Engage to support Obama?

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President's re-election team wants to make sure supporters are "engaged," says top campaign adviser Robert Gibbs http://bit.ly/yLz6aV
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Certainly a wise idea but the trouble begins when the attempt is made to engage liberal ideals with what is essentially a Republican (light) president.

I for one do not think highly of the expertise shown in our present banking hierarchy. Nor am I encouraged by the minds of financial advisors seemingly unaware that the commodity currency system was left behind in 1971, forty years ago. We still muddle a long as if taxes actually financed anything and as if we must borrow to bolster our supply of gold, silver, or radishes.

A company is deemed in financial trouble when is liabilities due over the next year exceed its available capital funds. This impels the question, how much liquid capital does the US government have? It would also be interesting to try and understand where this "capital" might be stored. Doing this, however, leads to a not unreasonable conclusion, there really is no place for the government to store money and, in fact, the government hasn't any in storage. Or, since it has the sovereign power of the currency printing press, it has all it needs.

If some of us are to feel engaged, we might have to see a push to restore many of the programs of the New Deal. They worked and worked well; at least until 1937 when the Republicans forced a foolish restraint to "balance the budget". Without a clear understanding of how a "fiat" currency system works, such an action was doomed to result in a falling economy, which is exactly what happened.

The "Third Way" touted by some Democrats, is simply a way to provide cheaper labor to corporations and to allow the "experts" in such organizations run the country. It accepts as an axiom that most of us are too dumb to actually know what is good for us. Not at all sure that this might be true but I believe that we, taken collectively, even as "dumb" as we are, may just be better than any of the experts.