Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Palin 2012: The Stimulus

No one has ever considered it wise, what the Prince did with Helen of Troy. And yet
with Sarah of Alaska, one cannot help believing in her ability to lead this country
out of the dark ages inspired by the lack of precision driven by the first Negro
chief executive. So, on good authority you might declaim that the Palin '12 campaign begins here. Now to the other stimulus.

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America's economy is defined, I challenge Mr. Geithner to dispute, by innovation
driven by the culture of freedom, bounded by America's natural resources in relevant states of development. For example, when I am liquified, the restaurant Birchfields on Main Street becomes alive. I do a sermon there every Friday, the Masons replicate it with a wonderful Colored Musician band on Sundays and throughout the week the venue has a slow but steady trickle of customers who have heard about the wings and jukebox, pool players, homeless people (paydirt!) and whatnot. Within three months of Birchfield's being lit, at least four other spots including the Anchor Bar are heavy with activity. It seems Birchfields, being the last remaining clean and safe spot for hoodies, drives Buffalo night life. Coupled with an adequate theater season, and one can see how just one person at his favorite nightclub is who is important in stimulating the economy of Western New York. You can ask a mason if you feel I have overstated the singular importance of the French term "mortgage." But it doesn't stop there. Within six to nine months, Rochester and NYC are open for business, the empire corridor is lit. I travel to NYC "from time to time" to take advantage of a standing welcome on Broadway-ASN, something that helps, for me being a creative genius, inspire American genius in drama and music. Just one man can make a difference. But that's just one man, a conservatory level pianist, whose favorite night spot, Birchfields, is as well the favorite night spot of many of his students, a spot which like the Bermuda triangle begins to build up force when the pianist is in season. A similar thing happens in Atlanta GA, where certain median indices drive the wheels of entertainment value. The Secretary's plan must identify American value, it's resources, and where the culture of freedom thrives or is threatened and use these as primary regressands to help create an informal but nearly formal classification rating system for value and credit. It is the only way in which banks will lend. For example, few of the CEOs who spent money badly during the first portion of the TARP would have done so had ATrillion-Semantix been public at the time. Today, those who have liquidity left are cashing in on the new century's Microsoft, so as we can see they have no problem lending. It is this core lending, towards innovation, that ultimately drives the lesser lending, towards business scale, and the even lesser lending, towards consumer spending. The secretary must be aware that it is the force of the idea, such as the atrillion portal (http://www.achaeleon.com), that determines credit worthiness. And so his boss, who derides the ownership society, is wrong. For the CEO of ATrillion, for having such value and being besoth by so many major investors, has not even once cried out about the "bad credit situation." Apparently, the idea is "good for it." So, "as to" the debate between Tax Cuts and Spending, I, as the most valuable American CEO can tell you my position, if it is not obvious. I came from a poverty stricken country, Nigeria, with an idea that has turned out to be worth a million dollars. To finance this idea and take it to the level it deserves, I need the overnight bank-to-bank rates at zero so that tomorrow when I go to Ken Lewis for funding, he will have borrowed enough to lend to me for max effect, idealy zero interest, but this sort of proposition is not wise for Mr. Lewis. This dialog, between Ken and I, will determine lending rates granting the tension required to bring my project to fruition. Once this is taken care of, the financing of the next great American idea, then one can think of spending on adjunct capital investments to augment the value the idea so obviously brings to the American polity. I think we will leave it at that, lest the Secretary begins to believe that "putting people to work" is something that is done without considering what the job is, especially when value exists with regards to work that NEEDS to be done.

Quickly I should sound a note of peril, Mr.Obama dishonestly--very unbecoming of a Great Kenyan--blames past administrations for running the economy into the ground. In fact, quite the contrary is clearly the case, given the Democrat's new chorus for regulation. The private sector is what did us in, and if putting Pampers on CEOs as Mr. Obama has so FOOLISHLY done, forever alienating the business executive class (ask a CEO), it is because of the likes of Ken Lay with MCI Worldcom, Arthur-Andersen, etc, etc. In a famous memo to the past president I lamented that his "friends had done us in." So we are willing, in natural adjustment for American greed, to let history regulate in balance what we could not regulate by force of example. September 11 was a landmark, after which Mr. Bush skillfully, with me as witness, kept this country safe, waged two wars, and held the economy along despite news after news item pointing to the greed of his fellow CEOs, many of them if not most Democrats. I tell all who will listen that after 9-11, just keeping us safe was a triumph. Although Mr. Obama claims not to believe in this war on terror, despite a terrorist act on his watch which I am certain he will ignore, in trying to please the terrorist state responsible, Iran. An abomination in the sight of American men! I think pride should soon give way to understanding. America is at war. Mr. Obama's job is to continue to keep America safe within, wind up the wars without, and restore prosperity to America. On the first portion, keeping America safe, he is already failing. On winding up the wars, his precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, the most strategic nation in our portfolio next to Mexico, is myopic. If we won Afghanistan then needed to go back in, what makes him think we won't need to go back into Iraq, something the American people will not stand for. We had suggested a slow, but certain withdrawal, Obama created a fantasy then was surprised when such like Nancy Pelosi believed it and did his presidency in within two weeks. So now he's saving face by standing by Madam Pelosi, showing that he was unprepared for such a hands-on time and hands-on job. I remember, fondly, just how engaged President Bush was. I certainly felt safter with him, and being his chief economist, was eager to bring value to that discussion, despite the greed of our friends. The new president would do well to listen to American value. It sings.

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