I Voted For Barack Obama
Organizing For Action, Renewal And The Legacy Of Kennedy, Nixon And Space.
By:
Ramrodd
Written on January 20th, 2013
President Barack Obama
The White House
I blog at ramrodd.tumblr.com around a numbers of issues, including our shared vision for America. Yours, Mr. President, and mine. I went to Vietnam in a quest to fulfill that vision. When I came back from Vietnam and took up a civilian career, I continued to pursue it. Fulfilling that vision is the nature of the organizing principle of the US Constitution, the pursuit of happiness. I voted for you on the basis of that vision of Free Enterprise and progressive federalism. Organizing for Action has been conceived to pursue that vision, which shall become your legacy.
The abiding vision of official Washington in 1971, including Nixon’s administration and the Democrat majority in both Congressional chambers, was partially captured in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The common emotional context for that vision is captured in John Lennon’s “Imagine”, as a proxy, and distillation of the ideals captured by music of the civil rights movement, including “We Shall Overcome” , “Blowing in the Wind” and “The Ballad of the Green Berets”, at least in my experience. The vision I went to Vietnam to fulfill was alive and well inside the beltway in 1971.
Including the Ray Price wing of the Nixon White House. Nixon had a plan for putting a permanent colony of the moon as the follow-on space project after the space station/shuttle phase was able to establish scheduled between Cape Kennedy, Houston and a bunch of spaceports in California, Arizonia, New Mexico and, for both launch and recovery operations, Denver. A mile high is a mile high. We could build an electromagnetic space cadipult that would eliminate 90% of the ecological damage from burning fuel by slinging a as high as we can from the highest point in America we can access with a minimal foot print. Boliva might be better, but Colarado is a good place to start.
The US SST was part of the development part of the scheduled service. The Space Shuttle is too clumsy for the mission and the SST program was exploring a number of design issues with the earth to orbit cycle. The Space Shuttle is one of those things we could build for deep space travel, at least, scheduled service for earth orb it to moon orbit. In that regard, if we were to build 300 of them and put them into orbit in a one way trip, they would become the DC/3 at the frontier of interplanetary travel, The hull design is proven for space travel and you can do anything to the inside of the hull you want to for the mission. It’s a five day trip to the moon and you don’t even need a crew to launch in ballistically for moon orbit. And then they could be completely dismantled there to provide the materials for orbit to moon surface vehicles. Nixon’s strategic planning in the regard was informed by his association with Eisenhower and his own understanding of the relationship between an operation of the scale of D-Day and the venture capital banks of Wall Street.
But two things went wrong with this vision. One was the Pat Buchanan wing of the Nixon White House, which brought us Watergate and denied the nation of the adult leadership Nixon represented to nurture the space program as his contribution to Kennedy’s Presidential legacy in Space. Nixon was the last Republican presidential candidate who was passionately committed to Kennedy’s legacy.
And Kennedy was the last Democrat Presidential passionately committed to Space as a fulfillment of the vision he pursued while skipper of PT 109. The second thing that help to sabotage the space program was the liberal Tree Huggers success in killing the US SST program. In my mind, it falls into the category of Carter’s preventing the US Olympic Team from the Moscow Olympics. There were very important design issues in the SST that would have informed the design and development of the earth to orbit personnel shuttle. Boeing was one of the organizations that was damaged by ending that program, as was Pan Am, Trans World Airways and all the state run airlines, except Aeroflot. They had their own design that worked pretty well and we could have sold them the engines form GE to improve their basic design. Again, Wall Street would have participated in the activity.
Nixon understood the intersection of space, Wall Street and the federal government better than anybody in your administration, in Congress or being paid big bucks for posting ideological drivel on the OpEd pages of the Gray Lady. Nixon understood that he could replace War as the essential driver of the Military Industrial Complex with Space as the essential driver for an Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix.
