No doubt, the times are a-changin' for America and its place in the world. Some among us resent this social evolution in favor of a partisan revolution. While we will continue to be a major player on the world stage over this century and beyond, anyone that hasn't awaken to smell the waters and lands beyond our shores should conclude they live in a hole.
Now, domestically, what does all this have to do with the selection of judges to the Supreme Court of the United States? Consider there is virtually nothing we do or decide within our borders that doesn't have ramifications beyond our nation. Whether it be economically, politically, militarily, or the litigation of challenging social trends, America is the land many still take a hint from about what's happening in or coming to their nation. Equally, there's plenty that happening elsewhere that affects us as well.
Now, domestically, what does all this have to do with the selection of judges to the Supreme Court of the United States? Consider there is virtually nothing we do or decide within our borders that doesn't have ramifications beyond our nation. Whether it be economically, politically, militarily, or the litigation of challenging social trends, America is the land many still take a hint from about what's happening in or coming to their nation. Equally, there's plenty that happening elsewhere that affects us as well.
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Why SCOTUS Needs An Independent
Centrist With Local & Global Experience
Centrist With Local & Global Experience
As a nation of laws, SCOTUS judges are becoming more and more on the frontlines of what defines us as a sovereign nation that's very connected to a global network of change. How we decide the legalities of our diverse roles and responsibilities across our nation and throughout the world will be affirmed not by the ever changing lineup of dubious public servants we elect, but by the black robed men and women selected to lifetime appointments.
More than ever, we need a High Court jurist that is comfortable, competent and clearheaded on matters that affect Americans locally, as well as one that can competently connect the dots on legal issues with global ramifications or origins. Moreover, in my view, it would be a major plus if this judicial candidate was of a politically independent mindset rooted in centrist values. In the new America that's also part of a globalized society, there's no place for any myopic partisan ideologues with a narrow perspective or covert political agendas.
More than ever, we need a High Court jurist that is comfortable, competent and clearheaded on matters that affect Americans locally, as well as one that can competently connect the dots on legal issues with global ramifications or origins. Moreover, in my view, it would be a major plus if this judicial candidate was of a politically independent mindset rooted in centrist values. In the new America that's also part of a globalized society, there's no place for any myopic partisan ideologues with a narrow perspective or covert political agendas.
In my humble opinionalysis, the United States Supreme Court is effectively anemic from not being advantaged with a woman's sense and nuance of the laws that affects all of us. I have yet to be convinced that a predominantly male SCOTUS, in the past and into the future, will be to our greatest advantage. Therefore, I am putting in my bid to POTUS 44 to keep women very high on his short list of candidates — preferably someone with professional roots (i.e. doctor, teacher, governor, scientist, business executive, et cetera) beyond the usual legal career track.
Two that come to mind — particularly one that's been pre-approved by both Presidents Reagan and Clinton — are former Detroit public school teacher and later law professor Honorable Ann Claire Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and longtime education reform advocate Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published April 26, 2010
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Obama's Supreme Court Short List >> & Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm >>
White House: Ann Claire Williams, Chicago Judge, On Supreme Court Short List >>
10 Reasons Ann Claire Williams Could Be the Next Supreme Court Justice >>
Two that come to mind — particularly one that's been pre-approved by both Presidents Reagan and Clinton — are former Detroit public school teacher and later law professor Honorable Ann Claire Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and longtime education reform advocate Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published April 26, 2010
RELATED FACTS:
>> & >> & >> & >> & >> & >> & SCOTUS & U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
RELATED NEWS LINKS:
Obama's Supreme Court Short List >> & Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm >>
White House: Ann Claire Williams, Chicago Judge, On Supreme Court Short List >>
10 Reasons Ann Claire Williams Could Be the Next Supreme Court Justice >>
Investigate, prosecute, arrest, imprison, then repeat steps one through four. However, let's also aggressively get back the taxpayer money doled-out to what appears to be organized banksters resembling common gangsters — with the veneer of executive boardroom respectability.
Frankly, I'm okay with President Obama if he chooses to do all five acts in or out of sequence, regardless of the timetable in the hoopla of neurotic news cycles and partisan pranksters. There is real change going on as long as he's actually, if quietly, getting it done.
Nevertheless, until Federal Marshals arrive at corporate offices and mansions with fresh arrest warrants and shiny steel bracelets, real responsibility and transparency won't truly be taken seriously. That's just the nature of anyone that feels immune from genuine accountability for fraud, theft and organized criminal acts. Can the Obama Administration smell and spell RICO?
Only bold and sustained action truly motivates real reversals by business elites accustomed to unaccountable privilege, legal loopholes, unearned bonuses and golden parachutes never granted to jobless lower-level employees and middle to low income taxpayers. From the most radical liberal to the ranting 'Tea Bagger' protesting on the National Mall, rewarding executive incompetence and premeditated fraud is justifiably nauseating to most Americans.
In the middle are the millions of silent centrists and everyday American people who wonder how in Hell did we allow our collective moral compass to fall into a cesspool of acceptable greed and malfeasance. Moreover, the bigger question is when are we going to effectively and consistently do something about it? Young people planning business careers and in need of role models deserve better — or we're simply telling another generation that accountability is just a word.
If free enterprise is America's lifeblood, then integrity is the plasma that sustains our true wealth.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published April 19, 2010
Frankly, I'm okay with President Obama if he chooses to do all five acts in or out of sequence, regardless of the timetable in the hoopla of neurotic news cycles and partisan pranksters. There is real change going on as long as he's actually, if quietly, getting it done.
Nevertheless, until Federal Marshals arrive at corporate offices and mansions with fresh arrest warrants and shiny steel bracelets, real responsibility and transparency won't truly be taken seriously. That's just the nature of anyone that feels immune from genuine accountability for fraud, theft and organized criminal acts. Can the Obama Administration smell and spell RICO?
Only bold and sustained action truly motivates real reversals by business elites accustomed to unaccountable privilege, legal loopholes, unearned bonuses and golden parachutes never granted to jobless lower-level employees and middle to low income taxpayers. From the most radical liberal to the ranting 'Tea Bagger' protesting on the National Mall, rewarding executive incompetence and premeditated fraud is justifiably nauseating to most Americans.
In the middle are the millions of silent centrists and everyday American people who wonder how in Hell did we allow our collective moral compass to fall into a cesspool of acceptable greed and malfeasance. Moreover, the bigger question is when are we going to effectively and consistently do something about it? Young people planning business careers and in need of role models deserve better — or we're simply telling another generation that accountability is just a word.
If free enterprise is America's lifeblood, then integrity is the plasma that sustains our true wealth.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published April 19, 2010
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Executive Fraud, Real Accountability,
Public Trust & Shiny Steel Bracelets
Public Trust & Shiny Steel Bracelets
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
The United States & Israel: When Friendship
Clearly Becomes Manipulation With Liabilities
Clearly Becomes Manipulation With Liabilities
The latest in a series of current and future riffs between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be strained, but not yet fragile. The United States and Israel have a relationship that is justifiably more solid than we have with other Middle East nations.
Nevertheless, in the ever expanding labyrinth of 21st century geopolitics and economics in the age of global terrorism, traditional friendships can become tenuous and challenging. Like every relationship, political or otherwise, honest periodic reviews and assessments are required to confirm its integrity. Previous U.S. presidents have known this, specifically in the case of Israel.
Nevertheless, in the ever expanding labyrinth of 21st century geopolitics and economics in the age of global terrorism, traditional friendships can become tenuous and challenging. Like every relationship, political or otherwise, honest periodic reviews and assessments are required to confirm its integrity. Previous U.S. presidents have known this, specifically in the case of Israel.
Both current and long-term, U.S. domestic and international interests are a complicated and delicate web of critical relationships that must be effectively and realistically balanced with regard to our own security, and that of other nations. Friendships that ignore this fundamental reality risk enhancing our and others' vulnerability to more dangers. As such, the greater good of our and America's allies become paramount.
