Introduction.

Our podcast today is the introduction to a much longer article titled, Counting the Constitution as a COVID Death.

Our podcast uses the CDC distinction made in counting Covid deaths, as it applies to the death of the U. S. Constitution. The Constitution did not die because of Covid, it died with Covid.

The Constitution was already sick, with underlying medical conditions, and resided in a nursing home for old republics.

The Constitution had a weakened immune system, which reduced its ability to withstand an attack from a virulent virus called socialism.

We argue that the Nation is evenly divided between Democrat socialists, who want more socialism, and conservatives, who want nothing to do with socialism.

The broad framework of the differences are individualism versus collectivism, and globalism versus national sovereignty.

Victor Davis Hanson writes,

          “Progressives believe the story of America has most often been one of           discrimination, original sin, and a need for constant repentance and           reparations for a flawed past… Red- and blue-state America was already           divided before the covid epidemic hit. Globalization had enriched the           East    Coast and West Coast corridors but hollowed out much in between.”

Conservatives reject entirely this starting socialist premise about slavery, but endorse Hanson’s interpretation about globalization as one of the irreconcilable differences with socialists..

We do not argue about the credibility or legitimacy of the socialist Covid panic arguments. The socialists are using the Covid public relations panic to promote their desire to implement socialism, and their arguments reveal the stark contrast in ideology with conservatives.

We use the issues raised by the Covid panic to argue that the ideological differences are irreconcilable, and that there is no common language or cultural values that can bridge the differences.

We argue that the current Constitution, of 1787, is incapable of resolving the ideological split because the Constitution is founded on balancing the financial interests between social classes, not on resolving ideological differences between collectivism and individualism.

Madison drafted the Constitution under the assumption that the citizens, both rich and poor, would always value national sovereignty over foreign sovereignty. The death knell of the Constitution sounded when both political parties embraced globalism over national sovereignty.

Madison assumed, as did John Adams, that a national core moral value of individual liberty could be taken for granted, and that the main issue to solve in his constitutional rules was the class conflict between the natural aristocracy and common citizens.

Madison feared the collective voting power of the common citizens, and drafted his rules to avoid the outcome of a tyrannical majority of common citizens from oppressing the virtuous minority of wealthy citizens.

As a result of Madison’s fear of common citizens, the citizens have no constitutional mechanism to overcome the tyranny of the Covid lockdown of socialist governors.

As a result of his focus on checking and balancing financial interests, Madison left out entirely the mechanism for citizens to defend their own liberty, if the minority of wealthy citizens ever gained monopoly power in the government.

His Constitution ended in a centralized tyrannical minority using the Covid panic to oppress the common citizen majority. The only peaceful way out of this conflict is to divide the nation into two new nations.

Madison disconnected his Preamble from the principles of liberty in Jefferson’s Preamble in the Declaration, and it is a myth in recounting the history of America to combine and conflate the ideology of the two documents.

“We hold these truths as self evident,” is not the moral equivalent of “in order to create a more perfect union.”

Adams explained that Madison’s Constitution would only work if the citizens always held the core public purpose of liberty for the new nation.

Adams wrote,

                “Public spiritedness is the only Foundation of the Republic…There must           be a positive Passion for the public good...established in the Minds of the           People, or there can be no Republican Government, nor any real           liberty...Men must be ready, they must pride themselves, and be happy           to sacrifice their private Pleasure, Passions and Interest.”

 

As Adams prepared to leave the Office of President, in 1801, he realized that Madison’s Constitution was flawed. He wrote that nothing in the system seemed to be representing what Adams thought was the broader public purpose of liberty.

                    “The two political parties that had come into existence had defined financial             ends. We have no   Americans in America. The Federalists have been   no           more Americans than the anties...Jefferson    had a party. Hamilton           had a party, but the commonwealth  had none. The two parties would  settle wealth and power upon a minority. It will be accomplished by a  national           debt, paper corporations, and offices, civil and military. These will           condense king, lords and commons, a monied faction and an armed           faction in one interest.”

 

Adams predicted that the outcome of Madison’s constitutional rules would be to divide the nation into two groups, creditors and debtors.

Adams was correct that Madison’s rules would divide the nation into two groups, but he could not have foreseen that the division would be between globalist socialists and national sovereignty conservatives.

As was the case in 1801, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats, today, defend the public purpose of liberty. They are collaborators in the deep state allegiance to globalism.

Part of our argument about the death of the Constitution is related to the absence of shared cultural values between globalist socialists and national sovereignty conservatives.

There are two distinct views of the mission of the Nation, and nothing binds those two irreconcilable views together, as one Nation, under God.

The immediate danger to liberty of the Covid public relations panic is that sizable majorities of both Democrats and Republicans favor the socialist solution of confining people to their homes, detaining sick people in government facilities, banning U.S. citizens from entering the country, government takeovers of businesses, conscription of health care workers, suspension of religious services, and even criminalizing the spread of "misinformation" about the virus.

