The four branches of government

The four branches of government are the legislative branch,  the judicial branch,  the executive branch and the paranoid branch , the branch that defends us from the amorphous and constant threat of something.

Liberal logical thinking:

Liberal logical thinking:

Taxing anything  should create more users of anything.

How to force yourself into new positions of responsibility.

How to force yourself into new positions of responsibility.

Leave the comfortable zone.
Become  a hard worker.
Pursuit toughness.
Have no tolerance for  weakness.
Be worried about making ends meet.
Think life is complicated.
Replace fear for  hope.
Start all over again.

What is a captive insurance company?

What is a captive insurance company?


A captive insurance company is an insurance company owned by the
insured.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is pushing life insurers to disclose the potential cost if they are forced to halt use of controversial "captive" entities.

There is a huge tax saving associated with a captive program.

The Best Financial Advice I Ever Got

The Best Financial Advice I Ever Got (or Gave)

Everything Is Cyclical

What technology is needed in teaching?

What technology is needed in teaching?

A technology capturing student speaking performances as part of an educational assessment of verbal communication skills.

We pretend to be free they pretend to govern us.

We pretend to be free they pretend to govern us.


John Cox, a leading government reform advocate in California has a vision for making California's government more responsive and less beholden to special interests. All it would take, he says, is increasing the number of elected  representatives nearly one hundredfold.

His mother was an educator; his stepfather a lifelong postal worker.

How to boost an economy with cheap foreign labor but not at the expense of security.

How to boost an economy with cheap foreign labor but not at the expense of security.

Keeping the foreign labor in a permanent illegal status.

The larger problem in the U.S.

The larger problem in the U.S.


Printing money doesn't address the larger problem in the U.S.: that there are not enough jobs to employ the flood of newly minted American professionals.

A nation of part-time jobs.

A nation of part-time jobs.

Gallup's payroll-to-population ratio, the proportion of the American population working full time, has dropped almost two full percentage points in the last year, to 43.8%.

Life without the best colleges and universities.

Life without the best colleges and universities.

Members of the U.S. establishment (and their wives) who dominate politics, economics and education, all they have on their résumé the best colleges and universities.

The strongest American president,  Harry S. Truman, didn't go to college.

Number of Public Corporations, Private Companies and Nonprofit Organizations in the United States

Number of Public Corporations, Private Companies and Nonprofit Organizations in the United States

1,581,111 Nonprofit Organizations in the United States,
5,220 Public Corporations
4,550,231 Private Companies

Is there a U.S. Government ?

Is there a U.S. Government ?

Yes,  there is U.S. Government.
A  U.S. Government exists as certainly as  millions of people in the U.S. are still struggling to find a job, a political system is hampered by gridlock, and there are difficult times for too many Americans.

Physiology behind rare phenotypes .

Physiology behind rare phenotypes .

Phenotypes (traits or natural abilities) possess great self-healing abilities that protect them from disease.

How elites do not pay taxes

How elites do not pay taxes

The recipient of Mark Zuckerberg’s latest $1 billion philanthropic contribution is a Silicon Valley institution that primarily feeds other nonprofits working in education, health care and the environment.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a great resource for your private foundation. They are a flexible, low-cost institution with current assets of $2.9 billion.

Number of employees at Facebook and Twitter

Facebook passes 1.19 billion monthly active users, 874 million mobile users, and 728 million daily users.

Facebook added 1,419 employees to reach a total staff of 4,619.

The total number of registered Twitter accounts is currently 883 million, according to a company that monitors Twitter.

Twitter has 1,000 employees.

How to grow personally

How to grow personally

Boredom-driven growth  is not growth.

Anxiety-driven growth is a sure crush.

Completing a project that's WAY above your abilities is a good way to learn.

You do not need to slow down if you do not go fast.

Anxiety-driven growth will  not help you grow faster it will help you to crush.

Taking on a challenge is the only way to get skills.

Whenever you can, as long as the cash isn't too far under your pocket, just jump in, and figure it out as you go.

What is the basic incompetency of the the government?

What is the basic incompetency of the the government?

The basic incompetency of the the government is its ability to perform the most fundamental duties of executive management poorly.

The government is a vast web of executive agencies that  have never been run under close scrutiny and have never produced a minimally competent work.

How to ban technology

 How to ban technology.

The Senate and House actually agreed to reauthorize a federal ban on the manufacturing of plastic guns that are not detectable by security screening devices.

It never did because it never needed.

The U.S. government will not live within its means, and will pile up deficits and debts that will burden future generations with the taxes to pay for them.

The U.S. government will not reduce entitlements and will not drive value for money through government.

It never did because it never needed.

A lifelong passion

A lifelong passion for the sport of rowing regardless of anything.

What percentage of the Army is is combat ready?

What percentage of the Army is combat ready?

Only 15% of the U.S. Army is combat ready. A full 85% are not trained well enough to remain safe and effective in the field.

Can anyone but Google and Apple win?

Can anyone but Google and Apple win?

Anyone with a never-ending flow of misinformation and disinformation.

Anyone who avoids certainty.

The epitome of the decline

The epitome of the decline

Detroit's broken streetlights.

Nearly half of the city's 88,000 street lamps are dark, according to city estimates. A new authority aims to borrow (Of course!) funds to revamp the system.

Why civilian and federal employees pay less toward their federal pensions than their private-sector counterparts?

Why civilian and federal employees pay less toward their federal pensions than their private-sector counterparts?


Because public-employee unions and their allies rule in Congress .

How the U.S. government can increase employment

How the U.S. government can increase employment

The U.S. government can increase employment by paying more people not to work.

The U.S. government can increase employment by hiring more  bureaucrats.

The U.S. government can increase employment by a big expansion of unemployment insurance.

The U.S. government can increase employment by  taking money out of the private economy by taxes.

The U.S. government can increase employment by making firms in industries with high labor turnover rates—such as hospitality, restaurants, construction and trucking—pay a higher tax.

The U.S. government can increase employment by discouraging 20 million Americans from looking for work.

How many people do not work?

 How many people do not work?

20 million Americans are still unemployed, underemployed or discouraged from looking for work.

The best tool to fight inequality.

The best tool to fight inequality.

America’s education system is the the best tool to fight inequality.

America’s poorly run education system is producing a perfect equal society.

Everybody is completely in the dark about how the world works.

The level of support of Fed officials

The level of support of Fed officials

Fed officials probably underestimated the level of support and they will not wind down their $85 billion-a-month bond-purchase program in December.

How to restore fiscal insanity in Congress.

How to restore fiscal insanity in Congress.

Since Congress doesn’t do anything American people can unrest easy knowing that their elected representatives never have gone through the  nation’s finances line-by-line to make good, informed decisions.

The new kind of job in the U.S.

 The new kind of job in the U.S.

Lower-wage jobs, with median hourly wages of $7.68 to $13.83, accounted for only 21% of job losses during the downturn but have accounted for more than half, 58%, of all job growth. Jobs that saw the fastest growth were retail sales positions (at a median wage of $10.97 an hour) and food preparation workers ($9.04 an hour). Since June 2009, each of those fields has grown by more than 300,000 workers.

