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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

How Would You Fix The Economy? Did This Ol' Geez Get It Right?

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Alan: I'm not a guy who inclines toward "simple fixes." 

But in this case, I'm prepared to believe - til proven otherwise - that the plan (detailed at the bottom of this post) might just work and is an experiment well worth running.

"The numbers" will need nudging and the plan should be made optional, although anyone who declines the government's severance offer would be replaced by an even older person who is still working. 

It is, of course, totally unfeasable to give all 40 million people "over 50" a million dollars in serverance pay -- indeed giving a million dollars to just the 4 million people who normally retire each year amounts to 4 trillion dollars.

However, if we-the-nation decide to give 4 million imminent retirees $100,000.00, the total cost would be $400 billion - a lot, but do-able.

With this money, retirees would be obliged to spend every penny paying off (or paying down) their mortgage... or purchasing a new house, cottage or mobile home. 

Plus, those who accept the government's severance offer would have to buy a new American car - perhaps sometime over the next four years to avoid an untenable spike in automobile production.


Not only would recipient retirees themselves be happy, 4 million jobs would immediately open up and the $400 billion dollar economic stimulus would go where needed most - construction and heavy industry. 

We only have one obstacle to overcome and that is "The Conservative's Quintessential Nightmare."

Somebody, Somewhere, Is Getting A Free Lunch. 

I sometimes think conservatives are such bitchy, pissy, moany people that they oppose or sabotage real, lasting solutions to socio-economics problems because they would then be deprived of their reason for living: gripe and greivance.

Overview: To stimulate a sluggish economy, Keynes suggested paying people to dig holes... and, once holes were dug, pay those same people to fill them again. Repeat. With this proposal for $100,000.00 of severance pay, we could actually "test drive" a plan that sure looks like it would stimulate economic growth while freeing up 4 million new job opportunities. (I should probably mention that money should be held in escrow until recipients are ready - within designated time limits - to enact paydown or make purchase.)

Afterthought: Capping severance pay at a hundred thousand dollars would have the fringe benefit of enticing relatively more retirees who had lived their lives modestly instead of those middle and upper class folk whose hefty debt burdens would prevent them from accepting the "MUST retire" obligation.

Second Afterthought: A one-time tax on wealthy people (such as Donald Trump once suggested- http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/donald-trump-proposed-biggest-tax-hike.html) could provide a significant percentage -- if not all -- of the money needed to finance the $400 billion dollar outlay. 

PHOTO: Donald Trump appears on the cover of the New York Daily News on Nov. 10, 1999.

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What We Know About How Republicans Might Replace Obamacare

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Alan: We know Republicans will not pay any attention to the chart above, in large part because the evident conclusions are intelligent, workable, compassionate and actually provide universal coverage. 

What We Know About How Republicans Might Replace Obamacare
Vox



New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, #556, February 6, 2017: My Submission

"Honey, you'd be happier with more malbec, less kale and a firm realization that the death rate is one per person."


"How To Build An Autocracy," The Atlantic

How To Build An Autocracy
("If This Were Happening In Honduras, We'd Know What To Call It. But It's Happening Here And We're Baffled.")
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/01/this-defilement-of-flag-is-worse-than.html

28 Enormities That Prevent Conscionable People From Hoping Trump Is A Successful President

"That's What's Wrong With Democrats" 
My Reply To A Critic On Friend T's Facebook Page
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/01/thats-whats-wrong-with-democrats-my.html

This Defilement Of The Flag Is Worse Than Burning It




"President Bannon," A Panel Discussion On NPR's "1A" With Joshua Johnson

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"President Bannon"
("King Donald")
NPR's "1A" With Joshua Johnson

Trump Named This Totally Unprepared White Supremacist, Anti-Semite, Wife Beater To The National Security Council After Dismissing The Chairm | made w/ Imgflip meme maker

"Steve Bannon Wants To Turn The Press Into The New Hillary" The New Republic




28 Enormities That Prevent Conscionable People From Hoping Trump Is A Successful President

 
Trump Tells Crowd To "Knock The Crap Out" Of Protesters, Offers To Pay Legal Fees

1.) No human being should wish success on a president who encourages citizens to "knock the crap out of" protesters.

