spending on salaries that were saved as “War Bonds”, eventually cashed in for homes, cars, and kids, creating the prosperous suburbs that since exist all over America. Ask Granny for details!

Citizens intelligent enough to understand the above will v**e for the provident nation! © 2018 Marvin Sussman. All rights reserved. Search YouTube.com for Marvin Sussman!

I have seen that smirk before, on the white faces of "Christian" boys threatening a Jewish kid - me! I would know that smirk anywhere, the smirk of privilege, the smirk of disdain for the "other".

You can fool yourself but you can't fool me.

People will come to ask for asylum whether there is a wall or not. They are not shooting their way in or sneaking in. They are asking to come in. A wall will not stop them from asking - by the hundreds or by the thousands. Your wall will not stop caravans.

You should attempt to sit down and write declarative sentences containing only verifiable facts that explain exactly what you are complaining about. All I heard was incoherent words. Sorry for your loss of time.

There is no money added until the senate agrees and the President signs. It's only a gesture.

You lie! If you did the research, you would have the link. Makin' stuff up! Liar!

I check out one of your links and found this:

There have been several reported incidents along the U.S.-Mexico border of several agencies encountering a number of people from countries associated with terror groups stopped by authorities, although that’s not an indication they’re terrorist infiltrators. Experts noted that while border security is always a concern, this issue is far from a pressing crisis.

Much ado about nothing!

LET’S PREPARE OUR DEFENSE WITH A MAXIMUM EFFORT !!

A nation can be in only one of three possible states of affairs.

First, a nation can be at war, in an existential struggle, depending upon its infrastructure.

To survive such an embattled state of affairs, a nation must continually prepare its defense.

Next, a nation can be preparing its defense with a maximum effort by using all of its idle resources to increase and to improve its infrastructure and its most important resource, its people, whose health and education are essential and can be improved most surely by providing free healthcare for all and free, expense-paid education for all. Such pr********n of defense needs maximum Congressional spending, which needs a maximum effort to prevent inflation, which needs adequate taxation of disposable income but without taxation of non-disposable income, which needs adequate and steeply progressive federal income tax rates.

Such a provident nation would be well-prepared to survive an embattled state of affairs.
Finally, a nation can be preparing its defense but WITHOUT a maximum effort to increase and improve its infrastructure, NOT providing free health care for all and free, expense-paid education for all, being more concerned with budget deficits and tax relief for the rich and their heirs while mired in idleness, poverty, trafficking, addiction, crime, and mass incarceration.

Such an improvident nation (ours!) is ill-prepared to survive an embattled state of affairs.

Citizens who oppose free healthcare and expense-paid education for all, including free trade schools, will v**e for inflation due to sk**led labor shortages, for medical bill bankruptcies, and for military recruiting shortages due to poor health and education. V**es against maximum Congressional spending will spawn deficient infrastructure and destructive poverty, yielding a sub-optimal defense that risks our failure to survive an embattled state of affairs.

V**ers who gain a provident nation will have not only the most prepared nation but also the most prosperous because that nation’s Congressional spending would generate the largest annual federal budget deficits, which is exactly equal to the sum of its annual trade deficit plus its annual private net savings.

That sum represents the nation’s consumption of foreign goods plus its private after-tax earnings, a necessary source of investment for growth. Therefore, that sum is directly proportional to the nation’s prosperity, that which trumps all taxes, sustains its social health, and encourages its youth, perhaps the most important element of its defense.

So, preparing our defense with maximum effort is also our best economic policy, as proven by the decades of post-war prosperity created by our huge World War II deficit spending on salaries that were saved as “War Bonds” that were eventually cashed in for homes, cars, and kids, creating the prosperous suburbs that since exist all over America. Ask Granny for details!

Citizens intelligent enough to understand the above will v**e for the provident nation!
©2018 Marvin Sussman. All rights reserved. Search YouTube.com for Marvin Sussman!

More than half of all i*****l i*******ts overstay their visa after flying over the border. A perfect wall would just increase air traffic.

Only morons want the wall!