Which are the most modern ruins?

Which are the most modern ruins?


The Farwell Building in Detroit.

The David Broderick Tower in Detroit.

The Donovan Building in Detroit.

The David Whitney Building, Detroit.

The National Bank of Detroit.

The Fort Shelby Hotel in Detroit.

The American Hotel in Detroit.

Michigan Central Station.

Cass Technical High School in Detroit.

Saint Albertus School in Detroit.

St Christopher House, ex-Public Library in Detroit.

The Jane Cooper Elementary School

The Lee Plaza Hotel in Detroit.

Lee Plaza Hotel in Detroit.

The Rich-Dex Apartments in Detroit.

Wilbur Wright High School in Detroit.

The United Artists Theater in Detroit.

GDP growing and Unemployment growing

GDP growing and Unemployment growing

Unemployment Rate in the United States increased to 7.30 percent in October of 2013 from 7.20 percent in September of 2013.

Gross domestic product in the third quarter rose at a 3.6 percent annual rate, up from an initial estimate of 2.8 percent and the strongest since the first quarter of 2012, the Commerce Department in Washington said today.

Growing privileges inequality and opportunities inequality

Growing privileges inequality and opportunities inequality is harming America's economy and nobody calls on Congress to bring down privileges of the status-quo and increase oportunites through less government intervention.

The companies that pay lower salaries

The companies that  pay lower salaries:

Yum Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains) - The hourly median wage is  less than $8 an hour.
Kroger - The hourly median wage is  less than $9 an hour.
Target - Average salary  for a cashier or an employee on sales floor is less than $9
McDonald's - The hourly median wage is just over $9.00
Wal-Mart - The average full-time hourly wage is $12.83.

What is your defense against Capitol Hill lawmakers?

What is your defense against Capitol Hill lawmakers?


A lot of lawmakers are the smartest people you'll meet, but they are not technologically savvy.

When do you have to find something else to do?

 When do you have to find something else to do?

When your culture eats itself, when your are not able to do your job, when telling the truth kills you and when your live has been co-opted.

What is the most important personal trait?

What is the most important personal trait?

 The IQ

Who are self-employed and small-business owners

Who are self-employed and small-business owners


Self-employed and small-business owners are middle class, rarely affluent, who take responsibility for their lives without government aid.

You can speak the truth but do not expect someone to listen.

You can speak the truth but do not expect someone to listen.

Stay at work, America.

Stay at work, America.

A day of thanks should be a day of hard work.

If you don’t like your government

If you don’t like your government, you cannot and should not move, because you might have voice but not exit.

Your government regulates your discussions enforces a set of norms as to what sorts of ideas are acceptable and how you view history

What's the first thing a person show?

What's the first thing a person show?

Character and personality,  typically sorts itself out pretty quickly.

How are going to be the long-run deficit

How are going to be the long-run deficit

We do know what the long-run deficit is going to be because a small fraction of adults are working, because in a flat economy there are not ladders, because there is not equal opportunity, because there are a lot of special-interest privileges, because the  economy is dysfunctional  and because  the country is inefficient.

Modern Definition of Poverty

Modern Definition of Poverty

The gap between one’s wishes and the resources available to fulfill them.

How to be in business

How to be in business

Do not build anything, just learn how things work and how people use them.

How many people have been notified that their health insurance is being cancelled?

How many  people have been notified that their health insurance is being cancelled?

In the state of California alone, more than a million people have been notified that their health insurance is being cancelled.

What is happiness and success?

What is happiness and success?

Something that seems subjective, highly relative and maybe even mythical.

When a city is not safe?

When a city is not safe?


When public officials declare that their city is safer.

How to create an extraordinarily complex system?

How to create an extraordinarily complex system?

Building something invasive, incompetent, big , part of your live, bureaucratic, expropriatory and scary.

Are the the technological revolution the result of American entrepreneurs?

Are the  the technological revolution the result of American entrepreneurs?

Facebook, Inc.
Total Current Assets         11,267,000,000
Capital Surplus                  10,094,000,000

Google Inc.
Total Current Assets          60,454,000,000
Common Stock                  22,835,000,000

Apple Inc.
Total Current Assets       73,286,000,000
Common Stock               19,764,000,000

Why there is not economic growth?

Why there is not economic growth?

Because corporations are building more around synergy and complementary lines of business than growth 

What is the meaning of an "uh-oh" moment?

What is the meaning of an "uh-oh" moment?

It is a moment of restlessness, uneasiness, anxiety ,unrest or worry.

Why is impossible to narrow the gap between the America's haves and have-nots ?

Why is impossible to narrow the gap between the America's haves and have-nots ?

Because more than ever children now sleep in the shelter system.
Because more than ever children now live with their grandparents.
Because more than ever children now live in cars.
Because more than ever children now live in camping tents.

How Fast Can One Lose Money?

How Fast Can One Lose Money?

Hedge fund manager William Ackman has lost a $500 million on an almost  $1 billion investment in J.C. Penney Co., and more than  $300 million  on a billion-dollar-plus short position in Herbalife Ltd.






He has cost his investors (and himself) almost $800 million this year.

Stagnation, joblessness and political discontent.

America  could get mired in a "lost decade" of stagnation, joblessness and political discontent.

 Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen signaled Thursday that no big changes would come to the central bank under her leadership if she becomes its next chief.

What is the more strenuous exercise?

 What is the more strenuous exercise?

There is no more strenuous exercise than rowing.

Why does the exit from the crisis will take longer than expected ?

Why does the exit from the crisis will take longer than expected ?

Negative interest rates - when you get charged for depositing money at the bank.

Negative interest rates are a sign of the financial system not working normally.

Banks are holding about $700 billion in excess reserves at the FED.

The consequence of a negative interest rate regime pursued by central banks is to shift the pain of deflation from banks to depositors, from debtors to creditors.

 INTEREST rates are very low around the developed world; near-zero in nominal terms and negative in real terms.

Negative real interest rates are the product of aggressive monetary policy by a central bank and have a profound impact on the movement of capital within an economy

The problem with negative interest rates, however, is quickly apparent: nobody would lend on those terms.

The shrinking universe of safe-haven assets is forcing investors to pay negative rates to park cash in guaranteed custody accounts.

What companies are looking for?

What companies are looking for?

They’re looking for generalists.

They’re looking for people willing and able to learn new things quickly.

They’re looking for someone how can incorporate constant exploration and learning while building and managing a structured process.

They’re looking for people who can work well in small teams and make that team successful.

They’re looking for people with a background in QA automation.

How does the government negotiate with your enemies?

How does the government negotiate with your enemies?


Your enemies will be allowed to continue to do something wrong and they  will also get immediate sanctions relief .

In return the government will get from your enemies promises that they will be good.

The accounting you can use to burnish otherwise lackluster results

The accounting  you can use to burnish otherwise lackluster results

Research and development
Intellectual property
Pre-launch inventory
Warranty
Revenue recognition

Who are angry and upset with the government?

Who are angry and upset with the government?

People you can trust.