2.) No human being should wish success on a president with a decades-long history of stiffing workers and fleecing "Trumped Up University" students for $45 million dollars. Furthermore, were it not for the plutopath's wealth, he would have been locked up long ago, just like you or me and anyone else we know: "hard time" and lots of it. Trump is a habitual felon whose lucre curries favor with the court so he can "settle" without risk of criminal conviction. 
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/american-plutocracy-whos-punished-and.html

"You've Been Trumped": A Documentary About Devious Donald's Imperious Takeover Of Scotland
(How Donald Works His Will By Denigrating "Commoners")


Devious Donald His Life Is A Plutopathic Scam And You Are His Mark | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
Compendium Of Pax Posts About Trump "University" Scam

3.) No human should wish success on a braggadocious profiteer who boasts that he's "The King Of Debt," an unfeeling plutocrat who expressed fondness for the 2007 housing market collapse (and with it most Americans' net worth) because "bad markets" provide opportunity to make more money. 

"Don't Forget." "I Am The King Of Debt. I Love Debt" | made w/ Imgflip meme maker

"I Am The King Of Debt. I Love Debt."

Trump Makes Out Like A Bandit On 1, 2, 3, 4 Bankruptcies 
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/08/i-am-kng-of-debt-i-love-debt-trump.html

4.) No human 
should wish success on a president who issues an inaugural call to "bring jobs back to America" while his own products -- including his signature "Make America Great" baseball caps -- are manufactured overseas. 

Editorial cartoon on Trump supporters

How Many Trump Products Were/Are Made Overseas?
Here's The Complete List
Washington Post

5.) No human should wish success on a president who nurtures vindictiveness and carefully maintains an "enemies list."


Vindictive Trump: His Pet Peeves Bode A World Of Trouble


6.) No human should wish success on a president who's having a bromance with Vladimir Putin, a world class thug who would like nothing more than the degeneration of American democracy into a plutocratic kleptocracy like his own.

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Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About The Relationship Between Trump And Putin

Compendium Of Pax Posts About Russian Electoral Manipulation

7.) No human should wish success on a president who parades hedonism and crass materialism before the impressionable eyes of young Americans.

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PBS: Melania Trump Worked In U.S. Without Visa; Took Jobs Away From Native Born Americans And Immigrants Who Got In Line  

If Trump Wins And Your Kids Google "First Lady," Here's What They'll Get
This Is America's "Christian" Candidate. Take A Good Look. Call The Kids!

8.) No human should wish success on a president who refuses to release his tax returns.

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Trump And Taxes (Meme Collection)

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9.) No human should wish success on a president who imposes "confidentiality agreements" on workers and ex-wives, one of whom, Ivana Trump, was forced to retract her statement that Trump had "raped" her.

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Trump's First Wife Ivana, Talks About His "Raping" Her

Update On Ivana Trump's Revelations Concerning Donald's Fondness For Hitler's Speeches 
10,) No human should wish success on a president who lies with sociopathic ease and frequency.

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VIDEO: Trump Tells More Lies Than Any U.S. Politician. Why Do "Patriots" And "Christians" Believe A Liar

Pulitzer Prize-Winning PolitiFact Finds That Only 1% Of The Things Trump Says Are Entirely True

Compendium Of Pax Posts Re: Trump's Non-Stop Ability To Tell One Lie After Another


11.) No human should wish success on a president who routinely fabricates whole-cloth falsehoods.


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12.) No human should wish success on a president who flip flops so often -- sometimes within the same speech -- so that it is impossible to know which "shell" his "real" policy is under. 

Donald Trump Reverses His Position Within The Same Speech
What's To Prevent His Reversal On Anything?

13.) No human should wish success on a president who claims to "know more than the generals."


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14.) No human should wish success upon a president who demeaned John McCain's war service.


Donald Trump: "John McCain Is Not A War Hero"
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-john-mccain-war-hero-2015-7

15.) No human should wish success on a president who makes baseless attacks on Gold Star parents.

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Despicable Donald Impugns Father And Mother Of U.S. Muslim War Hero Killed In Iraq 


16.) No human should wish success on a president who promotes "alternative facts."

