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Food for Thought??
Scanning Puerto Rican newspapers recently one would think that the most pressing of the island’s issues, namely the unresolved question of Puerto Rico’s political status, was in fact resolved. I say this because while there may be an article or two that touches on the matter, the traditional parties on the island, those that have been auto-bestowed champions of self-determination seem to have determined to forget about the topic completely. Yet, the same headlines continue to show the necessity of resolving the fundamental problem affecting the Puerto Rican psyche – self-definition. Traveling on the Staten Island ferry, (for those whom are not familiar with NYC, the ferry connects the islands of Staten Island and Manhattan in NYC. As a free ride, it has become very popular with tourists.) I had a very interesting conversation with a man visiting NYC from France. “Pierre,” has had the opportunity to visit Puerto Rico and therefore understood that the island was part of the United States. However, sometime later he was confused when as a spectator during an international sporting competition he saw athletes from Puerto Rico and the U.S. in separate delegations. It left him confused. One does not have to go far from Puerto Rico itself to also be able to witness this perplexing state of mind that this undecided political status has created. Even today there are those on the island that seem to feel a need to tell people that they are Puerto Ricans and not something else. While on the other side of the debate there are then those who want to be more American than Uncle Sam himself. While all of this occurs, the three main political parties have been in a never-ending electoral campaign that has continued since before the 2004 elections. With the island government having its first experience with a divided government, the parties have not felt the need to cease electioneering and begin governing. Consequently, Puerto Rico’s social and fiscal problems continue their downward spiral. Puerto Rico continues to lose it most important resource, its own people. With more Puerto Ricans now living in the mainland United States than on the island, it is perplexing how the parties haven’t seemed to notice that while they continue to argue about who gets to administer the colony, more residents decide to leave. Perhaps Puerto Rico’s salvation lies in the dissolution of all the political parties presently struggling to maintain power. Perhaps only then could Puerto Ricans finally unite and demand from Congress the necessary legislation that would put this centuries-old colonial dilemma on a “fast track” to an as-of-yet elusive solution. COMMENTS: It seems many Descolonizadores want to hide these facts and make believe, or maybe they truly have convinced themselves, that there are really no differences between PR and the US or that the US is this big composition of different cultures. Descolonizadores know that Puerto Ricans are scared of losing their identities so they will use it as a scare tactic. The truth is most Puerto Ricans don't want independence (2.5%). I personally hate the use of scare tactics because they involve selfish interests. Trust me I will work a lot harder uncovering lies to make sure does numbers go up. A politicians main concern today is not "public service", nor is it based on justice nor truth. It is based solely on being re-elected and what will get them another term in office. Their actions are based on and they are so out of touch and centered in on their own personal agendas, they do not have a clue as to what their constituency wants them to do, and in fact they could care less. They will deceive, manipulate, lie, and yes, walk over the rights of the average citizen if it suits their purpose. Politicians certainly don't base their decisions on pure mathematics. You might argue that they should. Still, not doing so do not indicate a lack of "belief" in the scientific method, which is about drawing conclusions in the sense of _learning, not in the sense of deciding how money is best spent in a futile debate with the horror question if we the people of Puerto Rico want to stay the same. We the Taino people of Borinquen do not see the mathematical logic debates that exist in some people minds, Basing their opinion of whether IS BETWEEN Statehood versus Independence on whether you know the voted percentages or don't is precisely what has led 95% of the Puerto Rico Statehoder population astray and 5% percent controlling and dominating with the congress equation formula unrevived our 95% American citizens in this island, that really will vote for STATEHOOD; CAN SOMEBODY EXPLAIN THAT NARROW thinking? . If Puerto Rico wants equal rights to all other states, IS ALREADY OVERDUE. Let them become the 51st state AT THIS MOMENT WHAT’’S THE PROB.LEM? ! Statehood is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. This Congress will decide if the American people of Borinquen have the right to vote for the president and vice-president of USA in their future. And whatever relationship we will have in the future with the United States has to be based on the real statehood for the American people of Borinquen, which means that the ultimate source of power is the American people. So we that people pro-statehood don't see why you want to give some different computation [95%. Versus 5%] to my expression when the majority is for statehood, this Congress has to decide that we have the power to decide with taking an arithmetic language text. And to have the power to decide means to have——to be a real America state in terms of the decision we’’re already made long time ago. It is two ways. Common defense is also in the interests of the United States, and we agree with that. Puerto Rico is one of the best markets for U.S. produce, and that is good for the American economy. So it is a relationship healthier for both sides? Of Course! . And what we the people want to do now is to get new tools for economic development for the next 51st States of the union within this special arrangement that has been working since 1952, but that now if we are going to address this issue seriously we should clarify any doubts about a treatment equal relationship with the rest of the 50 states and give the opportunity for it to develop into further, more self-american government, full self-american government. Is it a basic position that——let all Puerto Rico decides, that this Task Force goes forward smoothly, that as proponents of a commonwealth status, whatever the will of the people of American people of Puerto Rico will decide, in fairness, if we the person wants statehood yesterday, last century the US Representatives proponents will accept statehood? Is that basically everybody position? So I really——I believe in principles. I believe in democracy, We, the, People are more than convince, that a sound majority of U.S. Puerto Ricans Americans in Borinquen would vote for Washington, D.C. Statehood real American sponsors’’ definition once the decolonization route(virus) option is terminated or deleted from the Task Force Agenda. Our status option leads NOT to self individual determination, but leads to American Statehood determination as well as yours are back in the rest 50 states, and is also honorable, as well as yours is now. Recently, It is just obvious to me that our Borinquen’’s politics is a "related subject" to "trends in emerging statehood-technology" as policy decisions determine funding and to an extent the lives of people who are shaping technology. It is not a question of whether the future 51st Star will know and do what's "right" or "wrong.”” The point is that "right" and "wrong" keeps changing because unlike the moral code that refers to something outside itself as its ultimate justification, technology (the new speech on the throne) doesn't have one and denies, there is one. It is self-referring. Of course, technology is justified by the increase in power it delivers, but this increase in power is technology itself. The generally bad nature of the experimental designs mitigates the reliability of any "good" data. This is why it is important that the data be verified across multiple American interest of the rest 50 states’’ groups with different biases. Yes it is. The only way the New 51st States of the Union is likely to have morals is if some are programmed into it by all we the American people concern. On the other hand, I don't know what a ‘‘Status Quo’’ would do with them. The future 51st States would be protecting individual rights by putting