People who cannot win.

People who cannot mislead their followers for profit.

Well-meaning people

The 25 wealthiest zip codes in the U.S

The 25 wealthiest zip codes in the U.S


1-NEW YORK New York 10111

2-NEW YORK New York 10167

3-NEW YORK New York 10286

4-FLORIDA Miami Beach 33109

5-NEW JERSEY Jersey City 07399

6-NEW YORK New York 10165


7-NEW YORK New York 10105


8-NEW YORK New York 10112


9-CALIFORNIA Los Angeles 90067



10-NEW YORK New York 10110


11-FLORIDA Fort Lauderdale 33394


12-FLORIDA Pensacola 32581


13-NEW JERSEY New Vernon 07976



14-CALIFORNIA San Francisco 94137


15-NEW YORK Mill Neck 11765

16-NEW YORK New York 10106


17-NEW YORK New York 10153

18-TEXAS Gillett 78116


19-WASHINGTON Medina 98039


20-TEXAS Houston 77010

21-NEW JERSEY New Brunswick 08933

22-MARYLAND Hunt Valley 21031


23-CONNECTICUT Hartford 06156


24-NEW JERSEY Far Hills 07931


25-CONNECTICUT Greenwich 06831

How to believe in profits

How to believe in profits

Twitter yesterday boosted its IPO price to $23 to $25 a share, which would give the microblogging service a market capitalization of $13.6 billion with no profit.

 Twitter lost $64.6 million in the September quarter, wider than the $21.6 million a year earlier.

The social networking company reported that its revenue rose sharply in the third quarter of this year, to $169 million.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is leading Twitter’s offering, while Morgan Stanley led Facebook’s.

Number of households in the U.S with annual incomes under $25,000

Number of households in the U.S with annual incomes under $25,000 is  30.2 million (24.7% of total households) .

It was 21.9 million (21.2%) .in 2000

Perfect death at the perfect age

Perfect death at the perfect age

Joy Johnson, the oldest woman marathon runner in the NYC Marathon died just one day after finishing the prestigious race on Sunday.

She died just hours after completing her 25th consecutive appearance at the race.

She was 86 years old

Miss Johnson complained she was tired and went to lie down in her room at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan.

She didn’t wake up and was declared dead at Bellevue Hospital, the Daily News reported.

How to make money from an election.

How to make money from an election.

Whatever the outcome of any election there will be taxes and governments to reform, so invest accordingly.

Because your freedom wasn't freedom at all.

If you liked your freedom and it was cancelled on account of the Government, it's not that the Government failed to keep his promise, it's that the promise didn't apply to you because your freedom wasn't freedom at all.

Just calling something freedom doesn't make it freedom.

How to build a great government

How to build a great government

The best way to build a great government is really do not understand  the problems it is trying to solve

The future

The future

While search engines can find data containing specific keywords, they  can’t do much of anything with it.

While it’s impossible for computers to reason or form concepts  using relational databases, they can do exactly that with linked  data in graph databases.

Semantic search engines can connect related data, forming a big picture out of small pieces.

Medwhat.com

How to make profits soaring when revenues tumble?

How to make profits soaring when revenues tumble?

Burger King refranchised 519 restaurants during the past year.
Refranchising is the process of selling company-owned stores back to franchisees.
Wendy's began refranchising 425 stores this past summer amid something of a recovery by turning around its operations and generating profits from losses in the year-ago period.
Although revenues take a hit initially, the concept reduces the parent company's overhead while providing it a generally stable stream of income. But it's a delicate balance, as strong operators need to be installed so that you don't end up with a drag on overall performance.

What is the difference between huge and deep

What is the difference between huge and deep

Google is huge, but it's not deep.
The National Security Agency (NSA) is not huge, but it's deep.

When the National Security Agency starts a program.

When the National Security Agency starts a program.

The National Security Agency - NSA/CSS started a program to spy on world leaders after an internal U.S.Government review revealed to the  White House the nonexistence of such operations.

How many pages are in the IRS tax code?

How many pages are in the IRS tax code?

74,000 pages

Americans have given up.

They've resigned themselves to the fact
that our country will continue its slide
into second-rate status.

The risks of talking too much

The risks of talking too much

A Clearwater police officer allegedly shot a man on Saturday, Oct. 26 after that man expressed suicidal thoughts to a friend earlier in the day.

Police were called to 3018 Merrill Avenue. at 4:21 p.m. after the man's friend became concerned. The man, possibly in his 60s, reportedly told his friend he had no reason to live because of various problems he was having. The friend called police an hour after leaving the Merrill Avenue residence.

When police arrived, they tried talking to the man via his house phone and cell phone. They also used a loudspeaker on a police cruiser outside the home, but the man reportedly ignored them.

Authorities say the man then came out of the house armed with a gun. He refused police commands to drop the weapon. Fearing for their safety, one of the officers fired a single shot.

The man was taken to Mease Countryside Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a 6:30 p.m.

The officer, a 12-year veteran, was not injured. He was placed on paid administrative leave.

How many political demonstrations are held annually in China?

How many political  demonstrations  are  held annually in China?

According the purged economics professor Xia Yeliang, 200,000 local-level protests a year against injustices such as unpaid military compensation, environmental degradation and illegal land seizures are  held in China.

Creative accounting and the U.S. Government

Creative accounting and the U.S. Government.

Federal regulators have warned banks to be careful about padding their profits with money set aside to cover bad loans. But some of the nation's biggest banks did more of it in the third quarter than earlier this year.

Who are the friends called by the Government when something doesn't work?

Who are the friends called by the Government when something doesn't work?

The Obama administration said it has named a UnitedHealth Group unit to oversee repairs to its health-insurance website and for the first time gave a specific estimate—the end of November—for when the site would be fixed.

The executive vice president of the UnitedHealth Group, which will be responsible for fixing the government's ailing healthcare website, has been a key donor to the president over the years.

The real cause of increased life expectancy

The real cause of  increased life expectancy in the last years is not science or technology.

The real cause of  increased life expectancy in the last years is social engineering and financial engineering in the hands of Government that has been used to create an extreme welfare state through fiscal policy.

It will have unexpected consequences for people coming behind.

How to know if your are on the right track?

How to know if your are on the right track?
When experts say you are wrong.

It is good news that the 'market experts' doubt your project. If they say "you're crazy", your are on the right track, go ahead!

How many government employees work for the 3143 counties in the U.S.?

How many government employees work for the 3143 counties in the U.S.?

1,257,356  government employees work for the 3143 counties in the U.S.

Predictors of success

Predictors of success:

Motivation
Confidence
Pressure
Failure
Passion
Perseverance
Strict discipline
Unyielding demands
Constant learning
Learned creativity
Painful feedback

Why the FED believes that printing money helps its economy.

Why the FED believes that printing money helps its economy.

Military spending
683.7 billion

Wars future spending outside budget
3.7 trillion

Mandatory Spending
Social Security - $860 billion
Medicare - $524 billion
Medicaid - $304 billion
All other mandatory programs - $621 billion. These programs include TARP, Food Stamps, Unemployment Compensation, Child Nutrition and Tax Credits, Supplemental Security for the Disabled and Student Loans.