In citizen surveys about Covid, the researchers at Chilton et al. stated,

          "Even when we explicitly told half of our sample that the policies may           violate the Constitution, the majority of registered voters supported all eight restrictions, including the speech restrictions.

The two nations within a Nation must divorce because a majority of citizens no longer support the Bill of Rights.

The Spirit of Liberty, under which the Nation was conceived, in 1775, must be resurrected in a new nation, which has better safeguards to protect liberty, and better guardians to protect liberty, than the globalist cabal that despises individual freedom.

We conclude that the new Nation of the Democratic Republic of America can correct Madison’s fear of the common citizens by converting his representative republic into a democratic republic that provides more power to citizens to protect their liberties and freedoms.

This podcast is the introduction to a much longer article, that is available for free, for one week at clpnewsnetwork.com.

The other sections of the longer article are:

Section 1. The Constitutional Authority of the Emergency Declarations to Lock Down Citizens.

Section 2. Covid Death Counts and Mail-in Ballots.

Section 3. Covid Re-open Protests and the Elimination of Gun Rights.

Section 4. Covid Constitutional Death in the Era of Obamagate.

The entire historical archive of all Citizen Liberty Party News Network articles are available of an annual fee of $30.

I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this podcast is a copyrighted production of the CLP News Network.

Introduction.

Our podcast today is the introduction to a much longer article titled, Counting the Constitution as a COVID Death.

Our podcast uses the CDC distinction made in counting Covid deaths, as it applies to the death of the U. S. Constitution. The Constitution did not die because of Covid, it died with Covid.

The Constitution was already sick, with underlying medical conditions, and resided in a nursing home for old republics.

The Constitution had a weakened immune system, which reduced its ability to withstand an attack from a virulent virus called socialism.

We argue that the Nation is evenly divided between Democrat socialists, who want more socialism, and conservatives, who want nothing to do with socialism.

The broad framework of the differences are individualism versus collectivism, and globalism versus national sovereignty.

Victor Davis Hanson writes,

          “Progressives believe the story of America has most often been one of           discrimination, original sin, and a need for constant repentance and           reparations for a flawed past… Red- and blue-state America was already           divided before the covid epidemic hit. Globalization had enriched the           East    Coast and West Coast corridors but hollowed out much in between.”

Conservatives reject entirely this starting socialist premise about slavery, but endorse Hanson’s interpretation about globalization as one of the irreconcilable differences with socialists..

We do not argue about the credibility or legitimacy of the socialist Covid panic arguments. The socialists are using the Covid public relations panic to promote their desire to implement socialism, and their arguments reveal the stark contrast in ideology with conservatives.

We use the issues raised by the Covid panic to argue that the ideological differences are irreconcilable, and that there is no common language or cultural values that can bridge the differences.

We argue that the current Constitution, of 1787, is incapable of resolving the ideological split because the Constitution is founded on balancing the financial interests between social classes, not on resolving ideological differences between collectivism and individualism.

Madison drafted the Constitution under the assumption that the citizens, both rich and poor, would always value national sovereignty over foreign sovereignty. The death knell of the Constitution sounded when both political parties embraced globalism over national sovereignty.

Madison assumed, as did John Adams, that a national core moral value of individual liberty could be taken for granted, and that the main issue to solve in his constitutional rules was the class conflict between the natural aristocracy and common citizens.

Madison feared the collective voting power of the common citizens, and drafted his rules to avoid the outcome of a tyrannical majority of common citizens from oppressing the virtuous minority of wealthy citizens.

As a result of Madison’s fear of common citizens, the citizens have no constitutional mechanism to overcome the tyranny of the Covid lockdown of socialist governors.

As a result of his focus on checking and balancing financial interests, Madison left out entirely the mechanism for citizens to defend their own liberty, if the minority of wealthy citizens ever gained monopoly power in the government.

His Constitution ended in a centralized tyrannical minority using the Covid panic to oppress the common citizen majority. The only peaceful way out of this conflict is to divide the nation into two new nations.

Madison disconnected his Preamble from the principles of liberty in Jefferson’s Preamble in the Declaration, and it is a myth in recounting the history of America to combine and conflate the ideology of the two documents.

“We hold these truths as self evident,” is not the moral equivalent of “in order to create a more perfect union.”

Adams explained that Madison’s Constitution would only work if the citizens always held the core public purpose of liberty for the new nation.

Adams wrote,

                “Public spiritedness is the only Foundation of the Republic…There must           be a positive Passion for the public good...established in the Minds of the           People, or there can be no Republican Government, nor any real           liberty...Men must be ready, they must pride themselves, and be happy           to sacrifice their private Pleasure, Passions and Interest.”

 

As Adams prepared to leave the Office of President, in 1801, he realized that Madison’s Constitution was flawed. He wrote that nothing in the system seemed to be representing what Adams thought was the broader public purpose of liberty.

