Doubts Grow

Doubts grow over wisdom of Ben Bernanke 'super-put'

The early verdict is in on the Fed's $600bn of fresh money through QE. Yields on 30-year Treasury bonds jumped 20 basis points to 4.07pc.

If you think that there are doubts reflect people understand you are deluded or understand falsely.

Doubts grow over wisdom of Bernanke’s move to print money reflects inability to see and understand, not ability to see and understand.

You do not need supernatural powers to see but the facts are before your eyes and what Bernanke is doing is not the answer to the economy’s ills, will exacerbate matters and so it is not doubts grow about wisdom but the move is folly, delusion.

Delusion, cheating and easy way out:

The move by US Fed to print $600 billion in the hope of reviving the economy is delusion, cheating and the easy way out.

Although it takes some work printing or creating all this new paper money, it is the easy way out without doing any work to flood the economy with new money (that has no new asset backing) the punishes savers (foreign and local and therefore is cheating) and it will not work because all the new money will not clear the pile of shit there. You can cover that pile of shit with as much new money as you like but the shit remains and what needs to be done is hard dirty work clearing that pile of shit at your doorstep.

PRINTING MONEY IS THE EASY WAY OUT TO SOLVE YOUR DEBTS, IT DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY MEANINGFUL WORK AND IT PENALIZES THOSE WHO HOLD YOUR CURRENCY AND SO YOU WILL BE PUNISHED BY GOD FOR SHIRKING RESPONSIBILITY. IT WILL NOT WORK BUT WILL MAKE IT WORSE IN MANY WAYS. IT WAS NOT THE LACK OF MONEY THAT IS THE CAUSE OF THE CRISIS AND PRINTING MONEY WILL NOT CURE IT. INSTEAD BANKERS MAY USE THE MONEY TO PLAY THE COMMODITY MARKETS, PROFIT FROM CURRENCY TRADING NEGLECTING THE ECONOMY AND AGAIN REWARD THEMSELVES HANDSOMELY WITH BONUSES.

Hopelessly dangerously deluded:

Faced with mounting trade deficits with the world before the crisis, the Fed and US rationale for inaction was that the US economy would keep expanding that would dwarf and clear these deficits effortlessly.

This turns out to be folly, the economy has stumbled and now the US wants to export its way out of trouble to the world by devaluing its currency to make its goods cheap through various means like printing money.

This is delusion because the world was dependent on exporting to a gluttonous America to prosper and now it turns out that Uncle Sam had no clothes, it was printing worthless pieces of paper to pay for its purchases, the world has been taken for a ride, it is holding pieces of USD that is not worth much and so the rest of the world is much poorer than it thinks so how can it consume more US goods? Even if the world bought more US goods, it will be repaying with those plentiful pieces of paper it got from the US and the US will get nothing in return.

BY RECKLESSLY PRINTING USD FOR ITS PURCHASES FROM THE WORLD, THE US GIVES THE FALSE IMPRESSION IT IS RICHER THAN IT APPEARS AND SIMILARLY THE WORLD IS UNDER THE FALSE IMPRESSION IT IS RICHER THAN IT APPEARS BECAUSE IT HOLDS PLENTY OF VALUABLE USD.

NOW THAT THE US IS FOUND WANTING, THE WORLD IS LEFT HOLDING PLENTY OF PIECES OF USD THAT IS WORTH MUCH LESS THAN IT APPEARS AND THE US IN ADDITION WANTS TO DEVALUE ITS CURRENCY MORE BY PRINTING MORE HOPING THE CHEAPER USD WILL STIMULATE DEMAND FOR US GOODS AND DRIVE IT OUT OF RECESSION.
BUT THE WORLD IS DEPENDENT ON EXPORTING TO A WEALTHY US TO BE PROSPEROUS AND NOW THAT THE US IS FOUND TO BE LESS RICH AS IT APPEARS AND THE WORLD IS LEFT HOLDING USD THAT MAY BE WORTH MUCH LESS, HOW CAN THE WORLD TAKE THE US’ ROLE AS CONSUMER IN CHIEF? EVEN IF THE WORLD CAN BECOME THE CONSUMER IN CHIEF, IT HOLDS PLENTY OF USD THAT WILL BE RETURNED TO THE US AND SO THE US WILL GET NOTHING FOR ITS EXPORTS EXCEPT A RETURN OF THOSE USD OR CANCELLING OF ITS MOUNTAINOUS DEBTS WITH THE WORLD.

What is the point of getting back pieces of paper?

Even if the world can buy more from the US, it will only be returning to the US pieces of USD that the world got from the US.

What is the point of the US getting back pieces of USD? If it wants more it could print more.

Now you may say the US may use those pieces of USD it received returned by the world to buy goods from the world but that would renew its debts with the world that would remain the same.

EVEN IF THE WORLD (WHICH IS NOW POORER BECAUSE THE US CANNOT HONOR THE CURRENCY IT PAID THE WORLD FOR ITS PAST PURCHASES) CAN STEP UP TO BECOME CONSUMER IN CHIEF BY BUYING US GOODS, IT WOULD BE USING USD IT RECEIVED FROM THE US IN PAST TO PAY FOR THOSE PURCHASES. IF THE US WERE TO USE THESE RETURNED USD TO BUY FROM THE WORLD, IT WOULD NOT REDUCE BUT MAINTAIN ITS CURRENT HIGH DEBT LEVELS WITH THE WORLD.

THUS UNTIL THE US WORKED TO REDEEM COMPLETELY ITS MOUNTAINOUS DEBTS IN THE WORLD, IT WILL GET NOTHING FOR ITS LABOURS.

