One of the headlines on Google this morning is labeled “Obama Puts Jobs on Labor Day Agenda”.  Apparently Naïve Americans had enough of Obama, his promised Change and Democrats in general.  There are several seats in Capitol Hill coming up for re election and the polls appear to be leaning towards the Republican side.  Obama being a career politician has to follow orders from the American Royalty.  He needs to convince Naïve Americans that Democrats in power will help solve the problems in the USA (ha, ha ha).  If you believe this you need to educate yourself by reading books on American and World history.  The American Empire is collapsing (like all other civilizations have) and the only thing we can do is to attempt to slow down the process as mush as possible in order to soften the fall.

President Obama mentioned that the US economy is moving in a positive direction, jobs are being created; they are just not being created as fast as they need to, given the big hole that we experienced.  Stop for a second and think about this absurd statement made by a career politician that serves the American Royalty.

The facts are that the US economy is NOT moving in a positive direction.  The only to achieve this is to reach a point in which the US is producing services and goods that are desirable all over the world.  Every day we see in the news and in our communities that small, medium and large size businesses are closing their doors.  This is happening because our production costs are high compared to other countries and the innovation and quality of our services and products is reaching all time lows.  Nobody wants to buy American made products.  Just look around.  Most products that are offered by American companies are manufactured and starting to be design abroad.  The quality of our products is very low.  Things do not last what they used to and their prices are going up.  This is causing millions of Naïve Americans to loose their job.  Now, explain to me how building roads, fixing railroad lines and building new airports is going to help America to produce services and good that are desirable all over the world?

Another irrational comment from our leader is that the USA is moving in the right direction.  We just have to speed up the process.  Once again, putting money that we do not have into building infrastructure will never help.  I fully understand that on the Great Depression that helped the country but those were different times.  The USA was about to peak at that time.  In the 1950’s the USA started its decline.  Since then our country has lost grounds in almost all fronts.

Way too many reforms are needed.  From the political (no politician may serve on more than one office and never be reelected) to the educational (our K-12 has been doomed for decades and our higher education is starting to show problems) and economical (outsource design and manufacturing) fronts, just to mention a few, the USA is loosing grounds at an alarming state.

What we need is money.  I do not mean printing more Dollars to give away to BRIC (China, Russia, India and Brazil) but to immediately boost small businesses that develop products and services that are desirable world wide by dramatically reducing the tax burned and providing low interest loans (not $50,000 from the Small Business Administration which is completely useless) to get Naïve Americans back on track.

Please note that the American Royalty needs to be taxed and their salaries and bonuses need to be limited by law.  But just taxing Naïve Americans does not lead to new and better services and good desirable worldwide.  Increasing taxes to be used to provide for unemployment and infrastructure is like a charity.  We need to teach Naïve Americans to fish, not just give them free fish!  Do you remember a couple decades ago how bean counters and politicians were in the Globalization bandwagon?  Well any individual with a reduced IQ could have been able to figure out that Globalization was a really bad idea.  So why did it occurred?  Well American Royalty (i.e., CEOs, corporate executives, Wall Street) got their instant gratification (i.e., high salaries, bonuses, golden parachutes).  How about the rest of Naïve Americans?  Who cares.  American Royalty got their money.

On the long term, revamp our educational systems not by wasting more money in teacher unions but to improve in the methods used to educate our children and young adults making teachers and students accountable for their acts.

I know the suggestions presented in this blog will never make it because the ideas go against the American Royalty.  CEOs, Wall Street and politicians will never make a change because it goes against their interests.  We will have to wait until the point of no return to experience change.  That will sure come at a very high cost and will put America in the back burner for the foreseeable future.

Lets work together by being less greedy and complacent before it is too late.

The Naïve American

A very loaded and interesting question.  If you ask children they will tell you that the president, Mr. Barack Obama at this point in time, runs our country.  The president is elected through somewhat twisted method, but that is how we elect our president.

For most Naive Americans the president is just a figure (puppet) that follows the suggestions of his political party.  So far so good because a Democratic president, like Barack Obama should follow the principles and ideology of the Democratic Party.  The same could have been said of the previous Bush administration.

A considerably less number of Naive Americans fully understand that career politicians that listen and receive legal bribes (political contributions) from lobbyist run the country.  In turn lobbyist work for wealth individuals and corporations that do not care about Naive Americans or the USA.  They just worship the US Dollar.