                    “The two political parties that had come into existence had defined financial             ends. We have no   Americans in America. The Federalists have been   no           more Americans than the anties...Jefferson    had a party. Hamilton           had a party, but the commonwealth  had none. The two parties would  settle wealth and power upon a minority. It will be accomplished by a  national           debt, paper corporations, and offices, civil and military. These will           condense king, lords and commons, a monied faction and an armed           faction in one interest.”

 

Adams predicted that the outcome of Madison’s constitutional rules would be to divide the nation into two groups, creditors and debtors.

Adams was correct that Madison’s rules would divide the nation into two groups, but he could not have foreseen that the division would be between globalist socialists and national sovereignty conservatives.

As was the case in 1801, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats, today, defend the public purpose of liberty. They are collaborators in the deep state allegiance to globalism.

Part of our argument about the death of the Constitution is related to the absence of shared cultural values between globalist socialists and national sovereignty conservatives.

There are two distinct views of the mission of the Nation, and nothing binds those two irreconcilable views together, as one Nation, under God.

The immediate danger to liberty of the Covid public relations panic is that sizable majorities of both Democrats and Republicans favor the socialist solution of confining people to their homes, detaining sick people in government facilities, banning U.S. citizens from entering the country, government takeovers of businesses, conscription of health care workers, suspension of religious services, and even criminalizing the spread of "misinformation" about the virus.

In citizen surveys about Covid, the researchers at Chilton et al. stated,

          "Even when we explicitly told half of our sample that the policies may           violate the Constitution, the majority of registered voters supported all eight restrictions, including the speech restrictions.

The two nations within a Nation must divorce because a majority of citizens no longer support the Bill of Rights.

The Spirit of Liberty, under which the Nation was conceived, in 1775, must be resurrected in a new nation, which has better safeguards to protect liberty, and better guardians to protect liberty, than the globalist cabal that despises individual freedom.

We conclude that the new Nation of the Democratic Republic of America can correct Madison’s fear of the common citizens by converting his representative republic into a democratic republic that provides more power to citizens to protect their liberties and freedoms.

This podcast is the introduction to a much longer article, that is available for free, for one week at clpnewsnetwork.com.

The other sections of the longer article are:

Section 1. The Constitutional Authority of the Emergency Declarations to Lock Down Citizens.

Section 2. Covid Death Counts and Mail-in Ballots.

Section 3. Covid Re-open Protests and the Elimination of Gun Rights.

Section 4. Covid Constitutional Death in the Era of Obamagate.

The entire historical archive of all Citizen Liberty Party News Network articles are available of an annual fee of $30.

I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this podcast is a copyrighted production of the CLP News Network.

Introduction.

Our podcast today is titled The U. S. Covid Economic Recovery Plan, and begins with an alternative to the conventional political view that the U. S. economy will “bounce back” to pre-lockdown levels.

We tend to abstract from the conventional economic wisdom that “bouncing back” to the economy that existed prior to March 17, 2020 is a great idea.

The economic structure in America was already deeply flawed and damaged from 20 years of economic integration with the rest of the world and particularly China. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, U.S. National COVID Economic Collapse and the Collapse of the U.S. Dollar. (April 14, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3575761).

The rate of private capital investment had already begun to decline in the last two quarters of 2019, primarily due to the structural weaknesses in the economy that limited capital investment opportunities in small, high tech ventures.

Nondurable goods manufacturing decreased 3.1 percent in the 4th quarter, primarily reflecting a decrease in food and beverage and tobacco products manufacturing.

Durable goods manufacturing decreased 2.4 percent, which was more than accounted for by a decrease in motor vehicles, bodies and trailers, and parts manufacturing.

The last two quarters of 2019 economic performance would not represent the kind of economy that would be desirable to “bounce back” to, and while we do not dwell on the logic or reality of the arguments supporting the “bounce back” view, we disclose our ideological predisposition that the entire notion of “bouncing back” is wildly naïve and Pollyanna optimistic.

 

We argue that the 70% of the U. S. economic structure that was locked down resembles the shambles of the German economy after May 8, 1945.

Part of the German economy that was connected to large global corporations was still functioning, but the domestic economic structure in Germany had been reduced to rubble.

The full extent of the U. S. economic damage has not been experienced yet, because the economic damage to the commercial rental market and the mortgage loan market have not yet been reflected in the data on the number of citizens who no longer have an income to pay rent or mortgages.

We argue that the domestic spending part of the U. S. GDP has been reduced to rubble by the covid lockdowns, but that 30% of the corporate crony capitalist economy that is connected to the global economy is still functioning.

Something like the Marshall Plan is required for the U. S. economy, to repair the economic damage caused by the lockdowns. The goal of the covid economic recovery plan is to build a free enterprise, new venture creation, entrepreneurial economy in each metro region that operates independent of the global crony corporate capitalist system.

One mission of the Marshall Plan was to prevent the spread of Communism in Europe.