restriction on how technology can be used, putting restrictions on something, or placing limits on action, requires an authority. I don't see anything wrong with this. I recognize that everyone has their own morals. I believe that people should do as they please, so long as they don’’t harm the future generation of others (that’’s easily said, but it’’s a good starting point). But you have to draw a line somewhere, anything and everything are not permissible. No Plan survives the first contact intactly. There is no clear line to be drawn. Evolution of the next 51st State itself is technology and this springs directly from the structure of our US American Flag. That’’s real American moral issues for the new Puerto Rico future 51st State, USA(ESTADO 51). To become the 51st State of the Union is a game we play against ourselves. I like to compare the method to a gambit of chess where you move up a pawn in order to prepare the way for your castle or other capital piece to strike. Strategic invention is a powerful tool. Complexity and simplicity go hand in hand. The skeleton statehood’’’’ helps us fill in the flesh on the statehood skeleton. The task force is not to build a mighty oak tree, but a humble seed." "A seed for statehood is a statehood capable of self-understanding, self-modification, and recursive self-enhancement. Already in the last few decades, economic powers have reached the point of imperiling the stability of the state through new forms of the circulation of capital that go by the generic name of multinational corporations. These new forms of circulation imply that investment decisions have, at least in part, passed beyond the control of the nation-states. Rather than painting a picture that would inevitably remain incomplete, I will take as my point of departure a single feature, one that immediately defines our object of task forces studies. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, and it loses its "use-value. The skeleton statehood’’’’’’’’ helps us fill in the flesh on the statehood skeleton. The statehood-commonwealth definition we the Taino American people have presented today fully complies with the Constitutional and Bill’’s Rights Treaty principles contained in al historical documents adopted by our American nation last century. Statehood for the people of Puerto Rico as an autonomic American ideas for the future is the only real American commonwealth 51 st. state alternative in Puerto Rico just similar to Kentucky States, which will harmonizes those aspirations and goals of the modern world by protecting our identity and simultaneously guaranteeing our relationship with the United States, with a common market, common citizenship, common defense and common currency. That’’s being the final piece puzzle resolution to the political dilemma map route of American prosperity. Now can they be U.S. citizens without statehood? That is the issue. That is the issue. And all this playing around isn't going to solve the task force puzzle problem, because United States is determined and understand that constitutionally. And therefore, that is the only intelligence solution that we the people can find. “Statehood-happiness, is not a state to be arriving at but, rather, a manner of traveling in the road task force map. The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around, but they only take roots in minds well prepared to receive them. The main fuel to speed the Puerto Rico's 51st Star’s progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination. We have to begin to view the 51 Starts of the US. American Flag as ultimately constituted not of matter and energy, but of pure mathematical information!" –– ––Vicktor {Perhaps Puerto Rico’s salvation lies in the dissolution of all the political parties presently struggling to maintain power. Perhaps only then could Puerto Ricans finally unite and demand from Congress the necessary legislation that would put this centuries-old colonial dilemma on a fast track to an as-of-yet elusive solution}. I agree it is unpredictable, and I understand the insolubility of the 3+ body problems, ^ [NPP/PIP/PPD.]^and the fact that it creates a chaotic democratic system. The facts are simple, the math is simple, and buying into Taino's myopic rant is foolishness . . . So don't let your ignorance of me or the excuses *WHY* Puerto Rico for more than 54 years is *NOT* ““ {to be o not to be}”” a 51 states....You're right, of course, NPP dominate the government and most of everything else for that matter. But, the real battle is for the Heart and Mind. 'Why is that?' you might ask, 'When they could just take whatever they want!' Well, they do just take whatever they want, but whenever we see through their deceit there's a revolution and they've learned how to make us think that they're doing what we want done. So they must have our heart and mind. Which is the only real treasure in the world, but not because of the money. The Heart and Mind of each individual is sovereign. So what does it mean to be "selfish" then? It means to be SELF - ISH, meaning suppressive of others. It means not allowing OTHERS to have, do and be any way they want in this infinite universe. Thus governments are selfish. People who regulate are selfish. People who impose limits on others are selfish. People who make law are selfish. People that prevent others from expanding are selfish. People that don't share knowledge are selfish. People that don't share possessions are selfish. People that don't share recourses are selfish. In short: people that prevent others, in any way, overtly or covertly, directly or indirectly, from acquiring resources from the infinite universe are selfish. Thus the only remedy is for the unselfish people to get rid of the selfish people, the Selfish Bucks that want to suppress everything and everyone. The only problem is it's politically incorrect to chop off the heads of the selfish people like they did in France one year. Science needs no maturation in its design in establishing what is, i don't mean to suggest one suffice the other. The emergance of an artistic science as i come to it, is simply, the ability to qualify the seen and unseen. The capacity to prove by methodology who made who if you will. The preponderance of unqualified lawyers and other ignoramuses (perfectly exemplified by our three political corrupt parties) that infest the government must be voted out of power at every next election. Scientists and Technologists MUST therefore assume their rightful places in Puerto Rico Goberment, the Executive and all levels of federal, state and local government. This can be done by following one simple rule: NEVER VOTE FOR AN ENCUMBANT (i.e., someone who is already IN office). This policy will eventually PURGE the government thus making it unnecessary to purge it by assassination and summary executions, actions that are NOT politically correct in this day and age or necessary in an Empire such as ours where we still have the vote. There is another benefit to simply NEVER VOTING FOR AN INCUMBENT. New people can run without worrying about having large campaign budgets. If new people know that the public is going to simply vote for anyone that's new, they don't need to compete with vast advertising campaigns to defeat incumbents. Thus while the incumbents are spending millions trying to justify why they should be allowed to be in office, the newbees will have to simply BE there and run. It's simple, elegant and few moving parts and will result in a fresh new real statehooders of ideas rather than crony NPP/PPD government and entrenched gridlock. Good point. I already considered that and here's what you can do: don't vote for any or the primaries. A second thing that can be done is to change the rules back to allow more than the dominant parties to be in on the Task Forces debates. Find a way to put up a slate of pure nad qualified candidates, and keep their credibility up despite media attacks (including simply not giving them air time), and you still have to get past the religious types and those that are convinced by fear that they are unfairly paying the price with their livelihood while others prosper. Still, even though we are probably doomed to fail, we must try to take our Puerto Rico back. Agreed. But taking it back consists of the following: A. Cutting off their money; In otherwords, you have to apply the same tactics they are applying to terrorists on them. Please, re-read that last sentence and note, I am NOT saying you have to apply terrorist tactics on them (terrorist tactics are not okay), you have to apply the SAME tactics on