Thursday, November 18, 2010
RE NYT EDITORIAL BAILING OUT NEW JERSEY AND THINKING BIG AND THE EDUCATIONAL ROLE OF THE MEDIA
Interesting editorial.
Re 'thinking big':
WHY A 'NEW JERSEY', AT ALL,
NOWADAYS, AT THIS LATE POLITICAL DATE?
Why not, for example, just roll New Jersey into New York City, or into New York State, along with a few other small states thereabouts, as well, for consistency?
See also: State and Local Politics, The Great Entanglement, by the late Robert S. Lorch, 1st Ed. gray panels, and especially Ch. 3 Federalism, gray panel entitled "Why An Iowa?"
Indeed, Why Iowa?
To paraphrase, and update, Lorch's only partly rhetorical question,
"Why 50 different struggling, antiquated, behemoths?"
Unfortunately, many of the same people who rightly question 'why so many lawyers', on the other hand are vehement for their own state's rights, including its unique set of laws.
50 different states, plus DC, and each their innumerable local governments, all separately regulate the professions, the trades, and many other matters, in their own voluminously peculiar ways. The federal government piles in on top.
Thus, "Why ________?"
You fill in your favorite entity.
See also: State and Local Politics, The Great Entanglement, 1st Ed. gray panels, and especially Ch. 1 INTRODUCTION, gray panel entitled
"How Interesting Is A State?"
Sunday, July 3, 2011
RE WYOMING AND CORRUPTION THE WYOMING PURCHASE AND WHY NOT ALSO IOWA OR GREECE
Why not suggest the same types of solutions for Wyoming incorporations corruption as we have for Minnesota fiscal irresponsibility?
And why not also offer to sell Iowa, just for the hell, and the profitability, of it?
TERMS SEARCH: WHY IOWA
If someone remonstrates that my 'Jeffersonianism' is not quite orthodox, I say, (not that I am one, really)
'damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead......'
And after all, the Louisiana Purchase itself was on his 'watch'.
Question:
Can Greece be sold
either to the
Russians (Orthodox),
or to the Turks (Muslim)
or to the Chinese (Confusian)?
And why not also offer to sell Iowa, just for the hell, and the profitability, of it?
TERMS SEARCH: WHY IOWA
If someone remonstrates that my 'Jeffersonianism' is not quite orthodox, I say, (not that I am one, really)
'damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead......'
And after all, the Louisiana Purchase itself was on his 'watch'.
Question:
Can Greece be sold
either to the
Russians (Orthodox),
or to the Turks (Muslim)
or to the Chinese (Confusian)?
Saturday, October 12, 2019
WHY IOWA? WHY STARBUCKS? WHY HONG KONG?
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
THE GREAT ENTANGLEMENT
"...Last, but hardly least, our common institutions--our governments--are not giving us the sense of common purpose and identity that they did in decades past...." DK
If some of us had a sense of common purpose, based on the great entanglement of our governments, it was a false sense.
Old post excerpt:
'I offer the late Robert S. Lorch's book State and Local Politics: The Great Entanglement, as some evidence of reasons why the USA needs state and local government reform.
I only have the first edition, where perhaps he candycoated less his later views. Although dated, few larger details of his account have changed much. It is a great introduction, probably even in later editions, to a very sorry situation.
Especially the gray panels at the beginnings of chapters are worth the price alone. 1 and 3 are perhaps my favorites, but all should be read.'
Another old post:
Moreover, I had written a few comments, some time ago about a great book, on State and Local Politics, in the US, its subtitle 'The Great Entanglement'. Eg, Why Iowa?, etc.
Old post excerpt:
'I offer the late Robert S. Lorch's book State and Local Politics: The Great Entanglement, as some evidence of reasons why the USA needs state and local government reform.
I only have the first edition, where perhaps he candycoated less his later views. Although dated, few larger details of his account have changed much. It is a great introduction, probably even in later editions, to a very sorry situation.
Especially the gray panels at the beginnings of chapters are worth the price alone. 1 and 3 are perhaps my favorites, but all should be read.'
Another old post:
Thursday, January 13, 2011
RE overlapping and intertwining jurisdictions GLOCALIZATION CROCKALIZATION
This was a phrase from another's commentary on Sovereignty At Bay, not long ago, discussing, and waffling, whether nation state sovereignty had really been dissolved by MNC trade and investment phenomena, and quibbling about the definition Vernon had meant.
(Albeit, in the US, we never had many indicia of nation state sovereignty, to begin with. This, after all, had been the problem with the Articles of Confederation, and has remained a deep but lesser problem under the Constitution.)
What an apt subtitle for both the local state federal, and the global, situation, 'OVERLAPPING AND INTERTWINING JURISDICTIONS'.
It fits nicely into the 'blobalization of weak sovereignty' theme.
One might call it globlocalization, or Glocalization.
MARKET CAPITALISM AS A PROCESS FOR GLOCALIZATION.
A science fiction book once used a term for alien love, or something, 'Grock' was it?
BLOCS ARE NOT SO EFFECTIVE, IT SEEMS, GOING FORWARD, AND
ARE GLOBS THEMSELVES, EACH SUBJECT TO BUBBLING ASUNDER AT FAULT LINES OR ELSEWHERE.