Today the US Supreme Court has eased on restrictions on corporate campaign spending.  This means one and only one thing, lobbyist will be able to provide larger bribes to politicians.  This is really bad news for the USA.  Our current economical situation is just the result of the American Royalty (wealthy individuals and corporations) making an extra Dollar and destroying the US economy and industry.  The serious problems we are facing today were primarily started during the Clinton administration.  Do you remember globalization?  Well we got it and as a result the Dollar is becoming weaker, our trade deficit is in the trillions of Dollars, a huge percentage of our goods are manufactured abroad (mostly in China), as far as energy is concerned, we depend almost completely on oil from the Middle East.  You know how the countries in the Middle East love the USA (ha ha ha).

America is getting closer to a full collapse.  We need to make changes in mostly all sectors in order to start a gradual change in direction before we become a third world country.  What fueled America in the past were innovative small businesses.  Today we have lethargic large businesses being bailed out with taxes paid by Naive Americans, managed by incompetent people (wealthy CEOs) who make huge salaries and to top it all demand even larger bonuses.

What are the chances that our president will be able to make a CHANGE?

The Naive American

First of all, in the USA, like in most countries, young Naive Americans are taught history according to the people that won the independence war.  When this happens the reasons and goals of their actions are praised (they were heroes not traitors) and associated with some supernatural causes (mostly god and humanity).  The founding fathers of our country were wealthy people who did not wish to pay taxes to an absent leader.  I believe the slogan was “No taxation without representation”.  At the time European Royalty did not valued opinions from commoners, especially when they came from the colonies.

The founding fathers were very concerned that one of them or their descendents might build a monarchy that would replace the British crown.  Politicians would take care of their personal business (at that time was mostly farming) and when needed or under some schedule would take care of the needs of the Republic.  They did not want an official (i.e., president) to be reelected until his death and then be succeeded by his heir (a monarchy).  They did not trust US citizens so they created a convoluted republic (not a democracy) so the government would have to some extent control on elections.  They did not believe all men were created equal.  Slaves were common at the time and when the US was born, slavery continued.  If you have questions about these statements feel free to consult reputable history references.

In a relative short period of time things changed in the US.  People with means (which I like to refer to as American Royalty) decided that they would continue to run the country as the founding fathers did.  To do so political parties were created.  Now American Royalty could promote politicians that would follow what they were told.  To make sure money could be funneled to political parties and politicians, lobbyist came to be.  The idea behind lobbyist is to have people that can explain to politicians how they should think.  This does not say much about politicians.  Naive Americans can vote all they want but lobbyist tell politicians what to do.  History has shown us that behind every failure in the past sixty or so years politicians ‘convinced by lobbyist’ have passed laws for the advantage of the American Royalty and the debacle of the USA.  You need some examples of this?  Look at the Clinton administration when the law that allowed the housing crisis to be.  Look at the politicians who embraced ‘Globalization’ for the good of the American Royalty and the loss of jobs in our country, jobs that will NEVER be replaced.  Recall the Bush administration and the defense contractor that took office as vice president.  Naive Americans were convinced that we need to go to war to maintain our way of life and provide billions of dollars a month to defense companies.  There are plenty examples with Democratic and Republican administrations.

Take a look at the politicians that serve in the senate and congress (both at the nation and state level).  Most of them have a poor track record.  Of course their respective parties do what ever it takes to portray them as heroes.  This observation becomes obvious close to election times.  Each candidate appears to have a great track record and will solve the problems of their constituents (as stated by their political ads).  If you hear the opposing party, the story is completely different (as described by their political ads).  Naive American should understand that those are career politicians, which cannot be trusted and do not care about their constituents.  With enough economical support their poor actions will always look heavenly.

What we need is to eliminate lobbyists, single term for all political offices, single political position ever, controlled political contributions and political accountability with well defined prison terms for politicians that make decisions because of favors.

I know, these CHANGES will never occur therefore what can we expect will happen to the USA?  The American way of life has, is and in the foreseeable future looks dim.  Perhaps Mr. Obama will just make very FEW but GOOD changes.  So far we have not seen a single positive change.  Perhaps in the next three years.  I am not standing holding my breath.

I have been working with computer software and have formal computer hardware and software education.  I have been developing computer programs and systems for about 35 years.  Really enjoy it and hope to continue doing so during the next few decades.  Because of this I am able to appreciate what can and cannot be done and how simple or complex is to get done some of the things covered in the 60 Minutes broadcast.