The Military-Industrial Complex will continue as a necessary engine of the American Republic. The answer to the question “How many times must the cannon balls fly, before they are forever banned” is that they will never be banned: it is the nature of the Republic and an underpinning to the rule of Law as constrained by the US Constitution. But the Military-Industrial Complex will recede to its subordinate role, and integrated organically in the superior Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix. This will significantly reduce the tax burden while ensuring the greatest possible military capacity along the interior line of the micro economics of enterprise and community. The 2nd Amendment encourages exactly this sort of economic enfolding of the common defense.
But I digress. As I say, Nixon put a process for transforming the Military-Industrial Complex into the Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix. He did not begin to anticipate the digital revolution in the least (nobody but Ross Perot did), but he expected the progressive federalism of the American Free Enterprise system to grow itself into the new vision for dynamical capitalism. Paul Krugman’s basic economic model anticipates this construct, but he lacks Nixon’s Wall Street instincts and Nixon’s exposure to Eisenhower’s operational capacities. He is better than Geithner, while Hagle has forgotten more about Eisenhower’s operational capacities than anybody in the Republican Study Committee of the Grover Norquist wing of the GOP. Nixon knew what he was doing and you share Nixon’s vision about everything except Space. That is the economic jump start for the global economy and Kennedy’s essential legacy to you as president.
Nixon’s process has completed about half of the transformation: the economy is a sort of jury rigged mechanical hybrid system of the Military-Industrial Complex/Information-Entrepreneurial Dynamic. Currently we are driving the economy by creating electronic gadgets and a lot of economic slop from dubious financial strategies for repealing the law of gravity. Just putting an order to Boeing for 300 shuttle class hulls would reduce unemployment to 5% before the New Hampshire primary in 2014. And, if the military was to order 1500 V-22 Osprey to support nation building in Africa, these aircraft could be surplussed for delivery to commercial airlines, getting a double bang for the military budget buck. The US Transportation system has been badly damaged by the current executive strata of the commercial carriers and, like the national infrastructure, needs to be restored to its full strategic capacities. Like the 2nd Amendment, this is a common defense issue.
In addition, The Points of Light Program will accelerate the process Nixon put into place for the transformation of the 19th Century Military Industrial Complex to the 21st Century Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix. It fits right in with the Organizing for America agenda you have commissioned your reelection campaigned to implement. You and I share a common vision, the vision I pursued in Vietnam and Martin Luther King pondered in the Birmingham Jail. The Points of Light Program and Organizing for America have common missions in the pursuit of this vision.
We can introduce The Points of Light Program with the learning community at Sidwell Friends. My daughter went to Burgundy Farm School and Maret. I developed my model of the community organization as a capitalist tool while as a parent/community organizer at Burgundy. It is not the only community model I have, but, as a middle school, it is the best place to start because the intergenerational mix of the community, which range from pediatrics to geriatrics at Burgundy. We get the biggest bang for the buck: the process will be naturally imported into the commercial, not-for-profit and other academic arenas in the same way the military virtues of the US Army Ranger School are imported to the Army community in a leadership by example kind of way. And, of course, the performance technology of JumpStart Training is a force multiplier for the existing corporate investment in team building and Deming’s Quality agenda. The Points of Light Program will do for American civilian communities what Army Family Team Building is doing to sustain the Army community during deployments. Sidwell Friends practices self-governance by consensus in the Quaker fashion which is the core technology of The Points of Light Program
And, of course, you don’t need the Tea Party’s permission to direct $100 billion in the remaining TARP monies into the DeConcini Deficit Reduction Trust. The Trust already exists and legislation permitting capital disbursement of Community Development Action Grants as a routine matter by elected officials already exists and the Democrat caucus can designate appropriate community organizations to receive a C-DAG capital placement as they see fit. This disbursement will capture the popular imagination in much the same manner that the WPA fueled the hopes of desperate communities in the national mobilization that defeated Hitler and put man on the moon.
In the final analysis, capitalism comes down to cold, hard cash or it isn’t Free Enterprise capitalism. It is something else, like Marxism or the current version of conservatism. Reaganomics is an exercise in making bricks without straws: in 2008, it began to crumble. Space and the Points of Light Program will fix what’s got broke by the applied stupidity of Supply Side economics and all it represents.