December 2011, there were approximately 2.79 million civil servants (civilian, i.e. non-uniformed) employed by the US Government.
Nineteen percent of federal employees earned salaries of $100,000 or more in 2009. The average federal worker's pay was $71,208 compared with $40,331 in the private sector.

How government chooses winners and losers

How government chooses winners and losers

SolarCity has never recorded a profit, but powered by subsidies, its stock price is $57

How To Know What Should Be Measured

How To Know What Should Be Measured

You should measure what you understand.

You should measure what you can visualize.

You should measure questions that have answers.

You should measure probabilities rather than anecdotes.

You should measure volume, velocity and variety.

Generational theft and thieving generation.

Generational theft and thieving generation.

A massive long-term problem.

The generational wealth transfer that benefits oldsters at the expense of the young.

While today's 65-year-olds will receive on average net lifetime benefits of $327,400, children born now will suffer net lifetime losses of $420,600 as they struggle to pay the bills of aging Americans.

How the U.S. Government controls you

How the U.S. Government controls you


Using deep-learning neural networks to find hidden patterns and insights in that data.

Many of the things you haven’t explicitly told to the U.S. Government can be deduced from the things they have.

Ever-improving pattern-recognition systems that they are building (and others will inevitably follow) will be able to extrapolate your secrets, with a high degree of confidence, from the subtle cues and nuances inherent in your visible live profile.

In fact, between deep learning, “big data,” and increasingly ubiquitous cameras and other sensors, on drones and embedded virtually everywhere, they’re moving headlong towards a world where your live is owned by the U.S. Government.

How America will keep the entitlements

How America will keep the entitlements

An increase in entitlements has closely corresponded to a decline in the country's savings.

The decline in savings has been offset by borrowing from abroad, which brings us to our current foreign debt: "$5 trillion and counting".

Foreigners will keep lending to America because America will keep military investment in science and technology.

The future of Google

The future of Google

Google Sites Revenues in  third quarter of 2013, ad revenue from its own sites -- mainly search --were  $9.39 billion.
Google Network Revenues – Google’s partner sites- -- AdSense -- ```- generated segment revenues of $3.15 billion, or 23% of total Google segment revenues, in the third quarter of 2013, compared to $3.13 billion of Google network segment revenues in the third quarter of 2012.

Google segment revenues from outside of the United States totaled $7.67 billion, representing 56% of total Google segment revenues in the third quarter of 2013, compared to 55% in the second quarter of 2013 and 53% in the third quarter of 2012.

To supplement Google consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, Google uses the following non-GAAP financial measures: non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP EPS, free cash flow, and non-GAAP international revenues.

How to be a politician.

How to be a politician.

Create something that the public don't want.

Being  goal-oriented instead of systems-oriented.

Never suffer defeat.

Never stay in the game.

Become less smart, less talented and less healthier. 

How to increase Americans' dependence on government.

How to increase Americans' dependence on government.

Take care of the elites

Create a lot of  problems.

Make solutions complicated.

Ban self-reliance, individualism,  and courage

Scorn values.

The differences between the US Government and me.

The differences between the US Government and me.

If I have debt ceiling , why not the US Government?

If my spending is based on my income, why not the US Government?

If I work 24x7, why not the US Government?

If I have a budget, why not the US Government?

How to dig America out of the hole of the recession ?

How to dig America out of the hole of the recession ?

Create an alternative ecosystem where the best and brightest must  thrive in unsupported ways.

How to save America?

How to save America?

Take the best and brightest from top universities to pursue their interests outside  hallowed campus walls.

The danger of giving information

The danger of giving information
Federal officials are discussing changes to how the government releases sensitive economic data.
The Government is always trying to make the release of information to the public less transparent and untimely.

Where Can the Lower Class Buy a Home?

Where Can the  Lower Class Buy a Home?

If you’re in the lower class and want to buy a home here’s a piece of advice: Move to South Dakota.
According to data from
Trulia.com
Zillow.com
and
Realtor.com
The cheapest houses ready to live are in South Dakota

How to fool people around you?

How to fool people around you?

Tell to them you are open to anything.

Offer to them the ability to move.

Talk to them about pragmatic solutions.

Explain to them the severe ripple effects and the "perilous" choices.

Give Thanks to them for their Encouraging Signs

Tell to them you are willing to do This.

Speak with them about what you Strongly Prefers

Tell to them that you are happy that cooler heads seem to be prevailing around you.

What is the best ally of a government?

What is the best ally of a government?

Technology

Technology and innovation are the source of economic growth and job creation for the best. Technology and innovation are the source of government-loving individuals, suffocating regulations and fiscal recklessness.

Technology makes easier more government, more regulation, more spending and more market manipulation.

What is the main reason of growing inequality?

What is the main reason of growing inequality?

Birth rate

Those that are more prosperous can afford to have more children and they are usually the ones that have less, while poor families often have more children.
Birth Rates Rise in Poor Countries

How to defeat any adversary, no matter how powerful.

How  to defeat any adversary, no matter how powerful.

He will hit you 10 times, you will hit him one , in the end, he will tire of it first.

Why is the American Problem a Problem of other minds?

Why is the American Problem a Problem of other minds?

Because according to data in the latest "Economic Report of the President": More than half the federal debt in public hands is held by foreigners.

How many firms that go public have a founder as CEO?

How many firms that go public have a founder as CEO?

Fewer than half of firms that go public have a founder as CEO, according to a 2008 study by Bharat Jain and Filiz Tabak at Towson University

Power struggles are amplified when big investors are involved.

Money and Thinking

Money and Thinking

We've got no money, so we've got to think. Ernest Rutherford

Gentlemen, We Have Run Out of Money; Now We Have to Think. Winston Churchill.

What are regulations?

What are regulations?

Regulations are problem creators.

Problems created by regulations are always fixed with more regulation and more expensive regulation.

Regulations are a testament of perseverance if not wisdom.

Regulations are based on ambition and complexity.

The real measure of regulation is how many individuals think they're better off.

The cheapest price  that  regulations economically allow ends up in direct government subsidies and controls.

The best predictors of success.

Passion and perseverance for long-term goals are the best predictors of success.

Dealing with even routine stresses makes you stronger.

Finish whatever you begin.

Fail and  pick yourself up again.

Immerse yourself in a discipline before you create in that discipline.

How many people work in the U.S. Social Security Administration?

How many people work in the U.S. Social Security Administration?

62,343 workers work in the U.S. Social Security Administration

Who fights this inequality?

Who fights this inequality?

The average score for Wharton applicants on the standardized
 b-school entrance exam, the GMAT, rose seven points this
year, to a record 725 out of 800.

Top colleges requires
a SAT score of 2100 or above.

A GMAT score of 700 is comparable
 to a 2400  SAT.

The national mean SAT scores in 2013 were 491 for reading, 480 for
writing and 503 for math.

Marginal People or Smart People

Marginal People or Smart People

15% Of Americans Don’t Have Internet. 5% Think It’s Irrelevant.

