Post Off!

There was a fascinating moment when I was first in Japan back in 1997, and I entered the post office.

A world of not just stamps, but bill pay, basic banking, insurance, and connection to other government resources all in one place. Denver has 311 for some of the latter, for instance.

By then I had a private bank account, but today's American could use proper passbook savings in USA, and basic simple fee checking accounts in lieu of non-banking 'card' services, also called non-traditional banking alternatives? Under this idea, anyone could walk in and open up an account.

Further, the insurance we could provide US citizens were we to take up this different vision, would be basic coverage to drive, rent, or even buy a simple government backed life insurance policy that wouldn't lapse, and could always be redeemed.

Not just collecting stamps, our post office could be a front line remedy for any bill collectors- allowing the payor ample time and space to drop by the local Post office, and maybe pay from the PO savings account they held.

Alloting this preferred treatment, the Post office will have the ability to operate at a nominal and marginal profit, not reliant upon stamp and shipping costs to sustain income.

Finally, Amazon, Fed Ex, and other services should be sent to the back of the pile with priority given to paychecks, pensions and paperwork that the current go-go e-forms of the dont read just click "ok" culture will eventually be slowed with discovery of the law.

Such to say we need to get rid of the current Postmaster General, and get the business of ordinary people done fairly and on time, expanding the very definition of the public postal offices.

Been meaning to write that for two dozen years.

1776? More like 1812 & you were the British

Love to modern Great Britain, Happy Jubilee (awkward), but in the 19th century back when the Sun Never Set they had landed in the newly founded Capitol and burned many of the works including the building defiled a year ago by insane, confused and seditious persons, to the ground.

With all due respect let's review 1776:

1.  No Representation no taxation may be an argument for regressive VAT, but it's No Taxation without Representation reminding us we were a subject colony with subservient order.

2.  Powers of the many States.  The many divergent interests couldn't agree on the definition of a human at the dawn of Science, yet they coalesced against greater tyranny.  Thus began a bold experiment transcendental of past singular State Independent Republics, such as 16th century Holland, because as declared was aligned with a greater cause, where many States we're considering outright independence, they chose instead, to attempt something never tried in human recorded history.

3.  United we stand divided we fall.  Since ancient China good leaders have known that great power of Unity, and we are often only as strong as the weakest link.  Although we have been given dominion over the planet, we are simultaneously a fragile biological creature, like any other that can also go extinct. 

International Interdependence is the key Technology of Government and philosophy that appears to have been discovered from the Seven Years War, a virtual World War of colonial powers- it also presented the opening for a century and a half of colonial rebellion, and independence of former colonies organizing as singular in the Age of Stateism.

4.  We are in perpetual formation, and so to be inclusive of what through reason, dignity and jurisprudence has since become the transitive right of all humankind in philosophy to reasonably unite in Congress to not just be nominally represented, to have these rights defended in common, but also in order to pursue Life, Liberty, and reasonable happiness that doesn't infringe upon any others same bundle of rights as citizens.  E pluribus unum.

5.  Division of powers.  King John may have signed and sealed the Magna Carta, but it acted as more of a promissory note in exchange for the tens of thousands more people whom the Dukes would be needing to regularly supply the King's endless Feudal warfare, back in those dismal days when it was much harder to raise a human, and we were much fewer.  

There were scores of repromises, compromises, and variations over the century following, but ultimately The Magna Carta writ bold was coveted as proof of some notion of independence from despots.  The articulation of all aspects of modern society post dark Age Europe could be said to have emerged from this fourteenth century experiment.

Once Washington reasonably agreed to lead, the idea of King of America was doomed, and in their best wisdom they divided the labors of State: Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary to replace the King, Parliament, and Courts.

6.  No King's, Queens or Imperators!  The Agricultural realists that made this land knew life was an endurance of seasons.  A central figure is inefficient as an organizing principal in matters of progress, science and ethical administration.  Every two, four and six years the boldest, best and brightest should go to trade on behalf of their constituenties in good faith and conscience, regardless of political career (and leave eventually).

