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Why does this "compassionate conservative" USA (40+ year old) corporate-welfare economics model function equally well or better in China (a totalitarian state), India (a social-cast state) ...? Think and guess what does the US/EU have in common with China/India ...? Is it a pluralist democracy? Is it meritocracy capitalism? Is it freedom from political/economic/social oppression? Is it that our governments and industry are more like China/India, then vice-versa?

One third of USA infrastructure is unsafe (potentially deadly) to use. Our governments (national, state, and local) must all agree that there is no infrastructure problem unless there is an infrastructure failure on them, their family, or while they are in office, or maybe trying to get re-elected (they can fain sympathy for victims).

Communications for US is getting closer (from 1st to 20th to...) to last place among developed nations with prices increase as proportionally bandwidth, services, quality, and performance decrease. Communications does falsely appears to improve, due to advances in technology (not CableCo/TelCo performance).

Health care unreasonably cost increases and problems (performance/cost/...) in the USA are always spin-solved by Government laws/programs/welfare promoting Private Profit Industry (PPI) solutions which provide declines in medical services, quality, and performance. Health care does falsely appears to improve, due to advances in technology, learning, teaching and aggregate skill sources/references (not IncCo/HMO... performance). Depending on socio-economics alone heath-care shows dramatic increases or amazing dramatic declines. Is it better to discover a cure or treatment for disease in a corporate-welfare state? All our POTUS wannabes want another PPI pseudo-solution for US.

Education for US is getting closer (from 1st to 50th to...) too last place among developed nations with public administrator cost and positions increases keeping step with drop-outs, teen pregnancy, illiteracy, violent crime, spouse abuse. Is this what some would call wingnut-welfare (paid from public or private foundations' bank accounts). Public education in the USA (does not falsely appear to be failing) due to significant decreases in per-student spending (money to educate a child, not roof a building, not mow the grass, not fix a toilet, not pay an administrator...). Private education in the USA with advances in technology, teacher vetted-performance pay, increased curriculum and material support, spending per-child, control of disruptive students and environments ... private wealthy schools are improving wonderfully.

In the USA we have a long tradition of separate-but-equal education ... Public education produces a workforce, and Private education produces a better educated and socially connected management team. In the USA we don't need intelligence biasing the decision or merit-selection process (Prime Examples: Bush, Cheney...). In the USA and Mexico there is no fantasy that money talks, shit floats, poor and illiterate work... this is now cultural tradition.

In the 1950s separate-but-equal education, in the USA, was great for the intended purpose a work/slave population, now it serves the same purpose to provide the faux-privileged plutocrats proof/justification of their superior genetics and/or gods' will/punishment of the diseased and poor.

Listening to USA news' dogma-spewing talking-heads is like a standup comic show with tragedy-spin made into politically-correct palatable (a/o by god) excuses, most of US are not laughing, because the scripted humour is sick/dark and well beyond the understanding of most (not all) publicly educated folks and many privately educated people are just simple minded or well inbreed idiots.

"Open" real Democracy, Capitalism, Learning ... will cure all public problems. All other known/used (possibly labelled democracy, capitalism, learning ...) variations/models of government (secular/religious), economics (welfare/communism), education (NCLB/rote...) are surely public failures and valuable private purpose successes.

"Open" source code, Democracy, Capitalism, Learning ... is proving to be the last bastions of Freedom and Capitalism in the Western Cultures. "Open" source code demands creativity and innovation to be competitive in an "Open" "Free" capitalist economy, and provides a non-government/UN economic engine for development in third world countries by wealth growth levelling of economic conditions.

Present patent and copyrights laws are industrial-age legacy systems supporting corporate-welfare and oppressing creativity, innovation, discovery, and economic growth.

The Western Cultures are slaughtering their only real-value cash cows, because dogma-safe is not creative-risk. US/EU world-bank global economic theory fails to understand and defeat dogma-economics, and accepts fear and retreat in to the status-quo of industrial age bad-economic.