The White House
I blog at ramrodd.tumblr.com around a numbers of issues, including our shared vision for America. Yours, Mr. President, and mine. I went to Vietnam in a quest to fulfill that vision. When I came back from Vietnam and took up a civilian career, I continued to pursue it. Fulfilling that vision is the nature of the organizing principle of the US Constitution, the pursuit of happiness. I voted for you on the basis of that vision of Free Enterprise and progressive federalism. Organizing for Action has been conceived to pursue that vision, which shall become your legacy.
The abiding vision of official Washington in 1971, including Nixon’s administration and the Democrat majority in both Congressional chambers, was partially captured in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The common emotional context for that vision is captured in John Lennon’s “Imagine”, as a proxy, and distillation of the ideals captured by music of the civil rights movement, including “We Shall Overcome” , “Blowing in the Wind” and “The Ballad of the Green Berets”, at least in my experience. The vision I went to Vietnam to fulfill was alive and well inside the beltway in 1971.
Including the Ray Price wing of the Nixon White House. Nixon had a plan for putting a permanent colony of the moon as the follow-on space project after the space station/shuttle phase was able to establish scheduled between Cape Kennedy, Houston and a bunch of spaceports in California, Arizonia, New Mexico and, for both launch and recovery operations, Denver. A mile high is a mile high. We could build an electromagnetic space cadipult that would eliminate 90% of the ecological damage from burning fuel by slinging a as high as we can from the highest point in America we can access with a minimal foot print. Boliva might be better, but Colarado is a good place to start.
The US SST was part of the development part of the scheduled service. The Space Shuttle is too clumsy for the mission and the SST program was exploring a number of design issues with the earth to orbit cycle. The Space Shuttle is one of those things we could build for deep space travel, at least, scheduled service for earth orb it to moon orbit. In that regard, if we were to build 300 of them and put them into orbit in a one way trip, they would become the DC/3 at the frontier of interplanetary travel, The hull design is proven for space travel and you can do anything to the inside of the hull you want to for the mission. It’s a five day trip to the moon and you don’t even need a crew to launch in ballistically for moon orbit. And then they could be completely dismantled there to provide the materials for orbit to moon surface vehicles. Nixon’s strategic planning in the regard was informed by his association with Eisenhower and his own understanding of the relationship between an operation of the scale of D-Day and the venture capital banks of Wall Street.
But two things went wrong with this vision. One was the Pat Buchanan wing of the Nixon White House, which brought us Watergate and denied the nation of the adult leadership Nixon represented to nurture the space program as his contribution to Kennedy’s Presidential legacy in Space. Nixon was the last Republican presidential candidate who was passionately committed to Kennedy’s legacy.
And Kennedy was the last Democrat Presidential passionately committed to Space as a fulfillment of the vision he pursued while skipper of PT 109. The second thing that help to sabotage the space program was the liberal Tree Huggers success in killing the US SST program. In my mind, it falls into the category of Carter’s preventing the US Olympic Team from the Moscow Olympics. There were very important design issues in the SST that would have informed the design and development of the earth to orbit personnel shuttle. Boeing was one of the organizations that was damaged by ending that program, as was Pan Am, Trans World Airways and all the state run airlines, except Aeroflot. They had their own design that worked pretty well and we could have sold them the engines form GE to improve their basic design. Again, Wall Street would have participated in the activity.
Nixon understood the intersection of space, Wall Street and the federal government better than anybody in your administration, in Congress or being paid big bucks for posting ideological drivel on the OpEd pages of the Gray Lady. Nixon understood that he could replace War as the essential driver of the Military Industrial Complex with Space as the essential driver for an Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix.
The Military-Industrial Complex will continue as a necessary engine of the American Republic. The answer to the question “How many times must the cannon balls fly, before they are forever banned” is that they will never be banned: it is the nature of the Republic and an underpinning to the rule of Law as constrained by the US Constitution. But the Military-Industrial Complex will recede to its subordinate role, and integrated organically in the superior Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix. This will significantly reduce the tax burden while ensuring the greatest possible military capacity along the interior line of the micro economics of enterprise and community. The 2nd Amendment encourages exactly this sort of economic enfolding of the common defense.
