Proclamation: The Era of Dwarfed Government Is Over

As you know I used to be a fan of Washington’s blog but since Trump’s election they have been pretty much out to lunch.  They defend Trump and continue to advocate some of these hysterical economic policies reminiscent of some alarmist far right group.  The National Debt is not a problem.  I would like to propose a slogan.  The era of dwarfed government is over.   Unemployment is down and the deficit is down and economic performance and the stock market continue to rise despite all of the doom and gloom of Washington’s blog.   It has been said on the Shawn Hannity show that it wouldn’t take that much to get the economy really cranking even better than it is now.  But it’s not by getting rid of pollution regulations.  Instead we need the right kind of fiscle stimulus and get the infrastructure rebuilt.  Trump said he wanted to spend money on the infrastructure but then we learned he wants to facilitate the whole thing by tax credits to business to spend money on public works.  I say public works should be public.  There are certain areas such as roads, bridges, and water works, that are part of the public domain.   It’s a mistake to trust the whims of private business to accomplish it.  All we need to do is to NOT cut taxes on the rich, and keep military expences in check.  Even President Eisenhower extolled the values of peace time spending being much more productive than big item military hardware items.   We as a nation need to get over our fear of normalcy, which is to say expansion.  I know this is a difficult concept for the people at Washington’s blog.  Governor Swartzenegger did an about face in January of 2006 when three of his far right measures went down in the polls the previous November.  Now it was the era of expansive government reminiscent of the era of Pat Brown.  There comes a time when we need to get over this economic phobia of big government.   Probably the statement Clinton regrets most is that of “The era of big government is over”.   Instead since then everything seems to be in constant crisis and short supply regardless of what the economy is actually doing.  It doesn’t make sense.  In terms of economic agreements suck as the Trans Pacific Partnership, I’m glad Trump has pulled out of this one.  This agreement along with others strips US courts of their constitutional sovereignty in ways we have elaborated to in the past.  Another area that is proven to stimulate a demand economy is to get the minimum wage up to a livable wage.  I think we should start with twelve dollars an hour and then play it by ear from there.   Clearly the $7.50 minimum wage level isn’t adequate for a living wage.  We know about all of those Wall Mart employees on welfare.  Then there is the matter of wage theft and working “off the clock” or else you’ll get fired.  Once again we need to emplwer workers to give then a means of support a family man needs.   This is what Thom Hartman has always talked about.  Roosevelt’s policies worked for over forty years and there is no reason why Kaynesian ideas can’t continue to serve us well.  

The Federation announced today that they released a Trumpless version of that album which first was announced on Sunday February 26^th, which is “Relics from a Different Age” with the same cover.   Five songs will fill out the remainder of the album but one of them is really short.   We need to think positive thoughts if we can.  Some day it may be that Trump is either successfully impeached or resigns for office, for some excuse of a reason Trump will say is brilliant reasoning.   I looked in the Wikipedia under “hyperbolic geometry”, which was a topic that was suggested to me.  This is their longest article but they also have “saddle plains” and hyperbolic space, and other technical stuff.  I don’t have the mental capacity to understand the concept either, despite their helpful graphs and designs.   If you are talking about a saddle shaped plane this would fall under the general umbrella of curved plains, and this no doubt is a big field with lots of complex math.  Spherical surfaces like with a globe would be a science in its own right.  If you extend a saddle plane to its logical conclusion you would get a donut shaped universe.  It would be the inner side of the innertube or whatever.   But they spoke of circles as if they actually existed in hyperbolic space, but they wouldn’t.  They would all be replaces by hyperbolas, and hyperbolas seen from the outside of the curve.  There is also crystal ball geometry like you get with a fish-eye camera.  All of these kinds of geometry would have their own laws.   But the bottom line thing is that hyperbolic trig doesn’t have degrees as we know them.  So all their theories seem to me to be thrown into a cocked hat.  They aren’t even possible, as I see it.  Instead you could have to base your “geometry” if at all, on some sort of time or “incident” based geometry.  After this I went for snacks in the courtyard and just missed them but then Rene said he was going upstairs to the music class so I went up in the elevator with him and a few others.  I got my lemonade and graham cracker but then Karen tapped me on the shoulder and asked for my name to write down.  As long as I was showing up in her class I had to participate, she said.  But I went back to the computer and caught their radio phone call at ten to eleven.   There no predicted Santa Ana winds today.  

Now this album is available completely Trump-free.  We had to switch out the "Adam and the Ants" track because the previous track was discovered on "Metal Melitia".

RELICS FROM A DIFFERENT AGE Revised and Rel February 29th 2017

Are You Ready To Rock? (Blue Oyster Cult)
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (Almon Brothers)
Prelude / The Temples of Sphyrinx (Rush)
The Last In Line (Ron Dio)
No More Mr. Nice Guy (Alice Cooper)
Silver Spoon (Grace Slick) from a solo album
Fireworks (Blue Oyster Cult)
The Seven Deadly Words (George Carlen)
Julia Dream (Pink Floyd)
Rock and Roll Radio (Billion Dollar Babies)
Ma, Ma, Ma Belle (Electric Light Orchestra)*
The Deadly Yellow Snow (Frank Zappa)
Another One Bites the Dust (Queen)
Love Hungry Man (AC – DC)
King of the World (Steely Dan)

Disk two

Hell Bound Train (George Thorogood)
Midnight Cruiser (Steely Dan)
Am I Going Insane? (Black Sabbath)
Our House (Madness)
Keep Me In Your Mind (Scorpions)
Passion Play (Jethro Tull) (radio edit)
Pretty Penny (Stone Temple Pilots)
Muscle of Love (Alice Cooper)
Ant Music (Adam and the Ants)
Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie (Bob Dylan)
Little Wing (Derek and the Dominoes)
TV Caesar (Procol Herum)

Walking On The Moon (Police)

The Lying's Over (Asia)

Paradise City (Guns and Roses)

The Art of Dying (George Harrison.