Thursday, December 01, 2016

Will Businesses Now Hold the Trump Administration Hostage?


It’s interesting how we use words such as Form and Substance.   Liberals are saying that this getting of Carrier Air Conditioners to remain in the United States in Indiana is all Form and no Substance.  Substance can be used to refer to three entirely different things if you think about it.  First there is the substance of perception.  Can we see and feel and taste something.  Our personal perceptions of an object are called “substance”.  There is another kind of substance, which some might call materiality.  This refers to things like weight and mass and its gravitational field.  This is the “substance” of Einstein’s universe and Einstein’s universe is literally shaped by this form of ether wave involvement.  But there is a third thing we refer to as substance or “materiality” as the court system refers to it.  This is the substance meaning the causing of Events to happen or the effects said events have on other events.  This is what is known as a stream of causality.  We respect people, perhaps even Donald Trump with the ability to “make things happen” or get things done.  Get events done.  As such this type of substance is the most important one to a lot of people, particularly those in the law enforcement and legal professions.  We say “I will make A happen” and “A” happens.  We call this being useful.  Useful people get things done.  Useful people make things happen.  As to the charge that Carrier Air Conditioning is holding the country hostage,  I am not ready to fully embrace this line of left-wing logic just yet.  Give it time.  The line of reasoning goes that if it becomes generally known that all you have to do is to say “We want Donald Trump to meet our tax demands and other corporate favors and if he doesn’t we’re moving to Viet Nam”, and then the Trump administration sees it’s unleashed a monster.  It’s kind of like a hostage situation.  These corporations now hold the nation hostage.  If you don’t meet our demands for safe passage to Costa Rico with a hundred thousand dollars cash we’re blowing up this building and all of the hostages with it”.   Trump has no experience either in politics or in law enforcement.  And I question his expertise in psychology to be able to pull off something like a successful deal.  Trump’s strength hasn’t been so much in “making a good deal” but like Mitt Romney, it’s been in surrounding himself with the “right people” who do his thinking for him and who know the tax and corporate laws well, and is skillful at manipulating them.  But the government is based on a whole different premise rather than “making a profit” or “soaking the system for all it’s worth”.   Willy Brown knew how to manipulate the law to get dangerous felons off from serving any hard time.  We need a different sort of man for president.  We need a man who is FAIR and is a REPRESENTATIVE of all the people.  “The People” are one thing Donald Trump seems to have forgotten completely about.  There are tax laws that are supposed to be fair to ALL of the people.  And you don’t cheat the poor out of their meager savings to add to the already fat wallets of the rich.  This is something Donald Trump seems completely unaware of.  Hence liberals want to democratize corporations with profit sharing plans and different sorts of responsibility chains of command than the old top down pyramid system.  It’s more of an interactive egalitarian exchange.  We don’t know what will happen to the economy with Trump at the helm.  If he going to “Make prosperity happen” the way he made the Currier thing happen.  Or will Trump be exposed as the Emperor who has no clothes?  Only time will tell.

MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE FARM  (Monday)  I weighed all of my options.  I had $3.35 in my account and the instant Nestcafe seemed to be the best option.  I paid for it with my debit card from Ben.  Bill gave me a cigarette.  Before dinner Mario gave me a long white short.   I realize I could have bought cigarettes if I’d done the twenty cent in change thing with a dollar coffee in the morning.   Sylvia brought over a tan blanket for me to put on my bed.  It’s if anything going to be colder tonight.  Larry gave me a short.   Right now I have Eye Witness news on.  We are in “Sunset” but probably won’t be typing this on Thursday.  We are still without heat.  It’s anyone’s guess whether tomorrow Augustine will get the heat going.  “Rogue I” is the latest Star Wars and it takes place between “Revenge of the Sith” and “A New Hope” or episodes three and four.    Did they name a car after it?   Last night Kansas City played the Broncos and I had the game on only a minute or so.  “Eye on LA” featured Union Station and a train ride from Los Angeles to Santa Barbra, and after this a simulated Pan Am flight of forty years ago when Pan Am was in its hay day.   That’s what they said.  Sixty Minutes had this Italian leader who wants to make a Mackavellian grab for more governmental power in Italy.  Then they had a double segment on Alzheimers and these families in the mountains of Columbia with a dominant Alzheimers gene.  They can easily test anyone for that gene now but normal Alzheimers comes from a different gene.  They are testing for plaque on the brain.  Then it was NCIS LA and I dozed off despite having drunk instant coffee.  Bill says to hide that tan blanket or Nora will take it.  I got up at a quarter to six.  I got my medication from Ida this morning and April last night at about 7:35 when I checked.   I had the Rude Pundit on the Stephanie Miller show.  We had Raison Bran for breakfast.  I greedily went to the counter for my bowl from Rico and I crossed the room for milk and juice while my table mates just waited patiently.  We had scrambled eggs and an English muffin and butter and jelly.  The coffee was pretty good and served in a white cup.  I poured myself seconds from the pot in the kitchen.  We’re on the white bar now.   Bill I s back to having meals in his room after seeing down in the dining room a couple of times.  

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