We argue that the contemporary U. S. covid recovery plan must also prevent the spread of Chinese communism, which entails a policy response to limiting the damage caused by the promotion of the China trade deals by crony corporate capitalism, such as the members of the Business Roundtable and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.

The political power of global corporate crony capitalism is responsible for implementing the trade deals with China, which weakened the industrial diversity of the U. S. domestic economy, leading to a bifurcation between a global corporate part, and a domestic consumer spending services sector part.

As a result of the bifurcation, the domestic services sector accounted for 70% of all GDP, and 80% of total civilian employment. The economic effect of the lock down was worsened because of the lack of economic diversification in the U. S. economic structure.

The economic recovery plan aims to restore a balance in the GDP between domestic investment in manufacturing and consumer domestic spending. Private domestic annual  investment in manufacturing should be increased from around 12% of

Introduction.

Our podcast today is titled The U. S. Covid Economic Recovery Plan, and begins with an alternative to the conventional political view that the U. S. economy will “bounce back” to pre-lockdown levels.

We tend to abstract from the conventional economic wisdom that “bouncing back” to the economy that existed prior to March 17, 2020 is a great idea.

The economic structure in America was already deeply flawed and damaged from 20 years of economic integration with the rest of the world and particularly China. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, U.S. National COVID Economic Collapse and the Collapse of the U.S. Dollar. (April 14, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3575761).

The rate of private capital investment had already begun to decline in the last two quarters of 2019, primarily due to the structural weaknesses in the economy that limited capital investment opportunities in small, high tech ventures.

Nondurable goods manufacturing decreased 3.1 percent in the 4th quarter, primarily reflecting a decrease in food and beverage and tobacco products manufacturing.

Durable goods manufacturing decreased 2.4 percent, which was more than accounted for by a decrease in motor vehicles, bodies and trailers, and parts manufacturing.

The last two quarters of 2019 economic performance would not represent the kind of economy that would be desirable to “bounce back” to, and while we do not dwell on the logic or reality of the arguments supporting the “bounce back” view, we disclose our ideological predisposition that the entire notion of “bouncing back” is wildly naïve and Pollyanna optimistic.

 

We argue that the 70% of the U. S. economic structure that was locked down resembles the shambles of the German economy after May 8, 1945.

Part of the German economy that was connected to large global corporations was still functioning, but the domestic economic structure in Germany had been reduced to rubble.

The full extent of the U. S. economic damage has not been experienced yet, because the economic damage to the commercial rental market and the mortgage loan market have not yet been reflected in the data on the number of citizens who no longer have an income to pay rent or mortgages.

We argue that the domestic spending part of the U. S. GDP has been reduced to rubble by the covid lockdowns, but that 30% of the corporate crony capitalist economy that is connected to the global economy is still functioning.

Something like the Marshall Plan is required for the U. S. economy, to repair the economic damage caused by the lockdowns. The goal of the covid economic recovery plan is to build a free enterprise, new venture creation, entrepreneurial economy in each metro region that operates independent of the global crony corporate capitalist system.

One mission of the Marshall Plan was to prevent the spread of Communism in Europe.

We argue that the contemporary U. S. covid recovery plan must also prevent the spread of Chinese communism, which entails a policy response to limiting the damage caused by the promotion of the China trade deals by crony corporate capitalism, such as the members of the Business Roundtable and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.

The political power of global corporate crony capitalism is responsible for implementing the trade deals with China, which weakened the industrial diversity of the U. S. domestic economy, leading to a bifurcation between a global corporate part, and a domestic consumer spending services sector part.

As a result of the bifurcation, the domestic services sector accounted for 70% of all GDP, and 80% of total civilian employment. The economic effect of the lock down was worsened because of the lack of economic diversification in the U. S. economic structure.

The economic recovery plan aims to restore a balance in the GDP between domestic investment in manufacturing and consumer domestic spending. Private domestic annual  investment in manufacturing should be increased from around 12% of GDP to about 25%, as a result of this plan.

Total private employment in the services sector should drop from around 80% to around 60%, or to about 50 million workers.

Total manufacturing employment in both direct production and indirect supply chains should increase from around 12 million workers to around 20 million workers, or to around 16% of total private employment.

We argue that the U. S. covid economic recovery plan has the following policy goals:

Target private sector capital investment in the 280 metro regions with a population over 150,000, the minimum size for self-renewing, self-generating entrepreneurial economic growth.

Target private sector capital investment to new product technology commercialization and new venture creation, within those 280 regions.

Integrate the current Trump economic opportunity zones policy into an advanced technology cluster strategy in each metro region, so that technology firms that like to located close to each other can trade with each other and share tacit knowledge.

Integrate the existing Trump advanced skill training apprenticeship program into the advanced technology cluster strategy so that future new ventures, in each metro region, have a consistent supply of highly trained technology workers.

Provide each region’s private commercial real estate consulting firms with new econometric models developed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis to order to target capital investment to the development of regional industrial value chains and inter-industry supply chains that service the new technology clusters.

