Fifty-One . . . and Counting

Puerto Rico was not invaded by the US, but it was liberated. US citizens in Puerto Rico have the same rights and responsibilities as other US citizens. These ideas (90th anniversary of the Jones Act granting U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans). Is either correct, in which case they are knowledge, or incorrect, in which case they are only ideas? History is replete with lessons that demonstrate that attempts to conduct one’’s affair in contravention of universal law do not end well. I believe, therefore, that it is essential to our societal well being that we examine and consider ““social issues”” in the context of knowledge and not merely of ideas. My reading of (your work) leads me to conclude that we are of like mind in this. Unfortunately for the real American people, nothing will come out of these hearings. So I believe that the real problem is not necessarily the status itself, but rather the political party who routinely makes false promises to their constituents, which in turn creates sort of like a "fanatic" base. If we take them out of the status equation, then the issue is not so controversial anymore and we can finally have some intelligent discussions and arguments about statehood. Additionally, politicians would be forced to work on real concrete issues and problems, instead of patriotic (whether PR or US) sound bites and photo-ops.

Puerto Rico, USA loses more people over a weekend holiday in accidents and 3rd in the planet high crimes, bad medical treatment, contamination overall, than it loses per year in Iraq."Yet it fails to answer a basic need. [Despierta Boricuaââ]The need to retain control of sociobiological development. Yes, having smashed our thumb with a hammer, the only honorable course is to go on smashing our thumb with a hammer. It is, however, about what it going to take for Puerto Ricans to admit to their true lot in life, their true position in the world and feel some sense of outrage. Yet while it is true that the average Puerto Rican would want to see the issue of the Congressmen’s status quo with statehood valid options YES/NO para la estadidad finally resolved, is also true that Washington seems to lack one big emotion that could get them closer to resolving this discriminatory debate dilemma than perhaps they all in the world lacks “Compassion” with humanitarian gestures. Well, To refuse to smash our thumb with a hammer any more would send the wrong message to the rest of the world and only encourage the nails not to lie flat against the wall. I used to believe that this was simply a way to avoid the issue altogether. What does democracy really mean in our Borinquen? Whatever Let Puerto Rico decides. The status of Puerto Rico will be resolved when the Congressmen of United States tell our Puerto Rico, USA People that they want Borinquen to become the next 51 states of the Union. I Sometimes I wonder if there will be a moment when reality and myth, truth and lies, will collide. It is, however, about what it going to take for Puerto Ricans to admit to their true lot in life, their true position in the world and feel some sense of outrage. The problems we the people face now in Puerto Rico will seem innocent in comparison to the problems and challenges we'll face 30 years from now, but as a species we do need to grow out of our tumultuous adolescence and face the true challenges of adulthood. The other question is "could" we the people delay, halt, or reverse technological growth. Returning to the central questions: should/could we control our Borinquen society's destiny and evolution? Well, following my earlier analogy: there are ways to delay or halt an adolescent’s growth: 1.) Starve them. Kids can't grow if they can't eat. Just give them enough to survive. Remove government funding from AIDS research, nanotech, mental health, etc. Hopefully the private sector's R&D will fail without government assistance. Of course, so the singularity will really only be delayed. So, we have option #2 (which, if we truly want to halt progress, we would have to implement in ADDITION to #1): Prevent the good Puerto Rican neighbor's kids from maturing into a Healy 51st States of the Union (e.g.,: poison the water supply, slash their tires, etc.). To many in Washington, this issue can be reduced to one simple sentence, We the People of Puerto Rico refute to accept that type of DESCOLONIZATION’S Virus. We have limitations on the amount of freedom we have in determining technological progress. English is not my first language, sometimes, the details get's lost in preconceptions about what you meant. Do the Lion being capture, anesthetized and operated on by a human know the human is trying to save his/her life? Ninety years and many in our government still do not consider us fellow citizens. Where is the outrage? Does he/she know the human is being benevolent? What makes you think we will know that about a Technical Statehood for Borinquen, which is as much more intelligent than we are? If we the people are intent to create a 51st *Star Statehood "mind,” then perhaps something like our sense of consciousness might be a requirement, agreed. Now, the question is, when this System is stable, inside some parameters. I think the issue of possible physical/logistical limitations is appropriate for the topic, since it impacts the question of capabilities, and complements the topic of motivations. The future ‘COMMONWEALTH STATEHOOD’ Borinquen will be as safe as it is sure, that an axiomatic system and its theorems, are consistent. We the people may expect, that our abilities to handle that, will improve also. I really think we do. I really think we have nothing to be afraid of. I understand we want resolution to the questions. The future is uncertain. Very uncertain. But we can't abandon values like "freedom" because we're afraid. The fear will always be there. The question is "What does we want to become? What do we want to bring into being?" From there we can put in controls to manage us to our real goals. Not put in controls to manage us around some imagined evil. Quite a different way of thinking. Quite different results. How sure are you about this correlation to global warming? Ear quakes???

Our very BORINQUEN system of progress is still limited by and tied to the support mechanisms around it - our societies at large! Those fail and your precious progress and singularity are moot, just like a magnificent house of cards. Yes, there have been more than 40 of these and the congressional findings in all these sets of hearings will not be any different from the findings of the previous ones. Best-selling books do not ensure the future. Neither does any amount of technological advancement unless it reaches a point where we are free from these types of cycles - do you really think that it is cut a dried that we (nuestra bendita tierra) are to make it? Yes, it is amazing how after all these years, our Puerto Rican people have not awoken from the seemingly endless night brought about by this situation. When it comes to wants and needs, people tend to define their lives in terms of what they want rather than what they need. For example, nearly everyone in our Borinquen society wants an IPOD but who really needs one? Do we really need more music than we can possibly listen to over a lifetime? It takes a lot more than just what we need to live in this Inland. It takes the ability to satisfy desires for living in a clean, well functioning infrastructures, a place for children to learn and play, for food that does more than fills the stomach, and a place to get out of the Hurricane Tornado seasons. We see these as necessities, but the rest of the world sees them as something to be desired and worth going to great lengths to become a part of. I guess my point here is that the line between necessity and desire is narrow in some spots and wide in others. That desires are something that peoples will often fight harder for than mere needs. There is a difference between "discipline" and "duty.” Duty is a state of Congressman obligation where you lack control or statehood choice. Discipline is a state of choice, where you decide to forego one outcome/pleasure for another. Discipline is a state where resources are focused in order to achieve a goal. The key distinction, being choice.)
ONE OF THE PRIMARY REASONS BORINQUEN STATEHOOD DREAMS IS STAGNATING IS BECAUSE MANY OF THE WRONG PEOPLE, AND INTERESTS, IS TOLERATED IN POSITIONS OF POWER AND AUTHORITY. THESE ENTITIES HAVE SUBSTANTIAL CONTROL OVER VITAL RESOURCES THAT COULD BRING THE 51ST STAR TO PUERTO RICO, USA TO FULL TYPE I STATUS AS AN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. THESE ENTITIES, AND THEIR AGENTS, HAVE OPIMIZED THE "STATUS-GAME" TO BENEFIT MAINLY THEMSELVES, THEIR FAMILIES, AND BUSINESS ASSOCIATES. WHAT RESOURCES (AND MONEY) THEY DO NOT USE FOR THESE, PURPOSES THEY USE TO DEFEND THEIR POWER AND ADVANTAGE. IF THEY WERE TRULY CONCERNED ABOUT PUERTO RICAN AMERICAN CITIZENS BETTERMENT AND CARE FOR THE BIOSPHERE, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE THE NEED TO SPEND SUCH INORDINATE SUMS ON SECURITY FOR THEMSELVES, IN THE GUISE OF SECURITY FOR ALL. IRONICALLY, OUR BORINQUEN IS MOSTLY INSECURE BECASE THEY ARE MAKING IT INSECURE THROUGH THEIR ACTIONS AND STATEHOOD OMISSIONS.