IF THE US USED THE RETURNED USD TO BUY GOODS FROM THE WORLD IT WILL MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO OF STILL BEING IN BIG DEBT TO THE WORLD THAT IS STORING TROUBLE FOR THE FUTURE, NOT RESOLVING IT NOW. THUS UNTIL THE US HAS WIPED OUT ITS MASSIVE DEBTS WITH THE WORLD, IT WILL GET NOTHING FOR ITS EXPORTS EXCEPT PIECES OF PAPER IT FOOLISHLY PRINTED IN THE PAST AS ‘IOUs’.

The US has impossible mountain of debt to climb:

What makes you feel rich and powerful if not true will kill you.

The US foolishly created a mountain of debt with the world by abusing its self appointed role as issuer of reserve currency to the world and now, until it has substantially redeemed the mountain of IOUs in USD it foolishly issued to live extravagantly beyond its means, it cannot meaningful return to full economic health.

And whilst it is whittling down the daunting if not impossible mountain of IOUs with the world, it will get nothing for its exports (it must live on air and water), just pieces of returned USD that if re-used to buy goods from the world will tantamount to maintaining current high unsustainable debt levels.

FOR THE US TO THINK IT CAN EXPORT ITSELF OUT OF TROUBLE IS FOOLISH, UNTIL IT HAS CANCELLED ITS DEBTS WITH THE WORLD IT WILL GET NOTHING FOR ALL ITS LABOR EXPORTING TO THE WORLD, EXCEPT RETURNED WORTHLESS PIECES OF PAPER THAT IF RE-USED TO BUY GOODS FROM THE WORLD, WILL REGENERATE THE DEBTS IT NOW OWES THE WORLD.

Why the future is dim:

Because the US is not as rich as it appears by keep printing to buy, the world too is poorer than it thinks because the USD it holds may be worth much less if not nothing.

Thus with the US as the leader of the pack of the heedless with its mirage of wealth way in excess of what is true, the world too was living beyond its means. Unless you believe you can go on living forever beyond your means, if you have to revert to living within your means, it must mean a considerable lowering of your standard of living.

IF IT IS TRUE THE US MISLEAD THE WORLD AND SO TOGETHER THE US AND WORLD WAS LIVING BEYOND THEIR MEANS, IT MEANS THAT A TIME WILL COME WHEN IT CAN NO LONGER BE SUSTAINED AND THE WORLD MUST REVERT TO LIVING WITHIN ITS MEANS AND THIS AUTOMATICALLY MEANS LEAN TIMES EVEN DEPRESSION IF THE EXCESSES ARE SEVERE AND THE EARTH IS SICK AND RAVAGED AND CAN NO LONGER SUSTAIN THE EXPANDING HUMAN POPULATION.

Right concentration is higher states of the mind:

Right concentration, a factor in the Buddha’s eightfold noble path, is simply higher states of the mind, whoever has achieved a higher state of the mind has right concentration compared to someone who hasn’t.

According to the Buddha, there is right and wrong concentration and all emotional people have wrong concentration that is the way to woe even for an eternity.

Thus the person who has developed and is consummate in attaining serenity of mind and body with discursive thinking has right concentration compared to the person who hasn’t.

The person who has developed and is consummate in attaining a state of mind wherein thinking has stopped and the mind is one pointed focussed on the present has right concentration compared to the person who hasn’t.

The person who has developed and is consummate in attaining a state of mind wherein he neither likes nor dislikes, his mental force is not stirred attractively or repulsively, has right concentration compared to the person who hasn’t.

The person who has developed and is consummate in attaining a state of mind wherein he experiences neither pain nor pleasure has right concentration compared to the person who hasn’t.

Experiencing neither pain nor pleasure is higher right concentration compared to neither liking nor disliking which is in turn higher than singularity of mind without thinking which is higher than serenity of mind and body with thinking.

IF YOU ARE SUFFERING AND DESIRE AN EXIT TO SUFFERING YOU MUST DEVELOP RIGHT CONCENTRATION AND THAT MEANS SERENITY OF MIND AND BODY PROGRESSING TO NO THINKING TO NEITHER LIKE NOR DISLIKE TO FINALLY NEITHER PAIN NOR PLEASURE. THIS AND ONLY THIS IS TRUE RIGHT CONCENTRATION, ANYTHING ELSE IS DELUSION THAT LEADS TO INSANITY.

THE HIGHER STATES OF THE MIND IS ALL ABOUT CONCENTRATION AND THE HIGHER YOUR CONCENTRATION THE MORE WISE YOU BECOME. BEFORE YOU CAN BECOME CONCENTRATED YOU MUST DEVELOP GREAT VIRTUE (NO STEALING, KILLING, LIES, GOSSIP, DRINKING AND SEX).

US new jobs figure beats expectations

US new jobs figure exceeds not beat expectations and it reflects their propensity for force and lack of true understanding, they use ‘beat’ not accidentally but deliberately.

YOU THINK IT IS A MATTER OF NO SIGNIFICANCE BUT YOU MAY HAVE WRONG UNDERSTANDING THAT IS THE WAY TO HELL OR THE ANIMAL WOMB. AS JESUS SAID, YOU WILL BE JUDGED (AND PUNISHED) FOR EVERY CARELESS WORD YOU SAY. IF ‘BEAT’ DOES NOT APPLY, ‘EXCEED’ APPLIES AREN’T YOU MAD TO USE ‘BEAT’?

You have shed your own blood greater than the four oceans:

5. The Blessed One said: ßMonks, without an end is the train of existence, a beginning cannot be pointed out of beings enveloped in ignorance and bound by craving, running from one existence to another.

6. ßMonks, what is more, the blood you have shed on account of the neck being severed from the body in this long journey in existences running from one existence to another, or the water in the four great oceans?û

7. ßVenerable sir, as the Blessed One has taught us the blood we have shed on account of the neck being severed from the body in this long journey in existences running from one existence to another, is more than the water in the four great oceans.û

8. ßExcellent! Monks, you know the Teaching as taught by me.