Modify the existing SEC crowdfunding rules for raising private capital by broadening the scope of the existing Reg D Rule 506, and creating new forms of regional closed end funds that target capital to the region’s new and existing firms in the emerging technology clusters.

Implement an explicit system of regional tacit technology knowledge creation and diffusion using blockchain technology to share regional technological knowledge among investors and entrepreneurs.

The great economic benefit of the U. S. covid economic recovery plan is that it is private-sector driven, allowing private financial and business interests in each region to select the policy approach best suited to that region.

By fixing the regional economies in 280 metro regions, the nation’s economic weakness of over-dependence on consumer spending, and inadequate business investment would be fixed. In addition, the rate of capital investment in small, high tech firms would increase, leading to a recovery in America’s technological superiority, that would not be easily stolen by the Chinese Communists.

In other words, we argue that this plan does not require much Federal government oversight, regulations, or increased federal taxes to implement.

The Federal government’s role is to collect the economic data, and organize the data into regional econometric models that can be used by citizens interested in promoting regional economic growth in each metro region.

This introduction is a part of a much longer podcast, available for free, for one week, at www.clpnewsnetwork.com.

The other sections of the longer podcast include:

Section 1. An Economic Policy Dispute With the Neo-classical Productivity School.

Section 2. Re-Envisioning Regional Economies as the Blockchain Knowledge Creation Engines of Economic Growth.

Section 3. Using BEA Models to Target Regional Capital Investment to High Growth Technology Clusters.

Section 4. Commercial Real Estate Regional Industrial Technology Parks and the Regional Geographic Scope of the Economic Recovery Plan.

Section 5. Regional Capital Market Infrastructure.

The entire historical archive of all CLP News Network podcasts are available for an annual subscription of $30.

I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this is the copyrighted CLP podcast for May 20, 2020, and is titled, The U. S. Covid Economic Recovery Plan.

Introduction.

Our podcast today is titled The U. S. Covid Economic Recovery Plan, and begins with an alternative to the conventional political view that the U. S. economy will “bounce back” to pre-lockdown levels.

We tend to abstract from the conventional economic wisdom that “bouncing back” to the economy that existed prior to March 17, 2020 is a great idea.

The economic structure in America was already deeply flawed and damaged from 20 years of economic integration with the rest of the world and particularly China. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, U.S. National COVID Economic Collapse and the Collapse of the U.S. Dollar. (April 14, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3575761).

The rate of private capital investment had already begun to decline in the last two quarters of 2019, primarily due to the structural weaknesses in the economy that limited capital investment opportunities in small, high tech ventures.

Nondurable goods manufacturing decreased 3.1 percent in the 4th quarter, primarily reflecting a decrease in food and beverage and tobacco products manufacturing.

Durable goods manufacturing decreased 2.4 percent, which was more than accounted for by a decrease in motor vehicles, bodies and trailers, and parts manufacturing.

The last two quarters of 2019 economic performance would not represent the kind of economy that would be desirable to “bounce back” to, and while we do not dwell on the logic or reality of the arguments supporting the “bounce back” view, we disclose our ideological predisposition that the entire notion of “bouncing back” is wildly naïve and Pollyanna optimistic.

 

We argue that the 70% of the U. S. economic structure that was locked down resembles the shambles of the German economy after May 8, 1945.

Part of the German economy that was connected to large global corporations was still functioning, but the domestic economic structure in Germany had been reduced to rubble.

The full extent of the U. S. economic damage has not been experienced yet, because the economic damage to the commercial rental market and the mortgage loan market have not yet been reflected in the data on the number of citizens who no longer have an income to pay rent or mortgages.

We argue that the domestic spending part of the U. S. GDP has been reduced to rubble by the covid lockdowns, but that 30% of the corporate crony capitalist economy that is connected to the global economy is still functioning.

Something like the Marshall Plan is required for the U. S. economy, to repair the economic damage caused by the lockdowns. The goal of the covid economic recovery plan is to build a free enterprise, new venture creation, entrepreneurial economy in each metro region that operates independent of the global crony corporate capitalist system.

One mission of the Marshall Plan was to prevent the spread of Communism in Europe.

We argue that the contemporary U. S. covid recovery plan must also prevent the spread of Chinese communism, which entails a policy response to limiting the damage caused by the promotion of the China trade deals by crony corporate capitalism, such as the members of the Business Roundtable and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.

The political power of global corporate crony capitalism is responsible for implementing the trade deals with China, which weakened the industrial diversity of the U. S. domestic economy, leading to a bifurcation between a global corporate part, and a domestic consumer spending services sector part.

As a result of the bifurcation, the domestic services sector accounted for 70% of all GDP, and 80% of total civilian employment. The economic effect of the lock down was worsened because of the lack of economic diversification in the U. S. economic structure.

The economic recovery plan aims to restore a balance in the GDP between domestic investment in manufacturing and consumer domestic spending. Private domestic annual  investment in manufacturing should be increased from around 12% of GDP to about 25%, as a result of this plan.