Self-serving as it may sound, the United States of America is factually still an anchor nation along with others in a world of increasing economic complexities, political challenges, global opportunities, agile stateless terror, and hidden foreign policy agendas. As such, no American president can or should ignore any potential or present danger to our status and sovereignty. Moreover, no friendship supersedes or supplants the security of American citizens.
In the case of our well earned relationship and mutual interests with Israel, it is imperative that all of its leaders understand and act as if this partnership is real and justified. A relationship without accountability and respect lays the foundation for mistrust. It creates a portal for more dangerous divisions. No doubt, these chasms will be exploited by those with nefarious agendas.
Mr. Netanyahu must reconcile the liabilities of manipulation, arrogance and deception to the real best interests of Israel, and an American friendship that must never be weakened or severed. Friendship with America for Israel's hawkish hard-line politicians, with or without their military and nuclear capabilities, should never be seen as expendable, extraneous, or an entitlement.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published April 5, 2010
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Fund Healthcare By Major Attacks On WIFI:
Waste, Inefficiency, Fraud & Incompetence
Waste, Inefficiency, Fraud & Incompetence
Call President Barack Obama's and our healthcare journey a victory, landmark or an historic presidential achievement. No doubt, both Republican and Democratic Presidents Roosevelt would agree after a nearly 100 year crawl through the partisan politics and politricks of Capitol Hill. As bipartisan as it's ever going to get, considering the current crop of Republican and Democratic legislators, American citizens prevailed on a chilly spring Sunday night.
Time will tell, despite the continuing partisan hype and distortions, if we all truly understand the significance of this major U.S. legislation as with social security insurance.
Time will tell, despite the continuing partisan hype and distortions, if we all truly understand the significance of this major U.S. legislation as with social security insurance.
But, wait, there's more. Now comes the much bigger challenge of effective accountability and enforcement regarding the systemic waste, inefficiency, fraud and incompetence in the implementation of real healthcare reform. The stacks of paper required to refine what we hope will be a true overhauling of the private and public healthcare bureaucracy is comparatively small. Compare Sunday's legislative victory to the multi-billion dollar mountains of money that are lost every hour and year through organized criminal scams, insider pilfering, administrative inefficiencies and personnel mismanagement — plus the activities not being assessed.
If what we envision as truly effective healthcare implementation is to be a reality, then there will have to be some genuinely strong measures taken to investigate and prosecute both private and public service entities that are poised to suck the system even more dry of funds and services designed to help and heal ailing Americans. The efforts of Present Obama and lawmakers will be effectively voided by the steady ongoing drain of resources and revenue by those dedicated to robbing the system.
Regular publicly televised 'perp walks' outside local federal courthouses sends pictures worth over a billion words and dollars to external and internal criminals that this healthcare reform is not the same game with a different name. Since the White House prides itself on being transparent, why not take it to the next level by also uploading a website on what's being done daily to end healthcare fraud and waste. Also, for good measure, display a who's who page of those convicted of stealing healthcare monies.
Surely, it can be justifiably argued that passage of U.S. healthcare reform in 2010 was not a pretty process with a perfect outcome. Nevertheless, years from now, many healthier and insured Americans will wonder why did it have to take this long and who was responsible for this latest foot-dragging festival.
In the meantime, the light of information with a heavy dose of enforcement will still be President Obama's best disinfectant against the profiteering parasites that will continue to infest and grow on our healthcare system if left unchecked.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published March 22, 2010
If what we envision as truly effective healthcare implementation is to be a reality, then there will have to be some genuinely strong measures taken to investigate and prosecute both private and public service entities that are poised to suck the system even more dry of funds and services designed to help and heal ailing Americans. The efforts of Present Obama and lawmakers will be effectively voided by the steady ongoing drain of resources and revenue by those dedicated to robbing the system.
Regular publicly televised 'perp walks' outside local federal courthouses sends pictures worth over a billion words and dollars to external and internal criminals that this healthcare reform is not the same game with a different name. Since the White House prides itself on being transparent, why not take it to the next level by also uploading a website on what's being done daily to end healthcare fraud and waste. Also, for good measure, display a who's who page of those convicted of stealing healthcare monies.
Surely, it can be justifiably argued that passage of U.S. healthcare reform in 2010 was not a pretty process with a perfect outcome. Nevertheless, years from now, many healthier and insured Americans will wonder why did it have to take this long and who was responsible for this latest foot-dragging festival.
In the meantime, the light of information with a heavy dose of enforcement will still be President Obama's best disinfectant against the profiteering parasites that will continue to infest and grow on our healthcare system if left unchecked.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published March 22, 2010
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
A New York Minute On Prosecuting
Al-Qaeda & Other Military Combatants
Al-Qaeda & Other Military Combatants
Most New Yorkers would consider it a no-brainer. However, in the alternate universe of our federal bureaucracy in Washington, D.C., sometimes brains aren't the first tool of choice in assessing the local consequences of decisions.
Though the concerns of most New York City real estate industry advocates, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg — specifically the Real Estate Board of New York — appear to be more driven by property values and profits, there is still highly substantive merit in the issue of the actual security and logistical costs borne by New Yorkers. The last thing a congested and extremely busy Manhattan district needs is a new and far more hardened series of military-style checkpoints for terror suspect trials.
Though the concerns of most New York City real estate industry advocates, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg — specifically the Real Estate Board of New York — appear to be more driven by property values and profits, there is still highly substantive merit in the issue of the actual security and logistical costs borne by New Yorkers. The last thing a congested and extremely busy Manhattan district needs is a new and far more hardened series of military-style checkpoints for terror suspect trials.
The multitude of narrow lower Manhattan streets, surrounded by canyons of numerous tall buildings are probably the terrorists' ideal target — once again, as twice before in 1993 and 2001 — just blocks away from the nation's financial district of Wall Street. The logistical nightmare of evacuating the labyrinth of residential and commercial streets within stop-and-go gauntlets, while simultaneously trying to lock-down the area, is fertile ground for potential threats and chaotic real incidents. As proven, terrorist egos always like a challenge or targeting bait.
Yet, almost within view of the hallowed ground once trafficked by the over 3,000 souls that were murdered on the morning of September 11th 2001, is Governors Island. If the Obama Administration is seeking the triple slam-dunk of symbolism, security and seclusion, then the barely used over 200-year-old and 172-acre island military facility is that no-brainer.
Totally surrounded by treacherous bay waters, like Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay, the former U.S. Coast Guard facility offers ideal command and control assets uncommon to most urban military facilities. No one and nothing would be able to get on or near Governors Island after the multi-million dollar upgrades in taxpayer money being set for the trials of the arrested and accused military combatants. Moreover, the island is already being paid for by taxpayers.
So, in this New York minute, the President and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder — a born and raised 'Noo-Yawka' who should know better — can hold on to some real friends in the Big Apple. Don't traumatize this thriving and crowded metropolis, and America's first capital, with another barrier of security. Conceivably, it is a barrier that will have the net effect of making the city less safe, and producing exponential financial loses to an already delicate local economy.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published February 2, 2010
Relying on information rooted in snapshot polls, half-baked facts, media-based hype, and moronic logic is not a clear path to finding substantive conclusions. If there are some logically connected facts and factual historical data, rather than hysterical assumptions, to explain why level-headed Americans should give any serious consideration to the nonsense in the daily news cycles — it's totally lost on me.
Demented Dreams & Partisan Prayers:
The New 'Loyal Opposition' In America
The New 'Loyal Opposition' In America
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Obama is not your usual run-of-the-mill POTUS. For anyone that vaguely remembers 2000 through 2008, he is what most of us asked for on Election Day. This current media spin-cycle and political hand-wringing may seem to be a metaphor for the saying, “Be careful of what you ask for, you may get it.” Then again, the hype about President Obama skating on thin ice without hope of basic bipartisan support or legislative success, may simply be an attempt to exploit the selective and schizophrenic memory of a segment of Americans.