7.  Please, add to the list of rights responsibly, it's a work in progress.  The rights and responsibilities in our Bill of Rights are for everyone everywhere on US soil all the time, and when all of the above are disfunctioning, then please change... Including revise or remove, if needed.  

Conclusions: All human beings may be born of different station, place, rank, class, or situation, yet we are equally entitled to all rights such as the freedom of Religion, but also the freedom from any imposition of Religion, for example.  

The Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights are of course imperfect documents written by human beings.  Washington stepped down from ostensible Kingship (contemporaneously other than maybe France, our allies, trading partners and opponents could only imagine him as Regent) he warned against imitating Sister Britain with the formation of parties, implying that although each Representative, Executive and Judge, also human, may be imperfect, All must make their choices and answer for them accountably to that constituency of voters, and their Maker.

The method to Washington's leadership was accompanied by humility, self awareness and the dignity and nobility of humanity like Cincinnatus two millenea before him to prefer freedom over power.

Our Civil War four score and seven after was further, unfortunately violent, correction of this power dynamic, but it can be linked to a nexus of biblical levels of iniquitous human chattelry, massive unjust territorial expansions causing disproportionate representation from an inconvenient distance and historical onerous circumstances, and international competition from foreign interests.

We have deescalated such power misalignments through negotiations, dialogue and compromise for a century and a half of something we call bipartisanship, and there is no reason for The United States of America to regress to past misalignments, unneeded partisanship, or violence.

People sacrificed in 1776 in order to plant the tree of Liberty for the future to enjoy- a considered answer to the long-term problems of humanity.

One year ago was an internal invasion of people, domestic terrorism, by mostly citizens, who by operation of law are now having lawful abridgement of those same rights granted to thus be responsible to pay penalty, fines and serve time for their crimes, as the largest, freest, most watched, most monitored lawful election in human history was certified.

We have but one Republic, and as Franklin said "if you can keep it!"

Job's, Jobs, jobs

The Book of Job in the Bible famously demonstrates the bet between Satan and God as to whether a true devotee can be made to foreswear the Lord.

 

Of course, after brutal trials, Job, eventually, liberated from false attachments finally receives the full blessing from Life having turned away from Temptations.

 

Sad, that the eponymous word for Livelihood, is slang for Faustian Test.  So, every day in employment is a challenge from Hell, under that thinking?

 

Too bad.

 

 

We need to rethink entirely the nature of Livelihood.  What is your pre-occupation, your occupation and animus where you are of highest and best use to Society, with the least cost to your health, wealth and soul.

 

Many people facing this Pandemic Crisis in the economy, like me, are reassessing what arethe actual Jobs and Job descriptions of the future going to become?

 

That said, before we earnestly discuss the Green New Deal, or any other Major Effort, let’s re-enshrine the Bill of Rights with a little history tour of how we come to the arrangement of being totally dependent upon a $14/hr. worker for distribution of goods and services that may have become so urgent, important and valuable, because of the exaggerated and impacted resource availability problems.

 

 

In 1215, The Lord descended from Heaven, signed a piece of paper with the Dukes and Barons of England, and admitted He was a human King.  Every squire, knave, groom and peasant within a Mile of Runnymede was promptly murdered for having witnessed the event.

 

From there, democracy in the modern American sense was born.  Flash cut to 250 years later, or there about, and we have the fundamental flaw in our Agrarian-style macro-economic theory.  A Serf is born, and he will be raised, live, then die as an attached beast of the land.  Probably not leaving to the capital London if once, they remained within about a 20-mile radius from where they were born.

 

They were often classed into task groups, and seasonally or during crisis tasks would be completely reassigned... all with little to no say by the Serf.  They were beasts to be manipulated, resources to be controlled and conquered, and base value of the farmlands, as pheasants improve the value of the Royal Forests.

 

It is only in this 21^stCentury where people have been born in ignorant bliss of Freedom and Liberty, and now are surprised by the hard and cruel facts of geopolitical macroeconomics.

 

The contrasts in this era are probably as about as stark as they may have ever been, only because they have never been more observable, simultaneously and worldwide.