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"Alternative Facts" & Moral Rot: Team Trump Tells Brazen Lies Hoping Supporters Are Stupid


17.) No human should wish success on a president who mocked a disabled reporter.


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18.) No human should wish success on a president who trashes the nation's most dependable (but admittedly far-from-perfect) news sources. (Trump and Bannon have decided to make The Press their enemy, knowing as did Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney: "In politics Madame, you need two things. Friends, but above all an enemy.")

With False Claims, Trump Attacks Media On Inaugural Crowd Turnout

19.) No human should wish Trump well for his "war-crime call" that American soldiers kill terrorists' wives and children.


Trump Says He'd Force U.S. Military To Commit War Crimes, Killing The Children And Wives Of Terrorists
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/01/trump-says-hed-force-us-military-to.html


20.) No human should wish success on a president who promotes torture.

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All-American Boys And Girls At Abu Graib Prison, Iraq
(A federal court ordered that the worst photographs of abuse and torture not be released publicly.)

Donald Trump's Zealous Endorsement Of Torture Reveals The Man And His Party
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/best-pax-posts-on-torture.html

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Only The Military-Industrial Complex on the left has been photoshopped. 

21.) No human should wish success on a president who has routinely socialized with NYC mafiosi. (See Pulitzer-Prize-winning author David Cay's research).

VIDEO: Pulitzer Prize Winner Reveals Evidence Of Trump's Extensive Mafia Ties

22.) No human should wish success on a president who has revealed hair-trigger readiness to enact fascist clampdown. 

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Trump's Most Egregious, In-Your-Face Fascist Declaration: "We're Going To Have To Do Things..."

23.) No human should wish success on a president who has normalized vulgarity by bragging about his penis size in a nationally-televised Republican "presidential" debate!?!?!

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Alan: It came as quite a surprise when, just last week, Donald simultaneoulsy revealed his penis size, moral integrity and  knowledge of The Constitution.

Vulgarian Donald Trump Brags About His Penis Size During Republican National Debate

24.) No human should wish success on a president who brags about "grabbing women by the pussy" and trying to "fuck married women."

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Foul Audio Tape: Trump Encourages His Fellows To Just "Grab Them By The Pussy"

Audio Tape: Trump Brags About Trying To "Fuck" A "Married Woman"

Audio Tape: Trump Says On Hot Mic: "When You're A Star... You Can Do Anything" To Women


Donald Trump On Women "Just Grab Them By The Pussy" | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
25.) No human should wish success on a president says he's "smart" for not paying any federal tax. (Taxes are "the price we pay for civilization" and in this regard, Trump is a parasite who picks your pocket so that YOU pay the cost of the infrastructure on which his financial empire is built.)


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We All Pay Higher Taxes Than The Rich: A Lesson In Class Warfare
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/we-all-pay-higher-tax-rates-than-rich.html

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26.) No human should wish success on a president who chooses as White House Chief Strategist an Alt-Right miscreant, white supremacist, anti-Semite, spouse abuser.

Trump Named This Totally Unprepared White Supremacist, Anti-Semite, Wife Beater To The National Security Council After Dismissing The Chairm | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
Trump Named This Totally Unprepared White Supremacist, Anti-Semite Wife-Beater To The National Security Council

27.) No human should wish success on a president who fostered lickspittle adulation among enough aggressively-ignorant supporters to secure an Electoral College Victory even though his opponent, Hillary Clinton, received 4.55% more popular votes than pussy grabber.

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"Frog Hospital" And Pax Discuss Rednecks, Ignorance And Conservative Christianity

28.) No human should wish success on a president cynical enought to abuse Christianity by using it as sheep's clothing to advance his narcissistic/sociopathic obsession with power.

And finally, since conservatives' contempt for liberalism distills to the "fact" that liberals are "baby killers," I emphasize - in no uncertain terms - that so-called "Pro-Life" advocates are responsible for far more abortions than "Pro-Choice" supporters - probably two to three times as many. 

Updated Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts On Abortion

Alan: Every statement above is fact-checkable and if you would like more fact-checked references concerning any of these monstrosities, atrocities and enormities, please contact me at alanarchibaldo@gmail.com