The sum-total of what any president is trying to achieve when making real change through his policies, regardless of political affiliation, cannot and should not be judged based on a single goal or policy effort. Surely, on this account, even President Obama's political adversaries have affirmed all too often during several of their administrations that they stand on very shaky ground regarding competent governance, fiscal integrity, and America's overall national security.
So, how can we accurately assess and fairly judge this president's first year in office. No doubt, Obama warrants constructive criticism on parts of his domestic and foreign policies. Though I'm no icon of patience in hoping for a quicker economic recovery of my nation, at the very least I do understand that it is the overall results of several policies and coordinated initiatives over years — especially the accountability for them — that determine the real success or failure of any president's time in office. We elected a president, not a genie.
You can be sure, beyond the hyped headlines in upcoming elections, many won't comprehend the constructive new direction of our nation that Barack Obama has forged — at least until the middle of his second term. As long as most voters don't allow themselves to be punked, duped, bamboozled and trapped in the spin cycles of ratings-driven media coverage — and the right, left and fringe partisans that pimp it — myopic reporting and partisan punditry will not prevail.
The divide and conquer mindset of this diminishing species within this new 'loyal opposition' has grown roots deep in the strategies and tactics of winning and being heard at any cost. Even if it means dreaming and praying for the country to fail under this or any democratically elected president, the collateral damage to America's socioeconomic and general national security is acceptable to them until they gain or regain political power. Centrism, genuine bipartisanship, truly accountable governance, global competitiveness, and the next generation be damned.
What was once a relatively effective synergy and functional balance of checks on executive power, has now degenerated into a several factions of partisan parasites blindly sucking the life out of democracy for the sake of a politically clever sound bite. They have yet to look beyond the next election or news cycle to realize that once the body dies and decays, so do they.
Inevitably, known and unknown challenges will come to this 44th president. No Commander-In-Chief can or should be in denial about this job requirement. Nevertheless, beyond statistically prefabricated polls and predictable news reportage, President Obama will do well with, for and by the people that elected him — even for the ones that didn't or would never vote for him.
Reminder — remember, fully and factually, what happened to our nation between 2000 and 2008. Remember those that made it happen or allowed it to occur, and what made them believe even back then that only they knew what was best and right for America. I remember.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published January 26, 2010
The sum-total of what any president is trying to achieve when making real change through his policies, regardless of political affiliation, cannot and should not be judged based on a single goal or policy effort. Surely, on this account, even President Obama's political adversaries have affirmed all too often during several of their administrations that they stand on very shaky ground regarding competent governance, fiscal integrity, and America's overall national security.
So, how can we accurately assess and fairly judge this president's first year in office. No doubt, Obama warrants constructive criticism on parts of his domestic and foreign policies. Though I'm no icon of patience in hoping for a quicker economic recovery of my nation, at the very least I do understand that it is the overall results of several policies and coordinated initiatives over years — especially the accountability for them — that determine the real success or failure of any president's time in office. We elected a president, not a genie.
You can be sure, beyond the hyped headlines in upcoming elections, many won't comprehend the constructive new direction of our nation that Barack Obama has forged — at least until the middle of his second term. As long as most voters don't allow themselves to be punked, duped, bamboozled and trapped in the spin cycles of ratings-driven media coverage — and the right, left and fringe partisans that pimp it — myopic reporting and partisan punditry will not prevail.
The divide and conquer mindset of this diminishing species within this new 'loyal opposition' has grown roots deep in the strategies and tactics of winning and being heard at any cost. Even if it means dreaming and praying for the country to fail under this or any democratically elected president, the collateral damage to America's socioeconomic and general national security is acceptable to them until they gain or regain political power. Centrism, genuine bipartisanship, truly accountable governance, global competitiveness, and the next generation be damned.
What was once a relatively effective synergy and functional balance of checks on executive power, has now degenerated into a several factions of partisan parasites blindly sucking the life out of democracy for the sake of a politically clever sound bite. They have yet to look beyond the next election or news cycle to realize that once the body dies and decays, so do they.
Inevitably, known and unknown challenges will come to this 44th president. No Commander-In-Chief can or should be in denial about this job requirement. Nevertheless, beyond statistically prefabricated polls and predictable news reportage, President Obama will do well with, for and by the people that elected him — even for the ones that didn't or would never vote for him.
Reminder — remember, fully and factually, what happened to our nation between 2000 and 2008. Remember those that made it happen or allowed it to occur, and what made them believe even back then that only they knew what was best and right for America. I remember.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published January 26, 2010
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Federal Education Funding:
The Weakest Link In America
The Weakest Link In America
President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, unlike their predecessors, are to be commended for their high prioritization of education as a key component in the present and future success of the United States. No doubt, this new, urgent and sharper focus on upgrading our relatively outmoded education system is overdue.
However, there appears to be a large reality gap in what it will take to upgrade American education and the actual required cost. On top of the $4.35 billion already committed in Obama's 2010 budget is a forthcoming $1.35 billion for school grants during 2011.
However, there appears to be a large reality gap in what it will take to upgrade American education and the actual required cost. On top of the $4.35 billion already committed in Obama's 2010 budget is a forthcoming $1.35 billion for school grants during 2011.
Nevertheless, when it comes to educating today's U.S. students, and the critical mass of the tough global competition we'll face in 2010 and beyond, single-digit billions just won't cut it. Even as an Independent with fiscal conservative and waste conscious instincts, it's clear to me that larger critical returns will be earned by much greater investments in all of our public schools.
Yes, even when it comes to the educational, creative, productive and intellectual destiny of our nation, as many young people can tell you on this matter, “It's all about the Benjamins.” If we don't start setting fiscal year double-digit billions for education within this decade, we might as well kiss our competitive future and global lead goodbye. Our multi-billion dollar bailouts to the financial and other corporate industries won't compare to the trillions that will be lost through an exponential degeneration of homegrown brainpower, talent, productivity, and competence.
Beginning with steady funding for mandatory free pre-school education, maximum 15-student classrooms from elementary to high school, standardized portable student computers with digitized online textbooks and homework, better paid in-classroom teachers, expanded parent involvement programs, school building infrastructure renovations, and a 50-state network of tuition-free national colleges are just a few ways most parents will see their tax dollars more effectively spent. Ask any cash-strapped parent trying to acquire a good education for their child. Regarding our nation's future, it's clearly a pay more now or pay much more later proposition.
When I hear about the bailout billions for incompetent corporate executives that mismanaged their businesses and our economy, along with the multiple millions they pay themselves for a job poorly done, the feeling during my socioeconomic and political discussions is not anger — but, how many American children in this decade and beyond can be better educated and effectively trained with just a fully accountable ten percent of our collective national fortune.
You can jokingly, but credibly, argue that improving our education system will also result in greater competence and improved managerial judgment among future executives. Perhaps. However, I am seriously certain that an effectively funded education system is a major factor in youth crime reduction — a fact that's not lost on a high youth crime city like Chicago where Secretary Duncan was recruited, and equally applicable just minutes from the White House.
Sometimes, the obvious and simplicity can be difficult for the complicated mind — and the critical challenge of actually doing something to bring genuine and effective change. Call me simple or naïve, but in a deeper and complex sense, student educational empowerment and reform of our pre-school to college education systems are also matters of national security.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published January 20, 2010
RELATED LINKS:
Educational Attainment In The U.S. & History Of Education In The U.S.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
National Assessment of Educational Progress
Institute for Higher Education Policy & Education Week Magazine
2009 Data Indicates The U.S. Remains Competitive Among Other Developed Nations
PDF Edition - The Spaces Between Numbers:
Getting International Data On Higher Education Straight
World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010 & PDF Edition
Yes, even when it comes to the educational, creative, productive and intellectual destiny of our nation, as many young people can tell you on this matter, “It's all about the Benjamins.” If we don't start setting fiscal year double-digit billions for education within this decade, we might as well kiss our competitive future and global lead goodbye. Our multi-billion dollar bailouts to the financial and other corporate industries won't compare to the trillions that will be lost through an exponential degeneration of homegrown brainpower, talent, productivity, and competence.