 

So, the replay of the signing of the Magna Carta would have been videoed, and upon further review a human who was dressed as King signed a piece of paper.

 

 

Myths are being destroyed every day, and life can be very grim.

 

So, in redesigning and repurposing your livelihood, consider that your good work for other, hopefully helps to build a better future, a nicer present and a more pleasant understanding of the hard choices that came from the past.

 

We will get past all of this, because we process the economy individually and collectively, daily.

 

But, next time you get some fast food, now that the fragilities, weaknesses and errors of our macroeconomy are on display, maybe consider leaning on the tip.  Tip a nurse or care worker; or bring them some flowers; or a soda.  We humans are all in this together!

 

Not random acts of kindness, rather design your livelihood for purposeful kindnesses that you like to make and are good at doing.

 

Then maybe your jobwill just be a fair bargain with other people, without need for tests from outside powers?

 

Vision: Steady, safe and sane livelihoods; Multiple training pathways, nimble enough for lateral transfer, and ideally all correlated; and each employee with long-term prospects and full benefits.

 

What will you become in this trial?

The Reform we have waited for... a simple recommendation: 64 Stars

Much talk of reform. From time-to-time, these United States of America reform her boundaries to reflect Census Data.

Now we have movements like Black Lives Matter that have with the help of simultaneous technology, finally, driven home the nature of visual and systemic racist systems....  People long for environmental justice, social equity, gender meritocracy, and the lists grow.  People hunger for reform and empowerment.

Much talk of Electoral College Reform, again, again, again and again.

At the heels of Fivethirtyeight.com’s article on the obscure, yet highly relevant article, (relink to follow?) I found time during the lockdown to put forth this long-discussed proposition raft, as an whole-set argument.

But something millions have been working for generation after generation, that will instantly transform and improve our GDP, reform our elections, including the Electoral College, redistribute state power, reward success, restore local control, and restructure the USA for the long-term future once all the 2020 Census data is collected and processed; Territorial Reorganization.

We will need a lot of changes and reform, and one of the most radical things the US can do from time to time is make adjustments to the States, Territories and her Commonwealth after a census.

Rather than outlaw the Electoral College: consider the census, even the whole thing, everything, back out, and allow for the commonsense of the lessons from the trials and travails from the European Duchy System (Symbolized by the College) that held outside regional nobles to check central powers of the Crown in order to protect remote, novel, unique, rural and essential domestic production resources from mismanagement.

There is a great chart that graphically demonstrates the even distribution of State Lines defined by population limited to 50 states and 100 Senators.  Keeping just fifty states defies precedent, but is a great Thought Exercise, and Colorado would gladly triple in size, but this is pure theory upsetting all boundaries.

So, maybe that’s not the way to go?

How about allowing each and any state to be able to reorganize with the assistance and coordination of the Federal Republic, so as to be ready to address the distribution, health and other governmental weaknesses this pandemic disaster has exposed in our Society to be more oriented to bioregional ecology— welfare, health, economy and environment—in order to prepare for the 22^ndand maybe even the groundwork for the 23^rdCentury?

	Type		Area		State	Initials	Est. Capitol Area		New Star	New Government
	New Combined Territory
			E WA & N ID		Lincoln	LN	Spokane		Yes	Yes
	Expanded Territory
			SW PA; E VA; NW NC; NE TN; W KY		West Viginia	WV	same		No	No
	Spits of Michigan, New York and Florida
		MI	becomes		Michigan	MI	same		No	No
					Superior	SU	Cheboygan		Yes	Yes
		NY	becomes		New York	NY	same		No	No
					Great York	GY	Buffalo		Yes	Yes
		Florida	becomes		Florida	FL	same		No	No
					South Florida	SF	Miami		Yes	Yes
	California Triplet
			N CA		Jefferson	JF	Redding		Yes	Yes
			CA		California	CA	Sacramento		No	No
			S CA		Dorado	DO	Los Angeles		Yes	Yes
	Texas Pentet
			NW TX		Plainland	PL	Amarillo		Yes	Yes
			NE TX		Trinity	TY	Fort Worth		Yes	Yes
			Central		Texas	TX	same		No	No
			E TX		Gulfland	GL	Houston		Yes	Yes
			S TX		El Norte	EN	San Antonio		Yes	Yes
	Commonwealth
		Puerto Rico			Puerto Rico	PR	San Juan		Yes	Yes
		District of Colombia			Colombia	CB	Washington		Yes	Yes
		Guam & Northern Marianas			Marianas	MR	Barrigada		Yes	Yes

Your Development Plan: Fourteen New Stars, and Sixteen new Governments.