I think that TASK FORCES REAL OBJECTIVES can be scientifically delineated, and has to include:

1. a consensus.

2. resolve conflicts.

3. stimulate wealth creation.

4. redistribute wealth.

5. maintain the constitution.

6. defend against human & natural ills

7. selling these as policies to the people.

But it's just 1 & 2 really.

Puerto Rico is small geographically, but its population approximates that of the typical state. It could easily fit in as the 51st State of the Union, with two Senators and six members of the House of Representatives. Accession of Puerto Rico to the Union would give the Senate its first Hispanic members, and add 13% to the total Latin population of the Nation. Six Representatives would participate in all the debates and votes on crucial issues, and could be expected to strengthen the progressive forces in Congress against ultra liberalism.

"We've always been a land of varied cultural backgrounds and origins and we believe firmly that our strength is our diversity. There is much Puerto Rico can contribute to our nation which is why I personally favor Statehood. We hope you will join us."
-President Ronald Reagan
I have been a pro-statehood believer and I remain one . . . Estadidad Ahora!"

-President George H.W. Bush
"I do not care about politics-I care about what is right. For Puerto Rico to be a state would be good, but at the end, the people of Puerto Rico will have the last word about statehood."
-President George W. Bush
"We support the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state after they freely so determine."
-2004 Republican Party Platforms
Do you agree with that statement, and what do you think is the most appropriated way to deal with the issue?"
Coburn responded by saying: "Well, I'll tell you honestly, I have never given it a thought. I haven't, it's simply something I haven't thought about. We allowed Alaska to become a state, we allowed Hawaii to become a state. . . . f the people of Puerto Rico want to do that, I wouldn't have any problem with that."

....that speaking out politically at key moments is part of a scientist's responsibility.

Corporations are like chainsaws. If you control them, they're powerful tools. If you don't, they'll rip your leg off

When you're losing the game, and you have to win, the only alternative is to change the game..
We live in a toxic food environment."[
Statehood Adaptability is no excuse for a poor task force map design.[1980]
In response to the often heard response, "people get used to it",”when intelligence designers were queried as to why an interface was inconsistent and/or inefficient.

SA statehood nesscan be generated from within, but the mind can get in the way! The process requires inner strength, which can be developed. But the process is easily misunderstood.

AAnyway . . . I will pursue the other points a bit later. Thanks for keeping the dialogue going (I hope we're not drifting too far off topic tho . . . ). ;o)

My point is being missed. However just because you do not agree with someone views, or find their opinions of your own views disturbing is no reason to call out for censorship. My point is that some people have no real interest in many forums’ subjects at hand but use them to give them a soap bench to preach their political views and they jump on it. I have seen two sites NPP/PPD. Parties ruined in this way as the sites became nothing more than political flames thrown back and forth by users or in the second case where one political view point took hold and basically everybody theirs had to express one view or to be attacked. It is well and good that this site does not become a political battle ground of emotionally charged ideologies. "Religion was created in order to keep the poor from killing the rich" Politics is the religion of the 21st century Borinquen and presents a danger far greater than religion to threaten intellectual and scientific discussions. People are limited by their intelligence. But nobody trusts the information received from our senses - that is because we have knowledge that indicates they can be wrong. In other words, there is a life of knowledge beyond sense data. In most systems the situation has to do with leaving a margin out in the dark. I prefer to focus on the possibilities rather than the misery, but that doesn't mean the misery isn't there. Given an upgrade, I believe that much of what is ““evil”” in this world will disappear. I have noticed that everyone has an axe to grind, with the way differing systems work. Systems are our politics, religions/cults, corporations, and social groups. It has always been Spenserian and Darwinian whether communisms or capitalism. The reason FAS communism doesn't work is that there is a division among the lazy the dictatorial and the suppressed; this is a waste of energy wrought by inefficient synergy. Maybe I am just an optimist. In America, the struggle for survival, the benefits, and rights are diametrically opposed to how many other nations run. Religion seems a common denominator; however, freedom of religion, and the ones that suppress should be an indication. There is no system that can work for all people; but, there are those that work the best.

