Wal-Mart and Getting Beyond Money in Economics

I don't wish to trade numbers on Wal-Mart. In my head, I believe Wal-Mart has too much money, and it is also in my head that it is important to redistribute that money. What we have here is an issue of money plumbing. The pipe leading from Wal-Mart executives out to the real world is clogged. It is time to get the plumber. Believing that money isn’t always in the right hands should be no more difficult than the unfortunate occurrence of a drain clogging.

The issue of unclogging the money drain is to make the economy fit reality. In reality, Wal-Mart has more than its fair share of money, and consequently Wal-Mart executives are not permitted to spend their money by Hashem. Sure they can admire their bank accounts, but Hashem forbids that they spend.

Some suggest that the reason executives don’t spend is due to confidence. They suggest that nervousness or uncertainty is the monkey wrench in the economic machine – imagine that billionaires more uncertain that folks making minimum wage - but their ability to spend has very little to do with confidence, especially in comparison to karma. If Wal-Mart had better karma, then they would be able to spend more of their money.

We need to take the money out of Wal-Mart's hands and do something constructive with it rather than waiting the rest of our lives for Wal-Mart to get some "confidence." Perhaps, the most important thing that we could do with this money is tackle the debt and deficit. We could also use the money to build infrastructure. Therefore, I do not suggest just handing it out to the poor at random though there should likely be some of that too.

Economics and money are 2 separate things. I looked it up in my Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and found that money was nowhere to be found in the definition of economics.

To believe that one will die without money is a popular lie. It is true that some people may die without money, but it is important to know that money isn’t life sustaining in the way that Gd creates this universe to be sustaining. You could live a wonderful life and have no money because money isn’t always the way of acquiring more stuff. It is only true that if money is demanded by you, then your experience will reciprocate that. If you demand money from others, especially those deserving and who do not have money, then money will be demanded of you at a time when you don’t have the benefit of money.

Belief that money is the solution, and that money is more important than hard work, is as the snake in the Garden of Eden telling us that if we only believe provision comes from money (and not Gd), then we will surly die for lack of money. The snake tries to trick us into selling our labor at a cost. However, I suggest working hard, and hoping in Hashem that everything will take care of itself and goodness will arise from this hard work.

I am not saying that all money is a bad thing. Money may certainly be a powerful and useful tool for good, especially in trade. However, I don't equate increasing money to increasing gain. For instance, I do believe wellness and hard work go together. I don't believe hard work, or even any work results in increased cash flow or that money equates to personal wellness. For me it is all about being well.

Historically, since capitalism has become prominent, the state of the world has drastically improved. This has led many to attribute capitalism to wellness. However, it is not just money that has improved. The world is radically different now from how it used to be, and that may be attributed to various forms of technology as well. However, money is as the training wheels of a bicycle. Sooner or later, the training wheels should come off. And then, once they do it is my hope that it doesn’t result in poverty or increased laziness. On the contrary my goal is that people work hard because working hard is rewarding.

"The 1956 Republican Platform" What changed?

This is the kind of government participation I support. It is not about being a Republican or a Democrat, and that one is necessarily wrong, but there is a degree of correctness that is inherent to politics despite the commonality of differing opinions. Politics is a question of the heart, and the bottom line, both of which are not mutually exclusive. The Republicans in the Red states generally have a different sense of goodness, as compared to the Democrats of the Blue states. If something is in fact good, it should bring a sense of wholeness in its resonance in souls, yet I am not one to say that the Red states have it all wrong because in those states there is a greater preponderance of inept folks than the Blue states. In consequence, the ways folks will vote show some natural discrepancies, and that is okay.