Beginning with steady funding for mandatory free pre-school education, maximum 15-student classrooms from elementary to high school, standardized portable student computers with digitized online textbooks and homework, better paid in-classroom teachers, expanded parent involvement programs, school building infrastructure renovations, and a 50-state network of tuition-free national colleges are just a few ways most parents will see their tax dollars more effectively spent. Ask any cash-strapped parent trying to acquire a good education for their child. Regarding our nation's future, it's clearly a pay more now or pay much more later proposition.
When I hear about the bailout billions for incompetent corporate executives that mismanaged their businesses and our economy, along with the multiple millions they pay themselves for a job poorly done, the feeling during my socioeconomic and political discussions is not anger — but, how many American children in this decade and beyond can be better educated and effectively trained with just a fully accountable ten percent of our collective national fortune.
You can jokingly, but credibly, argue that improving our education system will also result in greater competence and improved managerial judgment among future executives. Perhaps. However, I am seriously certain that an effectively funded education system is a major factor in youth crime reduction — a fact that's not lost on a high youth crime city like Chicago where Secretary Duncan was recruited, and equally applicable just minutes from the White House.
Sometimes, the obvious and simplicity can be difficult for the complicated mind — and the critical challenge of actually doing something to bring genuine and effective change. Call me simple or naïve, but in a deeper and complex sense, student educational empowerment and reform of our pre-school to college education systems are also matters of national security.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published January 20, 2010
RELATED LINKS:
Educational Attainment In The U.S. & History Of Education In The U.S.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
National Assessment of Educational Progress
Institute for Higher Education Policy & Education Week Magazine
2009 Data Indicates The U.S. Remains Competitive Among Other Developed Nations
PDF Edition - The Spaces Between Numbers:
Getting International Data On Higher Education Straight
World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010 & PDF Edition
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
The Big Picture, Dirty Laundry &
The Liberal Senator From Nevada
The Liberal Senator From Nevada
Nevada's U.S. Senator Harry Reid hasn't yet earned being called a racist or flaming bigot. His 2008 comments about President Barack Obama's candidacy as having a much greater campaign advantage over other African American Presidential aspirants based on him being "light-skinned" and not having a "Negro dialect" is old news.
After Reid's apology, the President has rightly turned a page on the comments made over a year ago during his historic bid for POTUS. Obama knows he has far greater matters in the coming days and years of this new decade.
After Reid's apology, the President has rightly turned a page on the comments made over a year ago during his historic bid for POTUS. Obama knows he has far greater matters in the coming days and years of this new decade.
Moreover, tagging Reid's past comments as 'politically incorrect' is so lame and truly passé. However, without doubt, the diagnosis of the senior politico being socially retarded is confirmed.
Then, there is the big picture perspective of our own collective dirty laundry, and other truths beyond the liberal U.S. Senator's statements — or as comedian Carlos Mencia would joke about in a news segment on his past TV show, "Why the fuck is this news?" Even in this second decade of the new millennium, in a so-called "post-racial" Obama Era, who hasn't heard older and even younger Blacks speaking of their own color preferences of other Blacks — or denigrating one another over skin shade, "good hair" or "talking White" and "acting White" in 21st century America — aside from the usual "ghetto" or "ghetto fabulous" putdowns.
Even my ears were the unfortunate recipients of one individual on DC's Metro train system worrying out loud that she thought there were "too many Whites and Lights advising Obama." The rant got more ignorant than that, but I'll spare you the logic-defying details of her obvious plantation mentality analysis. Yes, in 2010, conscious and unconscious 'Black Codes' among Blacks live on very well without a word from any 70-year-old White public official from Nevada.
Sure, as a knee-jerk reaction, we'll justifiably say Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid's remarks are bigoted and politically incorrect — or as I prefer to say, socially retarded. But, what else is new or shocking coming from the mouths of many other Americans of every ethnicity and political persuasion when it comes to their personal and honest thoughts about other groups? It's as American as apple pie, the Fourth of July and Soul Train.
Until we fully and honestly face each of our own levels of ignorance and insecurity regarding anyone beyond the ethnic group each of us believe we belong to, expressing socially retarded remarks in private or public will continue — based solely on human nature and popular culture.
Regardless of any social status, educational level, financial prowess or hue, this mentality is a simple reminder of the need to heal each of our own forms of personal arrested development.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published January 11, 2010
Then, there is the big picture perspective of our own collective dirty laundry, and other truths beyond the liberal U.S. Senator's statements — or as comedian Carlos Mencia would joke about in a news segment on his past TV show, "Why the fuck is this news?" Even in this second decade of the new millennium, in a so-called "post-racial" Obama Era, who hasn't heard older and even younger Blacks speaking of their own color preferences of other Blacks — or denigrating one another over skin shade, "good hair" or "talking White" and "acting White" in 21st century America — aside from the usual "ghetto" or "ghetto fabulous" putdowns.
Even my ears were the unfortunate recipients of one individual on DC's Metro train system worrying out loud that she thought there were "too many Whites and Lights advising Obama." The rant got more ignorant than that, but I'll spare you the logic-defying details of her obvious plantation mentality analysis. Yes, in 2010, conscious and unconscious 'Black Codes' among Blacks live on very well without a word from any 70-year-old White public official from Nevada.
Sure, as a knee-jerk reaction, we'll justifiably say Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid's remarks are bigoted and politically incorrect — or as I prefer to say, socially retarded. But, what else is new or shocking coming from the mouths of many other Americans of every ethnicity and political persuasion when it comes to their personal and honest thoughts about other groups? It's as American as apple pie, the Fourth of July and Soul Train.
Until we fully and honestly face each of our own levels of ignorance and insecurity regarding anyone beyond the ethnic group each of us believe we belong to, expressing socially retarded remarks in private or public will continue — based solely on human nature and popular culture.
Regardless of any social status, educational level, financial prowess or hue, this mentality is a simple reminder of the need to heal each of our own forms of personal arrested development.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published January 11, 2010
More than most will or can acknowledge, this President has made extraordinary strides in his first year in resetting America's moral and political compass. This reset is not an easy-button task considering the hard and harsh path we have chosen over the past 20-plus years. As a result of various actions in the last two decades, the world — even inside our own country — has become a much more challenging and dangerous place for Americans.
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Nobel Haters & Partisan Instigators:
Take Your Pick – President Or Genie
Take Your Pick – President Or Genie
While many partisans on the left and right of politics have criticized Obama for his first year of decisions and actions, the more middle and effective course he has taken is beginning to show small and constructive results. Of course, that does not sit well with politicized partisans — as it virtually invalidates their premature rhetoric and political comfort zones.
If we've been paying genuine attention since his campaign and Inauguration Day, virtually nothing President Obama has said or done is new or surprising. Historically, no other U.S. President has been more candid and communicative about his intent and actions — offline, online and places in between — if we listen more above the screech of critics and pundits.
Even on economics, I strongly encourage everyone to read one or all three of these books: Obamanomics (John R. Talbott), Renegade (Richard Wolffe), and What Obama Means (Jabari Asim). Read any one of these books and you'll get your own 'A-hah!' moment.
No doubt, criticism is always very necessary when supported by conclusive facts and fully informed opinion — usually known as constructive criticism. Nevertheless, it should also be balanced by a sense of realism and optimism about possibilities. The absence of these latter elements only breeds the kind of cynicism and collective self-destruction that have nearly destroyed us, as well as the compass we will always need for guidance.