If you look at what plants and animals used to cover the surface of the Puerto Rico’ land field and in what proportion, you can compare that with what is happening now. Entire forests from the YUNQUE Tropical forest are being chopped down and replaced by Hotel crops to feed and house humans. In other words, we are affecting everything on the planet with our evolution. We are draining the Atlantic ocean and the Mar Caribe sea of certain kinds of fish and driving many more out of existence with our pollution and our influence on the climate. In other words, we are changing the entire world in ways we can't foresee and very few people even seem to notice. These changes, too, are happening at an exponential rate. This cannot be argued. Another difference is the fact that the evolution of Borinquen culture affects not only the species we call human, it affects everything that culture comes in contact with. We are not just evolving -- we are changing the entire world with our cultural evolution and it will never be able to go back to the way it was before. The question in my mind is this: are we the people of Puerto Rico, USA going to be able to control this earthquake process or will it drive us to extinction? Even if we went extinct tomorrow, the most plentiful animals on the face of Borinquen would be chickens, turkeys, cows and pigs. The plants covering the naked commonwealth would be limited to the few that we have decided are most interesting and useful, such as flowers, trees and grass for human communities and corps of corn, soybeans, wheat, corn, etc., that have now taken over nearly all the vacant land on this Caribbean island. Oye Despierta Boricua!! No other species has ever caused this kind of change to its environment. We the people are remolding ESTA BENDITA TIERRA to something we think (right now) is nearer to our heart's desire. We may not think that a little farther down the TASK FORCE HURRICANE ROAD; But my point is that species normally evolve in order to adapt to their environment. What we are doing is trying to change the environment to fit what we perceive to be our own need -- on a Puerto Rico scale. The Statehood singularity, to my mind, is the point where we cross the Task force map line between becoming stewards of our Borinquen or changing it to a point where we can no longer live on it. Actually, there is no single point in time that we can call the singularity. If anything, it is the point where the rate of change, if charted as geographical map line on a graph, would be going straight up. We're close to that now. I like the idea of the algorithm doing all the work. The question in my mind is: Can we the people strike a balance between what we want with this status quo and what we can live with before we drive ourselves to extinction? Sorry for all the simpleton questions. Indeed, our best knowledge tells us all these things are achievable, even if it is far far over the horizon. Do you need a rule/rules to define the picking of the winner? For example best performance decided by a Congress judge panel? In this case any arbitrary random action would not survive unless the Congress judges feel it is good dancing? If so, do you think we run into difficulty when trying to define selection rules for say, working out the human mind, or the statehood micro state Borinquen? I mean how do you define the rules of task force selection in the very complex scenarios? Ruben Berrios & FAS you could make a very strong case that 51st * Star future will not be delivered in time for any of us to be included in it, but none of this pessimism says that molecular manufacturing or artificial intelligence or the conquest of senescence is impossible. Should we all just give up, crawl into a corner and die? Or should we consider Statehood's future a legacy for Puerto Rico future generations that we can work toward? Pointing to our CURRENT state of knowledge in neuroscience and acting as if we will never ever improve upon it is bloody stupid! Where would WE THE PEOPLE be if past generations had thought 'communicating in realtime with people all over the world is just impossible' or 'performing surgery without inflicting pain is pie in the sky' or 'air clean of smog will never happen' and just sat on their apse moan moaning? We should look for the truth somewhere in the middle. A modicum of skepticism is healthy, but if I was a negative as Ruben Berrios DECOLONIZATION METHOD I would be suicidal! Healthiest approach if you ask me. Note that this definition has nothing to do with creating a paradise on Borinquen. It is simply an acknowledgment that human cognition has its limitations and that these might be surpassed by technology, just as the speed of the fastest animal is no match for supersonic jets. It is the here and now created by that process. It is recorded to become the past and speculated about to try and foresee what is likely to happen in the future. There is no way of knowing where we are on the map graph at this point, regarding this feature. Exponential growth does not rule out the possibility that 51st star life will be accomplished two hundred years from now. As you know, an exponential growth starts REALLY SLOW. Who said we're over the slow region for statehood American life? There is also a fine print which says: "Any irregular move, will be counted as - 'I surrender!'.” Statehood-Consciousness, in my view, is the combination of all these things taking place as a continuum of internal processing. The mind decides immediately that if we continue to cross the street in front of that oncoming car, we are likely to be hurt or killed. Statehood-Consciousness, in other words, is the total output of the perceptual and computational process, not just bits and pieces of any future task force mission.
We the Taino people of Borinquen clearly say that we must upgrade the “COMMONWEALTH to STATEHOOD or be left behind. I think we right if strong 51st state is at all possible. There is no way we would understand the complexity of the superior strong Statehood's thinking, no matter how much or well they explain. By then the Statehood-Technological changes are said so be very dramatic, unpredictable in fact and still moving faster and faster: exponential growth---exponential x exponential------exponential x exponential x exponential . . . etc. The bottom line is that we (American as a whole) determine the rate of state-technology by our willingness to go out and purchase the current stuff knowing that next 4-year something better is coming. I think this is what we the Taino people of Borinquen see what happening by the double exponential its explains in USA/PR maps charts. Check out his 51st * curve chart of a paradigm shift rate. I'm too. Who say we won't find that things are MUCH more complicated than we once thought (should I just remind you of the fate of gambits of chess. Another example is: "Win the (chess) game!". A believer at exponential growth of knowledge, but the fact that it happens, doesn't mean everything will happen so soon. From my perspective I see that our Borinquen economic system(s) holds us up from making faster advances. Once statehood-technology is introduced into the market, it goes through a life-cycle. At the end, I really hope you are wrong, and statehood for puertorico really said 10 years. That will make my prediction much more credible, and much less "wishful", at least to my eyes. I am willing to bet that there is a great deal of making our Puerto Rico the next 51st technology-- state of the Union still being held back in hopes of turning a profit on the existing set of products first . . . at least this is what we the Taino people perceive. Naturally there are reasons for this since without such profits how do one fund future research and development for our US. Citizen living presently in Puerto Rico? Severe competition probably causes an even bigger impact on this rate of advancement but both democrats and republicans are important factors(Some of them will cause them to emerge, I think). ,,Which one is that?