them that THEY are applying on terrorists, i.e., A - D above. The question is whether this is a real threat or not. That is partially what your label "fear monger" hinges on. I feel the world is in crisis and is in need of some radical rethinking. Are we grown up enough to handle this? Surely science is neutral by nature, but the involved scientIST is still (a) (perhaps even more) responsible member of the global race/specie/Terra (home) itself. If those developiung the tools of tomorrow and the mechanisms of death are not involved in the process more directly, then I think we have a real problem. Who is deciding what to use and how - what to develop for peace and prosperity or for destruction and power. If we are not one kind, then we are perhaps none at all. Your surely correct about the way human nature tends to want power and manipulate for its own end. I'm just an idealist. I hope we can find a system of harmony that still allows humanity to soar. Thank you for tbe discussion. Nanotechnology, AI, biotech, cryogenics, advanced propulsion, renewable and "new" energies . . . Have you ever heard the old saying that the best CEOs have come from the BOTTOM up? Well that's true. And it's the same principle here. People who have worked in and around the sciences all their lives, at the BOTTOM of the technological infrastructure, UNDERSTAND the woof and warp of the technological world we now live in better than lawyers who are busy spending the same time WRITING AND READING endless “STATUS QUO” Books about who screwed who and how they did or didn't get away with it. Our current crops of politicians are all glib. Hence we get glib solutions to all our problems. People like physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists (people in the theoretical and applied sciences) should govern, because it is easier and more accurate for a physicist, mathematician or computer scientist to become a political representative in his or her later life, than it is for a politician or lawyer (who knows nothing about science) to attempt to "represent" the greater population upon an osmosis-based understanding of the issues they attempt to represent. I don't think lawyers are the most representative of the people. Put bluntly: It is MUCH more difficult to understand and control science than it is to represent citizens and debate issues, because in order to debate issues -- you have to understand the science behind the issues. These understandings based upon AGE combined with their understanding based upon SCIENCE make them MUCH more perfect rulers than lawyers or career politicians . . . as they KNOW about THAT which they debate -- thus the purpose of their "debating" issues doesn't come down to "whose the best debater" or ego, it comes down to 'what science is available?' and 'what's the best way we can apply it?' Which people, companies and nations are on the cutting edge of these areas of research? Who will take the lead in these fields? It is time to end Congress & Senators or the Democrats party bad treatment discrimination against four million American citizens in the territory of United States call Puerto Rico. And as far as negotiating. Where in the Constitution does it say that our government is supposed to run by "negotiating." I thought it was supposed to be run by people who represent the constituents casting votes for what laws they want to pass or not. Period. A "negotiating" government is what we have today, largely because of the pervasive ““lawyer-mentality”” in there now. We have "vote trading," and all sorts of deals with "special interest groups" as by-products. We have endless laws being passed that benefit the elite. The primary reason it appears that it's so difficult to "a) effectively negotiate, b) zealously advocate, and c) balance competing interests to arrive at workable, if imperfect solutions" (as G. puts it) is because you have people in there that are basically clueless ABOUT the science in their subject matter. The lawyers have turned the Puerto Rican for of Government into a total economical cultural joke. It's not representative government at all. It’’s not government of the People, by the People, it’’s government that "negotiates," ““deals, “” ““porks, “” ““propagandizes”” and proliferates endlessly . . . its only product being more paper, more bureaucracy and endless additional laws to serve more of the same. Wake up -–– the end of the road is high-tech totalitarianism. You can't 'negotiate, advocate or balance" until and unless you know what you are 'negotiating, advocating or balancing.' And unfortunately Borinquen politicians, who are drawn mostly from the legal profession, are being drafted into public service from the WRONG profession. Since the maxim: you get what you put your attention is true . . . We the People in Puerto Rico have GOT exactly what we (via our representatives) have been putting their attention on: ENDLESS LAWS WHICH CREATE ENDLESS Borinquen GOVERNMENT. What percentage of the population are lawyers? What percentage of the population are in the theoretical or applied sciences? Someone please corrects me if I'm wrong, but I bet there are many more people in the later. Especially when you consider all the people in the engineering sciences, medicine, and computer fields; Since Borinquen Corrupt Political Parties is now 90 or 97 percent lawyers: the only product that has a high probability of emerging from such a compliment is MORE law. We the Taino people of Borinquen won't be able to handle our long term vision, unless we stop wearing the glasses of PPD./NPP/PIP Bureaucrats and terrocrats colonialism. Decolonization, is really bad deficiency VIRUS for Statehood 51, ‘‘MEANS” We the Taino is supposed to "undo" the Borinquen union based upon this? What they don’’’’t’’s realize is that this issue of Puerto Rican self-statehood final determination requires Congressional leadership before the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico can be empowered to choose between real parameter options. The problem that I think Task Force has with the origin logic is that they are mixing several different types of *DUCK* logic within the same logical task force problem. Is it *so* *hard* *to* *see* that *language* is the primary problem with its dual nature and multi literal interpretative meanings so fluently misused by the meager minds of politicians and people in power to keep their position as the prominent directors of so much public attention??? When a man owns a slave and that slave does all the work the man forgets how to do it. At that point in time, the slave becomes the master and the master becomes the slave. Right now, the people of Borinquen are becoming the slaves of three political local maniac parties. We elect people who use "words" to get elected and somehow think they won't use "words" to keep the positions of power and faked supremacy in place and keep the status quo... It is really because too few people understand the language which everyone uses with so much mediocrity....? The lawyer is not the average American. Thus, the Lawyer should not be the average Puerto Rican Political Leader. Little by little, or perhaps at exponential speed, the bad local politicians are taking over the reins of transportation, the reins of government, the growing of food, and the design and manufacture of other International Bankers. That (sentience) might require more that programming and arbitrarily conduct formal calculation. It might actually (I suspect) be a function of how those processes are manifest in a physical substrate. By the way, do you need a calculator or computer to do arithmetic or calculus? Do commercial pilots still fly their airplanes or do they just turn on the automatic pilot? it doesn’t matter which ape activates the Monolith What skill will be the next to go? We the American person needs some type of Political leadership that represent the best NATIONAL SECURITY for both nations. The ranks of Puerto Rico local (NPP?PPD.? PIP{ should be comprised of citizens that are representative of the Nation's people: and this includes far more people working in the theoretical and applied sciences than it does lawyers. Lawyers generate mostly paperwork and delays. Scientists generate mostly better and more efficient ways of doing things. Alternatively, you could have today's democratic model in which incentives would be given to people with scientific backgrounds. The idea would be to replace the lawyers with scientists in the Congress. But it would still require the voters to move in this direction and that would require one or more political