My father had a pet term for things he disdained, a contraction, he called such things a 'Crock'.
Thus,
Crockalization.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
RE THIS IS CALLED SMALL GOVERNMENT NYT TODAY F.A.A. YOUR STATE
Not that I am not in favor of drastic reforms of the whole system,
but this demonstrates the very longstanding poverty of political insight here, and the dead end of the existing party game.
Most Americans don't really fathom what such a fiscal situation can mean, apart from inconvenience. Having once represented an airport operationally controlled by the F.A.A., I at least have a clue.
Operationally, I guess it may mean different things, in places where the FAA has run airport flight operations.
Perhaps states, or even local communities need to take back airport operations from the FAA. Big wasteful bureaucracy.
Why not move air traffic control operations to, say, China, similarly to GE's recent decision to move its X ray unit there (not India)? Set up call centers there to direct air traffic around our cities? Use, eg Google Earth, (also say Gaggle Earth, Gobble Earth), as the source of flight data?
Makes a lot of good entrepreneurial maverick mutton busting sense to me.
Terms search: your state; why Iowa, Minnesota, city, county.
but this demonstrates the very longstanding poverty of political insight here, and the dead end of the existing party game.
Most Americans don't really fathom what such a fiscal situation can mean, apart from inconvenience. Having once represented an airport operationally controlled by the F.A.A., I at least have a clue.
Operationally, I guess it may mean different things, in places where the FAA has run airport flight operations.
Perhaps states, or even local communities need to take back airport operations from the FAA. Big wasteful bureaucracy.
Why not move air traffic control operations to, say, China, similarly to GE's recent decision to move its X ray unit there (not India)? Set up call centers there to direct air traffic around our cities? Use, eg Google Earth, (also say Gaggle Earth, Gobble Earth), as the source of flight data?
Makes a lot of good entrepreneurial maverick mutton busting sense to me.
Terms search: your state; why Iowa, Minnesota, city, county.
Monday, November 29, 2010
RE A STALE FOOD FIGHT EDITORIAL NYT MICHAEL POLLAN the menu
Re food safety, and a lot of other things:
Why an Iowa?
For that matter:
Why an Oklahoma?
After all:
Why a fragmented confederacy?
See also, Bing terms search, 'weak governments', etc.,
Most Americans don't discover how ill
governed they are, and long have been.
When examples such as this (regardless really of where, or if, you stand, on this food issue) are pointed out, even if it registers, they quickly forget it again.
Saturday, March 3, 2018
RE DK CURRENT POST 80 YEARS WHO DISDAINS EXPERTISE?
"..."Trump Proclaims Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum and Stocks Sag in Reply." Once again we have a President who prides himself on being an economic innovator, but one who, unlike FDR, disdains expertise and relies completely on his own instincts. Those stories illustrate a big difference in our political situation. 6 years into his presidency, FDR had definitely got the nation onto a new path, and although the economy was once again in a severe recession, he and the Congress were grappling with it together..." DK
So much one might say about this passage.
Reagan was an economic innovator...
Nixon was an economic innovator...
Clinton was an economic innovator...
And so on.
FDR was an economic innovator, but he had an enormous political mandate.
He did not conspicuously benefit the lower class much, as he has been touted to have done, but rather the middle class.
He was a great stimulus to free trade, which has ultimately proven catastrophic since 1932 for us. In fact, that was in part how he sold his liberal domestic programs.
He blamed Smoot Hawley for the Great Depression which he claimed, wrongly, to have been getting us out of.
More importantly, no good economist, especially someone like Kindleberger, even of that time, thought that Smoot Hawley caused the Great Depression, but they have almost all, later, nevertheless, paid lip service to this ridiculous account.
So when Professor Kaiser now contrasts FDR to Trump, as someone who disdains expertise, just be aware...FDR knew very well that there was very capable expertise on this issue which he was frankly ignoring.
Here is FDR's speech, 1932 , Sioux City Iowa:
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
RE CALIFORNIA COUNTIES TALK OF CUTTING TIES TO STATE NYT TODAY
Then, question, do they really want to be another state, 'South California', a political thing they ostensibly already abhor?
Why wouldn't this new state inherit the 'state disease' they were trying to get away from?
How would you inoculate it? After all, it's a state.
It would start out, apparently, being already composed of existing counties, each county itself a small, weak, fragmentary, embattled against its citizens, cities within its borders
(themselves each at each other's throats for territory from the county),
neighboring counties, illegal aliens, private entities foreign and domestic, quasi-public entities of all types, NGOs, even without a state to fight,
each county itself a weak, troublesome political entity.
Terms search Minnesota, Iowa, New Jersey, your state.
Why wouldn't this new state inherit the 'state disease' they were trying to get away from?
How would you inoculate it? After all, it's a state.
It would start out, apparently, being already composed of existing counties, each county itself a small, weak, fragmentary, embattled against its citizens, cities within its borders
(themselves each at each other's throats for territory from the county),
neighboring counties, illegal aliens, private entities foreign and domestic, quasi-public entities of all types, NGOs, even without a state to fight,
each county itself a weak, troublesome political entity.
Terms search Minnesota, Iowa, New Jersey, your state.
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