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.