Our Commonwealth Constitution provides for any issues that we have today to be remedied without throwing out the founding principles upon which this Puerto Rico was built. 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 used to believe that this was simply a way to avoid the issue altogether. 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. We all want to believe in the collective wisdom of the PEOPLE, yet we're all terrified of the irrational ignorance of the MOB. Yes, this is indeed the problem: trying to decide WHICH stats to use as every stat will lead to a different end. So what would probably have to happen is for people to get together and VOTE on what the IDEAL SCENE and GOAL was for each branch, department and agency of the government. I prefer to call it Commonwealth, United States Territory. I am living in the Borinquen, USA so, I am witnessing these problems first hands. Our Island is going down the drain because it has been hijacked by radical political extremists. From my reading of the Federalist, and Madison's journal from the convention, I think that most of the framers probably believed that term limits were unnecessarily, because they believed that the political system itself would encourage turnover. I think that in 1787 they would have been shocked to find people serving in Puerto Rico NPP/PDD for 40 or more years. Rosello, alcaldes, senadores y assessors en general. Wow!? But the funny thing is that within their lifetimes, the long career Representative and Senator became a fixture in Borinquen capitolio. Unfortunately, this seems to be the paradox of democracy. I'm talking about this group that has been wealthy for so long, and has been so removed from "real life,” that they are completely mystified by it. Some of them wanted one year house term--but they decided that was a little extreme. The same club! Over the living. Yet they propose to govern a majority that is not wealthy, and do it well? Nevertheless, I think we know what kind of abuse we are trying to prevent, and we could figure out criteria that work, or at least criteria that tell us when it is time for the issue to be considered by either a judge and jury or a vote of the people. Can you explain what aspect of a corporation international corporation requires that it be secured by NPP/PPD. government political party? Who are "they?” Also, the cigarette industry was cruising along MAKING MONEY ““honestly and without violence”” for years even though they knew they were selling addictive products to Puerto Ricans kids. The majority came to believe that legislators needed a little insulation from the public--but not too much. Long congressional careers have been the norms since the beginning of the party system in the 1908s. "But I cannot see how 'the system should be fixed' where we somehow abrogate the right of people to choose idiots. Whatever changes to laws that occur, they must be "the will of the people,” so education is your only real option." Some of these principles are found in the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, some in the Bible and other religious works, some in science, technology and in statistics, and some in good old horse sense from a sober public mind. 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" They were proven wrong almost from the start. Thus, when you read the Federalist when it discusses the House, Madison and Hamilton are convinced that they struck the right balance . . . and they fully expected that there would be frequent turnover in the Capitolio of San Juan Puerto Rico. And Borinquen’s politicians don't get elected to "do public service.” The Borinquen constitution has had to evolve as our Puerto Rico evolved. And the institutions we invented as new problems arose were created to solve those problems. What I object to is part of the covert, underhanded things that special interest groups have done to thwart due process as envisioned by the Constitution and the fact that some want to change things BEFORE they understand the reasons for them in the first place. They pay the People's issues lip service to get elected, and then they fulfill their party's agenda, bending only when pressed by the People, which doesn't happen very often in a system where the avenues of information are tightly-controlled. The drug/alcohol Borinquen Pharmacy industry is overly-medicating people, preventing and inhibiting valid new technologies and remedies and promoting an environment of paranoia and hostility, as drugs do inevitably do. All this equals an unable electorate or eventually NO electorate. Those in power know the above principles. The nefarious, knowing such, want to CONSERVE and PERPETUATE the existing system since 1913 until it crashes and they can exploit its spoils. Those who are agents for reason want to ALTER the existing system but not throws’ it out. The Corruption or non-corruption issue would be put to rest to a great extent if we were to reform campaign finances, and the avenue of the Lobby. I will call mine "ideal" statehood-capitalism, to distinguish it from your "pure" FAS socialism which is dysfunctional. In my ideal capitalism, the "ideal" is that companies are constrained to compete ONLY with their products in the marketplace. Whatever laws we have to pass to approach this ideal, we pass. They can't bribe Borinquen government officials for contracts, and can't cheat or mislead customers, or lie in their advertisements about their own products or the products of their competitors. They can't blackmail their customers, for example by threatening to cut off their access to a critical product if they don't also buy some other product they could get cheaper from a competitor. I think politicians should be paid well, comparably to business men managing an equivalent number of people and resources. Public office has its own allure, in particular the power to make decisions that "matter," but I would like for the public offices to compete with business for the best managerial talent. Stuff like that belongs to pure socialism, not to my ideal capitalism. "The biggest socialism experiment ever tried in all history failed immediately because of corruption and the desire for personal gain." Every politician should be scrupulously audited by an independent firm. To serve in public office, every politician from the local councilman on up should have to account for every dollar they have or get, and this audit should continue for years after they leave office. Not only that, but they should have to account for every trip, item or gift they get and how they paid for it, and how much. At random, 5% of audits should be redone by another qualified auditing firm chosen at random. I believe these audits should be in clear laymen’s language and freely available on the net to anyone that cares to read them.

True Cost Economics

I have no sympathy for the industries that claim protecting the environment will hurt their businesses, because they have done greater harm to us all in the process of extracting massive profits from products that are all naturally-occurring. When private international bankers have the ability to arbitrarily change the cost of money too, many businesses that should never have gotten their hands on money come into existence as a result of that money (and ultimately fail), and then, when interest rates are jacked up, too many legitimate business that really needed the money to service their expansion, cannot GET the money at cost-effective rates (and also fail). As for mixing, here in the Borinquen we are not equals by tax’s corporation like USA does that, in the form of taxes. It is about a not equal mix; When we combine, medicare, medicade, sales taxes, property taxes, special taxes, licenses, fees, and basically all the income any form of government takes in, the average person contributes about 50% of their paycheck to the government, without income tax which pays for 'politicians' types of services: Protection, infrastructures in the form of roads, bridges, water and sewage pipes and treatments, electrical grids and generation, police and first responders, not to mention national efforts like the armed services, welfare, medicare and medicaid, and many other such relief organizations. Look. This thing works like a monopoly. It ́s not an "evil conspiracy" of the bad guys, it ́s just business. It does not matter if the monopoly is what it is because he is very good doing business, it does not matter that the competitors have the true potential to do great things too. All that matters is that the monopoly is too big and the competition is too small. The same happens with corporations, so, why you can ́t believe that happens between nations too? Under our current system, all too often, this is not the result of people's hard work and effort. It ́s like a cage with a rabbit and a lion inside fighting each other. The lion will JUST EAT the rabbit. This is not competition, and it’s just a lion feeding himself. In order to always have meat, the rabbits must remain small and weak, and the lion will do all what he can to maintain the things like it is. "If they stopped trying to cut salary costs and arranged the work they have to get done so people are better rewarded for harder work, they would exploit people's greed and get more work out of them." That's exactly where we can see the nefariousness of their actions, because it doesn't make great financial sense. There is a huge element of Social Control behind all of this. The proper way to deal with pollution is the business method. We clean up what actually happens, and if we see alarming changes, we try to track those specific things down to causes we can then correct. This latter part is not well implemented, because our government is corrupt and incompetent. But any fair implementation of the true-cost method (which is impossible because there isn't a trustworthy model to determine true cost) would also depend upon a government being fair-minded to all companies and competent in setting prices, and that is impossible too. The big problem of our society today as a free market system is the inability to control the size of corporations. If companies were limited to say, only 15% of a market at best there would be no incentive for them to dump the product at a lose in order to gain a market share. In fact limiting company size would promote greater entrepreneurship and distribute wealth much more broadly. More smaller companies would promote greater competition toward quality, innovation and efficiency. This is our most urgent campaign: a fight to revolutionize economics before our planet is destroyed. We need a new economic paradigm - one that is open, holistic, and human scale - and this web site offers a blueprint for getting there. Prepare yourself with some background information about economics in the Old paradigm and New paradigm sections then roll up your sleeves and launch into action on your campus. The economic revolution begins with jamming Economics departments. Further, there IS an exact administrative technology already out that delineates precisely how it is done. (1) Granted, it would be much more difficult to do it for Puerto Rico government, as there are many more distinct parts and interests -- but in the end a Puerto Rico government is still nothing more than a management machine for the nation's resources. (2) Of course, people in government like to make it more complicated, but that's just to stroke their egos and ensure themselves a J.O.B. It ends with an entirely new way to measure progress. All of this CAN be done as it already HAS been done in many companies and organizations. That is what you are looking at, bogus charts composed to mislead by someone that wants to sell books or is just an environmentalist alarmist that cannot comprehend patterns might take decades, centuries, or millennia to form, if they even form at all. Someone willing to ignore all evidence to the contrary and shout down anybody that disagrees with them, makes ad hominem attacks against them or their credentials, and insists in the face of all contrary evidence that it does not matter because "everybody knows" what he is saying is true. You have MORE OFTEN seen wealthy people from wealthy families (Whose members also "ruled"), who attended wealthy schools, and belonged to wealthy fraternities and organizations, who ran in wealthy circles, and made wealthy friends from other wealthy families, and were nominated by these wealthy friends, and passed laws that protected their interests . . . I'm not talking about the wealthy who worked hard and earned their millions honestly. Everyone is for cleaner air, less crime, and safer schools. Everyone is also for puppies, apple pie and waving the flag on Independence Day. Where it gets down to brass tacks is when one asks something like, "Would you be willing to pay $500 extra in taxes every year to lower the homicide rate by two per cent?" In surveys where participants have to make tradeoffs between costs and benefits, consensus on national goals falls apart, and things get messy. That's right, people want the benefits, and give a lot of lip-service, but don't want to deal with the costs. Bingo! The only solution IS making smarter masses. Otherwise, BORINQUEN PRESENT DEMOCRACY DOES NOT WORK.