The bottom line facts and rational behind the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to this 44th President of the United States is to serve as added momentum to the motivation that put Obama on his current path. He clearly acknowledges that the standard has been set by others before him, and that his early course is merely the follow-through guided by his own compass. Too bad his critics on this matter have shown none of the same level of humility on anything.
We elected a man and president — not a god or genie.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published December 10, 2009
As I recall, many among the Congressional Black Caucus were busy doing the 'Potomac Two-Step' and 'Plantation Slide' during Election 2008. They didn't support or envision the promising junior U.S. Senator of Illinois Barack Obama
to be a President Barack Obama. Ironically, he was from among the CBC's ranks — albeit he was one of its younger and more politically elegant members.
Again, as I clearly remember it, at least one among the so-called 'HNIC' political elite wanted to "cut his nuts off" during a nationwide TV broadcast — no doubt to the ghostly approval and humor of many abusive slave masters and present day KKK terrorists. One can only wonder if Reverend Jesse Jackson was really crying during Obama's victory night telecast over his own gross political miscalculation, or about that “live and in living color” verbal transgression against the most popular and arguably politically astute fellow Illinoisans since Lincoln.
So now the question, in the reality of this 21st century of new paradigm politics — lead by a genuinely articulate, intelligent, broadminded, patriotic, brinkmanship-capable, still-likable and globally conscious U.S. President of African American descent — what is the true and current purpose of the CBC? No doubt, they really do have a very important and truly critical role to play in and beyond the Obama era.
Let's see — how about simply providing fully engaged, consistent, and completely competent representation and effective longterm empowerment for their long-suffering local constituents, many of whom feel significantly under-served by them as they showboat, hype and rant — and sometimes scam or steal taxpayer assets in and beyond the Nation's Capital (i.e. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson of New Orleans, Charles “Land Grab” Rangel of New York City, and more to come in and outside D.C.).
Okay, at the risk of some rye humor within a very serious subject, I'll say it for everyone that's thinking it: Let's forever stop profiling Black drivers, pedestrians, shoppers and young men — and start profiling corrupt Black public officials who damn well should know better, and do better by their mostly Black constituents who will never get the opportunity to chat face-to-face about their actual needs and concerns with Obama in the Oval Office.
Yeah, how about the Congressional Black Caucus lip- and body-checking those among their own ranks that are not doing, and rarely have done, the 'right thing' for those many faceless constituents they claim the President is not helping — as if Obama's actions on infrastructure upgrades, job generation, affordable healthcare, global trade, educational empowerment, green technology, credit access, home loans, diplomatic engagement, public safety and the war on terrorism for all of America has absolutely nothing to do with Black Americans.
How about CBC members making a 21st century contract with their constituents to greatly, more proactively and effectively do the jobs our dwindling hard-earned tax dollars have been paying them to do since the 20th century.
How about the CBC stop acting like crabs in a new millennium barrel. Surely, to paraphrase Obama, they too need to know what they're talking about before they speak.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published December 13, 2009
Again, as I clearly remember it, at least one among the so-called 'HNIC' political elite wanted to "cut his nuts off" during a nationwide TV broadcast — no doubt to the ghostly approval and humor of many abusive slave masters and present day KKK terrorists. One can only wonder if Reverend Jesse Jackson was really crying during Obama's victory night telecast over his own gross political miscalculation, or about that “live and in living color” verbal transgression against the most popular and arguably politically astute fellow Illinoisans since Lincoln.
So now the question, in the reality of this 21st century of new paradigm politics — lead by a genuinely articulate, intelligent, broadminded, patriotic, brinkmanship-capable, still-likable and globally conscious U.S. President of African American descent — what is the true and current purpose of the CBC? No doubt, they really do have a very important and truly critical role to play in and beyond the Obama era.
Let's see — how about simply providing fully engaged, consistent, and completely competent representation and effective longterm empowerment for their long-suffering local constituents, many of whom feel significantly under-served by them as they showboat, hype and rant — and sometimes scam or steal taxpayer assets in and beyond the Nation's Capital (i.e. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson of New Orleans, Charles “Land Grab” Rangel of New York City, and more to come in and outside D.C.).
Okay, at the risk of some rye humor within a very serious subject, I'll say it for everyone that's thinking it: Let's forever stop profiling Black drivers, pedestrians, shoppers and young men — and start profiling corrupt Black public officials who damn well should know better, and do better by their mostly Black constituents who will never get the opportunity to chat face-to-face about their actual needs and concerns with Obama in the Oval Office.
Yeah, how about the Congressional Black Caucus lip- and body-checking those among their own ranks that are not doing, and rarely have done, the 'right thing' for those many faceless constituents they claim the President is not helping — as if Obama's actions on infrastructure upgrades, job generation, affordable healthcare, global trade, educational empowerment, green technology, credit access, home loans, diplomatic engagement, public safety and the war on terrorism for all of America has absolutely nothing to do with Black Americans.
How about CBC members making a 21st century contract with their constituents to greatly, more proactively and effectively do the jobs our dwindling hard-earned tax dollars have been paying them to do since the 20th century.
How about the CBC stop acting like crabs in a new millennium barrel. Surely, to paraphrase Obama, they too need to know what they're talking about before they speak.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published December 13, 2009
A New & Improved Purpose For
CBC Politicos In The Obama Era
CBC Politicos In The Obama Era
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUSworld.com Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUSworld.com Publisher
And Now: Arrest BP Execs While Freezing Their Assets & Suspending All Oil Leases
Expanded frustration and smoldering outrage may be understatements to describe British Petroleum's stall and slide strategy. Many throughout the U.S. Gulf States region feel BP is doing nothing more than a slow-motion waltz with the $20 billion dollars mandated by the Obama Administration to immediately start fully paying legitimately affected businesses and sickened residents. The BP, a.k.a. bamboozle project, is in full effect.
The fix seems to be in. Compensation paperwork snafus, cleanup coordination red tape, and crooked answers to straight questions are the latest growth industries throughout oil-slimed U.S. towns near the Gulf of Mexico.
If it isn't abundantly clear and legal by now, soon-to-be golden parachuting BP CEO Tony Hayward and other executives should be receiving shiny handcuffs from U.S. Marshals on their next U.S. visit. The message would be very clear, unless that mid-June White House talk between Obama and BP execs was nothing more than a pretentious and clever photo-op to convey toughness.
Though it is unlikely to happen, the handcuffing of a single BP oil executive in one of those White House website videos could guarantee President Obama through-the-roof voter approval ratings. Surely, I'd watch it ten times daily.
Moreover, grab all of their current and future company compensations and assets until the contracted $20 billion has been fully paid-out. Now, I'm assuming the smartest legal minds around President Obama nailed-down this little detail before allowing the BP crew to stroll from the room back in June. However, I am honestly beginning to have serious doubts that POTUS and company are ahead of British Petroleum's strategy curve and endgame.
Nevertheless, my observations about BP's oily backsliding has a value lesser than the price of unleaded gas. Yet, there is a growing sense that the Obama Administration hopes this ongoing BP hustle fades unresolved from the top of news headlines by election year 2012. It won't and shouldn't if our ecosystems have any real value to us.
You can label British Petroleum's obligations and the Obama Administration's action-steps as legally-binding compensation, an economic stimulus, small business empowerment, infrastructure restoration, or simply just doing the right thing. All that matters now is a paid-in-full unbounceable check in the hands of legitimately affected citizens from Texas to Florida. Money really does talk.
The fix seems to be in. Compensation paperwork snafus, cleanup coordination red tape, and crooked answers to straight questions are the latest growth industries throughout oil-slimed U.S. towns near the Gulf of Mexico.