Damn, my chaotic writing skills to hell! Anyone out there know how to write this stuff in English or any language? Take it it is yours, I don't want it any damn more after it gets out of my head.

!HAVEFUN!

FCW Insider: Are feds overpaid?
By Christopher J. Dorobek
Published on July 2, 2008 - 08:10 AM
http://www.fcw.com/blogs/editor/153022-1.html

Are feds overpaid? Yes, according to the Cato Institute's Will Wilkinson http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/about/

Do I (what about you?) get over compensated/paid ...?

My view: Compared to all politicians, C*Os, clergy ... considering the global, domestic, economic, infrastructure, environment ... conditions; Well, I would answer with a resounding definite NO (maybe NFW). Probably the same (no) for most pro-entertainers (news, movie, sports, TV/radio...). Then again, for the standup-comics on national/local/dogma spin-news a resounding definite NFW (like Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Ollie North ... PBS is developing a few more for US).

Well compared to almost all our Teachers considering public school conditions, our Warriors and FBI/CIA/... Field-Agents knowing their genuine patriotic commitment to US, Police and FireFighters every day life commitment to US families and folks, the wild weekend/holiday ER Nurses/Doctors/Staff, EMTs, extreme-rescuers, migrant farm workers ... I may be more than slightly over compensated.

In some ways, I worry, if we did fairly compensate folks for the value they deliver to USAll (no that can't happen ... politics and all that stuff). How about we just pay those somewhat/sort of altruistic/eleemosynaric (I am amazed, at the amount of responsibility, how cheap then work!) far more from now on, but then like politics, business, religion the quality of service and commitment would with time suffer irreparable harm much like governance of nations, corporations, religions, cities, schools....

I don't teach kids to be good citizens, my life is not the resource preserving "The USA Constitution", national security, our culture.... I am not committed to saving lives as a lifetime career. I cannot be sure, that I would put my life on the line to save the life of another person (definitely not a dog, cat...).

If given the choice to legally and honestly support my self/family as a migrant farm workers, or maybe drug-deal/murder/... for a really good (maybe dangerous) income that gives me and my family a good standard of living in a poor defenceless urban/sub-urban neighbourhood, I would probably be an apparently sociopathic criminal till I died.

Well, I guess, at worse I'll end up in the same hell as most of the politicians, C*Os, clergy ....

My value yard stick for the last 20 years at work has been how much do I $ave. Each year, I look at everything I do in a year that factually (in lump sums) saves money. Most years (not all), I have been able to identify four-times my annual compensation (overhead+pay). My best year was 25-times, I was assigned a complicated $8M (their estimate) IT/LAN/WAN project. In about 6 months (working alone on the technology side) I was able to drop the cost to a little over $5M, meet unit (SUN+Cisco nodal sites, servers, desktops, VTC, VoIP, ...) quantities requirements, improve networking switch selection and performance, all computers had RAM/HDD doubled, CRT monitors were changed to LCD .... The major issue, post delivery in my office, was a US only ACDC adapter for desktop speakers (800*$15=$12K, about 0.2%), All errors in delivery (were resolved) was less than 1% of cost. This year I may get over the $1M mark again. Anyway, no I am not over-paid.

I'll retire soon, 5 or 10 years at most, what I have learned is I cannot improve management (2 of 3) performance. For politicians/management, C*Os, clergy ... only about 1 in 3 deserve far more then they are receiving, because they are doing everything for their compensation, plus the two worthless very popular (highly social skilled) pet-rocks/yes-noders. Due to the 2 of 3 in charge, I suspect/know by experience the 1 of 3 (like Teachers, Warriors...) of Federal Civil Service will be the ones that receive far less (the 2 0f 3 have one job always) than they deserve in compensation.

Anyway, my analysis of Dorobek and Wilkinson (they are paid far too much), they both need to find better ways, not the same old stupid blame-storming way ... get creative, innovative ... don't play politics with critical national problems (that would be treason)... fix the damn infrastructure ASAFP. Also, according to CATO, PLEASE CATO, stop spiting worthless bullshit with valueless great-spin-solutions for politics to waste time and/or money on ... after vetting this BS pile as valid, just send everyone home, shutup and shutdown. CATO, ain't no help ... for US.