According to  Pew Research Center

The richest people in the world don’t have an emergency fund.

The richest people in the world don’t have an emergency fund.



The median household income in the U.S. (around $52,000) would put you in
 the top 1% of earners worldwide.

About half of Americans don’t have an emergency fund that’d cover
 three months of expenses.

The state of America's competitiveness

The state of America's competitiveness

22 million corporations exist in United States
1,663,912 corporations exist in United Kingdom.

United States - population
313,914,040 (2012)

United Kingdom - population
62,744,081 (2011)

Corporations per capita in United States:
14.26882

Corporations per capita in United Kingdom:
37.70877366

The fighting about income inequality

The fighting about income inequality

How much money do congress members make?

 $174,000 a year

How much money do waiting staff make?

$17,400 a year

What do you need to thrive?

What do you need to thrive?

Brains and self-discipline to master tomorrow’s technology

What is the best way to survive?

What is the best way to survive?

The best way to survive is to have a risk-taking attitude, and to be very tolerant of failure.

The best way to survive is to think you're going to win.

Why are commodity prices rising?

Why are commodity prices rising?

Because the Fed Keeps Printing $85 Billion per Month

Because the world is running out of food

Because campaign contributions come so much from the vested interests, the financial world, but more particularly the energy world.

Knowing versus Making

Knowing versus Making

During the 20th century making things was most important than knowing things.

In the 21st century knowing things is most important than making things.

In a highly competitive society the payoff of a service is greater than the payoff of a product.

Knowing leverages making. 

How the top earners break down

How the top earners break down

 Top 1%: incomes above $394,000 in 2012; Top 5%: incomes between $161,000 and $394,000; Top 10%: incomes between $114,000 and $161,000.

 Last year, the richest 10% received more than half of all income — 50.5%, or the largest share since such record-keeping began in 1917.

Why the overall savings rate today is 5.4%?

Why the overall savings rate today is 5.4%, the average since 1960 is 8.4% and it was 9.3% in the early 1980s?

Because the Federal Reserve is buying   85 billion dollars in bonds every month, the perfect tool for rising inequality.

What is a politician?

What is a politician?

A person who uses rhetorical tricks to disguise her/his limited skills.

How to find stability

How to find  stability

Building  a skill set that allows you to control your own destiny.

Relationship between jobs and retirement.

 Relationship between jobs and retirement.


About 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 years old everyday.

 169,000 jobs were created in the past month.

Tricks, IBM and health-insurance exchange

International Business Machines plans to move about 110,000 retirees off its company-sponsored health plan and instead give them a payment to buy coverage on a health-insurance exchange.

A Health Insurance Exchange (HIX) is a federal or state-regulated marketplace/platform that allows small businesses and individuals to shop for health insurance plans; it allows them to compare various standardized plans and choose the one that suits their specific needs. Federal subsidies are available for the purchase of such plans through an exchange.

Which are the states with lowest cancer rates in U.S.?

Which are the states with lowest cancer rates in U.S.?

Arizona
Colorado
Hawaii
New Mexico
Utah

Source:
National Cancer Institute

What do you need to compete?

What do you need to compete?

You need to know science, technology, engineering and math, and they are accessible but not fun.

How much cost to bomb Syria

How much cost to bomb Syria

The United States Navy has a stockpile of around 3,500 Tomahawk cruise missiles of all variants, with a combined worth of approximately US $2.6 billion.

$743.000 per  Tomahawk

700 Tomahawk were fired in Irak the first year and 110  in Libya.

400 Tomahawk are expected to be fired in Syria

400x$743.000= $297,200,000

Why America will not stop trying to be the policeman for the world.

Why America will not  stop trying to be the policeman for the world.

Because America needs the preemptive argument  for national security.

Because the Army forces must be trained.

Because an attack is an effective deterrent.

Because a moral imperative constitute a legal  justification when you have power.

Because America has the authority to wage war unilaterally

Because always is possible to articulate any threat  to national  security.

What is the United States of America?

What is the United States of America?

A country with cheap energy and a rich elite exploiting laws and regulations to
the detriment of business and individuals, that is heaping IOUs on
its children and grandchildren.

Why Nearly Half of All U.S. Homes Are Purchased in Cash?

Why Nearly Half of All U.S. Homes Are Purchased in Cash?


Because it’s more costly and hard to get financing.

Because homes cost less.

Because Chinese home-buyers are flooding into the U.S. housing market
and nearly 70% of the Chinese deals are made in all cash.

Because mortgage lending standards have been tightened since the housing bubble.

Because foreign buyers, and wealthy homeowners
are averse to a mortgage.

Because the seller knows the cash offer is more likely to close.

Because prior homeowners abandon the ownership market and head back to rentals.

Because buyers are mainly investors and vacation-home buyers 

Because Multi-home buyers (those purchasing two or more properties) accounted
 for about 28 percent  of last year’s cash sales, up from around 24 percent in 2011.

To kill someone for the "fun of it."

Duncan (city), Oklahoma

Persons under 18 years, percent, 2010     23.8%   

Persons below poverty level, percent, 2007-2011 14.6%   

On Aug. 16, Chancey Allen Luna, 16,  James Francis Edwards Jr., 15,  and Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, of Duncan were "bored" and decided to kill someone for the "fun of it."

They killed Christopher Lane in a drive-by shooting.

Jobs to disappear soon

Jobs to disappear soon.

Taxi driver
Airplane Pilot
Medical doctor
Teacher
Attorney

The future of employment

The future of employment

Companies will use recruitment agencies

Workers will pay to recruitment agents and will pass a battery of tests before the company will
hire them.

How the world is divided

How the world is divided


The world is divided between a rich/tech track and a poor/non-tech track

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, faster and faster.

The widening gap between rich and poor is permanent.

The tech/non-tech divide will metastasize and spread everywhere.

Who Doesn't Need to Bother to Get a College Degree

Who Doesn't Need to Bother to Get a College Degree



Who starts buying something and  turns the investment into something big.

Who knows to do something.

Who is a good saleswomen/salesman.

Who is able to be a constant learner by her/his own.

Who pursues her/his own business venture.

Who starts making her/his own algorithms.

Who begins her/his first business at age 12

Who works as a programmer and found their own company.

Who begins developing new technologies.

Who revolutionizes an industry by making something smaller, cheaper, and more accessible.

How many Americans live abroad?

How many Americans live abroad?

Although the U.S. State Department doesn't keep official statistics, it estimates that 7.2 million U.S. citizens live abroad. 2.3%  of the American population.

The poor world's richest

The poor world's richest

2013 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

1 Person in family/household

Poverty guideline=$11,490

2013 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR ALASKA

1 Person in family/household

Poverty guideline=$14,350

2013 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR HAWAII

1 Person in family/household
Poverty guideline=$13,230

Average Salary In China in 2013=$14,000

The power of the Federal Reserve

The power of the Federal Reserve

Germany wants to repatriate its 1,536 tons of gold reserves held at the
the NY Fed and the Federal Reserve has refused to allow German inspectors
to even view the country’s massive gold reserves

The most expensive vote in history

How much does it cost one vote in the U.S.?