If it isn't abundantly clear and legal by now, soon-to-be golden parachuting BP CEO Tony Hayward and other executives should be receiving shiny handcuffs from U.S. Marshals on their next U.S. visit. The message would be very clear, unless that mid-June White House talk between Obama and BP execs was nothing more than a pretentious and clever photo-op to convey toughness.
Though it is unlikely to happen, the handcuffing of a single BP oil executive in one of those White House website videos could guarantee President Obama through-the-roof voter approval ratings. Surely, I'd watch it ten times daily.
Moreover, grab all of their current and future company compensations and assets until the contracted $20 billion has been fully paid-out. Now, I'm assuming the smartest legal minds around President Obama nailed-down this little detail before allowing the BP crew to stroll from the room back in June. However, I am honestly beginning to have serious doubts that POTUS and company are ahead of British Petroleum's strategy curve and endgame.
Nevertheless, my observations about BP's oily backsliding has a value lesser than the price of unleaded gas. Yet, there is a growing sense that the Obama Administration hopes this ongoing BP hustle fades unresolved from the top of news headlines by election year 2012. It won't and shouldn't if our ecosystems have any real value to us.
You can label British Petroleum's obligations and the Obama Administration's action-steps as legally-binding compensation, an economic stimulus, small business empowerment, infrastructure restoration, or simply just doing the right thing. All that matters now is a paid-in-full unbounceable check in the hands of legitimately affected citizens from Texas to Florida. Money really does talk.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Originally Published July 27, 2010 - Periodically Updated
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Originally Published July 27, 2010 - Periodically Updated
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUSworld.com Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUSworld.com Publisher
Ahmadinejad, Medvedev, Netanyahu,
Obama & America's Next World War
Obama & America's Next World War
Describe or criticize it as improbable and unforeseen — like World War I and II. Three nuclear powers — the United States, Russia and Israel — and the volatile equation of a fourth nation, Iran, seeking its own nuclear credentials.
Add to that mix the perception by Iran that it is the standard bearer of political, technological, religious and military power in the Middle East. Moreover, include Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's obvious quest to be the prime representative of a much broader global Islamic diaspora beyond the tyranny and borders of his regime.
Factor in the open secret that Israel is the only nation in the Middle East with nuclear weapons. Include the reality of a Jewish state lead by a myopic and aggressive prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who emphasizes the inalienable right of Israel to defend itself against perceived enemies near and far — a.k.a. preemptive war.
Flavor all of this with the re-mix of a new millennium lite cold war going hot between the United States and Russia. President Dmitry Medvedev, backed by the persona of his ready-to-kick-any-ass Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, is understandably willing and wanting to affirm Russia's Middle Eastern and geopolitical interests. This includes their direct help in constructing a nuclear power plant for electricity near Iran's southern port city of Bushehr.
You now have the working ingredients for the proverbial fuse waiting for a match. Now, imagine Israel preemptively bombing a Russian built facility in Iran — killing Russians.
Spice things up with the salt and pepper of provocative public words, posturing, innuendo and instigation — plus the predictable diplomatically worded threat of potential military action. From the schoolyard to the global stage, nearly everyone is drawn to the sounds of trash talking, until the violence begins.
Presidents Obama and Medvedev need to show some genuine leadership as the mature bigger boys on the block. It's time to entertain an urgency and enforceable plan for their friends across the street, Israel and Iran respectively, to chill-out before the whole neighborhood and beyond is engulfed in exponential major violence. When bystanders get hurt or worse, the trash talk and drama ceases to be entertaining.
Just like in schoolyards, it took just a few misperceptions, threatening words, misinterpreted actions and militant muscle-flexing to start the last two World Wars. There has been a wealth of evidence over the last 90 years — aside from many technological advancements, or between our occasional 'Kumbaya' moments and genocides — that we have yet to genuinely evolve from the paradigm of war.
There's now a very real and far more destructive chance, the next World War won't end with a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square — or triumphant Presidential speeches.
Add to that mix the perception by Iran that it is the standard bearer of political, technological, religious and military power in the Middle East. Moreover, include Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's obvious quest to be the prime representative of a much broader global Islamic diaspora beyond the tyranny and borders of his regime.
Factor in the open secret that Israel is the only nation in the Middle East with nuclear weapons. Include the reality of a Jewish state lead by a myopic and aggressive prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who emphasizes the inalienable right of Israel to defend itself against perceived enemies near and far — a.k.a. preemptive war.
Flavor all of this with the re-mix of a new millennium lite cold war going hot between the United States and Russia. President Dmitry Medvedev, backed by the persona of his ready-to-kick-any-ass Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, is understandably willing and wanting to affirm Russia's Middle Eastern and geopolitical interests. This includes their direct help in constructing a nuclear power plant for electricity near Iran's southern port city of Bushehr.
You now have the working ingredients for the proverbial fuse waiting for a match. Now, imagine Israel preemptively bombing a Russian built facility in Iran — killing Russians.
Spice things up with the salt and pepper of provocative public words, posturing, innuendo and instigation — plus the predictable diplomatically worded threat of potential military action. From the schoolyard to the global stage, nearly everyone is drawn to the sounds of trash talking, until the violence begins.
Presidents Obama and Medvedev need to show some genuine leadership as the mature bigger boys on the block. It's time to entertain an urgency and enforceable plan for their friends across the street, Israel and Iran respectively, to chill-out before the whole neighborhood and beyond is engulfed in exponential major violence. When bystanders get hurt or worse, the trash talk and drama ceases to be entertaining.
Just like in schoolyards, it took just a few misperceptions, threatening words, misinterpreted actions and militant muscle-flexing to start the last two World Wars. There has been a wealth of evidence over the last 90 years — aside from many technological advancements, or between our occasional 'Kumbaya' moments and genocides — that we have yet to genuinely evolve from the paradigm of war.
There's now a very real and far more destructive chance, the next World War won't end with a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square — or triumphant Presidential speeches.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Originally Published August 17, 2010 - Periodically Updated
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Originally Published August 17, 2010 - Periodically Updated
Investigate, prosecute, arrest, imprison, then repeat steps one through four. However, let's also aggressively get back the taxpayer money doled-out to what appears to be organized banksters resembling common gangsters — with the veneer of executive boardroom respectability.
Frankly, I'm okay with President Obama if he chooses to do all five acts in or out of sequence, regardless of the timetable in the hoopla of neurotic news cycles and partisan pranksters. There is real change going on as long as he's actually, if quietly, getting it done.
Nevertheless, until Federal Marshals arrive at corporate offices and mansions with fresh arrest warrants and shiny steel bracelets, real responsibility and transparency won't truly be taken seriously. That's just the nature of anyone that feels immune from genuine accountability for fraud, theft and organized criminal acts. Can the Obama Administration smell and spell RICO?
Only bold and sustained action truly motivates real reversals by business elites accustomed to unaccountable privilege, legal loopholes, unearned bonuses and golden parachutes never granted to jobless lower-level employees and middle to low income taxpayers. From the most radical liberal to the ranting 'Tea Bagger' protesting on the National Mall, rewarding executive incompetence and premeditated fraud is justifiably nauseating to most Americans.
In the middle are the millions of silent centrists and everyday American people who wonder how in Hell did we allow our collective moral compass to fall into a cesspool of acceptable greed and malfeasance. Moreover, the bigger question is when are we going to effectively and consistently do something about it? Young people planning business careers and in need of role models deserve better — or we're simply telling another generation that accountability is just a word.
If free enterprise is America's lifeblood, then integrity is the plasma that sustains our true wealth.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published April 19, 2010
Frankly, I'm okay with President Obama if he chooses to do all five acts in or out of sequence, regardless of the timetable in the hoopla of neurotic news cycles and partisan pranksters. There is real change going on as long as he's actually, if quietly, getting it done.
Nevertheless, until Federal Marshals arrive at corporate offices and mansions with fresh arrest warrants and shiny steel bracelets, real responsibility and transparency won't truly be taken seriously. That's just the nature of anyone that feels immune from genuine accountability for fraud, theft and organized criminal acts. Can the Obama Administration smell and spell RICO?