9. ßIndeed monks, the blood you have shed on account of the neck being severed from the body in this long journey in existences running from one existence to another, is more than the water in the four great oceans.

10. ßMonks, you have long experienced the severing of the neck from the body and the shedding of blood when you were born as cattle, that blood is more than the water in the four great oceans.

11. ßMonks, you have long experienced the severing of the neck from the body and the shedding of blood when you were born as buffaloes, that blood is more than the water in the four great oceans.

12. ßMonks, you have long experienced the severing of the neck from the body and the shedding of blood when you were born as sheep, that blood is more than the water in the four great oceans.

13. ßMonks, ... re ... born as goats ... re ...

14. ßMonks, ... re ... born as deer... re ...

15. ßMonks, ... re ... born as fowl ... re ...

16. ßMonks, ... re ... born as pigs..... re ...

17. ßMonks, you have long experienced the severing of the neck from the body and the shedding of blood when you were taken as robbers who destroy villages, that blood is more than the water in the four great oceans ...

18. ßMonks, you have long experienced the severing of the neck from the body and the shedding of blood when you were taken as robbers who wait in ambush, that blood is more than the water in the four great oceans ...

19. ßMonks, you have long experienced the severing of the neck from the body and the shedding of blood when you were taken as robbers who went to other wives that blood is more than the water in the four great oceans ...

20. ßWhat is the reason? Monks, without an end is the train of existence, a beginning cannot be pointed out, of beings enveloped in ignorance and bound by craving, running from one existence to another.

ßMonks, it is suitable that you should turn away from all determinations, fade and be released from them.û

21. The Blessed One said thus and those monks delighted in the words of the Blessed One.

22. When this discourse was given the thirty monks of Pava experienced the release of their minds from desires without holdings.

She will go mad:

It is objective, cannot be disputed, what she is doing, launching herself into a drive of a golf ball is totally meaningless, achieves no true purpose (even if there is a million in prize on offer) and so she is practicing controlled insanity because of delusion that it is full of meaning, is stylish or to beat others and make money greedily.

NOT ONLY IS HITTING A GOLF BALL TOTALLY MEANINGLESS, IT IS ALWAYS DONE BY EMOTIONAL PEOPLE WITH AN INDIVIDUAL CONSISTENT REHASHED STYLE THAT HAS SIMILARITY AND DIFFERENCES FROM OTHERS AND THIS STYLE TOO IS MEANINGLESS JUST AS THE STYLE FREE GOLF SWING IS MEANINGLESS AND BECAUSE YOU AND THEY PERCEIVE IT AS FULL OF MEANING, YOU HAVE WRONG UNDERSTANDING THAT IS THE WAY TO INSANITY.

Bernanke does not understand money:

Mankind and Bernanke are obsessed with money yet they do not understand the nature of money.

The USD is itself a worthless piece of paper that does not cost much to print and if you like you can print trillions of them.

It is the store of value that each dollar presents in a portable medium that can be easily carried and exchanged to facilitate business that is important, not the piece of paper.

Hence the value of each dollar should be treated with respect, should not be debased. By printing lots of new money you are debasing the value of that currency such that people may lose faith in it and you may be delivering the death knell to the currency.

PRINTING MORE MONEY DOES NOT INCREASE THE WEALTH THAT THE MONEY IN EXISTENCE REPRESENTS BUT IT DILUTES AND DEBASE THE VALUE OF EXISTING CURRENCY AND SO IT IS A FORM OF ROBBERY.

ALL ALONG THE US (AND THE REST OF THE WORLD) HAS BEEN PRINTING MORE AND MORE MONEY THAT IS WORTHLESS TO PAY FOR ITS PURCHASES, ONLY THEN IT WAS MORE GRADUAL AND SURREPTITIOUS. NOW THINGS ARE DESPERATE AND THE FED HAS RESORTED TO OPEN MASSIVE PRINTING IN THE MISGUIDED EASY NO WORK DONE ANSWER TO DEBT PROBLEMS.

Force is the nemesis of concentration:

Whoever you are, the less concentrated your mind, the more you suffer, the more concentrated your mind, the less you suffer.

And suffering is not just suffering but addictive or conditioning and so if you permit your mind to suffer (by condoning exposure to force either self or other generated), you are (foolishly) setting yourself up for future greater suffering.

AND IT IS FORCE EXPOSURE EITHER SELF GENERATED OR EXTRINSIC THAT IS THE NEMESIS OF A MIND’S CONCENTRATION. THE MORE A MIND IS EXPOSED TO FORCE (AND NOTHING ELSE) THE LESS CONCENTRATED IT IS, THE MORE SUFFERING IT EXPERIENCES AND IS STORING FOR FUTURE SUFFERING. SO THE WISE PERSON, ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE, WILL PAY ATTENTION TO THE PRESENCE AND STIRRING OF FORCE IN HIS MIND AND METICULOUSLY WEED OUT FORCE FOR THE SAKE OF NO SUFFERING NOW AND IN THE FUTURE.

Thus the higher states of the minds are all about increasing concentration which of necessity means decreasing exposure to force.

Without reduced usage of force by quitting style or the incessant mad use of force to stretch syllables, change speed and loudness you cannot attain the first higher state of mind or serenity of mind and body with discursive thinking.

Without using force you cannot think or mentally talk to yourself and so the man who has stopped thinking has eliminated the incessant activation of force to greedily, restlessly think and this enables his mind to become one pointed or singular or united and that is increased concentration compared to a diffused thinking mind.

THE CESSATION OF THINKING THAT CHARACTERISES THE SECOND HIGHER STATE OF MIND IS SIMPLY THE FURTHER CESSATION OF THE APPLICATION OF FORCE ON THE MIND MANDATED BY THINKING AND THIS ENABLES THE MIND TO BECOME MORE CONCENTRATED OR SINGULAR OR UNIFIED.