 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spent 65 dollars per vote  in the ELECTION 2012

Try to push interest rates to near-zero and you will have an economic demise.

Tax the rich more and everything will be worst.

Tax everything and you will not build anything.

Try to redistribute  income and you will have more income disparity.

Try  to become a zero-sum society and you will have envy and resentment.

Try  to push interest rates to near-zero and you will have an economic demise.

Idleness is the mother of all misfortunes

Idleness is the mother of all misfortunes

Imperial Presidency but not inside

Imperial Presidency but not inside

The authority of the executive must enforce mandates when Congress appropriates money,

The executive has not authority to contravene federal statutes.

Congress has the sole authority to enact federal statutes.

Inequality is innate with the human being.

Inequality is innate with the human being.

No matter how much the government spend.

No matter the ideology or the political system.

No matter what education people receive.

Inequality will be always present and will be greater because
technology wide the difference between people with and people without intelligence.

Why education is not enough

Why education is not enough

Is education so important?


Education accounts for 8.7% of the U.S. economy

There are 3.8 million teachers in the US.

New York has the largest private higher  education sector in the nation, with 167,450 jobs in 2009—more than 40 percent larger than  second-ranked California. New York accounts for 14.4 percent of all private higher education  jobs in the nation.

New York State’s unemployment rate is 7.5%  (July 18, 2013)

National education budget (2007): $1.1 trillion (public and private, all levels)

Among the country's adult population, over 85 percent have completed high
school and 27 percent have received a bachelor's degree or higher.

Math and science majors are popular until students realize what they’re getting
 themselves into, according to  a working paper published by the
National Bureau of Economic Research.

Students knew science was hard to  begin with, but for a lot of them it turned
out to be much worse than what  they expected,” said Todd R. Stinebrickner,
 one of the paper’s authors.  “What they didn’t expect is that even if
they work hard, they still won’t do well.”

The U.S. economy posted a stunning drop of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012.

How many offices the IRS has outside the United States

How many offices the IRS has outside the United States

The IRS has 4 permanent offices outside the United States in  China, Germany,France and England.

There is nothing like that in the world.

How many people work for the State Department ?

How many people work for the state department ?

49,900

11,500 Foreign Service employees
7,400 Civil Service employees
31,000 Foreign Service National employees

staff offices: 66

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

staff offices: 27

How to learn to think critically?

How to learn to think critically?


In order to learn to think critically you must to adapt to something.

If you are comfortable you are unable to adapt to anything.

Why is difficult to improve public education?

Why is difficult to improve public education?

Because parents do not trust the system

And they do not trust the system because is free and

 anything that is free does not transmit confidence.

Good workers don't need to be certified.

Good workers don't need to be certified. 

They don't have benefits or even a guaranteed base 

salary; their pay is based on their performance, 

Why is difficult to find a good job?

Why is difficult to find a good job?

Because in a job the harder you work,the

less  you make and people don't like that.

Doing anything well is hard, so why 

not make it lucrative?

The monster is too big to stop it.

 The monster is too big to stop it:

An IRS employee had been arrested on charges that she had accessed IRS servers (which she was not authorized to use) in an attempt to obtain taxpayers’ personal information, which she and an accomplice in Florida could then use to steal the individuals’ benefits.

What is the difference between success and failure

What is the difference between success and failure


Success has biggest obstacles, too many hurdles, too many hours of work, limited resources, freedom, nonconformity and doesn't  play by the rules.

Rebuilding ladders of opportunity

Rebuilding ladders of opportunity

Economists estimate the economy created 185,000 jobs in July, according to a Bloomberg survey.

The Commerce Department reported that the economy, adjusted for inflation, expanded at  annual rate of 1.7 percent in the April-June quarter,

12 million unemployed Americans are looking for work.

Nearly 48 million Americans have a disability (10.7 millions with payment)

The number of workers in part-time jobs in U.S.is  8.5 million.

13.205.000 million people hold two full time jobs with no benefits in the U.S.

Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives.

Unpleasant laws

Unpleasant laws are difficult to pass no matter how good are for everybody.

Who are the victims of capitalism?

Who are the victims of capitalism?

The victims of capitalism use to be the victims of the political vices.

Who controls the US economy and the world economy?

Who controls the US economy and the world economy?



The Federal Reserve Bank "Fed"  is controlling  the credit and currency of the world through trade and foreign  policies of  the U.S.

It controls the US economy and the world economy.

American people do not decide for themselves if they wish  to control the  world economy with their tax dollars.

 There is no National debt,  there is  world economy debt and that is controlled by the Fed.

Foreign countries finance US trade through  their dollar purchases of US Treasuries.

Fed then has to print dollars to send them overseas to pay for the debt.

Why Lawmakers Don't delete tax breaks for oil and pharmaceutical companies?

Why Lawmakers Don't delete tax breaks for oil and pharmaceutical companies?

Because the pharmaceutical and health products industry has spent more than $800 million in federal lobbying and campaign donations at the federal and state levels in the past seven years,  and the Oil & Gas  industry has spent  $36,863,753 in 2013 and has 536 Lobbyists Reported.

A Lobbyist is somebody who lobbies political representatives: somebody who is paid to lobby political representatives on an issue (legalized corruption).

What is the relationship among retirement, technology, violence and poverty?

What is the relationship among retirement, technology, violence and poverty?

Detroit

Fifty-four retirees in Detroit are under the age of 20 and earn pensions that average $23,300, according to a 2011 actuarial report.

About 70% of the city's financial journal entries are booked manually.

Detroit has the nation's highest violent crime rate.

About a third of residents live below the poverty line.

Retirement dreams around the world

Retirement dreams around the world.

When there  isn't enough money to go around retirement dreams around the world should take a rational point of view :

Take your skills and commitments away from a "reliable social safety net" because safe pensions do not exist.

In order to know the half of what is going on

In order to know the half of what is going on you have to live where that is happening.

You need to watch the historical hostility of one group toward another group and the underground economy throughout American history.

Growing inequality

Growing inequality could be morally wrong but it's natural economics.

The fast development of modern technology, Government's focus on spreading the wealth rather than creating it and Fed's extraordinary monetary policy, had contributed to a plunge in  the share of Americans who are working.

The cheapest, largest and highly skilled workforce in the world

The cheapest, largest and highly skilled workforce in the world

Google AdSense Publishers


How many Google AdSense Publishers does Google have?

966,785 Publishers


75% of $3.26 billion ($2.445 billion) are the earnings of Google  partner sites in second quarter of 2013.

$2.445 billion/3=  $815 million per month.


38% of Google AdSense Publishers Earn an average of $100 Per Month.

35%  earn an average $500 per month.

23%  earn an average of $1,000 per month.

4%   earn an average of $10,000 per month  with AdSense.

38%Nx100+35%Nx$500+23%Nx$1,000+4%Nx$10,000=$815 million

38N+175N+230N+400N=$815 million

N=815,000,000/843=966,785

Decrease of Google network revenues

Decrease of Google network revenues


 Google’s partner sites generated revenues of $3.26 billion, or 25% of total Google revenues, in the first quarter  of 2013.

