There Is No "Crash of 2016"

 I was listening to Obama talk about the economy.  For the first time in a decade or so incomes are measurably up.  It hasn’t affected us here yet.   At 8:06 I listened to the Republican response on the topic of dismantling Obama Care and coming up with their own better plan.   Even if we concede that the economy is betting better, which is no favor to the republicans because traditionally the party OUT of power wins if the economic figures look shakey, we still have the problem of Obama Care.  Everyone agrees it's just "bad medicine" to quote a proposition 61 commercial.  People pay more and everyone I've talked to over the past four years universally agree that the Affordable Care Act is a bad thing to jack up rates and make you switch doctors.  These "truths" aren't going away.  So maybe the President is smart to point to their being no "Crash of 2016" on the horizon.  We have 39 days to go or something.  It's in the power of the Federal Reserve to crash the markets at any time but they aren't going to do that five weeks before an election.   The trouble with all these doom and gloom people they point out all the things that COULD go wrong hypothetically but none of then NEED go wrong.  I don't see why we couldn't have a market like this indefinitely with investor gains out and out financed by the Federal Reserve's policies.  People like Thom Hartman agree that debt is no problem.  Not really.  After all "it's a place for people to safely save their money" in T bills and other government notes.  The one time we successfully paid off the National Debt was under Andrew Jackson and that destabelized the financial markets so much it threw us into a major recession and the Vice President, Van Buren, was labeled "Van Ruin" because of that.  Without grim economic statistics for the republicans to kick around, their changes for winning in November seem mighty slim at this point.  My only worry is that statistics show that Republicans will be ticket splitters this year voting Republican in "down ballot" races such as congressman and senator, while voting for Hillary and Cain in the top posts.  

A lot of KNX’s news was either about the El Cajon police shooting of s Black man who turned out not to have a gun but took a “shooting stance” or else it was this other Black man in Pasadena who was apparently tazed to death.   There is a delema as I see it because the police never wait any more for someone to point a gun at them before they shoot, and you don't even need to have a gun for them to shoot you dead.  Their aim is getting better because they are trained to feel comfortable firing their weapon at anything, moving or not.  They shoot to kill, going for body mass.  They know they won't be prosecuted much less convicted.  Hence they feel "comfortable" seemingly at times using a gun as a first resort rather than a last one.  But also it struck me that they have good enough vision to be accurate at killing their targets, but apparently have such bad vision they don't know whether it's a gun or a cell phone the person is holding.   And it's also true that the burden of proof is on the dead person to "prove" beyond a reasonable doubt that they weren't at fault at all, or "give the appearence" of being in the wrong.  And beyond that you are expected to go into the officer's own mind to wonder what he may be thinking or what "fearful state" he is in today.  They used to tell us in drivers ed to "drive defensibly".   Now they tell Blacks the perils of "driving while black" or "walking while black" and often they might as well tell us to "live defensively" but if you do that the preachers will get on our case who tell us we must be open and trusting and assuming the most honorable intentions of our neighbor.  (Selah)  There was a little bit about Trump and Hillary but the rest of it was traffic and weather and of course commercials. 

Gary Johnson was on Shawn Hannity’s and also talking with Chris Matthews now and he says that market forces will control the excess of carbon pollution and “the free market” has bankrupted the coal industry.  Shawn claims the Obama administration did that.   I will agree that “market forces” work even in areas of civil rights for either race of sexual identity.  But first there has to be that big stick of government threatening everybody just as in the case of labor unions “free markets” are affected by the presence of Labor Unions raising the wage scale.  Gary Johnson is now warning of the dangers of seeking “regime changes” in foreign governments.  I agree.   “A resume doesn’t impute to  you discernment”.   Recent history has shown that the world is so unstable now that the slightest jiggle will send the bricks cascading down to ruin. 

We had our resident’s council meeting.  There was a lot of lecturing by Josie and Patty and a lot of “dead air” just writing stuff down.  There seemed to be less time for people to actually bring up issues.  Almost no time was spent on food services because they read some mandate saying portion size is mandated and there will be no second glasses of orange juice.  I launched the topic of the lateness of mainly breakfast but they can get the plates on the table in a timely manner because they’ve done it before.  I said that our blinds needed examining by Augustine and Bill’s lamp needs a bulb.  Josie defended Nora against charges of theft, which occur all the time.  The meeting ended at three.  Norman Goldman was in a rerun of last Friday.   There are so many Black people either being shot by cops or else dying in custody I can’t keep track of all of them.   There is a fourteen year old who first killed his father and then shot up a grammar school and injured a teacher and students.   His mother defended him to the media.