Total private employment in the services sector should drop from around 80% to around 60%, or to about 50 million workers.

Total manufacturing employment in both direct production and indirect supply chains should increase from around 12 million workers to around 20 million workers, or to around 16% of total private employment.

We argue that the U. S. covid economic recovery plan has the following policy goals:

Target private sector capital investment in the 280 metro regions with a population over 150,000, the minimum size for self-renewing, self-generating entrepreneurial economic growth.

Target private sector capital investment to new product technology commercialization and new venture creation, within those 280 regions.

Integrate the current Trump economic opportunity zones policy into an advanced technology cluster strategy in each metro region, so that technology firms that like to located close to each other can trade with each other and share tacit knowledge.

Integrate the existing Trump advanced skill training apprenticeship program into the advanced technology cluster strategy so that future new ventures, in each metro region, have a consistent supply of highly trained technology workers.

Provide each region’s private commercial real estate consulting firms with new econometric models developed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis to order to target capital investment to the development of regional industrial value chains and inter-industry supply chains that service the new technology clusters.

Modify the existing SEC crowdfunding rules for raising private capital by broadening the scope of the existing Reg D Rule 506, and creating new forms of regional closed end funds that target capital to the region’s new and existing firms in the emerging technology clusters.

Implement an explicit system of regional tacit technology knowledge creation and diffusion using blockchain technology to share regional technological knowledge among investors and entrepreneurs.

The great economic benefit of the U. S. covid economic recovery plan is that it is private-sector driven, allowing private financial and business interests in each region to select the policy approach best suited to that region.

By fixing the regional economies in 280 metro regions, the nation’s economic weakness of over-dependence on consumer spending, and inadequate business investment would be fixed. In addition, the rate of capital investment in small, high tech firms would increase, leading to a recovery in America’s technological superiority, that would not be easily stolen by the Chinese Communists.

In other words, we argue that this plan does not require much Federal government oversight, regulations, or increased federal taxes to implement.

The Federal government’s role is to collect the economic data, and organize the data into regional econometric models that can be used by citizens interested in promoting regional economic growth in each metro region.

This introduction is a part of a much longer podcast, available for free, for one week, at www.clpnewsnetwork.com.

The other sections of the longer podcast include:

Section 1. An Economic Policy Dispute With the Neo-classical Productivity School.

Section 2. Re-Envisioning Regional Economies as the Blockchain Knowledge Creation Engines of Economic Growth.

Section 3. Using BEA Models to Target Regional Capital Investment to High Growth Technology Clusters.

Section 4. Commercial Real Estate Regional Industrial Technology Parks and the Regional Geographic Scope of the Economic Recovery Plan.

Section 5. Regional Capital Market Infrastructure.

The entire historical archive of all CLP News Network podcasts are available for an annual subscription of $30.

I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this is the copyrighted CLP podcast for May 20, 2020, and is titled, The U. S. Covid Economic Recovery Plan.

The American Millennial Attraction to Socialism

 

Millennials are attracted to socialism because they believe that the socialist economic systems are more fair than their concept of American capitalism, which is the crony corporate capitalist version of capitalism.

Our book extends the analysis of the Annual Report on US Attitudes Toward Socialism to explain why so many young Americans are attracted to socialism.

We present the four major economic models in the world in order to help millennials better understand their possible choices about the best economic system, judged from their own perspective of fairness and social justice.

We explain that innovation economics is the most fair system, and that if millennials understood better their possible choices about the best economic system, judged from their own perspective of fairness and social justice, they would switch their allegiance from socialism to entrepreneurial economics.

$21.99. Available at Ingram/Aerio https://bit.ly/2zwdyik

About the author.

Laurie Thomas Vass is a regional economist and a constitutional economist. Her political ideology is natural rights conservative.

She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a Masters degree in Regional Planning.

She is the owner of GabbyPress, and the author of 10 books and over 118 scholarly articles on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

Her books and articles are intended to provide the logical and philosophical justification for a Democratic Republic, in contrast to Madison's representative republic. www.gabbypress.com

The American Millennial Attraction to Socialism

 

Millennials are attracted to socialism because they believe that the socialist economic systems are more fair than their concept of American capitalism, which is the crony corporate capitalist version of capitalism.

Our book extends the analysis of the Annual Report on US Attitudes Toward Socialism to explain why so many young Americans are attracted to socialism.

We present the four major economic models in the world in order to help millennials better understand their possible choices about the best economic system, judged from their own perspective of fairness and social justice.

We explain that innovation economics is the most fair system, and that if millennials understood better their possible choices about the best economic system, judged from their own perspective of fairness and social justice, they would switch their allegiance from socialism to entrepreneurial economics.

$21.99. Available at Ingram/Aerio https://bit.ly/2zwdyik

About the author.

Laurie Thomas Vass is a regional economist and a constitutional economist. Her political ideology is natural rights conservative.