But I digress. As I say, Nixon put a process for transforming the Military-Industrial Complex into the Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix. He did not begin to anticipate the digital revolution in the least (nobody but Ross Perot did), but he expected the progressive federalism of the American Free Enterprise system to grow itself into the new vision for dynamical capitalism. Paul Krugman’s basic economic model anticipates this construct, but he lacks Nixon’s Wall Street instincts and Nixon’s exposure to Eisenhower’s operational capacities. He is better than Geithner, while Hagle has forgotten more about Eisenhower’s operational capacities than anybody in the Republican Study Committee of the Grover Norquist wing of the GOP. Nixon knew what he was doing and you share Nixon’s vision about everything except Space. That is the economic jump start for the global economy and Kennedy’s essential legacy to you as president.
Nixon’s process has completed about half of the transformation: the economy is a sort of jury rigged mechanical hybrid system of the Military-Industrial Complex/Information-Entrepreneurial Dynamic. Currently we are driving the economy by creating electronic gadgets and a lot of economic slop from dubious financial strategies for repealing the law of gravity. Just putting an order to Boeing for 300 shuttle class hulls would reduce unemployment to 5% before the New Hampshire primary in 2014. And, if the military was to order 1500 V-22 Osprey to support nation building in Africa, these aircraft could be surplussed for delivery to commercial airlines, getting a double bang for the military budget buck. The US Transportation system has been badly damaged by the current executive strata of the commercial carriers and, like the national infrastructure, needs to be restored to its full strategic capacities. Like the 2nd Amendment, this is a common defense issue.
In addition, The Points of Light Program will accelerate the process Nixon put into place for the transformation of the 19th Century Military Industrial Complex to the 21st Century Aerospace-Entrepreneurial Matrix. It fits right in with the Organizing for America agenda you have commissioned your reelection campaigned to implement. You and I share a common vision, the vision I pursued in Vietnam and Martin Luther King pondered in the Birmingham Jail. The Points of Light Program and Organizing for America have common missions in the pursuit of this vision.
We can introduce The Points of Light Program with the learning community at Sidwell Friends. My daughter went to Burgundy Farm School and Maret. I developed my model of the community organization as a capitalist tool while as a parent/community organizer at Burgundy. It is not the only community model I have, but, as a middle school, it is the best place to start because the intergenerational mix of the community, which range from pediatrics to geriatrics at Burgundy. We get the biggest bang for the buck: the process will be naturally imported into the commercial, not-for-profit and other academic arenas in the same way the military virtues of the US Army Ranger School are imported to the Army community in a leadership by example kind of way. And, of course, the performance technology of JumpStart Training is a force multiplier for the existing corporate investment in team building and Deming’s Quality agenda. The Points of Light Program will do for American civilian communities what Army Family Team Building is doing to sustain the Army community during deployments. Sidwell Friends practices self-governance by consensus in the Quaker fashion which is the core technology of The Points of Light Program
And, of course, you don’t need the Tea Party’s permission to direct $100 billion in the remaining TARP monies into the DeConcini Deficit Reduction Trust. The Trust already exists and legislation permitting capital disbursement of Community Development Action Grants as a routine matter by elected officials already exists and the Democrat caucus can designate appropriate community organizations to receive a C-DAG capital placement as they see fit. This disbursement will capture the popular imagination in much the same manner that the WPA fueled the hopes of desperate communities in the national mobilization that defeated Hitler and put man on the moon.
In the final analysis, capitalism comes down to cold, hard cash or it isn’t Free Enterprise capitalism. It is something else, like Marxism or the current version of conservatism. Reaganomics is an exercise in making bricks without straws: in 2008, it began to crumble. Space and the Points of Light Program will fix what’s got broke by the applied stupidity of Supply Side economics and all it represents.
By:
Ramrodd
Age:
61-65
,
Male