Google’s partner sites generated revenues  of $3.19 billion, or 24% of total Google revenues, in  the second quarter of 2013.

Number of towns with more than 25,000 people in U.S.

Number of towns with more than 25,000 people in U.S.

1290 towns in 2002

80% of them had a SWAT team in  2005.

How many cities in U.S. are technically in bankruptcy?

How many  cities in U.S. are technically in bankruptcy?

More than 100 urban U.S. cities are technically in bankruptcy.

How many police cases are solved in the U.S.?

How many police cases are solved in the U.S.?

30.5% of police cases are solved in the U.S.

Its citizens wait an average of 11 minutes for the police to respond to their calls.

What is the difference between Detroit and U.S.?

What is the difference between Detroit and U.S.?

Detroit debt is 18 billions.

Each citizen's share of this debt is $25,714.28

U.S. debt is 16,742 billions.

Each citizen's share of this debt is $52,931.56.

Detroit filed for bankruptcy on Jul 18, 2013.

How the government annoys you.

How the government annoys you


The government steals you regularly and increasingly.

The government prints money regularly and increasingly making you poorer.

The government chooses winners and losers.

The government spies, controls and manipulates you.

The government takes away your freedom.

The government makes itself bigger and bigger.

The government tries to dictate what you have to do.

Fascination with something

Fascination with something motivates a desire to be part of it and loves everything about it.

It creates a comfort zone, the place you know.

How to dismantle an organization not organized under a single leader?

How to dismantle an organization not organized under a single leader?

Organizing  groups of people to achieve  different goals.

Debilitate any formal authority and interactions.

Create new situations and tasks.

Equip the organization with new methods.

Spread negative reinforcement.

Is a Fair Trial Justice?

Is a  Fair Trial Justice?


Justice is a concept involving the fair, moral, and impartial treatment of all persons.

A jury is intended to be an impartial  panel capable of reaching a verdict.

 A fair trial is a legal and ethical concept  that's used to describe the procedural rules  of a court.

The chief purpose of a trial is to secure  fair and impartial administration of justice  between the parties to the action.

The Justice Department budget per employee.

The Justice Department budget per employee.

The Justice Department said it would weigh whether to file federal criminal charges against George Zimmerman.

A jury of six women found George Zimmerman not guilty.

Legal experts say "in a not guilty verdict, this is the end".

The U.S President says America is a “nation of laws, and a jury has spoken”.

The Justice Department had 111,993 employees in 2010 and    $27.1 billion budget in 2013.
$241,979 per employee.

How Many Workers Does the Army Corps of Engineers Have ?

How Many Workers Does the Army Corps of Engineers Have ?


The Army Corps has about 37,000 civilians and soldiers delivering engineering services all over the world.

They deliver public engineering services from disaster mitigation and response to reducing environmental degradation of public works projects. 

They have a tendency to get sued a lot.

New Jobs Available in Government

New Jobs Available in Government:

Moles to find whistle-blowers

Abilities specific to this particular job:

Moles must push information they have excavated  from their  deep runways into the shallow offices.

How government works

How government works

Government keeps power in the hands of unaccountable staff.

A staff who ignores the law and doesn't report unlawful conduct to law enforcement.

Government defends staff supremacy to keep the public completely in the dark.

The difference between the individual liberty and a government-led social justice.

The difference between the individual liberty and a government-led social justice.

A government-led social justice is a complexity of requirements expanding  outward, too big to avoid endangering the public and a collapsing constellation of  massive and drifting bureaucracies.

The individual liberty is the act of making  choices free from external restraint and outside of governmental control .

Why the Fed will not end its $85 billion-per-month bond-buying.

Why the Fed will not end its $85 billion-per-month bond-buying.

 The Fed buys bonds previously sold by the  U.S. Treasury to “members of the public”  (to some extent to individuals, but mostly  to financial firms, in the United States and  abroad) and to the central banks of other countries.

The government will need to borrow more,  and the U.S. Treasury will need to   sell more bonds.

Why does Wyoming has the smallest share of its population on food stamps — 7% - and registered double-digit year-over-year jump in use?

Population, 2012 estimate     576,412   
High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25+, 2007-2011     91.9%
Home-ownership rate, 2007-2011     70.5%
Housing units in multi-unit structures, percent, 2007-2011     15.7%
Median household income, 2007-2011     $56,380
Persons below poverty level, percent, 2007-2011     10.1%   
Land area in square miles, 2010     97,093.14   
Women-owned firms, percent, 2007     25.5%   

What is the difference between an average student and a gifted student?

What is the difference between an average student and a gifted student?

An average student will not expect that even if she/he works hard, she/he still won’t do well.

A gifted student knows that if she/he works hard, she/he will do extraordinary well.

Why a plane crashes on landing

Why a plane crashes on landing:

The landing gear gets stuck.

The plane lands  on its belly.

Faulty landing gear

The plane overshot the runway

Landing on heavy wind.

An emergency landing.

Plane skidded past the landing strip.

Trim the plane for maximum glide.

Pilot inexperience and excessive speed.

Landing gear failed to deploy.

The engine stopped working.

Attempting to land during a rainstorm.

Aborted  landing.

Attempting landing without gear.

Electronic interference and airplane dysfunction

The best ways to survive a plane crash is to  choose the right seat to avoiding smoke inhalation.

 A look at real-world crash stats, however, suggests  that the farther back you sit, the better your odds of survival. Passengers near the tail of a plane are about 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows up front.

The New American Job

The New American Job:

The part-time job.

The number of workers employed part-time because they couldn’t find a full-time job increased by a seasonally adjusted 322,000 last month.

What is a  part-time job? :

 The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does  not define full-time employment or  part-time employment

A new way of governing

The selective enforcement of laws.

The government delays the insurance mandate for  businesses, though not for individuals,  of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

The government  rewrites via regulation the laws it dislikes.

The Law Against Free Market

The Law Against Free Market

Tesla has won lawsuits in several states giving it the right to sell its cars directly to customers.

But Virginia recently slapped down Tesla’s attempt to sell its electric Model S directly to customers.

Automobile dealers associations have been trying  to prevent Tesla Motors from opening its own
dealerships.

Tesla is banned from opening dealerships in Virginia.

The law is restrictive and  intends to prevent large car manufactuers from  selling directly to customers.

The car-dealer lobby has worked hard to  ensure that  You Can't Buy a New Car Online.

Since the late 1990s, car dealers have used their  considerable political clout to pass or better
 enforce state franchise laws that in many cases  make it a criminal offense for an auto manufacturer  to sell a new car to anyone but a state-licensed  car dealer.

The Privilege of Large Employers

The Privilege of Large Employers:

The Obama administration said it is delaying penalties for large employers who don't provide  health insurance coverage to workers under  the federal health-care law for 2014.

If You Are Self-Employed You Are Required to  Have Health Insurance or  Pay a Penalty.