She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a Masters degree in Regional Planning.

She is the owner of GabbyPress, and the author of 10 books and over 118 scholarly articles on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

Her books and articles are intended to provide the logical and philosophical justification for a Democratic Republic, in contrast to Madison's representative republic. www.gabbypress.com

Episode 48. May 4, 2020

CLP Topic: The Destruction of America

Obama’s Motive For Framing General Flynn.

Introduction.

We begin our podcast today by honoring the kids who were killed at Kent State, 50 years ago, by agents of the government for protesting a hopelessly immoral war and the corrupt Nixon kelptocracy.

Fifty years ago, Nixon’s kleptocracy was composed primarily of the single force of the military-industrial complex that profited from the death of 58,000 more kids, in Viet Nam, than the four who were killed in Ohio.

Our podcast makes a historical analogy that the ruling class kleptocracy that killed the kids at Kent State has expanded and is a more dangerous ruling class elite today, united by their moral arrogance that globalism is a superior social institution than the sovereignty of the representative republic.

The three components of the expanded kleptocracy, today, are the crony corporate capitalist members of the Business Roundtable, who stuck citizens with the China trade deals, the globalist socialist Democrat Party of Obama, who attempted to overthrow the Trump Presidency, and the agents of the deep state who attempted to financially assassinate General Flynn in order to destroy President Trump.

Obama’s motive to destroy Flynn is a part of Obama’s promotion of the ruling class global kleptocracy.

The American kleptocracy is characterized by a sophisticated global network whose members include world leaders and powerful business people.  The American kleptocrats use their position as the world’s reserve currency to send money around the world and launder it through the global network of central bankers. 

In a kleptocracy, the elites authorize the agents of government to promote corruption, such as framing General Flynn, and we argue that the FBI acted upon the orders from Obama to continue the Russia hoax, as a part of Obama’s strategy of overthrowing the American government.

The motivation to destroy and kill to promote corruption is the same in each of the three components of the new and expanded ruling class.

We argue that the conservative media’s exclusive focus on the injustice to General Flynn, perpetrated by the CIA and FBI, obscures the deeper corruption of Obama and the entire national institutional kleptocracy.

We conclude that the historical lesson of Kent State is that the kleptocracy has gotten worse, and the underlying use of hate to stigmatize political enemies is more sophisticated today because the socialist media has become an ally to promote Obama’s globalism.

People who love liberty must come to grips with the new reality that the ruling class has destroyed the Nation, and that there is nothing of value left remaining in the smoldering ruins of the Constitution.

The Constitution of the former United States has been replaced by a corrupt, centralized tyranny that is entirely disconnected from the consent of the governed, and operates outside of, and beyond, the justice system.

We conclude that people who love liberty must prepare for what comes next, which is a civil dissolution of the nation into two new nations, a Socialist States of America, and the Democratic Republic of America.

This is the introduction of a much longer podcast titled Obama’s Motive For Framing General Flynn. This introduction is available at podbean.

The other sections of the longer article include:

Section 1. Using FISA to Frame General Flynn Was Simply a Tool of the Deep State Agents.

Section 2. Using Hate as A Political Weapon to Promote Globalism.

Section 3. Fingering Obama as A Person of Interest in the Crossfire Hurricane Coup.

Section 4. Conclusion: After the Republic.

The full text and audio of the most recent podcast is available for free, for one week, at clpnewsnetwork.com. The entire text and audio archive of all the CLP News Network podcasts are available for an annual subscription of $30.

Episode 48. May 4, 2020

CLP Topic: The Destruction of America

Obama’s Motive For Framing General Flynn.

Introduction.

We begin our podcast today by honoring the kids who were killed at Kent State, 50 years ago, by agents of the government for protesting a hopelessly immoral war and the corrupt Nixon kelptocracy.

Fifty years ago, Nixon’s kleptocracy was composed primarily of the single force of the military-industrial complex that profited from the death of 58,000 more kids, in Viet Nam, than the four who were killed in Ohio.

Our podcast makes a historical analogy that the ruling class kleptocracy that killed the kids at Kent State has expanded and is a more dangerous ruling class elite today, united by their moral arrogance that globalism is a superior social institution than the sovereignty of the representative republic.

The three components of the expanded kleptocracy, today, are the crony corporate capitalist members of the Business Roundtable, who stuck citizens with the China trade deals, the globalist socialist Democrat Party of Obama, who attempted to overthrow the Trump Presidency, and the agents of the deep state who attempted to financially assassinate General Flynn in order to destroy President Trump.

Obama’s motive to destroy Flynn is a part of Obama’s promotion of the ruling class global kleptocracy.

The American kleptocracy is characterized by a sophisticated global network whose members include world leaders and powerful business people.  The American kleptocrats use their position as the world’s reserve currency to send money around the world and launder it through the global network of central bankers. 

