Obama Just Cannot Get Off His High Horse and Low and Behold Freddie Gray Has A Criminal Record As Long As His Fused Spine!

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This from a very close relative in response to my most recent memo: "I think Obama has been stoking the anger of blacks his entire presidency and the riots in Missouri, Baltimore etc are the manifestation of his own fury. They are his

anger surrogates.  

He can't rampage like an angry black man and burn down neighborhoods but he has instead used his position to stoke the anger of black communities. 

He has coached them into feeling ineffectual and abandoned and impotent so that when the communities go up in flames he can sit back and gloat and beam as his surrogates destroy and act out his own anger.  

It's a fascinating term -- anger surrogate -- stoking the less powerful to take on and confront what you yourself cannot or will not confront.

Using another to play out your own inner stuff that you won't or can't take responsibility for. "

As for myself, Obama is always setting up straw persons, blaming others and leading and/or hiding from/in the rear.

I caught a few words of his admonition to the nation's police forces and though I understand there are bad apples, as he stated, I no longer care to hear his voice, listen to anything he has to say.  He has proven to be such a fraud I am simply waiting for him to leave office and go the The U.N. and wreck that organization as well.  Won't take much effort either.

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Why America does not grow. (See 1 below.)

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I am anything but a military strategist but it seems to me the destruction of Iran's utility grid is an effective way to stop their nuclear program and it should be far easier to take out their above ground utility facilities than to attack underground nuclear plants.

Perhaps this is in the IAF's planing.  Makes sense to me but then it is my own idea.

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And so it goes!

Freddie Gray had a pre-existing spinal and neck injury and had severe damage and scar tissue from an accident that Allstate Insurance was paying him a large structured settlement. Freddie had several unsuccessful spinal fusion surgeries, he most recent spinal/cervical operation was a week and a half before he was arrested. Freddie should have been at home in bed resting and recovering from recent major operation instead of manufacturing and distributing drugs on the streets and resisting arrest. Freddie has a criminal record pages long for manufacturing and distributing controlled dangerous drugs that were cocaine crack heroine etc. along with many assault charges, gun charges, breaking and entering and the list goes on since he was 18 years old (Juvenile records are sealed.) Look at some of this on www.mdjudiciarycasesearch. You will also see where he was trying to cash in his monthly structured settlement for his spinal injury payments to one lump sum through Peachtree Funding, He could have fallen in the wagon from the slippery bench to the floor or twisted his fused spine to reopen his recently fused damaged spine. None of the police officers that arrested Freddie had a history of police brutality. Freddie was a dangerous career felon with a damaged spine and neck that was supposed to be healing a week and a half after surgery

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Dick

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1) Why America Doesn't Grow

By Peter Morici

In this century, economic growth has averaged 1.9 percent per year — down from the 3.4 percent the prior two decades — and anemic growth is a major force squeezing wages, the middle class and working poor. 

Conservatives and liberals blame too much or too little government. Either way, getting policy right is critical to restoring opportunity for everyone. 

Here are four issues that will be tough to solve but warrant serious attention:

1. The Baby Drought

The birth rate predictably fell during the recent recession but has not recovered. At 948 children per 1000 women, fertility is below what is necessary to maintain even a steady population. 

Family formation is a major driver for the housing sector and supporting industries, and the baby drought is an important reason we hear so much about too little demand to sustain growth. Longer term, the U.S. risks the stagnation besetting Japan and northern Europe. 
Since the 1970s, public policy has focused on educating young people about avoiding teen pregnancies and opening wider career paths for women, but the time has now come to start talking about childbearing at an appropriate age, responsible parenting and the adverse social consequences of postponing family formation too long.

2. Dumbing Down of Education

National policy emphasizes pushing as many young people as possible into college. Young adults emerge heavily in debt — further slowing the birth rate — but just as important, colleges are not doing a terribly good job.

Besieged by large numbers of emotionally and academically unsuitable students, universities are spending huge sums on mental health, social and remedial services and failing to provide the basic core of a college education — about 40 percent of graduates lack critical reasoning and complex-problem-solving skills.

Universities need fewer students and less money. Meanwhile community colleges, whose vocational programs are starved for cash, should be beefed up to provide skilled technical workers who industry leaders say are in short supply.

3. Vanishing Startups and Small Businesses

Prior to 2000, small businesses created more jobs than large corporations did, but not any longer. Burdened by student loans, the number of young entrepreneurs has fallen off and new business startups — incubators for the next generation of Apples and Googles — are down overall.

Tougher government regulations — ranging from healthcare benefits to hiring practices — impose overhead that is more easily spread across large enterprises. To better bear compliance costs, smaller banks are merging into larger ones, but small banks tend to specialize in funding small businesses and start ups — be it candy making or cyber security.

Streamlining regulations for small businesses — especially community and regional banks — and student debt relief for young people starting businesses — similar to loan write-downs offered for those entering public service — would help.


4. Evaporating Edge in Basic Research

Government and corporate spending for basic research has been falling for decades. 
Breakthroughs such as the laser, invented at Bell Labs, and the personal computer, much of which was pioneered at Xerox, require investments whose benefits often are not appropriable to financing entities. Yet, those investments are essential to launching new industries — like fiber optics — and enterprises — like Microsoft. 

The federal government must fund more basic research and incentivize private companies to do the same if the United States is to continue reaping economic benefits from cutting edge innovation. That requires tough choices about shifting resources away from other purposes to ensure adequate growth and tax revenues 10, 20 and 30 years from now.
Overall Americans have been myopic — focusing too much on the immediate benefits of personal and public decisions — by excessively limiting family size, emphasizing quantity over quality in higher education, choosing job security over the risks of starting a business or devoting too much more money to social programs than to science. 

A prosperous economy and secure future for our children simply requires more unselfish behavior and risk taking.

Peter Morici is an economist and professor at the University of Maryland, and a national columnist. He tweets @pmorici1.

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