If your mind is neither stirred attractively or repulsively by whatever you see, hear, smell, taste or touch, it is again a higher level of dissociation from force that further lifts the concentration of that mind.

IF A MIND IS NEITHER STIRRED IN FORCE ATTRACTIVELY OR REPULSIVELY BY EVENTS, IT IS A HIGHER DISSOCIATION FROM FORCE THAT ACCORDS AN EVEN HIGHER CONCENTRATION AND THIS ESSENTIALLY IS THE THIRD HIGHER STATE OF MIND.

When a person’s mind is tuned by him to even not experience or receive force input externally that is the crucial ingredient of pain and pleasure it represents an even higher dissociation from force.

IN THE THIRD HIGHER STATE, THE PERSON IS JUST NOT STIRRING HIS MENTAL FORCE TO LIKE OR DISLIKE, IN THE FOURTH HIGHER STATE, HE DOES NOT EVEN PASSIVELY RECEIVE FORCE INPUT FROM OTHERS THAT IS NECESSARY TO FEEL PAIN AND PLEASURE. IT IS CONTACT WITH FORCE (WHEN MILD TO MODERATE) THAT GIVES PLEASURE AND IT IS CONTACT WITH SEVERE FORCE THAT GIVES PAIN AND SO THE PERSON WHO HAS ACHIEVED THE FOURTH HIGHER STATE HAS TUNED HIS CONSCIOUSNESS OUT OF RECEIVING ALL FORCE AND THIS IS THE HIGHEST COMPLETE DISSOCIATION FROM FORCE.

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE EVIL OF FORCE, IT IS FORCE THAT DETERMINES THE CONCENTRATION OF A PERSON’S MIND AND THE MORE EXPOSED YOUR MIND IS TO FORCE, THE LESS CONCENTRATED YOUR MIND AND MORE YOU SUFFER. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.

Bernanke defends Fed economy plan:

If you perceive the statement is sensible you have false understanding.

You never defend a plan but you explain what the plan is, what its objectives are and how it will be achieved. Whence is there need to defend? Because ‘defend’ is the wrong blind approach, it is controlled insanity that ends in insanity.

If you have a plan and you follow it, you are a slave or robot of that plan. If you think God and higher beings need plans before they can act you may be deluded. A person who sees truly does not need plans, does not act according to plans which is making yourself a robot.

IF YOU AGREE YOU HAVE AN ECONOMY PLAN THAT YOU FORMULATED AND NOW YOU ARE ACTING ACCORDING TO THE PLAN YOU ARE ADMITTING YOU ARE A ROBOT OF THE PLAN. IF YOU PERCEIVE THAT SURELY YOU MUST PLAN AND ACT ACCORDING TO PLAN YOU HAVE WRONG UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE YOU CAN ACT CORRECTLY WITHOUT THINKING OR PLANNING. GOD MAY NOT PLAN AND ACT ACCORDING TO PLANS LIKE YOU.

What kind of plan is it that includes reckless money printing? If the Fed has a plan it is a deluded or false or misguided plan and so he is defending a false plan.

HAS HE CLEARLY TOLD THE PUBLIC WHAT HIS PLAN IS AND HOW IT WILL WORK? IF HE HAS NOT BUT HE IS DEFENDING IT, THEN HE IS A FOOL WHO HAS PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE. EXPLAIN FIRST BEFORE YOU DEFEND AND IF YOUR PLAN IS RATIONAL, YOU MAY NOT NEED TO DEFEND IT.

Cannot tell your plans?

There are many who falsely perceive that their plans must be kept secret, cannot be revealed otherwise others might sabotage or render it unworkable.

If that is the case, your plan is dependent on subterfuge, on deceiving others and so it is a false plan dependent on deceiving others.

THUS IF THE FEDS’ PLANS CANNOT BE REVEALED TO THE PUBLIC, MUST BE KEPT SECRET, IT MEANS IT IS A FALSE PLAN DEPENDENT ON DECEPTION, ON DECEIVING THE MARKETS AND OTHER NATIONS.

Secret plans means karma:

If your plans must be kept secret it means it is dependent on deception and that means whatever you may gain you are setting yourself up for karma, for future suffering.

IF YOUR PLANS MUST BE KEPT SECRET, IT MEANS IT IS DEPENDENT ON DECEPTION AND SO WHATEVER YOUR GAINS, THERE WILL BE PAIN IN THE FUTURE DUE YOU. DECEPTION IS THE ROOT TO INSANITY AND SO INSANITY AWAITS THE DECEIVER APART FROM OTHER SUFFERING FOR DECEIVING OTHERS.

Why are their eyes closed when kissing?

It is virtually universal in this world that whenever couples kiss, their eyes are closed. The reason is they are closing their eyes to their mutual deceit, giving themselves up to their stirred passion which is about blind harmful force and are engaged in deception in the name of sensory or material gains.

IT IS PRESUMPTUOUS TO THINK THAT HEAVENLY BEINGS WILL ALSO CLOSE THEIR EYES WHEN THEY KISS BUT THE CLOSED EYES IS A REFLECTION OF THE DECEIT AND SUBMISSION TO DECEIT THAT IS COMMON IN ALL ACTS OF PASSION HERE.

THERE IS NO REASON WHY EYES MUST BE CLOSED IN INTIMATE KISSING BUT THE REASON IS BECAUSE IF WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS KILLING YOURSELF AND OTHERS, LEADS YOURSELF AND THE OTHER INTO DEATH AND SUFFERING, IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE THAT YOU MUST CLOSE YOUR EYES AND TRY NOT SEE IT.

No need to defend, just explain:

The US economic plan does not need anyone or Bernanke to defend, what it needs is to be explained what it is about, what its objectives are and how you intend to go about achieving it.