parties to commit to this strategy. Only ~3 million words and counting... Nah, it couldn't be the limitor of human thought! -- Just the limitor of human *communication* and that is the real conundrum, enigma, perplexity, or quandary of the mass of human-self-confusion predicaments created by so much deluded dilemma's between what *everyone* intuitively knows *is* possible and the complexities of rationalizing to (communicating) so many people which can't even see past their own subjective, self-created, cozen and elaborate complexes of endless self-delusion and messed up stupidity... Given today's realities, I think there is little chance of seeing the elitist model dominate, so the hope would have to be in democratic structural change. We need better and more efficient government not more laws and more government. If government were more efficient, it could be smaller. {UNICAMERALIDAD) . . . "Political interests [can] never are separated in the long run from moral right."The lawyers and politicians will NEVER in our Puerto Rico, USA is able or qualified to represent the interests of their constituents because the interests of same can only be served if and when actual scientific remedies are created and applied against the problems of life in the physical Island. Since the technical problems of existence are now so complex, no lawyer or politician can comprehend science as well as the insane body of law (not even to mention tax law) they have created over the past two years. I was not casting judgement on any particular person. I was merely agreeing with Nascent that the misuse of language is all-pervasive. It exists in virtually every field of human thought. This is because of the slipperyness of human language. Do you suppose that language is infallible? I do believe that there is some measure of truth in these fields, but it must be extracted from the nonsense. Let's turn this into a real example; First caveman says "me want to have good life", second replies, "me want that too"... Here comes the enemy, "they too want good life" (but they sound like apes!! :)... Hmmm, do you get the TASK-FORCE-MAP picture? Fear? The fear comes from the inability to realize how to obtain what it is that we want, but first we must realize what we *want*... (Road to Nowhere [know_where?]) We can go further into this as well. And this ultimately was and is my enthusiasm in making reference of an omni or if one prefers, godly consciousness or more accurately, an infinite perceptiveness in its harboring perpetual growth. Which I feel is directly proportional in context of applied science generally. Humanity's greed and impatient behavior led us to our present state... call ‘STATUS-QUO’ and until people wake up, its going to stay the same old, same ol'... (Burning Down The House). Is there anyone... Out There? Can You hear me??? Our mission here is simple: we want Statehood’’ in Puerto Rico, and we believe a vital step to achieving this goal is to get people talking about it. Let us remember that America became the greatest nation in the history of the world by empowering people with the tools for informed statehood-self-determination. "If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your status quo life."We the people of PUERTO Rico must know the agenda of the united state’’s congressional representative and their view’’s terminology all the rules of as relative values of the overall objective political destiny for our people. Complex systems depend on the irreducible triadic relation between self (observer), the other (the observed), and the signal (sign) exchanged. The idea of 'absolute freedom' is absolutely meaningless. 'Freedom' can only exist within a causal system to enable and determine the freedoms and restrictions. “We the people of Puerto Rico see this aim as the desire to achieve statehood with those scientific and religious values that, a par and artistic U.S. flag masterpiece. "A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society." America is the country where we are the architects of our own destiny. Tastes are not debate: "Tastes differ.” " Unwanted excuse implies/means manifest accusation" I believe most amateurs are far too conventional in their approach. To make an informed decision on our ultimate civic destiny, the individuality of expression is the key to rapid improvement. All that would change is that Puerto Ricans would stop arguing endlessly about status, because status would be settled. The basic ingredient of Puerto Rico's political dilemma, is that in a complex, original situation, where no source of help is apparent. Irresponsibility and the tendency to shift responsibilities come from a natural rebellion against unnatural responsibility. ““Unshared joy is an unlighted candle." Certainly, concerning, action. We the Taino people of Puerto Rico must eliminate those routine and mechanical approaches to the solution for complex political intolerance in our society. In the end, true statehood connoisseurs realize that the secret of success does not depend only on intensive preparation. If you reprove one error, you will correct a hundred.""May the Great Spirit's blessings always be with you." To delete an existing political dilemma, the problem is simultaneously to establish the psychological cause of those past historian mistakes.““"Americanism is a question of principles, of idealism, of character: it is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of descent."“While the powerful may enjoy the luxury of being able to twist the meaning of words according to their whims, the developing nations of the South need to remain wary and not fall into the trap of mouthing the platitudes of the powerful. The poor and the weak Puerto Rican American citizen in our Borinquen may be unable to confront the realities of power head on, but they have at least the final weapon of the weak: To recognize and condemn the abuse of power when they see it before they’re very eyes. Washington may soothe its own troubled conscience by claiming that its mad rush for hegemony and global dominance is justified in the name of democracy and freedom, but tell that to the thousands of children who have died in Puerto Rico due to high crimes and happen to the majority or death children are color people this is collateral damage in the US war against terror and high crimes. “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all(s) of us to live in." "P.S. Philosophy La estadidad is the childhood of the intellect, (puertorriqueńo) and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up." I hope I have answered this as you have asked. Thanks for your concern. A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world. § We the people of Borinquen, USA needs better and more efficient qualified Puerto Rico government structures not more laws and more anemia government “chaos” that made money with errors and mistakes of the well being of our people If Puerto Rico’ government were more efficient, it could be {Unicamerlidad}smaller. Thus the purpose of their "debating" issues doesn't come down to "whose the best debater" or ego, it comes down to 'what science is available?' and 'what's the best way we can apply it?' This very Borinquen Political system has become clogged with 2nd Lottery craps the way a fat man's arteries are clogged with the garbage he feeds himself with. This analogy is sound in that Puerto Rico has become so filled with law and legislation, which it has lost a lot of the ability to make decisive action! The lawyers have turned the Capitolio of San Juan into a total joke. It's not representative government at all. It’’s not government of the People, by the People, it’’s government that "negotiates," ““deals, “” ““pork, “” ““propagandizes”” and proliferates endlessly . . . its only product being more paper, more bureaucracy and endless additional laws to serve more of the same. Wakes up -–– the end of the road is high-tech totalitarianism of a real definition for statehood withing the task Force. Doesn't that sound like the sort of thing which a computer could do much better than any NPP/PPd man Making timely decisions on data and managing resources efficiently? In the Next 51st State, he ranks of Congress should comprise citizens that are representative of the Nation's people: and this includes far more people working in the theoretical and applied sciences than it does lawyers. Lawyers generate mostly paperwork and Status Quo delays. Intelligent decisive action. This has been proven time and again, that’s why we only vote for UNICAMERALIDAD. This spells danger in that technology may not save