Something that called my attention was a comment regarding China and the USA.  Chinese nationals are undoubting hacking into our systems.  But so are nationals from Russia and other Eastern European countries among others.  The USA is doing the same to others (including China) so why is it so bad for others to do it to us?  The answer from an expert was something like “We [the USA] have so much more at stake”.  Not sure what this meant but it sure gave me the impression that the USA does not have the brainpower to stop such intrusions.  As a matter of fact we do not have enough power to win a war.  The USA can bomb a country for a few days, perhaps invade it and then … we can only withdraw.  The times when we had power to impose our ideas and ways has long gone by.  Today the USA has very few friends (i.e., Australia, UK).  Most countries (i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China, etc) do not care about the USA or are just openly our enemies (i.e., Iran, Iraq, most Middle East countries, Venezuela, etc).

Using the Internet to break into secure sites is not that simple and in general not possible.  Typical breaches are due to some other factors that have nothing to do directly with the Internet.  For example, someone found / stole a laptop with access codes to bank accounts.  These are the most common ones.  Others are due to technical glitches found in the software used by institutions on their machines.  These are the typical vulnerabilities of all operating systems.  We are all aware of the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh updates.  From time to time hackers find new ways to exploit vulnerabilities and then take advantage of them to gain access to computer systems.  Hackers belong to clubs that dedicate hours each day to see who can break into the most coveted computer systems in the world (e.g., financial, defense, law enforcement).  For them it is a thrill.

There is nothing new with hackers.  They have been breaking into computers before the Internet was around.  The Internet has just provided another avenue.

For this Naive American the big issue is China.  As we all know China produces most of the good sold in the USA.  Few American companies offer products that are designed and manufactured in the USA.  Because of this, China could be adding at manufacturing time circuits and software into computers and computerized devices that could deliver confidential information once they are in the hands of end users.

If you think this is farfetched, the 60 Minutes segment touched on some cases in which mysterious circuits have appeared in chips manufactured in the USA for defense purposes.  In my opinion, such cases are typically associated with insiders that have allowed access to specific systems.  Once access is granted, anything is possible.  By building the means at design time all bets are off.

We need to think how many systems in defense, financing and utilities have already been compromised and no one knows.  The circuits and software could be dormant for years until it is enabled by some event or signal.  When that happens there will be nothing to do, just pay the price.

Why is it that China has so much power?  The reason is American Royalty and our politicians.  In the past few decades Democrats and Republican politicians have been allowing the American Royalty (wealthy upper management in American companies) to move manufacturing and development to China so they can make a few more Dollars a year in dividends for their stock holders so in return they can justify receiving dozens of Millions of Dollars a year in compensation.  What about the Naive American employees that have and will loose their jobs?  Some of such companies have been doing poorly as we know (e.g., AIG, GM, etc) but they finance politicians via lobbyist, which makes it all completely legal and foolproof.

In conclusion China has been manufacturing most and is starting to design and develop some products sold by American companies.  China has trillions of Dollars in their coffers.  China and most countries in the world were affected by the recession caused by American Royalty about a year ago, but in contrast to the US that is still in a recession with 10% unemployment, most countries have experience a shorter recession and are already out of it.

Mr. Obama was telling today our veterans that WE (the USA) have not forgotten them.  Things will get better (by magic) for them and for the rest of Americans.  HOW is this going to happen when China has the money, power and smarts to run the world?  I believe Mr. Obama was preaching CHANGE during his election campaign.  What are you going to CHANGE Mr. President?

A week or so ago, Chrysler announced that they had done 30% less in sales during the month of October 2009 than a year ago.  In an attempt to improve sales Chrysler is NOT going to improve their awful products.  They are going to start selling FIAT cars.  Yes, cars designed and manufactured by Italians.  Imagine how many sustainable new jobs is this decision going to provide for Naive Americans.  A week or so ago, KIA introduced a new model for 2010, the Forte Koup.  I invite my readers to take a look at that model.  Why can Chrysler come up with something like this Korean manufacturer?  Chrysler and the USA are in need of a fundamental CHANGE.

I am sure you have read the news about the increasing unemployment in our country.  As soon as the “Cash for Clunkers” program finished the artificial slight economical improvement disappeared.  What were you expecting to happen?  Today in the news we are able to read, from democratic senators, that things could be worse if the stimulus packages (i.e., financial institutions, automobile industry) would not have been implemented.  On the other side of the table we have republican politicians telling Naive Americans that the democratic president failed once again.  I fully understand that career politicians so not care about much but their own well being so what they say should be completely ignored.  What cannot be ignored is what is going on with the economy and the increasing numbers of unemployed Naive Americans.  So what are you going to do Mr. President?