The best ethnic joke for 2008 USA politics?

What kind of bird brings a little Europe baby?
          The white stork of Europe.

What kind of bird brings a little Latino baby?
          A beautiful warm pink flamingo.

What kind of bird brings a little African baby?
          The African sacred ibis.

What kind of bird brings a little Asian baby?
          A snow crane of long life.

So; then, What kind of bird brings no baby at all?
          A swallow of course.

I will always prefer to suffer
the repercussions of my conviction,
rather than suffer the oppression
of my persecutors.

What do you feel (if you are a USA Citizen), about defending "The USA Constitution"?

"My Reality (IMO)" only a human (or any sentient) can have creativity proportional to intellect. All IPR laws should be focused on protecting the creative/innovative human/individual freedom, products, livelihood, living standard from plutocrats, corporatist, and/or dogmatists exploitation.

Governments, Religions, Militaries, Schools ... are institutions. Institutions are inanimate social objects initiated and organized with a purpose to facilitate social/community collaboration, services, interests .... Institutions/Organizations either have a public (Government/Military) purpose, or a private (Church/Business) purpose.

The prevailing logic of the Private verses Public relationship will always be to reject the public interest. However, the prevailing logic of the Public verses Private relationship will always be recognition of Private [AKA: Individual] value and rights. Without Public-Private balance democracy and capitalism are but myths spoken of with great fervor, but no values.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) should belong to the original public-individual innovator with inclusive use and value generation, not the private-institution Real Property Rights (RPR) owner with exclusive use and value stagnation.

Real honest competitive Capitalism, Meritocracy, and Democracy would Never, Never, NEVER allow IPR selling.Selling and Buying IPR is exploitation by RPR "feudal" institutions. Human IP should be for lease only to businesses for production, marketing, commercial purposes, but a lease/IPR should never encumber in any way the innovative/creative persons hacking/designing to perfection another wonderful product. Arbitrate a multi-owner-IP lease for production, marketing, commercial purposes.

I buy a media/entertainment product. I use the product (music, book, video ...)
for as long as I want, wherever I want, in any personal (not public) way that I
want, on any type of my personal products/media I want.

At any point, I attempt to use any IPR protected product for (non educational)
personal real/virtual value gain (bar, theater ...) then I must negotiate with
the owner and/or accept binding arbitration as too the appropriate compensations
percentage value of the IPR product added to my innovative, creative, business use.
If I, associates, or others make no real/virtual financial gain, then no added
value no added compensation to the IPR holder of the original product or tax payment.

IPR laws should leverage original ideas/content to induce greater creativity, innovation,
development, evolution, revolution for humanity. IOW: IPR should never prevent fair and
reasonable use of a product. IPR laws need to help create and develop a far better products
and economic growth. If a product is improved/enhanced to provide added value ... then
append the original IPR certificate with secondary IPR certificates that either increase
the total value or stabilizes product value over decades.

Taxes assessed on real property is reasonably easy. Taxing intellectual property is impossible until a point of business transaction occurs. Van Gogh sold pictures for very little compared to the sale of a Van Gogh today. For Van Gogh it was intellectual property which he had in abundance. For the critic, collector, connoisseur ... the Van Gogh painting is real property providing ROI/profit by personal aesthetics appreciation, resale value, and/or egotistical prestige. It would have been best if all Van Gogh paintings had returned to their intellectual creative owner [AKA Van Gogh] estate after a lease lapsed and the owner [AKA Van Gogh] with a Will (or state executor) should have been able to give (tax-free) ownership to other family/friends or museums. Family/friends could sale ownership and pay a sales tax, and Museums could loan, but never sale any art object. Apply to writers (books, movies, code ...), Architects, Engineers, Scientist, sculptures .... Business would lease IPR, produce RPR, and market products for a ROI value, and with total Mod/Hack freedom and Copy-left personal use.