Aside from having to reprint all but everything, thus adding to growth.... the Census Adjustments will add jobs! This will give us plenty of lawful work to do, including reforming the Peace Officers and how to enforce social policy equitably. Recentralization of powers will improve accountability barring all other reforms.

GDP will expand simply by the ordinary operations of governments that properly develop their regions in order to become more evenly represented.  But Also, inclusion and realization of our Commonwealth and Territories will literally expand our GNP, geometrically.  28% more States will expand growth of our National Economy by the back of the napkin to the tune of 14% additionally over say a ten-year transitioning, synergies aside.

If all 64 States are suddenly together adopted and approved, hypothetically, then it requires:

Same Number of Electors of the College evenly redistributed.

Same Number of Representatives evenly redistributed.

Expand to 128 Senators and the VP as President of the Senate for a Vote of 129.

Probably expand Supreme Court by two positions to include the incorporation of Far Western Pacific and Caribbean Law Justices.

Boundaries and Counties to become reformed to prioritize and contain bioregions and metro regions, not gerrymandered or arbitrarily bounded.  Ideally, each region will fall initially within the guidelines of population thresholds, so as to have even and balanced (containing similar populous, zip codes, area codes, and other measurable volumes) constituencies from Municipality, State to Federal adjustments.

Zip Codes will then accordingly be redistributed to match postal coverage; Phone Codes will then accordingly be assigned to these boundaries; and Municipalities will make their adjustments.

64 Stars will be put onto Old Glory in an 8 by 8 column and row, and maybe we can turn our Flags around and stop the adventurous wars to continue to build America lawfully and enfranchise peaceful democratic process.

And 64 Governments with 16 to 18 new Constitutions will expand: opportunity; the living experiment of Liberty, Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness; and the Gross Domestic Product of our beloved United States of America, just as is found as precedent throughout our history.

Commerce to develop this expansion of infrastructure and improvement of resources will make Opportunity explode!

Texas Republic, which has had the five-state solution on the books since the 19^thcentury, will get four times as much representation in Washington, CB. 

So too, CA triplet and all the other, necessary splits will gain improved representation inside the USA capitol.  

Ultimately, this would need to become accepted and approved by the People and their Representatives in government, so the names, boundaries and all details are to be discussed, and yet determined.

By small state-ing the power blocks into population and territorial similars, fair representation in exchange for taxation collected in the State of Colombia is ensured... for another ten years.

By folding the many and wide island nations and their associated resources into our Great Nation, we recognize the many and long sacrifices of the millions who have loved this nation as their own, but we may also become more and better prepared to finally provide the governmental and financial resources those peoples have so long sought.  Also, we will need to greatly expand our Marine infrastructure, and take better responsibility for our Maritime leadership, including environmental.

By allowing the WV annexation we make the small adjustments to the disproportionately powerful states like Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky also granting their more remote peoples a more direct Capitol.

The long-considered division of Old Washingtonia, into Washington and Lincoln has also long been discussed.  When we empower a new state Capitol, like this proposal for Spokane, a permanent Federal stimulus to that area is assured.  More even distribution of resources, like health care, unemployment benefits, and other government features will flow freely from that local and more immediate power center.

Remember that Jefferson the human participated, encouraged an organized revolution specifically from within the scope, intrepreneurially so to speak, by voting, of our nation’s Constitution and posted Bill of Rights, not without it, every generation!

By expanding the number of governments, we expand the number of opportunities for the people to become directly involved in the management and stewardship of their surrounds as servants of the people!  Let us continue to expand the opportunity that comes with Democracy!!