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I started and stopped at the following quote:
"...hold a good deal of the surplus in the global economy..."
Please understand that political economy is a result of the creation of surplus.
A. no surplus
B. no political economy
If surplus does not exist there can be no political economy, and to see this important factor it may help to employ some historical examples.
My favorite example of how there can be no political economy if there is not surplus is the boat ride made by Captain William Bligh after Bligh was forced off The Bounty by the mutineers.
Example:
The book Men Against the Sea chronicles the hardships that these men faced. As corroborated by Great Britain’s National Maritime Museum website, Bligh allowed each man twelve ounces of water and about two ounces of bread each day, with an occasional spoonful of rum or wine. He meticulously measured these out so that all were treated equally. Even these small amounts were later cut by a third. In addition to rationing their existing food and water, they caught sea birds out of the air and ate their raw flesh to supplement their meager provisions.
That is a case where surplus does exist; therefore political economy can exist.
It is important to know where the surplus is, what form the surplus is in, how much surplus there is, how much of the surplus is needed for mere survival, and how the surplus can be used to gain access to more surplus, assuming that there is enough surplus over and above the surplus required for mere survival.
In conditions of abundance, who needs leadership?
What is the demand for leadership during conditions of abundance?
It may help to know the motive behind the demand for leadership during conditions of abundance, since the demand isn't such that the people demanding leadership are satisfied with their slice of the pie.
I have plenty. When I need more, I can find ways to get more, and at that time I seek help in any way I can to find leadership guiding me toward that which I need or desire.
I don't vote. What would be the point?
If there were a box on the ballot that said:
GAME OVER RESET
I'd vote every chance I had to vote, city, state, national, or global.
I even started such a vote myself:
No More Legal Criminals Petition
The idea didn't catch on, quite short of going viral. I thought I set the time duration to infinity, but the petition is now closed. I'll re-open it on my own site - because I still have that much power.
No More Legal Criminals - Please
Someone who has read Norm Chomsky's work, or Gore Vidal's work, or Eric Fromm's work, someone signing onto those perspectives, like me, more or less, have a near opposite viewpoint from what can be called "the herd", unkindly put, but arguably justified, is someone, like me, with a perspective that..., being opposite the herd, does not give credit to Obama, for doing good things, or even caring to do good things, good things are not on his agenda.
Good intentions cover up the truth, good intentions are lies.
How do you know when a politician is lying?
Well, the truth can be funny, ask a Russian who lived through their political leadership economic woes.
Example
Everybody is 8 months pregnant.
Read Solzhenitsyn if you prefer a more serious example.
My guess at what the true State of the Union, my own warm-up, is such that there will be some half truths reported by the leader of the legal crime ring known as U.S.A. Inc. LLC.
The surplus power available to them, at U.S.A. Inc. LLC, is under attack by the force of competition, and they know it, and therefore there will be legal crime maneuvering such as can be exemplified by one Warren Buffett
Someone else may perceive the current state of the Union from a less critically moral viewpoint.
My suggestion is to look HERE HERE and HERE if you truly care enough to test the validity of your viewpoint relative to mine.
The corporate raiders are raiding U.S.A. Inc. LLC, and they are moving onto Asia.
That is the state of the Union.
I can explain in great detail.
The Union itself is a confidence scheme, one perpetrated by people such as Robert Morris and Alexander Hamilton as those two and others set about their plans to take over the political economy of America. The people calling themselves Federalists were not Federalists, they were Nationalists, and they created U.S.A. Inc. LLC with their fraudulent Law known, affectionately by them, as The US Constitution.
Back then there were many people who knew the truth, knew that the Law known as the US Constitution was a fraud, perpetrated by Nationalists hiding behind the false front of Federalism, and they fought against that fraud.
Patric Henry for example, pulled back the curtain of lies, and exposed the evil within, to no avail, the best that the fighters against false "federalism" could do was a law called: The Bill of Rights - an empty veil itself.
That is the sad truth; while optimism remains because, it seems, that the legal criminals, the parasites , legal criminals, are moving on.
That, my friends, could lead to a political vacuum, and a wiser person that I could warn us as to what the legal criminals prefer to have in place here, as they leave here, and as that vacuum sucks in place that which will fill that vacuum.
I'm going to return to the REAL news story.