us from our own shortsightedness and overbearing form of government. Dangerous indeed. All you hear about is the Politicians, evil of Borinquen the greedy selfish businessmen, the 'fat, a pudgy bourgeoisies with a fat wallet' stereotype, and those same intellectuals that were supposed to defend us, to give us moral grounds and justify our existence as the free thinkers, innovators of the Borinquen, are doing the opposite. It is overbearing in that it legislates in order to build wealth for the few only at the cost of everyone else - it no longer serves the public interest - except for protecting us from faking ear quakes; while we starve, become dumber and generally less involved in the system. The carless attitude of 'who the hell cares what they do, philosophy doesn’t matter much,' cannot and will not work. Not to mention the government's rape of currency through the International central bank and the effects this has on society. The inflation that results is a form of hidden taxation ej. THE LOTTO) on the People. Nothing destroys the lives of the poor more than endless NPP/PPD. government handouts. Can you fire the Puerto Ricans’ government & NPP/PDD parties if you don't like the way they are doing a job? No. The only way you can remedy the situation is votes the bastardy out. But this takes years and usually the new regime is no better. Govt. just grows and grows. It thus becomes more and more inefficient. The Soviet Union was the same way. We will BE the new Soviet Union if things don't change. While we're here, designing the wave of the 51st States of the Union future, they are behind us, destroying our present thru their decolonization malign viruses. Environmentalists are stopping and destroying our dams, so that fishiest could swim easier; businesses are destroyed based on irrational laws against monopolies, which are actually made possible by the Island in the first place; government steps into the office and the laboratory, to supervise and prevent advances in technology based on lobbying (legalized bribery of the Borinquen’s Commonwealth system); life saving anti-cancer chemicals found in trees are prohibited from being used, because we'd rather leave trees’ stand than let Puerto Ricans live (no joke, we could be curing breast/prostate cancer right this minute without problems); third world countries in rags and scars are shown as examples, while yet-free Borinquen.USA is scorned; European countries, which once possessed some qualities of freedom are turning more and more to Socialism and state control. Who gives them the right to do such things?! Intellectuals. A duty is something you do because you are obligated to. An obligation is something you do because you have to. The point is to have the Borinquen government be the arbitrator of rights - NOT an owner of the rights - else, and the Capitolio government will be tempted to take maximum short term profit from a resource, rather than protecting individual rights to the resources. They provide them with moral rights to do abhorrent things, similarly to how the Church always sided with the most powerful dictator and justified his murder. "Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship." We the people of Puerto Rico can think of "intelligent “participation with the Congress in a variety of useful ways if you guy open that door or democracy for a well balance constitutional’s representation. We live under a government "of the people, by the people, for the people.” By it's very structure, our government is obligated to serve the people. But are the people obligated to serve the government? Is it our duty? In one sense it refers to intelligently designed technological and political participation of equality of people choices that well serves good human purposes. In a second sense it refers to participation technology with inherent intelligence or adaptability or possessed of an instinctual ability. In a third sense, it means using technology to enhance our intelligence –– our abilities to learn, to discover, process, absorb, and interconnect knowledge. Before we promote democracy throughout the world, we need to establish them here first in Borinquen, USA. American participation in the US Congress for the people of Borinquen and voting for the right to vote for our President of United Stares of America is a natural democratic extension and expression of human intellect and will, of creativity, curiosity, and imagination. We the people have a responsibility to foster these disciplined forms of intelligence, and to direct them toward eradicating the barriers to the unfolding of STATEHOOD, radically transforming both the internal and external conditions of existence the idea that you elect one person who then makes decisions ON YOUR BEHALF I think is rapidly becoming outdated. I can see why this system was necessary in the past, because it just wasn't in any way practical to have large numbers of people voting on every little thing. We the people, we the Taino people, we the people pro-statehood, we the American people we the Puerto Rican people all “WE -THE PEOPLE” should have confidence in our ability to advance our knowledge, yet remain wary of the human propensity to settle for and defend any comfortable explanation. If we're going to teach freedom and democracy, then let's pursue freedom and democracy, and peace, and one-ness, 51st State instead of using them solely as rhetoric to justify Status Quo offense/defense, endless dialogue and conquest, and brutality, and hatred. And evil . . . Instead of listing justifications for why our Borinquen bi-camerilidad system isn't working, let's talk about how to get it to work, because it isn't. We're in trouble here, and I think, despite your arguments to the contrary, that deep down you know it. Now you can argue that they are slaves and don’’t know it; but I think that is a deep stretch of the meaning of "slave.” A slave is somebody that cannot exercise their own free will, which is forced to labor. These people’s aren’’t’s forced to labor any more than my shiftless nephew whom hasn’’t worked a solid month in five years. They could get by on far less work, just like him. They choose to work in order to get what they want. They are not slaves. They are not jobs. Racism is not an indicator of high intelligence. Suppression is not the answer, wider. Dissemination is the answer. We There are certainly differences in the intellectual capabilities of individuals, but I'm not of the opinion that the majority of people are stupid. The idea that political leaders rise to positions of office by virtue of their superior intellect or decision making powers are entirely ficticious. I can think of leaders in modern times who have made particularly foolish decisions, and this is part of a general pattern repeated throughout Borinquen history. You got politicians here making more than 180,000.00 dollars a year, we have more than 70 mayor Alcades some or they are making 160,000.00 more a year. Worst that they increased their own check with their law, all senators are making the same amount and keep arising in the Capitolio. WHERE IS THE BEEF? WHERE IS THAT BARRIRRITO? And our poor people, sufferings their consequences. QUE LINDO! If the people don't have the relative information to make informed decisions, democracy and this power the people have, is rendered useless. The achievement of THE TASK FORCE MISSION requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? Therefore: A significant percentage of the Capitolio and Senate & Representatives of Puerto Rico should be representatives of the People that have a background in science and/or technology. Do we still need lawyers and farmers in there? Yes. But right now the San Juan Capitolio is over stocked with incompetent lawyers -- not incompetent at law or politics, incompetent at making decisions that depend on a basic knowledge of the tools, discoveries and inventions of science and technology. The "way," I believe, is to have politicians serve by conscription. (The draft.) Each position, including the 'political' one has a specific job description. The draftee must adhere to it without deviation. Suggestions are accepted for improving the system (revising the job descriptions, goals, etc.). But the road to hell is paved with "good" works, so what is "good" for the People? What's good for them, are some combinations of what they WANT and what they NEED to survive and be prosperous? What they NEED and WANT is basically spelled out in an agreement known as the Constitution. As Puerto Rico, USA, we have all subscribed to the ideas that are written out