THUS ANYONE WHO SPEAKS OF DEFENDING THE ECONOMIC PLAN IS DELUDED, BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE AND FACING FUTURE INSANITY.

America is a banana republic:

Our Banana Republic

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

In my reporting, I regularly travel to banana republics notorious for their inequality. In some of these plutocracies, the richest 1 percent of the population gobbles up 20 percent of the national pie.

But guess what? You no longer need to travel to distant and dangerous countries to observe such rapacious inequality. We now have it right here at home — and in the aftermath of Tuesday’s election, it may get worse.

The richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of income, up from almost 9 percent in 1976. As Timothy Noah of Slate noted in an excellent series on inequality, the United States now arguably has a more unequal distribution of wealth than traditional banana republics like Nicaragua, Venezuela and Guyana.

C.E.O.’s of the largest American companies earned an average of 42 times as much as the average worker in 1980, but 531 times as much in 2001. Perhaps the most astounding statistic is this: From 1980 to 2005, more than four-fifths of the total increase in American incomes went to the richest 1 percent.

That’s the backdrop for one of the first big postelection fights in Washington — how far to extend the Bush tax cuts to the most affluent 2 percent of Americans. Both parties agree on extending tax cuts on the first $250,000 of incomes, even for billionaires. Republicans would also cut taxes above that.

The richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers would get a tax cut of $61,000 from President Obama. They would get $370,000 from Republicans, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. And that provides only a modest economic stimulus, because the rich are less likely to spend their tax savings.

At a time of 9.6 percent unemployment, wouldn’t it make more sense to finance a jobs program? For example, the money could be used to avoid laying off teachers and undermining American schools.

Likewise, an obvious priority in the worst economic downturn in 70 years should be to extend unemployment insurance benefits, some of which will be curtailed soon unless Congress renews them. Or there’s the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, which helps train and support workers who have lost their jobs because of foreign trade. It will no longer apply to service workers after Jan. 1, unless Congress intervenes.

So we face a choice. Is our economic priority the jobless, or is it zillionaires?

And if Republicans are worried about long-term budget deficits, a reasonable concern, why are they insistent on two steps that nonpartisan economists say would worsen the deficits by more than $800 billion over a decade — cutting taxes for the most opulent, and repealing health care reform? What other programs would they cut to make up the lost $800 billion in revenue?

In weighing these issues, let’s remember that backdrop of America’s rising inequality.

In the past, many of us acquiesced in discomfiting levels of inequality because we perceived a tradeoff between equity and economic growth. But there’s evidence that the levels of inequality we’ve now reached may actually suppress growth. A drop of inequality lubricates economic growth, but too much may gum it up.

Robert H. Frank of Cornell University, Adam Seth Levine of Vanderbilt University, and Oege Dijk of the European University Institute recently wrote a fascinating paper suggesting that inequality leads to more financial distress. They looked at census data for the 50 states and the 100 most populous counties in America, and found that places where inequality increased the most also endured the greatest surges in bankruptcies.

Here’s their explanation: When inequality rises, the richest rake in their winnings and buy even bigger mansions and fancier cars. Those a notch below then try to catch up, and end up depleting their savings or taking on more debt, making a financial crisis more likely.

Another consequence the scholars found: Rising inequality also led to more divorces, presumably a byproduct of the strains of financial distress. Maybe I’m overly sentimental or romantic, but that pierces me. It’s a reminder that inequality isn’t just an economic issue but also a question of human dignity and happiness.

Mounting evidence suggests that losing a job or a home can rock our identity and savage our self-esteem. Forced moves wrench families from their schools and support networks.

In short, inequality leaves people on the lower rungs feeling like hamsters on a wheel spinning ever faster, without hope or escape.

Economic polarization also shatters our sense of national union and common purpose, fostering political polarization as well.

So in this postelection landscape, let’s not aggravate income gaps that already would make a Latin American caudillo proud. To me, we’ve reached a banana republic point where our inequality has become both economically unhealthy and morally repugnant.

Has Microsoft got one over Apple?

Unless you want to go mad, you never do anything to get one over another nor do you perceive thus if you happen to beat Apple or win on this occasion. The true genuine reason for doing something, example creating a new product is because it is needed, serves a function, not to get one over another company nor should one gloat that one has got one over Apple should one’s current product be superior to Apple’s.

HENCE IF IT IS TRUE MICROSOFT’S PURPOSE IS TO GET ONE OVER APPLE OR IT CELEBRATED GETTING ONE OVER APPLE ON THIS OCCASION THEN IT IS INDULGING IN CONTROLLED MADNESS. IF NOTHING IF THIS HAPPENED AND YOU AS REPORTER PERCEIVED IT AS MICROSOFT GETTING ONE OVER APPLE THEN YOU ARE FABRICATING AND TRAINING YOURSELF TO PERCEIVE FALSELY THAT ‘GOT ONE OVER’ HAPPENED WHEN IT DID NOT HAPPEN.

IT IS MAD OR NOT APPROPRIATE TO SPEAK OF GETTING ONE OVER, IT IS ALL ABOUT EMOTION, REVENGE OR BEATING ANOTHER AND SO WHOEVER SPEAKS OF THIS OR WHO IS MOTIVATED BY ‘GETTING ONE OVER’ IS HEADED FOR SUFFERING.

Mad reasons for doing things:

These are mad reasons for doing or saying something that will end in the person’s insanity.

Saying or doing things to: a) Impress others b) to please others c) to be stubborn or because of pride or shame d) to intimidate and dominate others, e) to beat others f) for revenge or get one back g) to be funny or make others laugh.

If you say or do things for the above reasons, you are courting insanity and will get it. It is impossible you will not go mad.

The true purpose for saying or doing something is if it is meaningful, serves a purpose, is beneficial to self and others. If you always say or do things according to such criteria it is impossible you will go mad.