Occupy Democrats

If We Raise Taxes With Cuts In Spending, Then Our Money Will Go Further

President Obama’s idea of raising minimum wage has to be the dumbest of his career. Money isn’t all that straight forward. We need sense with money, and that does not come by merely putting more money in peoples’ hands. It is just not that easy. That is how the game Monopoly or the board game Life works, and they are totally not realistic compared to reality where inflation is a huge issue. Our money can only be worth more if we spend it wisely. I am positively fed up with the same old same old, spins your wheels in the mud government. The truth is both sides need to put cuts and raising taxes on the table and stop finger pointing at the side that won't do the other. With talk of hope, obviously there is very little hope with President Obama in office. He has not proven powerful enough to motivate folks, or get them together and talk reasonably. Therefore, looking forward to the next term, already, I hope Hillary Clinton or Deval Patrick runs for President. I like Deval because I think we belong to the best state in the union, MA, and Deval has had to accomplish that without running any debt or deficits, as state government forbids that we go into the negative.

Stopping the Media Plague That Is Cursing the Innovative Minds of Our Children

I just got done playing with my child. He handed me a spatula, and took his sword and we pretended to be having a light saber duel. That idea of using a spatula creatively like a light saber is something too many children aren’t doing these days. It is no wonder that the experts are saying that the younger generation is not as creative as they have been in previous generations. Though perhaps by accident, not having the money to buy the second light saber becomes a blessing for the creativity of a child’s mind. That is, the child only having one light saber needs to use a substitute to have fun, and through that method of substituting similar things, such as even a spatula, can have a profound effect on the minds of our youth.

So, if you are poor, don’t fret. Don’t ask the government for $9 an hour. Rather, teach your child how to be creative through allowing them to play, and be of assistance to helping them delve into their creative minds, such as through the Spatula Light Saber Substitution Theory (SLST). And, at the same time, find creative ways to make your dollar stretch further, so that you don’t need to beg the government for a higher minimum wage.

Another solution to this problem of lack of creativity is to introduce your child to the Bible stories at a young age. These stories are so fantastic that they seem like fables. However, they will cause your child to engage his or her imagination. Children are naturally inclined to these stories because children like fantasy.

Fantasy is a part of what makes the universe so awesome. Without imagination, there would be no Tesla, no Plato, and no Einstein. The world needs creative folk; one's that shake the foundations of the earth and the heavens for being allowed to play at a young age.

Raising the Minimum Wage to $9 an Hour Is a Potential Economic Disaster

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This is a potential economic disaster if we keep raising minimum wage. It is not about how much money we have, but how far we are able to make it go. If people don't work hard to make $9 an hour stretch further, the only thing we have done is make for more difficult mathematics for less fortunate folks that are already challenged at the math that their current pay gives them.  This is mostly because our currency is not based on anything, such as silver or gold.  We can print money all day long, but if we did, it wouldn't be worth anything.  $7.25 is plenty for a minimum wage and it definitely should not be any higher because folks with small brains would just inflate the dollar with sloppy spending, such that the essentials become more expensive.

The road to prosperity is not via inflation. This subject already came up in American history, and the route to prosperity proved not to the inflation route. The only way to prosperity is to bargain in order to drive down prices. The American people need to bind together and agree not to pay high prices rather than buying expensive things that are overpriced, and then play the victim.

On Magnitude and Minimum Wage: How Raising Minimum Wage Trivializes the Value of a Dollar

Perhaps, the most grievous part of our America’s situation is not that the middle and working class are shrinking, while the ranks of the underclass and the working poor increase is that there is a total loss of the value of the dollar. For example, ask a regular someone the difference between $5 and $7 and they will say two dollars, and not think much of the difference when spending when the real difference between these is a full 200 units!, pennies that is.

So, the problem is that 200 pennies are not being spent wisely. That is a lot of units of our currency. Ask someone the difference between $2 and $202 and he or she will probably say there is a huge difference. Do you see the problem with this mentality that disrespects the value of a penny.  It is the mentality of a Democrat, and that has to change if America is to have a bright future. The 99% can't continue on spending like they are drunk unable to pay respect to the value of a penny.

The fact is that every time government steps in to raise minimum wage it makes things worse.  Because when minimum wage is raised, the prices of goods also rise.  They rose in my parent’s generation, and they rose in mine.  What is even more worse is that it becomes more difficult to determine the magnitude of prices when people with less than amazing skills are calculating how much money they will need at the checkout counter.