in the Constitution. This is basically what we WANT and NEED. The Constitution thus stipulates that which we declare constitutes our beingness. Thus, like a beacon in the night, the Borinquen Constitution a copy of the American constitution is supposed to GUIDE our elected officials in their DECISION MAKING PROCESS on behalf of us and our best. Just as we the Taino people of Borinquen have seen a truly Communist nation like Cuba, we the people pro-statehood has never seen a modern Borinquen nation run democratically the American way with a real estadidad federal. The economic anarchy of these three political parties with the [RAMAS DE REPRESENTANTE Y LEGISLATURES] SUCH society as it exists today in our Borinquen, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor——not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules OR POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. But, all goal seeking decisions must be based on DATA and SITUATION ANALYSIS, and the results of this must then result in the execution of programs that result in the proper management of the resources of Borinquen society. But in a technological society, such decision makers MUST be technically savvy otherwise they will be tardy in their decisions, inaccurate in their decisions, uncertain of their decisions and they will treat and TRADE their decisions lightly because they will not understand that which BACKS their decisions, unless they have been training in science and/or technology. It is not enough for decision makers to "be advised." This is watered-down government, to advise the incompetents. If the representatives know nothing about science and technology (having wasted their study time reading over useless laws made by prior incompetents), then they are NOT in a position to make timely DECISIONS on the DATA presented to them about the SITUATION and thus they are not able to ACT as good MANAGERS of the RESOURCES of PUERTO RICAN SOCIETY. But I can foresee a time when much of what we presently call "Puerto Rico’s government" is an automated process of data collection and resource management. People will be able to vote quickly and conveniently, and not necessarily all at the same time, in order to make real time alterations to the parameters of the automated resource managing systems. In a way these systems represent the collective will of the people at any point in time. "What the people want is very simple. " It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately." They want an America as good as its promise." We are on the edge of a precipice. We may have already been pushed into the abyss. It really depends on who is in control. The moral is that statehood one judge not by contaminated political ideology forms, or colors, but by functions and American values. Yes I'd like to see that kind of very quick and easy voting system, where the kinds of decisions being made could perhaps even be generated by forecasting computer simulations.
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We need to reeducate people as to what kinds of people they NEED in office, NOT what kinds of people they WANT in office. In life you don't always get what you WHAT, but you usually get what you NEED. It is time PEOPLE remind SOCIETY that this applies to THEM collectively as well -- given Borinquen’s Society does not have a death wish. Most Puerto Ricans’ voters want a representative who will bring jobs and money to their community. They seldom take kindly to people who tell them they will have to tighten their belts and stop using so much of the world's resources. I don't care how much Puerto Ricans’’ people may consider themselves a failure, I believe in them, for they can change the thing that is wrong in their lives anytime they are prepared and ready to do it! I happen to believe that protecting the environment is about as important a public policy goal as one can find these days. There are many vastly different camps and interpretations out there, for sure, but that does not mean that a rational discussion cannot illuminate these differences. There is no reason why these things, which bear a HUGE impact on the future of science and technology and the future of our Puerto Rican children in this beautiful Caribbean island future in general, cannot be discussed openly and rationally. There are people in this very forum who disagree with me vehemently. Such is life.",,, Also, I would argue that, what is more important, politicians now go where the money is, and so long as they can get away with it, they will continue to do so. As things become ever more extreme, it becomes ever-more clear whose interests they truly protect. "I happen to believe that protecting the environment is about as important a public policy goal as one can find these days. There are people in this very forum who disagree with me vehemently. Such is life.",,, There are many vastly different camps and interpretations out there, for sure, but that does not mean that a rational discussion cannot illuminate these differences. That is why we must do what we can to break the cycle of disinformation. If we can get behind the spin and see what is happening (regardless of what it is) then we can more correctly participate in this so-called democracy before it can no longer be called such. Some of us think this is almost too late. When you have monopolies or cartels acting in an economy, you will have artificial demands created. For instance, the Banco Gubernamental is a cartel that creates an artificial demand for loans. I move along the spectrum toward outrage when I see public decisions made that clearly violate the rules they should abide by, such as not representing their constituents, passing laws that are clearly unconstitutional, or using their office for personal gain. Thus this glut of ““cheap money”” created an artificial demand in borrowers, including corporate borrowers who, up to then, were self-financing future operations and expansion for their companies. Thus, we have here an example of how artificial demand defeated private capital formation. If you think you are right about there being demand for cheaper phone service in Borinquen, start a company and provide it. Just the same way Pedro Rosello sold the telephone company. So my point is, after one can actually HEAR someone on the other end of the line, they want LOWER RATES FIRST and all the other HORSE SHIFT SECOND. Again, this is completely his opinion, which you desire to force on everyone else. There are millions of others out there that would like cheaper phone service. Do you doubt this? Why do you think people are always changing their long distance service? When those guys come on TV to try and entice you to change your long distance company, isn’t their pitch almost ALWAYS lower call rates? Can you name me one commercial where they come on and say “switch to us, we offer call-forwarding, and call-waiting and identa-ring.” My only question for you is--who determines the "artificiality" of a demand? It sounds as if your definition of artificiality is that it does not fit some preconceived theory. Full service gas stations disappeared because somebody tried a self-service experiment. When I was growing up, ALL stations were full service, and I would not have thought this experiment would work. I did not think any women, and most men, would want to get their hands dirty with this work. But it did work, ultimately we decided we would rather pump it ourselves and save the three cents per gallon. If the powerful controlled the media, they could invent stories to distract us that didn't involve major public figures at all. A little serial killing here, a pedophile there, a fire or factory explosion over yonder, a bit of police corruption, a staged drug bust (using talcum powder, of course) or whatever. No, this is yet another example of MINIMALISM, not BARRIRITO which I disgust at length in other task force blogs. Minimalism is a philosophy of getting a job done with the fewest resources possible. It is a driving philosophy of science, embodied in the principle of Occam's Razor. It SHOULD be a driving principle of good business, but businesses are run by people who are often social, emotional and avoid confrontation, so they tend to cut people some slack and permit more waste so they don't have to be slave drivers. [As Jefferson predicted, our Borinquen government has been taken over by the rich, and our laws written to accommodate their interests]. And then one, seeing another grows rich, seeks to rival him, and thus the great mass of the citizens become lovers of money. Likely