Whatever can be done can be stopped:

If it is possible for people to do something and it is a source of severe suffering then it may also be possible to stop it, just because you and everyone here cannot stop doing it does not mean it is impossible but it means you are lowly or unskilful.

Hence if it is possible for beings here to constantly stretch syllables or units of motion, change speed and loudness or strength of force (and this is the source of their renewing insoluble stress, restlessness and distraction), then it may be possible for a person who is skilful and discerning to stop stretching syllables, change speed and loudness and this automatically is the first higher state of mind that accords that being one Age or eon in heaven apart from liberating him from the cudgel of stress, restlessness and distraction here. Not only is it possible, I have stopped stretching syllables, changing speed and loudness to experience the incomparable relief from suffering.

Again if it is possible for you to think and you are helplessly thinking all the time causing distress and sleeplessness then it may be possible to fully conscious going about daily activity stop thinking and this is a superior state to exist in and is automatically the second higher state of mind as taught by the Buddha and accords the being two eternities of Ages in heaven. I have achieved ‘no thinking’ and experienced the incomparable sanity of not thinking all the time.

If you and everyone here are liking and disliking all the time, stirring your mental forces attractively and repulsively all the time it may be possible for a skilful discerning being to achieve neither liking nor disliking, neither stirring his mental force attractively or repulsively at whatever happens and that automatically is the third higher state of mind that gives four eternities in heaven.

BECAUSE YOU AND EVERYONE CONSTANTLY USE FORCE TO STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND STRENGTH IT MAY BE AND IS POSSIBLE FOR A BEING TO STOP DOING THESE.

BECAUSE YOU AND EVERYONE HERE CONSTANTLY THINK, CANNOT STOP THINKING, IT MAY BE POSSIBLE FOR A BEING TO TRAIN HIMSELF TO STOP THINKING AND THIS IS A HIGHER STATE OF MIND THAT GIVES BLISS HERE AND TWO AGES IN HEAVEN.

BECAUSE YOU AND EVERYONE HERE STIR YOUR MENTAL FORCES ATTRACTIVELY AND REPULSIVELY TO LIKE AND DISLIKE IT MAY BE POSSIBLE TO NEITHER LIKE NOR DISLIKE.

THE FACT THAT YOU CANNOT SHED YOUR STYLE (PROLONGING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS), CANNOT STOP THINKING AND CANNOT HELP LIKING AND DISLIKING DOES NOT MEAN IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, IT REFLECTS YOU ARE A SLAVE NOT MASTER OF YOURSELF, YOU ARE LOWLY NOT HIGH AS YOU THINK AND YOU ARE TRAPPED IN SUFFERING HERE AND EVEN FOR MANY ETERNITIES TO COME.

Our tactics worked, says Chua

KUALA LUMPUR: Barisan Nasional won both Galas and Batu Sapi by-elections because the 1Malaysia concept has been better explained to the rakyat, said MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek.

What he and readers understand falsely is that what he said is not wrong but even right when he is admitting he is a schemer employing ruses and ploys just to win votes and rather than harmless, all tacticians are headed for woe.

IF YOU ADMIT TO TACTICS TO WIN YOU ARE ADMITTING TO UNDERHAND AND UNFAIR METHODS TO WIN. IF YOUR TACTICS WORKED, IT MEANS YOUR SCHEMES OR PLOYS TO UNFAIRLY WIN VOTES SUCCEEDED. THIS IS AN ADMISSION OF SIN AND IT REFLECTS WRONG UNDERSTANDING ON HIS PART AND THE AUDIENCE WHEN THEY SEE NOTHING WRONG, SEE IT IS OK TO HAVE TACTICS IN AN ELECTION. IF YOU MUST HAVE TACTICS, HEAVEN IS NOT THE PLACE FOR YOU AND YOU ARE HEADED FOR HAVING YOUR NECK CUT, SPILLING YOUR OWN BLOOD GREATER THAN THE 4 GREAT OCEANS.

Exam tactics:

There many who boast about their exam tactics like spotting questions and formats of answers perceived to be liked by invigilators, etc.

The purpose of tactics is to pass exams at all costs eg quickly finish easy questions then return to harder questions, not to supply correct answers or answer questions as correctly as possible.

THE PURPOSE OF TACTICS IS TO ACHIEVE OBJECTIVES EG TO WIN AT ALL COSTS, AND IT IS SOMETHING SEPARATE FROM THE ENTERPRISE THAT IS PURSUED DRIVEN BY GREED FOR GAIN.

IF YOU ARE NOT OBSESSED WITH PASSING EXAMS AT ALL COSTS, YOU WOULD NOT CREATE AND FOLLOW TACTICS EG HOW TO SIT FOR AN EXAM.

Tactics to win a girl or man:

There are tactics people employ to win a girl eg things to say and not to say, presents to buy, where to take her, how to impress her parents, etc.

All these are evil and contrived, calculated to win at all costs.

THUS ALL TACTICS ARE EVIL, UNFAIR AND IF YOU THINK THERE ARE GOOD TACTICS YOU MAY BE DELUDED AND THEREFORE ANYONE BOASTING ABOUT HIS SUCCESSFUL TACTICS IS DELUDED AND A FOOL THAT YOU TRUST AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Only robots have tactics:

What is the use of formulating and having tactics if you do not follow them?

If you follow tactics, you must submit and be a slave carrying out those tactics as faithfully as possible and so you are committing yourself to being a robot and it is never a pleasure but tormenting to be a robot.

What is a tactic?

A tactic is a course of action or word that is not intended as it, not meant as it is but to achieve a goal usually unstated.

Thus when a football team is winning it tries the tactic of wasting time by taking inordinate time to take free kicks, rub the ball, polish the ball. It is not because it takes so much time to take the free kick or he needs to polish or place and replace the ball but it is to waste time.