I have a list of goals I would love to achieve, but which one do I REALLY want to spend my $500 on? This is why I say there won't be a consensus on goals.
And THIS is why one must place attention on:

1) The public educational system;
2) The media and movie industries;
3) The alcohol and drug industries.
1, 2 and 3 are the primary ways the MASSES get, or do NOT get educated, and/or get their education ERASED.

Half of the maquiladoras in Puerto Rico have also closed shop because the cost of labor has risen to a point where the manufacturers no longer see the trouble of negotiating with labor unions and bureaucrats adding new taxes every year worth the effort. Profit margins have fallen too low to make the headache worth the cost of the aspirin. So, in reality, the 23-cent sneaker is a myth that is perpetuated for propaganda purposes to make people believe companies are ruthlessly profiting from the misery of workers in foreign countries." Sorry, I didn't mean the 23 cents’ figure literally, I was simply stating that if companies sold their products at a reasonable profit-margin, with the decreased cost of production, our economy would reflect the real value people keep telling me the market ensures. When you tie the cost of money to the whims of some old dogs sitting a back room at the NPP/PPD., you have entered an arbitrary into the system. If what you say -- that bubbles and bursts are a natural part of the landscape -- is true, I might agree with you, but the Borinquen Capitolio still does not help the situation. Their action is like over steering a car when it is going out of control. I would rather see the money supply controlled by the forces of supply and demand in the marketplace than the elastic fiat currency we have today. Exactly who are the people who profit so mightily from the Status-Quo in Puerto Rico? Are they listed among Forbes' Richest People in the World? What are their names? And what is the nature of their wealth? Is it stock in companies, money in bank accounts, or mutual funds? Much of this is scapegoatism. 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. But altering the existing system does not mean trying unreasonable amounts of new things (more than 10% at a time) NOR does it mean winding back the clock to the past -- it means going back to principles that were workable and which provided solid growth and not allowing them to be eroded, corrupted or dropped out in the present.
I have often seen Bill Gates listed as the richest man in the world with 32 billion dollars, mostly in the form of stock in the company he built but I don't see what that has to do with the status quo of Borinquen and a couple of years ago, he was worth 64 billion, until the market fell. So what is his true worth? The 32 billion he can get for his stock if he sells it off a bit at a time or the 64 billion he was worth before the market fell? And if the market falls again as he is disposing of his stock, bit by bit to avoid causing it to fall further, he will be worth even less. 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.

On a previous subject:

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 the 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 people's lives is how money is distributed. My point is that the Banco Gubernametal and the International Bankers Systems in our Puerto Rico, USA, or ANY central fiat bank, CAUSES the boom and bust cycle, laughingly known as the "business cycle." Each time our country has NOT had a central bank, or a national banking system that was on the road to being a central bank, we did not have the characteristic boom and bust of the business cycle. We have had three central banks before the Credit card’s corporations run in other thirdf countries like, Mexico, etc. and each time, these caused the booms and busts, just as the Banco de fomento sin la unicamerailidad is causing them now. It's simply the nature of the beast. When you artificially flood fiat money into the economy you get a boom. Then when you tighten money, you get a bust. Central banks do this ON PURPOSE so they can whipsaw people and companies out of their assets. I think it has a harmful effect on our Puerto Ricans’ society, there are others who disagree.

This is the oldest game in the business world next to theft.

The form of status quo in our Borinquen was formed to prevent bubbles in the money supply, not the stock market. You can even open a bank account with your broker based on your stock holdings. You can get a credit card or a debit card backed by stock holdings. This is an expansion of the money supply the FED has no control over. The fact that stock is now being used like money is a fairly new development. U.S. money is among the most stables in the world. Nobody is perfect. Few, if any, other countries can do it better than the Fed does it for the U.S. That doesn't make them perfect. It just makes them better than most of their competitors. It's very difficult to control a complex, Puerto Rico dynamic system. So what would probably have to happen is for people to get together and VOTE on what the IDEAL SCENE and GOAL was for each branch, department and agency of the government. As far as ends and means . . . sometimes ends justify nasty means. Yes, this is indeed the problem: trying to decide WHICH stats to use as every stat will lead to a different end. By their ability to influence lending rates, they have some influence over real property values. But paper money is their primary sphere of influence. Murdering Hitler in 1937 would have saved a lot of peoples' lives, and would have probably spared Europe World War II. Couldn't we have solved the problem by locking Hitler away in a dungeon somewhere? Actually, if people had foreseen what Hitler was going to cause with his rise to power, there would have been lots of ways to stop him. But by the time enough people understood, it was too late. Murder was tried but failed. If people had understood where the means Hitler was using would lead them, they could have stopped him merely by withdrawing their support and giving it to someone using more rational means. Is murder the only means to a solution you can see? He couldn't have done it on his own. His followers had to believe that the means he was using were justified by the ends they were hoping he would bring about. They weren't, and millions of people died for no-good reason. I don't see using the same means Hitler used as the most promising solution to the problem. Besides, it was the collaboration between Hitler and the German people that built the Third Reich. I believe in term limits for all politicians; I do not think it fundamentally changes their effectiveness. I can't imagine circumstances that require a Senator to be in office for 20 years, for example. I think ten years is sufficient time in any office, and I think that this, combined with the fish bowl life, will help constrain corruption. I think of my version as "pure" because I think the focus should be entirely on market forces and the consumer to decide exactly what they want. I don't think a politician has a right to financial privacy of any kind, or a right to conceal his activities, even his personal activities. If he goes skiing in Aspen on his break, I want to know how he paid for the five-star hotel he stayed in and the champagne and Cheetos he ordered at 2am. The consumer should decide how much quality to sacrifice for cheaper price, or vice versa, or what features are worth paying for and which are not. The products we choose should not be the result of politics, corruption, or backrooms deal or price fixing or ANYTHING except the collective judgment of consumers on what is good and what is not. That is not the state of capitalism in the Puerto Rico, unless you are talking about fairly small businesses, which follow this model quite closely. The local dry cleaner or car repair shop typically can't afford to sway politics and doesn't have the resources to make back room deals that screw their competitors, so they rely on serving customers well at a decent price. I wish for Borinquen all companies, and government as well, had to do the same to survive -- Do their job well at a decent price. I'm not sure how that would work, but if I daydream, perhaps at some limit we could demand that a company split into two companies with equal resources that have to compete against each other for customers. So something like General Motors or Microsoft would never have gotten as big as they are. But I see some obvious problems with a solution like that as well, so maybe the idea could be refined, or maybe not. About the only thing I can think of to actually accomplish that is to put a limit on how big a company can get! In any case, my ideal is easy to state: Competing on any ground other than internal organization and marketplace acceptance should be illegal. "Internal organization" includes such disciplines as management structure and reducing costs for wages, materials, office space and such, but I ALSO believe government regulations should enforce minimum wage, safety conditions, insurance requirements and maximum work demands, so companies cannot compete by exploitation of their workers, or by forcing workers to risk life and limb.