enough. And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance, the one always rising as the other American citizen here in our Borinquen falls. [This is apparent in our Borinquen corporate controlled media, which emphasize the value of riches above and beyond all other values]. [When was the last time you heard of candidates for the San Juan CAPITOLIO office who was not rich, or who did not have the strong backing of the international bankers or rich?] There is another evil which is, perhaps, the greatest of all, and to which this State first begins to be liable. The inevitable status quo division: such a State is not one, but two States, the one of poor, the other of rich men; and they are living on the same spot and always conspiring against one another. The evil is certainly not prevented there; for oligarchies have both the extremes of great wealth and utter poverty. There's nothing "secret" about any of this unless you're using that status quo-word to mean that "the Puerto Rican U.S. The citizens are not being properly informed.” Who are "they?” If you really think there is some all-powerful grand conspiracy orchestrating the media and our Borinquen government, I think you are running far away from the evidence. If there were such a conspiracy, you and I would be in a camp somewhere. Simply because our present Puerto Rico’s governments with NPP/PPD. Have been corrupted do not mean we the Taino people of Borinquen should abandon them altogether. Both PPD and NPP accuse each other of controlling the media. It's a tired old game that the TASK FORCE is finally putting an end to this vacuum. International agreements and laws are being violated and ignored, and the measures that should be enacted in an attempt to, in some small part, address the massive damage we've caused to our home, are being softened or rejected altogether, because the people who are supposed to lead us have been coopted by business interests, and people know that. That is what the International Bankers’ corporations that helped to corrupt them want you to do. I agree that public demonstrations of opinion do have an effect. However, what I've seen in the past decade speaks to the direct opposite. I agree that if people do get organized and focus on an issue, they can make serious headway and effect change. However, I do not see that as a consistent phenomenon. It's hard to affect change against institutions (made up of world leaders) with no accountability, no transparency, and a total lack of a democratic process. Also, I would argue that, what is more important, politicians now go where the money is, and so long as they can get away with it, they will continue to do so. As things become ever-more extreme, it becomes ever-more clear whose interests they truly protect. Puerto Rico’s politics is the clash of all these interests, material and ideological. Our system of government is designed to make it difficult for anyone opinion to prevail, making coalition build necessary. Madison, in Federalist No. 10, talks about this at great length. But if you and your friends could own acres of the Atlantic ocean, and Mar Caribe with its BERMUDA triangle and fish were "tracked throughout their lifetime,” and determined to have spent 1% of their life in your waters, why not demand $1,000,000,000 per fish? No one could pay it, so (unless they want to be punished as "lawbreakers") they could not harvest those fish. You would be able to make ocean-over fishing far more difficult. "What is the determining factor behind who gets to claim ownership of all that is Borinquen naturally-occurring?" have trouble defining this situation, if it arises out of free exchange, as "right" or "wrong" because these are adjectives that are applied to human ACTION. So I see it for being wrong that someone is not choosing to help them out, but it's hard for me to pin the situation itself as "wrong" since there is no aggressor. I think it's RIGHT for people to give to the poor (of course I would never FORCE anyone to), and I think in a free society there would be plenty of charity to take care of those who truly could not work or care for themselves. Perhaps we have the wrong government. Are there not checks written into our (you’re) country's foundations that are simply not exercised to facilitate this? All it would take is a collective will, after a freeing of information. Figure it out people. The first step, Medical Insurances and Pharmacies Drugs, environmental manufacturing contamination is to stop the monopolies on the mainstream of media. This is clouding the minds of the masses with disinformation and actually polarizing the politics and the STATUS QUO’. There's so much choice on TV, and it’s ridiculous. Someone can always change the channel or turn off the TV together - which is, of course, the best choice a Puerto Rican can make. I am certainly not denying diversity in the media as a whole, but just pointing out that this diversity is meager when it comes to the Spanish messages and agendas of the mainstream corporate NEWS programs. The diversity in programming that distracts us from the real and important American news (that never gets aired anyway), is helping the cause of disinformation! And now that the mainstream news channels have devolved into ““infotainment, Force, at that point, could be avoided. The point is to take back the media from the International Bankers and BUREAUCRATS politician’s agenda and give it back to the Puerto Rican people. A democracy NEEDS to be able to trust its MASS-media, not just the media on the fringes of the technological savvy. A healthy debate on the fundamental is always a good launching point. I don't want anyone to think because you are religious or a politician that you are automatically a crazy. There are some incredible lessons to be learned from all forms of culture and faiths. Beliefs that are passed down from the generations must work on some level. (At least, for the most part.) I want a Puerto Rican media that doesn't mask and manipulate the truth, and I want the people who DON'T have their heads up their proverbial assays to get a chance to say something with the same dissemination as those who do, before the ignorant gangsters in charge ends up killing us all. That’s why I again repeat that we need more USA Media involving here in Borinquen, In addition we the Taino people need more local news to be in English languages or other languages at least so that way we can know more about the real. Really political reality. A well-informed person can make more wisely and educated decision. STATEHOOD always will be the most wise option for Borinquen, but more important for USA national security. For as bad as I think our Borinquen, nuestra bendita Tierra is at times, I still see immeasurable beauty, goodness, and, for lack of a better word, magic, in the world we inhabit. I think that, rather than continuing down the destructive path we're on, for the sake of a tiny minority, we could make a change, and though I realize it would take time, we could truly "evolve" and reach for something more. 51st * States "If we had a world of such people, government would be superfluous." So be it, but I do think we need a government, because this machine does need organizing. I just think that we need government that is not made up of the same wealthy criminals. We make those decisions because we can't think of anything better to do at the time and in the heat of our emotions. But a connection to others would do a number of things: it would give us a solution outside of our emotions; it would supply us with input from others at the time when we needed it; and it would enable us to see what really happened rather than what we, in our current isolation, imagine must have happened. The reclamation of democracy in Borinquen will require a complete overhaul of the existing media-paradigm. Its time we started removing the deadwood. Democracy does not function without a "marketplace of ideas.” Unpopular ideas must be defended more rigorously than those that are held by the majority. Media that does not provide an open forum for the disseminating of unpopular ideas betrays its mandate under the Constitution to maintain an "informed public.” By abandoning that mandate, the media has become little more than a propaganda-service for special interests. The native America Indian tribes (Taino) lived quite peaceably in teepees, very low resource impact. How far do you want to go in the drive to reach "waste-not"? A large number of the problems we the Taino people of Borinquen face in a crowded Borinquen are based on excessive consumption and