White House Petition: New Financial Team

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Monday June 04, 2012 · 11:16 AM PDT

2012/06/04 · 11:16

The Obama Administration has a website,https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/... that allows us to file petitions, to which I put up the following:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/...

Hire an economics team that understands finance is the efficient allocation of capital, not turning banks into casinos.

This is not going to happen prior to the coming financial implosion, but it needs to be at the top of the agenda in the weeks following.

The budget process is designed to create excess debt in order to support excess wealth, as it puts together enormous spending bills, that the president can only pass, or veto. Budgeting is to list priorities and spend according to ability. If the government wants to budget, these bills could be broken into their line items and have every legislator assign a percentage value to each one. Then reassemble the bill by preference and have the president draw the line at what is to be funded. As Truman might have put it, “The buck stops here.”

Only after doing so, did they inform me that it needs 150 signatures to even make the public list! Obviously trolling for addresses, but I still think it worth the effort. If anyone wants to sign it, I’d be thankful. If they get 25,000, the president has to address it, but I’m not that hopeful.

Regards, John Merryman

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Saturday March 17, 2012 · 10:34 AM PDT

2012/03/17 · 10:34

Meditations on and mediating the corporeal self and corporate society.

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Saturday September 20, 2008 · 3:20 PM PDT

2008/09/20 · 15:20

Reagan had an old joke about an optimist being someone who looks for the pony when they are given a pile of shit. I think a historic opportunity is being created to re-write the rules of the game. Real growth is bottom up, while order is top down. When the order cannot encompass the growth, it is shed like dead skin. Here is an idea of where we need to go.

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Friday May 18, 2007 · 3:45 AM PDT

2007/05/18 · 03:45

Humanity is rapidly approaching a crossroads, where we will begin cooperating on a scale that we never have before, or we will descend into a state of warring tribes like we have never seen before. Appeals to the conscience only work on those willing to listen, while it is the less altruistic who need to pay the most attention. If there is one thing that does get people's attention, it's the money.

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