It is also inbred human nature to feel compassion and help those that cannot help themselves, but the amount of help we give usually depends on how good our own situation is. If I am struggling to save my family from a flood, I am less likely to risk my life to save a stranger. If I lose my job, I contribute less time and money to charity. Higher values are trumped by lower values, like survival or not losing your home and the things you loves. If you really want to help people, you have to find a way to do it that resonates with the way people really are, not how they would like to be. This is the failure of socialism, and this is why capitalism works. The ideas of trade and profit and fair compensation and competition and individual accomplishment and individual advancement are all at the very core of our psyche. This is why virtually every country participates in the Olympics; no matter what language we learn or religion we practice or economic system we grow up under, we all grasp the idea of competition and being the best at something. If any economic or political system denies these elements, it is doomed to failure. The powerful nation will cheat and get the most unfair deal possible when negotiating with a weaker nation. Nations a and B will cook a cake, and value added by A and B in the process is the same, BLA BLA . . . you already know the end of the history. And because the unfair games always occur, B will remain poor. And because B is poor, the pattern of living of its citizens is low, so Some cans send factories to B to negotiate unfair value of labor and get even richer. I ́m not saying that capitalism must do theses thing to be capitalism, but the logic of the system allows these things to happen. Capitalism is "running" in this way by now in Puerto Rico. I agree that corporations have too much political influence. I believe it should be illegal for a corporation to spend a dime, directly or indirectly, to pass any law of any kind, in the Capitolio de San Juan using {Las Bolsas de valores} como un trampolinor to provide legal research or opinion on any law of any kind, period. My only exception is if a firm is contracted by the Puerto Ricans’ 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 nonpartisan’s method of choosing the firm, such as a 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. As for your cake analogy, A and B should have had a contract about splitting the cake from the beginning, then B could take A to court. On the other hand, if A being rich and powerful, there is nothing wrong with him saying "Okay, I want you to do half the work, and I'll pay you ten percent of the profit." If B agrees, he clearly thinks that is a fair wage. He can refuse, and say no, I will make my own smaller cake.

It is a fundamental feature of capitalism that there is risk in any enterprise, and risk should be rewarded. Workers have zero financial risk, they get their pay whether the business succeeds or fails. That guarantee carries a price, which is a much lower share of profits, maybe no share at all. Employers take all the risk, they have to shell out money for equipment, materials, marketing, employees, manufacturing and office space all before they have sold one product. Saying that doing half the work, or all of the work, deserves a share of the profit is saying that all of that risk was worth zero. That's just wrong. Like I said, I do understand that the weak need protection from the strong, and that is why we need laws that are enforced. But you reveal a fundamental misunderstanding about capitalism with the above remark. Market forces determine value, not wishful thinking. 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.

On this, I believe Plato hit the nail on the head.

(And again, you are free to disagree . . . )

Obviously the ENTIRE economic system the “Borinquen"operates" on is dysfunctional, if not totally psychotic. It evolved over millennia in isolated places amongst desperate, hostile and ignorant people who had but their own survival in mind as they improvised and hacked their "systems" into place. Then this entire mess was stitched together in a patchwork of insanity as Borinquen was interconnected by fast flow communications and transportation. Earlier this month marked the 90th anniversary of the Jones Act granting U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans. The actual Borinquen economic system is therefore similar to the old twisted-pair phone system. It's obsolete, inefficient, unfair, not robust, not redundant, central control extremist, run by criminals. Like an old house that must come down, the world economic system is now preempting land, the very Earth itself, upon a basis that's hardly highest and best use. Anyone that disagrees with this doesn't understand very much about the system or they're profiting from it and thus are part of the problem. It is amazing how after all these years, the Puerto Rican people have not awoken from the seemingly endless night brought about by this situation. Do I wish everyone would read at least an introductory book on economics? You bet. All factors eventually derive their value from the value of the consumer goods/services they produce, which in turn get their value from the ends these goods serve. Is there anything else going on in the Task Forum? Is it simply cheaper to cover one story, or are they hiding the other stories? That’s “WHY” many USA citizens, do not know to much about that a government exist inside a U.S.A. Government, many do know where is Puerto Rico located, in the MAP. The U.S.A. MEDIA has failure to report CORRECTLY the embarrassing social-economy and daily high crimes with high politicians and International SUBMARINE MILLIONS CREDIT CARDS ACCOUNTS. This includes ALL LABOR. That's why, if someone pays below market wage, a competitor will BID the labor away. Management makes decisions about wages but they are Guided here (thanks to prices) here by costs and profits, all of which eventually are derived from consumer values. Most people don't really care that much about Puerto Rico events or politics. Likewise I'm not going to decide, by my whim, what kind of news they should get, or which news is "right." I've made my decisions. Yes, ALL factors. Do you want a bunch of people sitting around doing jobs that aren't necessary, when they could be being PRODUCTIVE to Borinquen’s society, instead of doing something no one needs? I don't believe it's positive necessarily. 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. The FCC should be protecting the rights of US. Americans and not making it easier for huge corporations to make more money with NPP, PPD. PIP money funds generated by this corrupt practice or the Puerto Rico MEDIA acting like Bad propaganda Agents of that malignant and virus antisocial behavior. Our first priority is ensuring the American people get a wide range of diverse viewpoints in BOTH LANGUAGES." Again, diversity in TV programming in general, is not the issue. It is the diversity in MAINSTREAM ANTI-AMERICAN LOCAL NEWS PROGRAMS produces in SPANISH that is seriously lacking advantage in English language. All these elements mentioned affect the OUTCOME or the TASK Force or any scientific and technical valid option to resolve finally in good faith our political dilemma. Do you WANT waste? Do you WANT resources used in a least productive manner? Of course you liquidate needless positions. So would you be against using new technology to increase efficiency? No, it says that the people in control of industry don't really understand from where their wealth is derived, and that without the workers, there would be no "profit". It stems from an ideology that has begun to grow like a decolonization virus in recent years. All I'm saying that this free-for-all we live in isn't sustainable, nor is it a realistic way to live. Working to ensure that a tiny minority lives in absolute luxury, beyond reproach, is a ridiculous way to organize human endeavors. The most important belief that we want to carry forward is Freedom. To be American is to be free. This freedom must be protected but tempered too - there are practical limits. We may sacrifice some privacy, but in exchange gain more freedom. They think they are the same thing. We the taino people of Borinquen believe this to be a pragmatic and implementable solution for most of our Borinquen society. These wrong political propaganda can upset the check & Balance of the Task Force. This basically proves that the intellectual capacity of the average Puerto Rican TV viewer should be of concern to anyone who cares about our future as an American nation. This job of presenting REAL information is CRUCIAL for any democracy. Many people confuse freedom with privacy. Actually privacy is generally a subset of freedom. Because we are a free country, we have given our citizens lots privacy. If we all had privacy, would we necessarily have freedom, not even close. The most private societies are often the most corrupt and controlling of their populations. Which do we prize more? I prize freedom more than privacy.