waste. If Puerto Rico becomes even more crowded, the pollution and global warming and dirty waters that are starting to plague us now will make life even worse. That is harmful to the environment we live in and, ultimately, the rest of society. We will have to take conservation to the point where the number of people on Puerto Rico can survive in the kind of world we are creating with our excesses. The question becomes, should some of us live in excessive circumstances just so we can feel good while destroying our Borinquen we live in? At this point in our development, it's still a world of limited resources. The mesh may help us overcome that. But if the four million living on Puerto Rico, USA now is causing this much damage, what will life be like when we have ten million, or fifteen million? There won't be room on the roads for that many cars or in the suburbs for that many houses. Life itself will demand drastic changes in everyone's lifestyle. If we don't make them voluntarily, the environment will make them for us by depriving us of the air, water and nutrients we need to survive. People can't seem to see that now. When us the people can see, the whole Borinquen, U.S.A. on the mesh, a lot of minds might be turned in the right direction. The problem is bigger than what we desire for ourselves personally at this moment. Despite my rant above, I do understand that. That does not mean I have to accept everything the other side says, just that we should keep each other in check. "Each political actor's opinions and positions are also wrapped up in his or her material circumstances." That, in our present situation, is called a conflict of interest, and we ignore it with way too much ease. Politics must be reformed, to erase the corrupting influence of money. I realize it will always be there, but we shouldn't make it so easy. Borinquen Leaders use polite rhetoric to hide this, but I would argue that a system that can only be maintained by using the words of its opponents is a fraud. Actions speak louder than words. This betrays the fact that the NPP/PPD government DOES know what the public interest is, and they just don't care. It also, I would argue, displays truly what the majority desires, and what they believe in. How do you think that balance can be established, so that the common interest can be protected? How do we achieve that balance of which you speak? Do we really need to revisit the question of right and wrong, status quo or do we need to deal with those that are wrong? That’’s right. This is all part of the Puerto Rican government-banking cartel which finances these crimes on our land in the name of social justice and human rights. This is why the NPP/PPd party must be replaced, the sooner the better. A politician should be able to get elected because his or her plan of universal survival is cogent, viable and kind. Maybe that’’s the price of freedom but I’’m not talking about freedom, I’’m talking about LIBERTY. The Framers did not intend to provide Puerto Rico, U.S. citizens with FREEDOM; they intended to provide them with LIBERTY. FREEDOM is for those that are fat AND lazy Politician in CAPITOLIO OF SAN JUAN Puerto Rico whereas LIBERTY is for those who take responsibility AND understand causality. Obviously your are into FREEDOM, not LIBERTY and accordingly take little, or no, responsibility for anything(1), so enjoy your ignorant bliss while the rest of us do some work. The framers did a remarkable job considering the political pressures they were under--and the fact that the men at the convention actually agreed on so little when they arrived in Philadelphia. But they completely missed the boat on a few things. They did not foresee the development of permanent NPP/PPD political parties...which, in retrospect, seems to be an obvious effect of the governmental system they bequeathed us. I don't think they understood the deficiencies of the equal representation for all states in the Senate (although James Wilson argued against it eloquently at the convention), which now gives us the absurd condition whereby a citizen of Nevada's vote is worth 19 times more than a citizen of California's, when it comes to the Senate. And so forth. I also think some of the founders would be amused by our continued reverence for them. Jefferson (who, of course, was not at the Convention, and was a little uneasy about the Constitution when it was first proposed) believed that every generation should have the opportunity to redesign its government to suit its own needs...he was opposed to what he called, in a letter to Madison, "the tyranny of the dead" over the living. I suspect money and power have a lot more to do with luck than with major conspiracies. And however wealth is stored, it can be lost when times and circumstances change. I believe it should be illegal for a International Banks Credit Cards corporation to spend a dime, directly or indirectly, to pass any law of any kind, or to provide legal research or opinion on any law of any kind, period. My only exception is if a firm is contracted by the government to provide research, in which case I think the research must be something that can be done by several firms, and the government must have a non-partisan method of choosing the firm, such as lowest bidder, and should have no hand in directing how the research is done. In other words, if a firm works for the government I want all reasonable assurance we can think of to have confidence this is not a corrupt deal to siphon funds into private hands as either embezzlement by a politician or payback for some favor or as buying fake research to support some political agenda. On a previous subject: Capitalism does work. Competition works. Personal profit motives work. They all combine to light a fire under the ask of workers and owners and make them work much harder than they would if they just wanted to get by for another day. The pressure drives innovation, invention, and personal commitment to getting jobs done. And capitalism is where your technology is coming from. Biotech firms pour billions into medical research every WEEK in the pursuit of profits. Tech firms like Microsoft and Intel are pouring billions into developing cutting edge technology they want to SELL. You want to know where that eventual chip will come from that you can download your personality into? You're going to have to BUY it, from some capitalist company that developed it and is making it for a PROFIT. Did you ever think that the law of supply and demand would cause the dollar that was worth 1,000 times more than it is now also make a candy bar cost 1,000 times more than it does now? The price of things is tied to the amount of money available to pay for them. The only thing that would change Borinquen, U.S.A. people's lives is how money is distributed. Just because I think capitalism is great stuff that solves lots of problems does not mean I think it is the answer to all problems. No higher human value is going to fix that. To my knowledge, only some form of capitalism fixes that, and capitalism is not some invented thing, it is based in trade and has been with us 250,000 years. Socialism is the invented thing, and it just doesn't work because it goes against inbred human nature. There is no mechanism in capitalism that enforces ethical behavior. As you allude, it is a world of sharks. So we don't rely on capitalism for this aspect, we rely on government. The psychological problem of socialism is that, no matter what people SAY their beliefs in the common good are, even if they think they are being honest, they tend to act in their own self-interest. I think rules can be devised for awarding the contracts and judging the work of these firms, along with penalties for them if they fail to do their job or become uncompetitive. I know there is a lot of room for corruption in that scheme, but I think with proper rules it would be manageable, and we could have a welfare system that provides a LOT more welfare than it currently does. We the People want Honorable Commissioned resident Luis Funtuńo to run for Governor of this Commonwealth or to designate a moral leader that can honorably represent with a high degree or compassion, humanitarian gestures those social economic issues that have been neglected. And he can count us The Taino people of Borinquen votes, will regroups, making our presence and participation on the 2008 electoral procedures. “Perhaps Puerto Rico real status quo salvation lies in the dissolution of all the political parties presently struggling to maintain power”.
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