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Continue To Spiral Down Or Embrace Solutions

My Prologue:

 About 6 months ago I chose to try and get a more national reputation 

so I selected  American Thinker as my 

 conduit.  I began writing memos in 1960, dictated to a secretary who then typed and 

mailed them. Today, being 

 retired,  I have no secretary, type them myself and email them.

I never took a course in writing.  Several of the American Thinker editors are helping me  

 to  specifically write

 

for their readership. I mostly get rejected when I cram multiple subjects into one Op Ed 

This essay is about the economic plight America. I have preached for decades, we are on a 

dangerous profligate

course which, if continued, will  assuredly destroy our nation. 

Though, like my mother,  I am a pessimist by nature, apparently I also am able, when 

convincing facts are evident,

 to  change and see and embrace the positive. 

I must have a residual of my father's love of life and positive outlook in me. 

I am an only child and my mother, I believe, was born chronically depressed. I came t

o this conclusion

 

after my many psychiatric sessions with therapists who were Freudian disciples and 

believed strongly in the

 influence of  Oedipus.  

My mother was very capable and when she set her mind to tackle something she did so..  

She was a marvelous

 

cook and baker.  She  ironed shirts  better than most laundries and her needlepointing was 

superb.

Her goal in life was to protect my father from the slings and arrows aimed at him because 

he was an outspoken

feisty Jewish lawyer who believed black citizens were entitled to their civil rights. We lived in 

Birmingham which

was Bull Connor territory.

During WW 1, when she was a mere child, she sang with the local Gus Edwards  

New York Band 

 selling . War

 Bonds and she was called "Baby Estelle.

She also was shy.. I remember, when I was 6 years of age, she would only play and sing i

n our homes and for her

own satisfaction. I also remember she had a beautiful vice.  Her father, Alex, sang in local

 New York opera and he

 too had a wonderful voice.  I know because when he and my grandmother, Jeanette,  lived 

in Birmingham my

 mother's parents would come for Sunday brunch and after the dishes were washed and put 

away my mother and

 her father would sing while my grandmother played the piano.  Then my grandfather laid down o

n our couch, took a

 nap  and covered himself with the local newspaper like a bum.  I also remembered when he 

sang the veins in his

 neck expanded.  

If opposites attract, my mother and father were well suited. 

 At the time, her father was a shoe salesman in Birmingham, at Pizitz  Department Store. 

My father to be, played 

pinochle with my grandfather, Alex, and  I learned, much later in life, from my father's brother, 

Jesse who spilled the

 beans because he thought I already knew,  my mother. eloped, I believe at 18 with an Italian 

friend. and Alex called

 my father, to be,  to annul her spirited action. My future father did so, fell in love and married 

her so the story goes. 

I never confronted them and they never went into detail but my father assured me I was his son.

My mother also carried undying grudges.   Before her parents moved to Birmingham, they lived 

in New York and her

father was a shoe salesman..  

His sister, Helen, owned a successful ladies' store that catered to the wives of South American 

Dictators and thus 

Stein and Blaine was able to survive the Depression. 

Helen employed her brother, my mother's father, to run the elevator and dressed him in the 

popular "Call For Phillip

Morris Johnny Suit," cap and all.  My mother felt this was demeaning and never forgave Helen.  

When she told me

 how she felt, I thought to myself her father at least  had a job when so many men were unemployed..

Move the clock forward and before my folks retired they religiously watched Johnny Carson..

The next morning, .invariably, my father would rise and shine. come to the breakfast table 

immaculately dressed, 

 smelling of a splash of a delightful male cologne.

He would fold and read the morning newspaper, have orange juice, hot coffee, his favorite 

cereal and mostly fluffy 

scrambled eggs.

To his right on the wall was a perfect needlepoint which said: "Getting Up Get's Me Down."

My father never drove a car, so after finishing his breakfast either my mother would drive 

him down Red

Mountain, some 4 miles to his office, or he  called a cab, or walked across the street wait for

  a city bus or hitch a ride with a friend. who stopped..

During election season, if some friend who did not vote as he thought they should, he would 

wave them on until 

a suitable voter offered him a ride.

Why all this background family stuff?  Because I want to set the stage for why though, I believe 

I am prone to be

cynical,  I am  also capable of rational thinking and can be persuaded to make a  positive decision.. 

So what does all of this family stuff have to do with our dire federal deficit which I always knew

 would hit us but 

never could predict when.

Returning  to the matter of America's unabated deficit spending and the ominous potential of 

spiraling out of control

 consequences, I believe, lends itself  to  5 positive ideas and  Trump is the only candidate 

capable of doing so

 because he has the :chutzpah" to tweak Xi's nose. 

Recently the  Wall Street Journal's' Editorial Board published an excellent editorial which laid

 out the statistical

implications of our many trillion dollar debt position.. We are spending 29% of GDP and that 

is untenable. The

 interest alone equals what we spend on our military.  

 

Gerald Seib recently wrote an excellent Op Ed entitled  " Will Debt Sink The American Empire?

I always believed William Wadsworth hit the ball out of the park when he wrote: "The world is t

oo much with us; 

late and soon, Getting and Spending, we lay waste our powers.

"Well folks, a recent  we are there. 

4 POSITIVE DEBT REDUCTION IDEAS

1) Recently Trump proposed a solution to illegal immigration but has not fleshed it out fully.  

However, this is 

what I believe he intends.  

Allow any illegal immigrant, who has a connection with an American citizen,  has no "Rap Sheet" 

and is,,

 willing to go to college and/or a trade school to earn a degree can, then  become a legal citizen.

2) The embrace of AI would likely enhance the productivity of this graduate. who would produce, 

not only, 

revenue, but would enhance social tranquility, reduce the level and cost of crime and you can 

envision the 

rest.  

3)  Link the election of  a pro-energy president and  V. P willing to open Anwar, in order to flood 

the world with clean

 American oil, natural and liquid gas, and this would solve demand issues and place the cost of 

energy/gasoline etc

.on a downward path.

3) This single hard ball, event would re-establish America as a power and Trump could then tell

 XI we demand

 reimbursement for Covid and $3 trillion of American debt China holds will not be redeemed.

4) Finally, all revenue and profit from Anwar production would be designated to debt reduction 

and additional

 legislation would forbid grubby politicians from exploiting these funds on their own pet wants.

Inflation would stop it's upward path, social tranquility should expand, Russian and Iranian 

financial sources would 

be corralled and , again, you know the rest.

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