The Puerto Rican People, indoctrinated by the media's complicity with the gov & NPP?PPD and International banking system are ALLOWING the country of Puerto Rico to be run into the ground. Personally I always felt that a party system in and of itself is a flaw. It just divides the nation into an "us" and "them" mentality, while restricting that person in powers freedom, casting votes as what’’s best for the party as opposed to the country in an endless battle to control, or regain control as the majority in power. This is because we have only a two party system, NPP>PPD Bicameralidad hence PR and THEM. If third and fourth parties could happen, we would see greater diversity of thought in our Borinquen government. Also, by purging the Capitolio of San Juan of all incumbents, as I suggest above, you will be able to finally get real campaign finance reform. The people in our San Juan Capitolio aren't very smart. They are mostly composed of Politician Lawyer people that can't get a job in the competitive private sector. And the few smart dedicated ones, such as the Palo Viejo of the gov, are in there desperately trying to educate the morons that strut around calling them "public servants." It's pathetic. Until and unless this happens, we will continue to be a plutocracy, a Borinquen government controlled by the corporate/rich NOT the People. The only power the People have left is to literally AXE everyone in Capitolio of San Juan with the vote and pray that the new people that take office will not be motivated to continue blocking real campaign finance reform -- as the current congress ALWAYS manages to do one way or another no matter how many times a new bill is introduced. Once real campaign finance reform is enacted, TERM limits can be enacted as well. New people in Capitolio of San Juan, having less of their lives invested in a Non-Intelligence IQ career, will not be as RAPACIOUS about retaining power. Under these circumstances, I am postulating, voters will more easily be able to break the back of the plutocracy that's stolen the American Dream from the general population. This is the plan in fact." Yes, at the very least we live in a plutocracy at this time. I think the We the People of Borinquen will have to set up a referendum that by-passes Congress and amends the Constitution. The new Amendments need to do the following: 1. STATEHOOD+++++. I don’t expect you or any of the other ranters to listen to this, the facts speak for themselves if you opened your eyes. I will bet you they will almost always answer YES. Thus, this person is actually YOUR potential enemy when push comes to shove. This is why Americans MUST act NOW, to avoid this in our soil, Puerto Rico, USA. If this doesn't work, the only remedy which will eventually be left to the American People will be a full-blown, bloody revolution. No matter what,we cannot put our heads in the sand...My only point was that I believe that without a REAL wake-up call, not just movies, evidence and the like, I mean a catastrophe that levels our playing field (figurative for loss of way of life), no one will respond until it is too late. Anyone that tells you different, ask them this one simple question: Do you work for the government, local, state or federal in any way, directly or indirectly? Make a mental note. Your Puerto Rican government has been hijacked by a bunch of despicable criminals who are printing up endless money (Banco Gubernamental) and spending it as they see fit to further their own unconstitutional ends. Wake up, Boricua!! vote them ALL out now.(1) The very first thing you must do is:

1. vote out ALL the incumbents -- you know those people that have been abusing TERM LIMITS for many terms. THEN, you

2. get the new people in the Capitolio of San Juan to effectuate term limits. They will since they're not yet addicted to endless terms.

Once 1 and 2 happen, you have softened up the target. What’s the target, it's their network, their illegal VOTE SWAPPING network. This network can't exist so easily when most of CAPITOLIO of San Juan is FRESHMEN because the trust factor hasn't been established yet.

Think STRATEGIC VOTING!

After the network is broken, and the politicians know they only have two (2) terms to do their good works, they will get down to business.

THEN more laws get passed, such as:

1. No corporate money allowed to support candidates, hard OR soft.

2. Independents and third party candidates allowed and encouraged to debate on USA national TV for Borinquen Government elections.

3. Food supply of PR is deemed toxic and replaced with new food supply.

4. Global warming is given first priority to remedy.

Everything is connected to everything else. In a growing and healthy world, "entitlements" are obsolete. Entitlements are only needed in a stagnant and wasteful world. People who eat healthier food do not need as much medical attention, for instance. We have to stary pulling right string to unfasten the knot. But the question always comes back to the fact that the OPTIMUM Borinquen must be postulated before anything remotely predictable can happen. I will go so far as to even term it the IDEAL PUERTO RICO needs to be postulated. They can't. Given this state of affairs, those of us that have managed to undergo some life repair, will simply have to tolerate the illnesses of our fellow BabyBoomers and work diligently to help them. But in the meantime the totally insane ones that are currently infesting our government need to be removed and handled later.But none of above can happen until all treasonous people are out of our San Juan CAPITOLIO. So, given all this physiological damage, how can anyone expect a competent government OR an aware citizenry that is capable of resolving the problems. Yes, for all you "realists" out there, computing ideals is NOT just an academic exercise, but REAL engineering because if you don't know what your IDEAL SCENE AND your EXISTING SCENE are you can't engineer a critical path from one to the other. So we're right back to a management problem: management of earth resources of which humans and STATEHOOD 51ST STAR will eventually be alternative, if not competing resources. Again, the target "ideal" future must be postulated otherwise you will get some OTHER FAS future. And the way the universe handles indecision is it allows the Law of Entropy to do the "managing." That's the universe's default plan: entropy. A corollary to this is: to the degree the SERFS don't postulate, DAVOS will. Thus the actual future will be an emergent property of all the postulated futures, SERF and DAVOS and we will move towards that -- just like an oiji board. So, if you want to have a say in your future THE NEW 51ST Star , you better get out there and vote out all the incumbents because right now these people are serving the Party of Davos: [descolonizadores de primera clase] not you, The People. That's the initial target, vote out the entrenched Davos decolonization mechanism. We the people of PUERTO Rico pro-statehood, demand the same rights and privileges with equality and dignity of the United states of America for our children, and grandchildren in the eye of the law by concepts about the specific enforce ability of the domestic corporation’’s agreements. [America is trying to make everything like itself and We The Taino People of Borinquen re not perfect over here either]... The legislative assembly of the commonwealth must petition the congress of the united states to favor of the right to vote for president, whom the initiative is our sort of birth right. There is no enlightenment outside of daily living. .Great events have small beginning.
God Bless America and PUERTO Rico, USA.