Only bold and sustained action truly motivates real reversals by business elites accustomed to unaccountable privilege, legal loopholes, unearned bonuses and golden parachutes never granted to jobless lower-level employees and middle to low income taxpayers. From the most radical liberal to the ranting 'Tea Bagger' protesting on the National Mall, rewarding executive incompetence and premeditated fraud is justifiably nauseating to most Americans.
In the middle are the millions of silent centrists and everyday American people who wonder how in Hell did we allow our collective moral compass to fall into a cesspool of acceptable greed and malfeasance. Moreover, the bigger question is when are we going to effectively and consistently do something about it? Young people planning business careers and in need of role models deserve better — or we're simply telling another generation that accountability is just a word.
If free enterprise is America's lifeblood, then integrity is the plasma that sustains our true wealth.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published April 19, 2010
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
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Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUSworld.com Publisher
President Obama's 'Race To The Top'
Must Affirm Parenting Is Not For Punks
Must Affirm Parenting Is Not For Punks
President Obama and most Americans truly have one indisputable thing in common — we're parents. That alone is justification enough for him to make a major speech directed specifically at all parents. The message should be about full engagement and accountability for the success and support of our children in getting a good education.
This high profile live message is neither politically partisan, a dubious revelation, dictatorial hype, or condescension. The President's 'Race to the Top' plan is an effort with exponential value. However, there also needs to be a race to urgent hands-on parenting for academic achievement.
Speaking as a parent and grandparent, the educational achievement and life success of a child starts the day we decide to have one — whether we know it or not. Then again, I've often witnessed far too many parents treating the public, charter and private education systems as if the schools are a government-funded babysitting service.
Until every parent — married, divorced, separated, single or incarcerated — gets directly involved and treats their child like a very valuable personal investment, most children will be doomed to fail long before thinking about or getting to college. Even now, with the overwhelming reality of 21st century economic challenges and unending global competition, too many parents and guardians still act like a good education is a disposable or distant option.
The President's clear and unconditional message has to underscore that parents must invest much more time and effort in managing their most valuable investment — their children. Additionally, parents have to be affirmed that their tax dollars and votes give them the full right and unending responsibility to make sure that this investment is being well managed everyday — expecting real achievement dividends and profits on a quarterly basis.
Think about it — if you're investing more time and money on your child looking fabulous and having fun, rather than them growing-up to be a successful self-supporting adult, your biggest mistakes are happening right now. What law or need requires spending 90-plus dollars for sneakers or jeans versus $90 for books or learning software at home.
As real parents, we must stay directly involved at home and school to make certain they are ACTUALLY getting educated. We cannot sit back acting as if the President or teachers are the main people responsible for their destiny.
Kids are not born to raise themselves. They don't get lost academically. We lose them. Parenting is not for punks.
Moreover, schools are not community convenience stores or filling stations where knowledge is automatically poured into the heads of our children by dutiful attendants — as we chat on our smart phones. Either we make and take the time to handle our business, or just point the blame finger directly at ourselves. The President and teachers are only second-string public facilitators in assuring that the right resources are available to effectively educate every American child. Surely, far more accountable funds and wrap-around resources must also be provided.
President Obama's prime time education message to America's parents — preferably before Congress — must come sooner than later. We are rising to a critical mass in the dumbing-down of American children. Schools and colleges only have a secondary influence over this nation's academic achievements and socioeconomic successes.
U.S. academic achievement is also very much a matter of national security. The 21st century will truly belong to the educated. Now more than ever, failing to plan and support a child's destiny is the same as planning for them to fail. POTUS 44 can best make that case.
This high profile live message is neither politically partisan, a dubious revelation, dictatorial hype, or condescension. The President's 'Race to the Top' plan is an effort with exponential value. However, there also needs to be a race to urgent hands-on parenting for academic achievement.
Speaking as a parent and grandparent, the educational achievement and life success of a child starts the day we decide to have one — whether we know it or not. Then again, I've often witnessed far too many parents treating the public, charter and private education systems as if the schools are a government-funded babysitting service.
Until every parent — married, divorced, separated, single or incarcerated — gets directly involved and treats their child like a very valuable personal investment, most children will be doomed to fail long before thinking about or getting to college. Even now, with the overwhelming reality of 21st century economic challenges and unending global competition, too many parents and guardians still act like a good education is a disposable or distant option.
The President's clear and unconditional message has to underscore that parents must invest much more time and effort in managing their most valuable investment — their children. Additionally, parents have to be affirmed that their tax dollars and votes give them the full right and unending responsibility to make sure that this investment is being well managed everyday — expecting real achievement dividends and profits on a quarterly basis.
Think about it — if you're investing more time and money on your child looking fabulous and having fun, rather than them growing-up to be a successful self-supporting adult, your biggest mistakes are happening right now. What law or need requires spending 90-plus dollars for sneakers or jeans versus $90 for books or learning software at home.
As real parents, we must stay directly involved at home and school to make certain they are ACTUALLY getting educated. We cannot sit back acting as if the President or teachers are the main people responsible for their destiny.
Kids are not born to raise themselves. They don't get lost academically. We lose them. Parenting is not for punks.
Moreover, schools are not community convenience stores or filling stations where knowledge is automatically poured into the heads of our children by dutiful attendants — as we chat on our smart phones. Either we make and take the time to handle our business, or just point the blame finger directly at ourselves. The President and teachers are only second-string public facilitators in assuring that the right resources are available to effectively educate every American child. Surely, far more accountable funds and wrap-around resources must also be provided.
President Obama's prime time education message to America's parents — preferably before Congress — must come sooner than later. We are rising to a critical mass in the dumbing-down of American children. Schools and colleges only have a secondary influence over this nation's academic achievements and socioeconomic successes.
U.S. academic achievement is also very much a matter of national security. The 21st century will truly belong to the educated. Now more than ever, failing to plan and support a child's destiny is the same as planning for them to fail. POTUS 44 can best make that case.
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U.S. Department Of Education >>
The White House On Education >>
Education In The United States >>
Scholarships.com >>
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Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Originally Published August 25, 2010 - Periodically Updated
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Originally Published August 25, 2010 - Periodically Updated
The Parallax Perspective
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUSworld.com Publisher
Independent Bottom-Up Opinionalysis
Dennis Moore - POTUSworld.com Publisher
Two Birds, One Stone & How POTUS
Can Jump-Start America's Economy
Can Jump-Start America's Economy
The partisan pressures during November elections aside, President Obama seems to be in a slow cruise mode on a fail-safe option for quickly boosting our sluggish economy. Ironically, the idea was initially hyped by him during his campaign and the early stages of his first year in office.
In this Presidency, the new economic mantra should be 'It's the green economy, stupid' — to paraphrase a theme from the Clinton Administration. Imagine quickly creating thousands of permanent jobs each month, while putting us on a fast-track toward a cleaner and greener environment.
If the Obama Administration's top economic advisers were really advising him on exponential economics, we would be seeing billions more in taxpayer dollars going into green small business creation, home and office building solar panel manufacturing, plus a variety of urban, suburban and rural green technology infrastructure construction.
This quarter, there could be at least 100 or more new small businesses in each of our 50 states and the District of Columbia. These companies could be hiring workers to manufacture, install and service energy/money-saving solar panels on private housing and government facilities. Homeowners and home buyers will be motivated by lower energy costs and tax breaks to install a variety of green energy devices to their homes. Apartment dwellers can buy smaller solar units the size of window air conditioners to store money-saving power for diverse appliances.
There's an exponential economic cycle occurring here that includes manufacturing, hiring, consumer spending, and all the product transport/shipping econometrics created. Simply, by heavily investing in green consumer products and other green energy technologies, the President can send an economic and jobs gift that keeps on giving.