In a kleptocracy, the elites authorize the agents of government to promote corruption, such as framing General Flynn, and we argue that the FBI acted upon the orders from Obama to continue the Russia hoax, as a part of Obama’s strategy of overthrowing the American government.

The motivation to destroy and kill to promote corruption is the same in each of the three components of the new and expanded ruling class.

We argue that the conservative media’s exclusive focus on the injustice to General Flynn, perpetrated by the CIA and FBI, obscures the deeper corruption of Obama and the entire national institutional kleptocracy.

We conclude that the historical lesson of Kent State is that the kleptocracy has gotten worse, and the underlying use of hate to stigmatize political enemies is more sophisticated today because the socialist media has become an ally to promote Obama’s globalism.

People who love liberty must come to grips with the new reality that the ruling class has destroyed the Nation, and that there is nothing of value left remaining in the smoldering ruins of the Constitution.

The Constitution of the former United States has been replaced by a corrupt, centralized tyranny that is entirely disconnected from the consent of the governed, and operates outside of, and beyond, the justice system.

We conclude that people who love liberty must prepare for what comes next, which is a civil dissolution of the nation into two new nations, a Socialist States of America, and the Democratic Republic of America.

This is the introduction of a much longer podcast titled Obama’s Motive For Framing General Flynn. This introduction is available at podbean.

The other sections of the longer article include:

Section 1. Using FISA to Frame General Flynn Was Simply a Tool of the Deep State Agents.

Section 2. Using Hate as A Political Weapon to Promote Globalism.

Section 3. Fingering Obama as A Person of Interest in the Crossfire Hurricane Coup.

Section 4. Conclusion: After the Republic.

The full text and audio of the most recent podcast is available for free, for one week, at clpnewsnetwork.com. The entire text and audio archive of all the CLP News Network podcasts are available for an annual subscription of $30.

Episode 47 April 24, 2020

CLP Topic Category: Democrat Police State Socialism.

Shutting Up The Democrat Socialists Shut Down Nazis.

Introduction.

Our podcast today is titled, Shutting Up the Democrat Socialists Shut Down Nazis. We begin with a recent quote from a shut down Nazi named Susanne Donahue Gray, telling a small business to shut down:

Susannne Patricia Donahue-Gray, on LinkedIn

“I am sorry but I have to tell you. You guys need to close. You are not an essential business and you are passing germs with the virus. Do you want us all to die? Close the                fuck down, Mother Fuckers.!!!"

Our podcast takes issue with the premise of Glenn Beck’s recent book, Arguing With Socialists. Beck begins his book with his premise that “all Americans agree on goals.”

Beck writes,

“All Americans want to send their children to high-quality schools. We all want a lower-cost health care system that works. We all want an increased standard of living and better job opportunities. And we all want to live in peaceful, stable communities. don't forget that in most cases, Americans agree on the problems we face, it's the proposed solutions to the problems that divide us. We all agree that America has a long way to go before it reaches its full potential. On that point, we all stand firmly on common ground.”

We disagree with the premise that socialists agree with conservatives about the mission of the Nation. The attitude of Shut Down Nazis is captured by the quote above, “Close the Fuck Down, Mother Fuckers.”

Instead, we believe that the ideological differences between shut down socialists and conservatives are irreconcilable and that conservatives must prepare for what comes after the conservatives realize that arguing with socialists is useless.

We use the case of the Democrat shut down rhetoric to make our case about the futility of arguing with the socialists.

The ultimate outcome of arguing with socialists can be seen in what happened to both the Methodist and Presbyterian churches.

Both denominations let socialists begin preaching the social gospel, and not  the gospel of Jesus.

After 20 years of arguing with the socialists about the meaning of Jesus, both denominations finally concluded that nothing changes the behavior of socialists because the socialists are intransigent and intolerant of any opinion, other than their own.

In other words, the shut down Nazis are totalitarians. They are the fifth column of the political forces in America that are intent on imposing global socialism on conservatives.

 One of the worst parts about any dialogue with socialists is that they are smarmy arrogant people and have a unshakable moral arrogance that they are always right.

This arrogance makes them act out in rage when they do not get their way.

Both churches split into two parts, a traditional part that follows the gospel of Jesus, and the socialist part that preaches the social gospel of global socialism.

We argue that the divorce in both churches provides a model for the divorce between the socialist shut down Nazis and natural rights conservatives.

Beck’s argument is weak because Beck offers no political resolution to the irreconcilable differences between socialists and natural rights patriots, other than continuing to argue with them..

Beck fails to acknowledge that Madison’s constitution has a fundamental logical flaw that leads to endless do-loops about the mission of the nation.

Some days, Madison’s more perfect union means that Black slaves could not be considered citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories of the United States.

Some days, a more perfect union means that racial segregation, and the ensuing 70 years of racial apartheid, was constitutional, as long as the segregated facilities for Blacks were equal in quality to those of Whites.

 Determining what is “More perfect” depends on who sits on the Supreme Court.

Michael Schulson, in his article, “The Peril of State Power Amid COVID