Commitment and discipline -- specifically the decided lack thereof -- were front and center this week, thanks to the teary press conference crescendo of Weinergate and the sudden departure of Newt Gingrich's top campaign advisers. Team Gingrich was frustrated by their candidate's unwillingness to commit to an all-out effort in the early primary states, and the nonstop fundraising a presidential run requires. Newt's commitment issues were brought home when, just as his opponents were focusing on Iowa and New Hampshire, he took off on a two-week cruise in Greece. For Gingrich, the problem was being too out of touch; for Weiner, it was being way, way too in touch. Meanwhile, outgoing defense secretary Gates put a rhetorical fig leaf on the lack of commitment to the troop drawdown in Afghanistan, set to begin next month, saying "we've got to keep the pressure on" and "there will be no rush to the exits." Getting out of Afghanistan is a commitment the president ought to unequivocally keep.
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In 2007, 11 October was prospectively, on the Huffington Post, predicted as the nominal peak for the Wilshire.
It is not difficult to predict a decline in the Wilshire over this summer with the end of QE 2's purchase of 50 billion dollars of US long term debt a month and so many other culminating forces of trading houses' leveraged debt; federal, state, and citizen accumulated debt, asset oversupply, asset overvaluation with underwater mortgages, and faltering job numbers in a macroeconomy composed of the preceding elements.
But the patterned nature of the Wilshire's devaluation and its severity will identify a new macroeconomic science. And this new science will serve as a basis for a new fundamental understanding of how the macroeconomy really operates.
QE 3,4,5,6, and 7 are coming and with them a stimulus package to employ 15 million unemployed Americans at the minimum wage and at a nominal cost of 150-200 billion a year -pretty trivial (and a good investment to contain social unrest) as compared to the 20 trillion in hand-outs and guarantees given to the rentier elite class.
Expect a gapped lower low for the European and Wilshire equity markets on Monday June 13, 2011 forming the end of an 11 day base decay fractal :: y/2.5y/2.5y - a daily rerun of 1929.
NICK ''X''.
The other thing that mak no sense is comparing Weiner's actions to the feelings you have about Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld. I get the sex-sex analogies, but I don't understand how you compare policies versus conduct.
My guess is nobody's asking the voters these questions on a large scale because most media doesn't want to show just how out-of-touch with OUR country Washington, D.C., and therefore also they themselves - actually are.
Trying to have and maintain some standards of decency in our country is also a good thing.
Ergo--America good.
Not so, corporations have gained rights without the attendant responsibilities.
Large private business enterprises have provided themselves with the option of being American or international, depending on what suits them at a given time; thereby demonstrating no particular steadfast allegiance to the US. These entities claim to be American, but maneuver in ways that clearly show no inclination to unequivocal support of the US public interest. They come to the public trough with sham patriotic fervor seeking protection from foreign governments, ask for financial risk underwriting and subsidies, beg for bailouts and other special privileges; in return, they provide unemployment and humiliation to the American public who unwittingly support their financial gluttony.
Corporations are man-made entities not members of any species and, certainly, they should not have the same constitutional protections as American human beings.
Perhaps a lie that BIG will get people seriously fired up about a 3rd party candidate.
During the last 30 years the American people have had less and less say and influence over what their government does or doesn't do because of the increasing influence of the Robber Barons and their Stooges and during the Bush and Cheney reign the people lost their Republic because of 5 Supremes and corrupt corporate bribe money.
Anyone in America who still believes America is still a Republic is living in that Orwellian World of liars, swindlers and deceivers and doesn't have a clue as to what a Republic is!!!