Again, someone may engage someone in conversation to detain him until police arrived, as when private detective was told to talk and keep Altanturya there until police arrived. It is not because Subra has a need to talk to her but it is a tactic to detain her.

Thus all tactics are evil, to serve unrighteous intents that is at variance with the stated purpose of that tactic.

Further a tactic is a plan that you must remember and rehash from memory to act accordingly and therefore all tacticians must be robots.

Tactics is a nice word for tricks:

If something done is true, fully intended as it is stated, it is never a tactic. It is only when something done is false, deceptive, not intended as stated but for another nefarious, evil purpose, driven by greed or hate that it is called a tactic which is a sanitized term for ‘trick’. A tactic is a trick to gain unfair advantage.

Thus the use of inordinate time to take a free kick, passing the ball aimlessly between players and kicking it into the stands is not as intended but to waste time and so it is a tactic to waste time.

Military strategists or tacticians speak of diversion tactics, to launch feigned attacks in one direction when the actual onslaught is at another direction.

Because tactics is about cheating, every time you employ tactics, you are training yourself to cheat to get what you want and that is the way to eternal punishment not heavenly bliss and eternal life.

TACTICS IS A NICE WORD TO MEAN TRICK AND ALL TRICKSTERS ARE HEADED FOR PUNISHMENT APART FROM INSANITY BECAUSE IF YOU DO NOT MEAN WHAT YOU DO YOU ARE ALSO DECEIVING YOURSELF THAT WILL END IN LOSS OF CONTROL AND INSANITY PLUS ETERNAL PUNISHMENT BY GOD. THE FACT THAT YOU THINK YOU ARE SMART AND ADMIRABLE BOASTING ABOUT YOUR SUCCESSFUL TACTICS REFLECTS DELUSION, YOU ARE A FOOL HEADED FOR THE TORMENT OF INSANITY FOR PRACTICING TACTICS AND THENCE ETERNAL PUNISHMENT.

The tactic of mnemonics:

In the name of greedily wanting to pass exams, people invent mnemonics to help them remember (by mechanical rote) things.

Thus they coin such mnemonics like ‘MAST’, ‘IBM’ with each letter standing for one entity, eg the four causes of diabetes are MAST with each letter a prompt for one cause.

You may think it is fair but you are cheating, it is not because you know the four causes of diabetes but you mechanically recorded it with such mnemonics as an aid to regurgitation, not without purpose but to pass exams or impress your consultant.

A PERSON WHO TRULY UNDERSTANDS THE CAUSES OF DIABETES SEES AND KNOWS THEM AND CAN REMEMBER THEM, IT IS A PERSON WHO IS GREEDY TO DO WELL, WHO IS UNSCRUPULOUS WHO WILL COIN MNEMONICS TO ENSURE HE WILL MECHANICALLY BY ROTE REGURGITATE OUT THE FOUR CAUSES.

Not the same:

If you think it makes no difference whether you can tell the four causes of diabetes or you need mnemonics to rehash then you have wrong understanding.

For a person who regurgitates the four causes of diabetes as MAST, M for blah, blah, blah, A for tah, tah, tah, S for tit, tit, tit, etc, he is rigid, he always reels out the causes with M followed by A followed by S and lastly T. But these four causes may be independent of each other and A may be more important that M and so reproducing MAST as the four causes of diabetes is a faked, inflexible rendition than requires no understanding, merely parroting.

Does the Buddha need mnemonics?

There are many instances where the Buddha lists eg the five hindrances, the five lower and upper fetters, the seven treasures. Does he need to memorize by heart and require mnemonics to recall them?

Why is that so that he does not require mnemonics?

It is because he is not a robot, he fully sees and penetrates the nature of the subject at hand which is why he does not need the crutch of mnemonics and he effortlessly lists without omissions, the seven treasures.

Dhana Sutta: Treasure

"Monks, there are these seven treasures. Conviction, virtue, conscience, concern, listening, generosity, discernment.

"And what is the treasure of conviction? There is the case where a noble disciple is convinced of the Tathagata's Awakening.

"And what is the treasure of virtue? There is the case where a noble disciple abstains from taking life, stealing, illicit sexual conduct, lying, taking intoxicants.

"And what is the treasure of conscience? There is the case where a noble disciple feels shame at [the thought of engaging in] bodily / verbal / mental misconduct. This is called the treasure of conscience.

"And what is the treasure of concern? There is the case where a noble disciple feels concern for [the suffering that results from] bodily, verbal, mental misconduct.

"And what is the treasure of listening? There is the case where a noble disciple has heard much, has retained what he/she has heard.

"And what is the treasure of generosity? There is the case of a noble disciple, his awareness cleansed of stinginess, living at home, freely generous, openhanded, delighting in the distribution of alms.

"And what is the treasure of discernment? There is the case where a noble disciple is discerning, endowed with discernment of arising & passing away -- noble, penetrating, leading to the right ending of stress.

These, monks, are the seven treasures.
Whoever, man or woman, has these treasures
is said not to be poor, has not lived in vain.

What has mast got to do with diabetes?

A person who uses mnemonics to aid memory is cultivating false associations that lead to insanity.

For instance if he remembers the four causes of diabetes as MAST and pictures a mast when the question of the four causes of diabetes arises, he is training himself to falsely associate the 4 causes of diabetes with mast or flag pole.

A MNEMONIC IS A FALSE INCIDENTAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE SAKE OF ASSISTING THE PERSON TO REMEMBER SOMETHING. BECAUSE IT IS A FALSE ASSOCIATION YOU ARE TRAINING YOURSELF TO FALSELY ASSOCIATE THAT IS NEVER HARMLESS BUT ENDS IN LOSS OF CONTROL AND MAD ASSOCIATIONS.

The eight thoughts of a great man:

Never use mnemonics to remember anything unless you want to suffer because you need to commit yourself to become a robot and cultivate false associations to do that and mnemonics is a tactic or false enterprise for unrighteous gains.