Number of employees of EPA

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has 17,359 employees  (2011) and a budget of $8.682 billion (2011), $500,144 per employee.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China (MEP) was set up in March 2008 with  two Chief Engineers one Minister , five Vice Ministers and one Member of the Leading Party Group of MEP,

The modern "global middle class”

The modern "global middle class”, status defined by education or simply in monetary terms, is engaging in political activism to save  its economic self-interest as in the past the French, Bolshevik and Chinese Revolutions did .

The modern "global middle class” knows that the only way to save its status is being the “new part” of the “new big government”, an ineffective, unresponsive  and corrupt "system".

How Lobbying Spenders Make a Law

U.S. Senate passed a giant, 1,200 page immigration bill.

The Senate bill provides $50 billion for border security measures.

Boeing and a team of companies including L-3 Communications and
L-3 Government Services, Washington D.C.; Unisys, Reston, Va.;
Perot Systems, Plano, Texas; Kollsman Inc., Merrimack, N.H.; and
DRS Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, Palm Bay, Fla.,
have formally placed a bid.


Boeing Is Top Lobbying Spenders In Washington.
Boeing spokeswoman Susan Bradley says the company recently decided to re-engage with the Washington legislature on issues of what she calls “business competitiveness.”


Total Lobbying Expenditures
    for Parent L-3 Communications in 2010: $4,930,000

Total Lobbying Expenditures
    for Parent Unisys Corp: $906,349

Total Lobbying Expenditures
    for Parent Perot Systems in 2006: $247,713

DRS Technologies announced on September 25 that it has been selected to be a member of the Boeing Company SBInet team.
The work will be performed by DRS Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group of Palm Bay, Fla.

The new enemy of the Government

Bitcoin is the new enemy of the Government.

Banking regulators in California, New York and Virginia in recent weeks have issued warnings to virtual-currency exchanges and other companies that deal with bitcoin that they could be closed down if their activities run afoul of state money-transmission laws.

The US Treasury will insist that virtual currencies comply with anti-money-laundering laws.

US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issues guidance on virtual currencies, suggesting Bitcoin
exchanges are in for greater scrutiny.

FinCEN’s reg ulations define currency (also referred to as “real” currency) as “the coin and paper money of the United States or of any other country that [i] is designated as legal tender and that [ii] circulates and [iii] is customarily used and accepted as a medium of exchange in the
country of issuance.” 

In contrast to real currency, “virtual” currency is a medium of exchange that operates like a currency in some environments, but does not have all the attributes of real currency. In particular, virtual currency does not have legal tender status in any jurisdiction.

This guidance addresses “convertible” virtual currency. This type of virtual currency either has an equivalent value in real currency, or acts as a substitute for real currency.

Why every quarter U.S. GDP Growth Is Revised Down?

Why every quarter U.S. GDP Growth Is Revised Down?

Because downward revisions are more common than upward revisions. 

Because consumer spending is  more than two-thirds of the U.S. economy  and government controls about 40 percent of consumer spending.

Why entitlements will not fail?

Why entitlements will not fail?

Because everybody feels that we have a right or a claim to something.

Because they are payments made directly to individuals.

Because the federal government wants to be legally obligated to make payments.

Because they make up the major part of the federal budget.

Because the government assistance to individuals is mandated by law and by need.

Because everybody wants the right to a particular privilege.

Because an individual qualifies simply by virtue of his or her circumstances.

Because the mayority of the people does not believe the idea that everything  should be obtained through effort.

Why America is not Europe?

Why America is not Europe?

Because America has CME Group Inc. (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), the world's largest futures exchange company; the world's leading and most diverse  derivatives marketplace; the place  where the world comes to manage risk.

Why central banks cannot stabilize financial markets?

Overburdened central banks cannot stabilize financial markets without governments reforming economies and banking systems.

Central banks are out of control, they have persistent policy problems; they do not have the independence to determine the best way of achieving its policy goals; they cannot solve economic problems; they are unable and unwilling of dealing with a bubble economy.

Why Mt.Gox, the world's largest bitcoin trading exchange, has halted withdrawals of customer funds in U.S. dollars?

Why Mt.Gox, the world's largest bitcoin trading exchange,  has halted withdrawals of customer  funds in U.S. dollars?

Because the Tokyo-based exchange is the only FED concern nowadays.

Life's greatest pleasure?

 Life's greatest pleasure?

Rowing (sport)

What makes you average American ?

What makes you average American ?

To land in the middle quintile – where you are richer  than 2 out of 5 households but poorer than 2 out 5 households – requires  an income of between $34,738 and $55,330. 

That – and that only – is the average American family. 

You are only “average” if you have pre-tax income of between  $2,894.83 and $4,335.75 per month.

Anything below this and you are below average. 

Anything above this and you are above average.

The war between government and technology.

The war between government and technology.

The Texas state government has banned drones for most private use.

The state of North Carolina is considering a ban on  direct sales of Tesla vehicles.

The state of New York considers Airbnb illegal

Ride-sharing startups like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar  face constant threats and hurdles as they  expand outside of the Bay Area.

 Bitcoin,  suffered a recent Fed crackdown as the most active exchange  for the popular crypto-currency.

The ways things are going, 3-D printers will be  banned because some fanatic will hack software that lets him print a 3-D gun.

There is no bigger menace for a human being than when government goes to work.

There is no bigger menace for a human being than when government goes to work.

Oversight and accountability are unknown words  for goverment.

Government is extreme.

The U.S. government is really spying on American  citizens.

Bad guys and terrorism were always the excuses of totalitarians to harm, harass or invade the liberties of individuals.

How many spies the U.S. Government has?

How many spies the U.S.  Government has?

3 million.

The official intelligence agencies in the U.S are:

• Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Independent agencies
o Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• United States Department of Defense
o Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
o National Security Agency (NSA)
o National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
o National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
o Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency (AFISRA)
o Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM)
o Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA)
o Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
• United States Department of Energy
o Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI)
• United States Department of Homeland Security
o Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)
o Coast Guard Intelligence (CGI)
• United States Department of Justice
o Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
o Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of National Security Intelligence (DEA/ONSI)
• United States Department of State
o Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)
• United States Department of the Treasury
o Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI)[7]


The three biggest employers are

CIA = 135,000e employees

FBI = 30,485 employees

NSA= 30,000 employees

The rest of the intelligence agencies have around 500,000 employees.

Total amount of official spies in the US is around: 700,000

This number is three time bigger if we account spies outside the U.S. and independent contractors spies.

Total number spies the U.S.  Government has:  it is around 3 million.

Freedom literacy

Freedom literacy is a new skill we need to live in this new world of individual  responsibility and Government's collection of  electronic data

 Very few countries have taken the initiative  to improve freedom literacy and capability.

If you don’t do that, this is not something  that grows with you or that people acquire by  their daily lives.

Recording everything you do, forces you to be aware of where your go and what  you do.

The more we focus on our freedom and are conscious  of it, the more likely we will not take it  for granted.

How to limit inefficient government bureaucracy, tax rates and tax regulations?

How to limit inefficient government bureaucracy, tax rates and tax regulations?

Place a civil servant a congressman and a senator in a dreary office rented by them and tell them to run a business for a year.