From the multitudes of newly employed entry level and middle income workers, plus the high-tech engineers and business managers behind them, everyone becomes a beneficiary from this targeted green economy stimulus. No doubt — as we should all realize by now — it can bring faster, greater and exponentially more beneficial returns to the U.S. economy compared the billions plowed into the banking industry. We're still hoping and waiting for that big return on our huge taxpayer-paid banking investment.
Down here on the ground many of us are keen experts on what it genuinely takes and costs to bolster our economy. However, none of us will ever be hired as a member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
Nevertheless, POTUS 44 is most correct in affirming that we didn't get into this economic mess overnight, and it certainly won't miraculously improve before, after or on Christmas. You cannot spend ten minutes running down a ten-mile hill and expect to walk up just as quickly.
Right now, we really need to place our eyes and feet in the right economic places in order to ascend more effectively.
When its comes to improving our economy exponentially, it will be a green economy that will make Labor Day and every workday worth celebrating.
In this Presidency, the new economic mantra should be 'It's the green economy, stupid' — to paraphrase a theme from the Clinton Administration. Imagine quickly creating thousands of permanent jobs each month, while putting us on a fast-track toward a cleaner and greener environment.
If the Obama Administration's top economic advisers were really advising him on exponential economics, we would be seeing billions more in taxpayer dollars going into green small business creation, home and office building solar panel manufacturing, plus a variety of urban, suburban and rural green technology infrastructure construction.
This quarter, there could be at least 100 or more new small businesses in each of our 50 states and the District of Columbia. These companies could be hiring workers to manufacture, install and service energy/money-saving solar panels on private housing and government facilities. Homeowners and home buyers will be motivated by lower energy costs and tax breaks to install a variety of green energy devices to their homes. Apartment dwellers can buy smaller solar units the size of window air conditioners to store money-saving power for diverse appliances.
There's an exponential economic cycle occurring here that includes manufacturing, hiring, consumer spending, and all the product transport/shipping econometrics created. Simply, by heavily investing in green consumer products and other green energy technologies, the President can send an economic and jobs gift that keeps on giving.
From the multitudes of newly employed entry level and middle income workers, plus the high-tech engineers and business managers behind them, everyone becomes a beneficiary from this targeted green economy stimulus. No doubt — as we should all realize by now — it can bring faster, greater and exponentially more beneficial returns to the U.S. economy compared the billions plowed into the banking industry. We're still hoping and waiting for that big return on our huge taxpayer-paid banking investment.
Down here on the ground many of us are keen experts on what it genuinely takes and costs to bolster our economy. However, none of us will ever be hired as a member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
Nevertheless, POTUS 44 is most correct in affirming that we didn't get into this economic mess overnight, and it certainly won't miraculously improve before, after or on Christmas. You cannot spend ten minutes running down a ten-mile hill and expect to walk up just as quickly.
Right now, we really need to place our eyes and feet in the right economic places in order to ascend more effectively.
When its comes to improving our economy exponentially, it will be a green economy that will make Labor Day and every workday worth celebrating.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published September 3, 2010 - Periodically Updated
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published September 3, 2010 - Periodically Updated
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LOOKING AHEAD
Bottom-Up Projections In The Obama Era
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
Bottom-Up Projections In The Obama Era
Dennis Moore - POTUS World Publisher
British Petroleum's Misfortune Is An Ironic
Good Fortune For America's Environment
Good Fortune For America's Environment
President Obama may have, or should have, thought that it should be his own "ass to kick" for promoting the idea of offshore oil drilling as a short term option in U.S. energy. The evident recklessness and ongoing incompetence of British Petroleum's oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico has become a horrifying catalyst for America.
Aside from he and his Cabinet jumping into the water and vacuuming-up the oil themselves, POTUS and crew have been relatively attentive, action-oriented and proactive in this disaster. Long before most news media woke-up to a new hype angle for their talk shows, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was already taking major action steps toward future prosecutions in and beyond this disaster. Hopefully, this includes justifiable criminal prosecutions for personnel within our own Minerals Management Service.
Calls for outward verbal anger that's great for TV drama, rather than focused effective command, just won't cut-it in cleaning-up this latest BP environmental mess. Let's not forget BP's 2006 pipeline spill in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, of 267,000 gallons of oil — recently causing toxic fires.
Even with a possible bankruptcy ploy, BP must be held completely responsible from A-to-Z in fully funding the total recovery of the environment, plus full restitution for all legitimate parties financially damaged by their negligence.
It is abundantly clear, more than ever before, that the destructive blow-back of offshore oil drilling is a far greater danger compared to the perceived benefits. Over 20 years after the Exxon Valdez tanker spillage of toxic oil into Alaska's pristine environment, that should have been a major message and alarm about the evils of 'Big Oil' and its lack of fail-safe strategies and cleanup preparedness.
In a greater sense, U.S. regulators and lawmakers are also highly culpable in these disasters. It's been obvious for decades that the billions in salaries and benefits our hard-earned tax dollars pay them to legislate rules and protect us are no match for the campaign contributions, and numerous unrecorded kickbacks, they continue to get from an essentially self-regulated oil industry.
Now, with an even greater sense of real urgency, we must recognize the clear and present dangers of our addiction to fossil fuels as an energy resource. On this matter, the U.S. Congress and the President must be in full sync on truly effective legislation to move us quicker into 21st century solutions and actions on clean energy policy.
Continuing to risk our fragile environment, physical health and national economic sustainability with an outmoded 19th century energy resource is simply stupid. Proceeding with this backward behavior, proves that this century will see even more horrific harm to our future existence.
The exponential dangers are as visible as the tons of BP oil that slime our waters, shores, wildlife and food chain.
Aside from he and his Cabinet jumping into the water and vacuuming-up the oil themselves, POTUS and crew have been relatively attentive, action-oriented and proactive in this disaster. Long before most news media woke-up to a new hype angle for their talk shows, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was already taking major action steps toward future prosecutions in and beyond this disaster. Hopefully, this includes justifiable criminal prosecutions for personnel within our own Minerals Management Service.
Calls for outward verbal anger that's great for TV drama, rather than focused effective command, just won't cut-it in cleaning-up this latest BP environmental mess. Let's not forget BP's 2006 pipeline spill in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, of 267,000 gallons of oil — recently causing toxic fires.
Even with a possible bankruptcy ploy, BP must be held completely responsible from A-to-Z in fully funding the total recovery of the environment, plus full restitution for all legitimate parties financially damaged by their negligence.
It is abundantly clear, more than ever before, that the destructive blow-back of offshore oil drilling is a far greater danger compared to the perceived benefits. Over 20 years after the Exxon Valdez tanker spillage of toxic oil into Alaska's pristine environment, that should have been a major message and alarm about the evils of 'Big Oil' and its lack of fail-safe strategies and cleanup preparedness.
In a greater sense, U.S. regulators and lawmakers are also highly culpable in these disasters. It's been obvious for decades that the billions in salaries and benefits our hard-earned tax dollars pay them to legislate rules and protect us are no match for the campaign contributions, and numerous unrecorded kickbacks, they continue to get from an essentially self-regulated oil industry.
Now, with an even greater sense of real urgency, we must recognize the clear and present dangers of our addiction to fossil fuels as an energy resource. On this matter, the U.S. Congress and the President must be in full sync on truly effective legislation to move us quicker into 21st century solutions and actions on clean energy policy.
Continuing to risk our fragile environment, physical health and national economic sustainability with an outmoded 19th century energy resource is simply stupid. Proceeding with this backward behavior, proves that this century will see even more horrific harm to our future existence.
The exponential dangers are as visible as the tons of BP oil that slime our waters, shores, wildlife and food chain.
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW? ppceo@POTUSworld.com
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published June 16, 2010
Dennis Moore, POTUS World Publisher - Published June 16, 2010