As more and more Naive Americans loose their jobs and are not able to pay higher taxes, how do you and your advisors plan to pay for unemployment benefits?  It does not take an intellect higher than a ten year old to figure out that Naive Americans will need shelter, clothing and food while they are out of work.  Unemployment benefits are not a cure.  They are only intended to address a temporary condition.  The problem is that since the past fifty years (going now to sixty) the USA has been in a downward spiral in many fronts.  The Naive American calls this the fall of the American Empire.  What is interesting to note is that in the same time period the number of millionaires in our country has increased.  Why do you think this has happened Mr. President?  The answer is simple; the American Royalty has been buying politicians via lobbyist and have been passing laws to destroy the USA.  By destroying engineering and manufacturing very few people in the US are able to benefit from the savings obtained from outsourcing jobs to other countries.  The only ones that benefit are the very few people and families controlling medium to large size companies.  Those individuals (The American Royalty) are getting paid in the dozens of millions of dollars a year while their companies are collapsing.  As companies collapse, more and more Naive Americans are being shifted from the middle to the lower economical class.  The middle class is disappearing in the USA.  This can bring a huge and serious problem that can explode at any moment.  Mr. Obama, you have mentioned that you like to read about past US presidents.  I would suggest you reading about the civil war in the United States.  Unless you really fulfill your promise of CHANGE, something serious might happen just under your nose.

I would just like to touch on your heal5thcare reform plans.  Are you starting to understand why healthcare reform is a great idea but the time is not right.  You first need to solve the economical problems affecting our country.  Then you can move to address education and last but not least healthcare.  All of these sectors have similar problems in that they have, currently are and in the future will be caused by the American Royalty.  The CHANGE that you promised for the Naive Americans is not going to happen unless you first change what is wrong with companies whose executives make money destroying the America.  This is not going to be an easy task.  Chances are that you will go down as one of the (if not the) worse presidents in the US history.  This statement is based on the fact that you were elected president because of the efforts of your political party who responds to the American Royalty.

What we need is a quick boost on all small businesses that develop products and services desirable by Naive Americans and more important by the world.  American Express has a nice advertisement on television.  They claim they are helping small businesses grow and helping bring prosperity.  The businesses they show are:  a bicycle shop and a bakery.  That is not the kind of small businesses the USA needs.  What we need are companies that design and manufacture low to high tech goods that can be sold outside the US.  This will generate new jobs and will start bringing the trade deficit down.  As long as we continue to buy everything from China and China has no interest in buying things from the US our economy will just continue to go down.

Mr. President, the BRIC acronym (Brazil, Russia, India and China) does NOT include the USA.  You can attend as many G20 summits as you want.  The USA is declining and will become a second world county in the next couple decades unless you truly bring CHANGE as promised.

Yours truly,

The Naive American

www.naiveamrican.org

In reality we live in the United States of America were our career politicians just want to enjoy power and money and work as little as possible.  Our politicians are not accountable of their actions.  This is similar to our legal system in which innocent people are routinely affected by decisions of jury, lawyers and judges.  By the way, we called the jury a jury of peers but that is seldom the case.

So lets get down to the simple facts regarding healthcare.  I believe that all Naive Americans regardless of age and sex should have healthcare benefits.  This would make for a better and happier society.  Is this simply attainable?

Allow me to make an uncomplicated analogy disregarding the actual huge deficit that our nation has.  An individual with a steady income (which is not the case with the US, the us GDP is currently and constantly shrinking thanks to globalization and the greed of many Naïve Americans) of $1,000 Dollars per week may spend no more that $1,000 dollars per week.  If the person spends more then a deficit will be incurred.  Sooner or later credits will dry up and that person will go through tough financial times.  Believe it or not, the US has a deficit in the trillions of Dollars and we continue to spend and borrow what we do not have while reducing our manufacturing and development.

If the individual in our example does not have healthcare benefits and is currently spending his entire $1,000 Dollars per week, how can he or she purchase something else?  It is not possible.  The same holds true for the US.  President Obama and any of his advisors can tell you different stories, but at the end if we do not have enough money we cannot pay for such benefits.  The only way is to raise taxes.  This may be fine when the economy of the country is growing.  The fact of the matter is that our economy has been shrinking for about fifty years now.

The economical crisis created by the US earlier this year affected the entire world.  AT this point in time the US is still in crisis.  Take a look at Asia.  They went into a recession, which was lighter than the one in the US, and they are almost out of it.  We cannot do this because we have no means to produce goods and technology that other countries desire.

In conclusion, universal healthcare is a MUST in this country.  The issue is how to pay for it.  The government does not produce a single thing.  All the money comes from taxes and borrowing.  The credit sources for the US are drying up.  One way or another we will have to pay for the loans we are getting today.  The only way is for the US government to raise taxes.  If there are very few people contributing it does not take an individual with more than elementary education to figure out that the suggested approach it not going to work in the near or foreseeable future.