Again the Buddha is able to add another thought of a great man without need for mnemonics:

Anuruddha Sutta:To Anuruddha

In seclusion, this line of thinking arose in Ven. Anuruddha's awareness: "This Dhamma is for one who is modest, not self-aggrandizing. This Dhamma is for one who is content, not is discontent. This Dhamma is for one who is reclusive, not entangled. This Dhamma is for one whose persistence is aroused, not lazy. This Dhamma is for one whose mindfulness is established, not confused. This Dhamma is for one whose mind is centered, not uncentered. This Dhamma is for one endowed with discernment, not whose discernment is weak."

Then the Blessed One, realizing with his awareness the line of thinking in Ven. Anuruddha's awareness disappeared from among the Bhaggas, and re-appeared right in front of Ven. Anuruddha. The Blessed One said to him, "Good, Anuruddha. It's good that you think these thoughts of a great person.' Now then, Anuruddha, think the eighth thought of a great person: 'This Dhamma is for one who enjoys & delights in non-complication, not for one who enjoys & delights in complication.'

"Anuruddha, when you think these eight thoughts, then -- whenever you want -- quite withdrawn from sensuality, unskillful qualities, you will enter & remain in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born from withdrawal, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. When you think these eight thoughts, then -- whenever you want -- with the stilling of directed thought and evaluation, you will enter & remain in the second jhana: rapture & pleasure born of composure, unification of awareness free from directed thought & evaluation -- internal assurance...with the fading of rapture, you will remain in equanimity, mindful & alert, physically sensitive to pleasure. You will enter & remain in the third jhana, 'Equanimous and mindful, he has a pleasurable abiding.' When you think these eight thoughts of a great person, then -- whenever you want -- with the abandoning of pleasure & pain, you will enter & remain in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither-pleasure-nor-pain.

"Now, when you think these eight thoughts and become a person who can attain at will, these four jhanas then your robe of cast-off rags will seem just like the clothes chest of a householder, full of clothes of many colors. As you live contented, it will serve for your delight, comfortable abiding, non-agitation, & for alighting on Unbinding.

" your meal of almsfood will seem like the rice of a householder served with a variety of sauces & seasonings...your dwelling at the foot of a tree will seem like the gabled mansion of a householder, your bed on a spread of grass will seem like the couch of a householder .

Then, the Blessed One disappeared and reappeared among the Bhaggas. He sat down and addressed the monks: "Monks, I will teach you the eight thoughts of a great person. "

"'This Dhamma is for one who is modest, not self-aggrandizing.' There is the case where a monk, being modest, does not want it to be known that 'He is modest.' Being content, he does not want it to be known that 'He is content.' Being reclusive, he does not want it to be known that 'He is reclusive.' His mindfulness being established, he does not want it to be known that 'His mindfulness is established.' Being endowed with discernment, he does not want it to be known that 'He is endowed with discernment.' Enjoying non-complication, he does not want it to be known that 'He is enjoying non-complication.'

"'This Dhamma is for one who is content, not for one who is discontent.' There is the case where a monk is content with any old robe cloth at all, any old almsfood, any old lodging, any old medicinal requisites at all.

"'This Dhamma is for one who is reclusive, not entangled.' There is the case where a monk, when living in seclusion, is visited by monks, nuns, lay men, kings. With his mind bent on seclusion, he converses with them only as much is necessary.

"'This Dhamma is for one whose persistence is aroused, not is lazy.' There is the case where a monk keeps his persistence aroused for abandoning unskillful mental qualities and taking on skillful mental qualities. He is steadfast, solid in his effort.

"'This Dhamma is for one whose mindfulness is established, not confused.' There is the case where a monk is mindful, remembering even things that were done & said long ago.

"'This Dhamma is for one whose mind is centered, not for one whose mind is uncentered.' There is the case where a monk, quite withdrawn from sensuality, unskillful mental qualities, enters & remains in the first jhana. With the stilling of directed thought & evaluation, he enters & remains in the second jhana. With the fading of rapture he remains in equanimity, mindful & alert, and physically sensitive of pleasure. He enters & remains in the third jhana.' With the abandoning of pleasure & pain he enters & remains in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity & mindfulness.

"'This Dhamma is for one endowed with discernment, not for one whose discernment is weak.' There is the case where a monk is endowed with discernment of arising & passing away -- leading to the right ending of stress.

"'This Dhamma is for one who enjoys & delights in non-complication, not for one who enjoys & delights in complication.' There is the case where a monk's mind grows confident, firm in the cessation of complication.

Zaid’s unreasonable demand:

Rift in PKR worsens

Datuk Zaid Ibrahim with N. Gobalakrishnan and Mustaffa Kamil Ayub before the press conferenceat his house where he demanded that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Azmin Ali leave the party

Zaid is mad or courting madness in demanding Anwar leave the party. If he is dissatisfied and wants to leave the party it is his right to do so but he is mad and courting madness demanding Anwar to leave the party. Does he own the party? Anwar is one of the founders and so he is either mad or there is some nefarious ulterior motive for him to say so.

There is deadly karma for speaking of something you have no right to speak, demanding Anwar leave the party and it reflects his integrity and sense of propriety that he said so, not guided by reason but driven by emotion.

WHAT HE SAID IS NOT HARMLESS, HE IS UNRIGHTEOUSLY ASKING SOMEONE TO DO SOMETHING, IT IS NONE OF HIS BUSINESS AND HE IS ATTACKING ANWAR WITH GRAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR HIM.

Looks like early elections:

The staged defections not just PKR but also DAP plus Anwar’s trial where he is likely if not certainly will be convicted (they did not come this far to absolve Anwar), are pointers to an early election. Anwar will be jailed and with the opposition painted as in disarray, BN hopes to smother the opposition in the eyes of gullible voters.