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Mirage: Why Neither Democrats Nor Republicans Can Balance the Budget, End the Deficit, and Satisfy the Public
Published in Hardcover by Times Books (1997)
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The Social Sciences are comprised of an enemy in our midst.
I won't criticize the technical skills of the writers in preparing this book, but rather its content and conclusions that bode the American people a disastrous future if taken seriously. I present the thinking of a Real Scientist who has undertaken to review the domain of the Social Scientist, a hitherto forbidden domain except to those indoctrinated from their early days of wide eyed innocence to accept by rote whatever nonsense may be forced into their minds.
The entire fraternity of Economic professionals may take the content of this book seriously, as it is based totally on the "holy writ" of Economic Philosophy, taught by rote to eager young minds who attain an A+ and a PhD degree by accurately reciting what they've been taught, like recording machines. But this discipline, "Economics, the Science of Scarcity," is as much a "dead end" philosophy as were Alchemy and the Flat Earth Theory, that should have ceased a century ago and replaced with a completely new reality, "Economics 2, The Science of Abundance."
There is no original thought here as there is in the chronically successful Real Sciences, which are nevertheless made subservient to the Social Science question, "where is the funding to come from?" Within the Real Sciences progress is made by ever leaping forward into the vast unknown without looking back. Would one refer to Thomas Edison to resolve a knotty problem with say, semiconductors? The Social Sciences incestuously and circuitously refer to each other, present and past, as support of any doctrine and concept they may conceive with absurdities of logic analogous to "water flows uphill." Such incest produces monstrosities of logic, such as is the total content of this book, "Mirage...."
The members of this profession are the most prestigious in our society, resident in all our universities. It is they who advise Presidents and Kings, and are the direct cause of all the misery, crime, violence and war throughout the ages.
It is most particularly so for the last century, when the reason for all these ancient ills of mankind could have easily been eliminated as the age old Food Scarcity was superseded by Food Abundance, a success of the Real Science technology of Food production, the very condition the analogy of Adam and Eve had presented re the Garden of Eden and leaving it. We could have had by now a modern Garden of Eden on earth for us all to return to, had we not ignorantly succumbed to the blandishments of the fraternity of Social Sciences, trying desperately to maintain their validity and function.
"Balance the Budget?"
Throughout ancient history, the Food Budget, (which is the only validity to any "budget") was inadequate for the needs of the entire population. Upon this ancient and then logical "budget," the entire fabric of modern Economic Philosophy was woven.
Even then, proposals by such as Marx were that despite Food scarcity, perhaps those with enough, could at least share with those that had nothing. That was the basis of "socialism" and "communism" which was never practiced though their names were used to describe the "every man for himself" doctrine that is the basis of "capitalism" and the Economics of Scarcity that is destroying the world. Ironically, Marx's concept of "one for all and all for one" is the very reason for the success of any "capitalistic" group where within the four walls, cooperation is a must if the group is to succeed. However, today, there is no need for "sharing," except such minor things as library books, parking spaces, and the like, as there is now more than enough of vital things for everyone.
A century ago, it was announced that "excess grain was dumped into Lake Michigan." For what reason, but that for the first time in world history, (other than the ancient analogy of the Garden of Eden) Food became enough of a drug on the market to threaten DEflation. The ancient marketplace, a means by which Food could be Denied to those lowest on the social scale, simply because there was not enough, a marketplace which was created, along with all its shibboleths, such as Barter, Money et al, suddenly threatened obsolescence to the Economic fraternity. The Food "budget" could now meet the needs of the entire population.
By clever manipulation of the ignorant minds of the hoi polloi, these economic mountebanks first tried to reverse Food abundance by deliberately destroying Food, a still ongoing practice via farm subsidies NOT to produce, and failing that, managed to create a diversion of man's age old obsession with adequate Food into an unholy obsession with what was invented to be only a surrogate for Food, a "ticket of access," Money. And Money was deliberately planned to be issued in just as scarce supply as Food had once been. That is the function of the Federal Reserve.
So, all the ancient, miserable, violent history of man is maintained to the modern day, our environment continuing on the path of destruction, but most insidiously, the Economic profession -- no the entire field of Social Science, notorious failures in their proposed function of resolving Social Problems, continue to be maintained with a totally undeserved respect and adulation.
Today we suffer a totally illogical anomaly. The country that is the first in world history to create such an over abundance of Food and its derivative GDP that floods the market, yet we must suffer a shortage of a totally imaginary device Money. Money "budgets" are deliberately kept in too scarce a supply to satisfy everyone, a fictitious wealth that is meant to provide a "ticket of access" to our Real Wealth, our Land, Labor and GDP, of which there is more than enough.
Overriding that "budget deficit" by Deficit Spending is held to be anathema, though it supples those of us not privileged to be among the class known as Haves, is held to be an evil that must be corrected by driving the underclass into more and more poverty, despite the over abundance of whatever it is that we all need.
No one seems to want to think about it, except the negative means of "balancing the budget," by curtailing expenditure of imaginary Money. It seems to enter no one's mind that the "budget" ought to be balanced in the other direction, by INCREASING the "budget" until it means enough for everyone. So long as the Federal Reserve maintains its destructive attitude, we must bypass their resulting evil by Deficit Spending, as the easiest approach out of the morass we've been led into.
An approach that was successful while we were in the midst of the Great Depression, (a result of Hoover's success in "balancing the budget") as the exigency of WW2 was thrust upon us, was to throw all spending restrictions to the winds and concentrate on the people in toto, and see to their every need. We prospered as a result, despite the waste and destruction of the war.
We can now do the same in peacetime, see to the needs of the entire population as we did then, and again we will prosper beyond our wildest dreams. There is no "debt" to be concerned about, its absurdity especially evident if one considers just who is supposed to be the "creditor" and how such a creditor can in any way compromise our welfare as a country and individually.
A senseless fiction has been created that attempts to emulate the ancient taxation of Food of the citizen food grower to support those in the public service, that made sense. Today, no one is permitted by strict edict to produce Money, as Food is produced. Yet everyone is subject to pay a tax in Money, that may pass through his hands as it circulates. This is a consummate fraud that serves no useful purpose but to maintain a "gun to the head" control of us all.
Such Money is deliberately called "taxpayer's money," to further instill this nonsense into all our minds
Dorothy Gillespie
Published in Hardcover by Radford University Foundation (01 January, 1998)
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Advances in Food Emulsions and Foams
Published in Hardcover by Aspen Publishers, Inc. (1988)
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Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction
Published in Hardcover by Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd) (1987)
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Autobiography of George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy (Classics of Naval Literature)
Published in Hardcover by United States Naval Inst. (1987)
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Basic Judo
Published in Paperback by Arco Pub (1975)
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Basic Karate
Published in Hardcover by Faber & Faber (1980)
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The Best of "Winter's Crimes": Volume 1: Eric Ambler to H.R.F. Keating: A Selection from "Winter's Crimes" 1-17
Published in Hardcover by Pan Macmillan (04 September, 1986)
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Best of Bamboo Ridge
Published in Paperback by Bamboo Ridge Pr (1987)
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Big George
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