So before we talk about healthcare and other reforms lets make sure we can pay for them.  The CHANGE that Mr. Obama was talking about is in education and industry.  Not sure Mr. Obama, his advisors and most Naive Americans understood what CHANGE meant.

Sorry for not sending you this letter on Monday after I read the news but it appears that you might be walking the talk.  When you promised CHANGE the Naive American was quite skeptic.  The process has just begun.  Hopefully lobbyist for American and Indian companies will be stopped on their tracks and allow curbing outsourcing to Indian and in general to any company outside the US.

I am not sure what twisted minds in the past came up with the idea that outsourcing was good for the USA.  I can easily see how large companies would lobby for it until they got what they wanted without any regards for Naive Americans.  Companies that outsource outside the US (OUS) are able to pay about one-third the salaries to get a professional job done overseas.  That this meant for the company is less expenses so they could profit additional moneys to pay their top executives (the American Royalty) huge bonuses.  On the other hand such companies would not need to hire well-prepared Naive Americans.  With time, less and less Naive Americans have been interested in pursuing engineering and scientific jobs.  The reason is that there is no way to compete with people that work for companies OUS because of their lower standard of living.  The same engineer in India can live quite comfortable with a fraction of the salary that you need to compensate the same person living in the US.  In practice, outsourcing will and has destroyed America.

President Obama, you MUST discourage outsourcing by eliminating any and all type of tax break incentive for any type of company that uses outsourcing OUS.  This MUST include outsourcing through a different company (i.e., Tata Consulting, Infotech, etc.  There are hundreds of companies just in India with hundreds to thousands employees each) and by American companies opening developing offices OUS.  This second trend has been occurring during the past couple decades.  Companies like GE, Ford, Microsoft (any and all types of disciplines) have research and development offices OUS.  By doing so they are making more profits (living a fantasy) and at the same time destroying America.

Enough said; the Naive American has been writing and evangelizing on this subject for years.  The task of stopping outsourcing is not going to be easy because it affects the American Royalty that believe they should get huge amounts of money in bonuses and stock dividends without any work.  They are the ones that directly or indirectly fund lobbyists.

By the way president Obama, you need to induce another CHANGE, which is to make illegal any type of lobbying activity in the US.

Yours truly,

The Naive American

It was in the news late last week that your administration appears to be interested in passing legislation to regulate to some extent the way credit card companies do business.  The Naive American is quite impressed with your decision.  Allow me to explain.

The Naive American does not know who you are or where you came from.  I believe most Naive Americans would share this opinion.  The Democratic Party selected a set of politicians to run for office.  We have never been presented with so many choices (white, African American, male, female, Hispanic, etc, etc, etc).  The situation of the country, the democratic advertisement engine (CHANGE) and the way you were advertised got you elected.  Your speeches sound like they are coming from a preacher.  A lot of emotion but little, if any substance.

As you might have read on previous blogs on my web site, your ideas to induce CHANGE in America do not make sense.  Infrastructure (roads and railroads) was a good thing to do fifty years ago.  Today such approaches will just exacerbate the economical problems.  Our country does not need construction jobs that do not produce goods and services that are desirable worldwide.  They just waste money that our country does not have and will be hard to come up in the foreseeable future.

I am not sure what your aids and advisors are telling you, but you should fire all of them.  OK, perhaps keep one or two.  You just need to look around in your house or out the window and see what Naive Americans use and are in need.  Allow me to provide you with some hints:  clothing, automobiles, electronics, computers, small appliances, cell phones, food, healthcare, etc, etc, etc.  Where are those things coming from?  The majority are not produced and / or designed in the USA.  We need to build our economy from the ground up by helping small and medium size businesses.  Those are the ones that have carried our country for decades.  So far your administration has done nothing in this important segment of our economy.

In the past few decades an ever-increasing number of Naive Americans have decided they are above the rest.  They are royalty.  Their time is extremely expensive and their know how needed for the US to continue to grow.  Of course nothing of this is true.  Those are the people that have destroyed our country.

Credit card companies do not produce goods or services that contribute to the well being of the nation.  They just satisfy the high salaries and bonuses demanded by top executives that believe their expertise and time is so unique that they can get millions of dollars in compensation every year.  Your suggestion of regulating credit card companies is the first good thing that has come from your administration and has the potential of induce the CHANGE that you promised during your presidential campaign.

Naive Americans will be following the actions of your administration in the next few weeks and months to see if you are just one more politician with wishes to be part of or server the American Royalty.  Time will tell.  By the way it appears that time is running out for the US.

Best regards;

The Naive American