Charlie Rose

JohnGelles  03/25/2011 12:13 PM Report

The spread of the Arab Spring to Syria, Yemen, etc., raises the risk of hijacking by Islamist and other anti-democratic parties to new highs.

Moreover, the critical need to reduce the risks of nuclear war and nuclear accident also demand a new distance from laissez faire reliance on unconscious approaches to the problems that follow technological revolutions.

So, I want to make some changes as follows:

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TOPIC: THE INSANITY OF BLAMING INEQUALITY FOR MONETARY SHORTAGES -- if we taxed the rich to death we would end up something like the old USSR. It is CORPORATE AND WALL STREET POWER AND LOBBYING that must be countered by all the mayors, pundits, scholars, voters and commentators on this show, to point out that taxing the rich does not match purchasing power of cities, states, nations and each and every hard working American, (who worked for years before debt systems ran amok and America came tumbling down,) to our essential and potential work product waiting to be produced.

The topic says a mouthful. Read it over more than once. I'm going back bed. And Charlie Rose remains guilty of covering the current scene better than anyone else on TV -- better than CSPAN and PBS -- but STILL BEING BLIND AND IGNORANT of the direction he should be on.

It would do us no good if the top one percent of the American had never been rescued or were now nationalized. Their wealth is not the problem.

The problem is the un-produced wealth and un-produced money to purchase it from factories, industries, retailers, etc., that is the heart of the problem.

All those missing jobs and industrial operations in both the private and public sector, and all those overwhelming taxes and thousand page laws and million page regulations are indicators of the problems.

We need radical reform to go --

..... from debt finance to functional finance (the monetary problem),

..... from unemployment to full employment budgeting (the fiscal problem),

..... from rampant lobbying to clean elections that end the wholesale purchase of the lawmaking function (the political problem),

..... from Univ of Chicago law and economics to Univ of Missouri equity and economics -- which may make necessary the economic tools to fight inflation developed for WW II (the academic problem),

..... from mayors, governors, parties, industries, media and universities -- all refusing to recognize America's real problem of corruption of the Congress and the American System that is pauperizing the nation and its middle and working class and is leaving us at the mercy of a world gone mad.

JohnGelles  03/25/2011 08:36 AM Report

One of several other postings of my comments today. My long comment on Ray Kurzweil interview is recommended. I'll try to post it next.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/johngelles/gGMH39

JohnGelles  03/25/2011 07:55 AM Report

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11563#comment_78814

the link above is to these comments and is useful for copying them for further distribution

JohnGelles  03/25/2011 07:49 AM Report

REMant says:

.......... And I wonder if there will be any economic surge left when foreign troops leave.

robdverity says:

.......... More insidious sources are driving the war-for-profit insatiability. Much like the same lack of integrity running our financial system.

Gelles said yesterday to the Mayors:

.......... Our financial system fails to monetize essential rational products of work that would drive employment and wealth up and make deficits disappear.

TOPIC: THE INSANITY OF BLAMING INEQUALITY FOR MONETARY SHORTAGES -- if we taxed the rich to death we would end up something like the old USSR. It is CORPORATE AND WALL STREET POWER AND LOBBYING that must be countered by all the mayors, pundits, scholars, voters and commentators on this show, to point out that taxing the rich does not match purchasing power of cities, states, nations and each and every hard working American, (who worked for years before debt systems ran amok and America came tumbling down,) to our essential and potential work product waitng to be produced.

The topic says a mouthful. Read it over more than once. I'm going back bed. And Charlie Rose remains guilty of covering the current scene better than anyone else on TV -- better than CSPAN and PBS -- but STILL BEING BLIND AND IGNORANT of the direction he should be on.

It would do us no good if the top one percent of the American had never been rescued or were now nationalized. Their wealth is not the problem.

The problem is the un-produced wealth and un-produced money to purchase it from factories, industries, retailers, etc., that is the heart of the problem.

All those missing jobs and industrial operations in both the private and public sector, and all those overwhelming taxes and thousand page laws and million page regulations are indicators of the problems.

We need radical reform to go --

..... from debt finance to functional finance (the monetary problem),

..... from tax finance to functional finance (the fiscal problem),

..... from campaign finance to clean elections (the political problem),

..... from Univ of Chicago finance to Univ of Missouri finance (the academic problem),

..... from Mayors, Governors, industry leaders, union leaders refusing to recognize America's real problems and from further corrupting the Congress and the American System until they have paupered the nation, its middle and working class, and left us at the mercy of a world gone mad.

robdverity  03/24/2011 06:25 PM Report

Discussion (media and here) is moot. More insidious sources are driving the war-for-profit insatiability. Much like the same lack of integrity running our financial system. Overloading our military may evolve to be a poetically-driven outcome. But we'll be too obtuse to recognize it.

REMant  03/24/2011 01:12 PM Report

Recently a group of Vietnam historians have argued that Diem wasn't corrupt or alien, but crafty and successful, and dumping him a huge mistake. The comparison with Karzai is obvious, tho I doubt the veracity of the proposition in both cases. The statement that "everything" is improving but security, seems to me to assume what it ought to be proving. I am supposing as well the Taliban doesn't want that kind of improvement either. I think whether they are "violent" towards women is a matter of perspective. And I wonder if there will be any economic surge left when foreign troops leave. This analysis also leaves out the differences between the north and south of the country and the various war lords.