"As water reflects on a face, so [your] heart reflects [you]." --Proverbs 27:19 (NIV).

It commences thus, "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves, and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United Slates of America." This concept opens up the possibility of a new kind of 'virtual time travel', because the advanced beings creating the simulation can, in effect, rerun the past. It was a constitution "ordained and established" by the people, not by the States, not by the white people, or black people, not by the rich people, or poor people; not by the voting or non-voting people; not by one class, as opposed to any other class in the United States; but expressly, and emphatically by all, who, in the common acceptation of the term, might be denominated, the people of the United States. Once you can build statehood intelligence, then you can define it. Fortunately for the Puerto Rican people, something will come out of these task forces hearings. Changes do occur instantaneously, I don't dispute that at all, but one change does not cause the other if they are instantaneous, rather, if the instantaneous events are causally linked, then they events are caused by other events. A causal model is one that describes the causation of that which it models. It takes a genuine American masterpiece to make a final conclude a creation act of final masterpiece E. The statehooder artist must destroy the simple tube of paint to create his masterpiece, like the sculptor must destroy the block of marble and the composer must destroy the silence . . . They are the two sides of the same coin. Your argument amounts to saying that our Borinquen, our island is flat because we can’’t see over the 51st star horizon. The limits of perception do not necessitate limits in reality. Does it? In other words it describes what is actually (or hypothetically) happening rather than just giving numerical predictions of the outcome at the end of the process. So what we see are large masses of people adopting opinions because of who offered it, or because they believe they SHOULD believe a certain way to be a "good person.” And because some bad politicians tell them to behave certain ways, using brain wash tactical political campaign maneuvers. I am saying I do not see a reason to assume motion is fundamental and that it seems possible (at least in theory) for quanta changes occur instantaneously. The difference is one of scale and perception. I am defining sentience as statehood consciousness, and commonwealth-consciousness as 'the ability of a system to make American models of it's environment/and/or itself.' The Universe where all 51 stars reside must have sentience for it has us in it. Thru adaptation, things evolve. Therefore, it has some sentience. Therefore, it has statehood sentience for this beautiful Carribean shining sea. We cannot avoid being part of THE ALL Motion is very useful when describing American STATES union systems. We are bound to secure to all the benefits of a "Republican form of Government" thus protecting the citizen against the despotism of a State. And when we look over the guaranties of the Federal Constitution for personal security, liberty and property, and remember that they are the standing guaranties of a Nation, numbering four millions, why should not the American citizen feel that his liberties are safe, especially if he can rely upon the integrity and good faith of the government in enforcing those guaranties? To be part of THE ALL (live), you have to use other parts of the all (eat, breath etc.). Can we adopt that construction, unless the words imperiously require it, which would impute to the framers of the constitution, when granting powers for public good, the intention of allowing one sphere by an unlimited choice of means, to impede the exercise of powers conferred upon others? Many problems must be solved on the way to statehood for Borinquen, but unless STATEHOOD is exactly defined by the Federal US Government, the wrong problems will show up and their solutions will lead nos where desired. There were no citizens, or aliens, to it, before its adoption, but all became citizens by its adoption. A voice, rising in sublime grandeur above the authority of all state constitutions, ordaining and establishing an organic, and fundamental law, to secure the people of the United States in the enjoyment of those rights which they, in their Declaration of Independence, had promulgated to the world, as the natural and inalienable right of all men. It was the written voice of the people, speaking from the throne of their own natural, God given Sovereignty. It's not a time-loop in a traditional sense: it's a reconstruction of the past, allowing advanced beings to explore their history. What, then, are the privileges and immunities which the American citizen has a right to demand of the Federal Government? The answer is, he has a right to demand, and have full and ample protection in the enjoyment of his personal security, personal liberty, and private property; protection against the oppression of individuals, communities, and nations; and the Nation stands pledged to him, as he to them, to defend him in the enjoyment of these rights. That's where you confuse the map for the territory. Just because we experience motion with limited resolution, do not mean that in reality motion is not continuous. His civil obligations to defend his country are based upon his country's obligation to defend him. There is no way to escape the absolute logic of infinite Statehood-Technicalities no matter you cosmology of choice and since these singularities by definition involve statehood hyper computation capable of accessing ANY/EVERY possible physical system within their rest of the 50 states of the union we all belong to them JUST as much as we belong to ourselves 'here'- in fact the evidence is unshakable in terms of brute statistical analysis the people have said, "This constitution and the laws of the United States made in a pursuance thereof, will be the supreme law of the land." "It is a question of supremacy." "It is a question of supremacy." This expression, being unequivocal, had it remained unmodified, would have submitted to the public consideration the plain question; whether the constitution of the union had, or had not, invested the federal government with a supreme power over the state governments. I am by no means a photographer but it is my understanding that leaving the shutter open causes "over an exposer,”, i.e. the amount of "time" light is allowed to imprint on the USA/PR GEOphotgraph is increased. You are saying or implying that because our geographical maps of ATLANTIC ocean motion are limited in terms of temporal resolution (e.g., snapshots) then so must reality be limited in temporal resolution. Unless I am totally wrong on this point then that would just show that (motion = time). "It is of the very essence of supremacy to remove all obstacles to its action within its own sphere, and so to modify every power vested in subordinate governments, as to exempt its own operations from their influence." The removal of an obstacle to a goal, defining a goal and the activity of seeking that goal is all entirely different activity. A task force’s problem is not a "question to be considered" unless the correct answer to that question is the cornerstone step to removing the last barrier to arriving at a new understanding of something, what we sometimes call a "solution." Who's purposing? Mine is to achieve a state of God hoods, create a new existence, enter it and forget I did so! Isn’t the separation of church and state actually in the constitution? Can a politician who breaches this be prosecuted? Seriously tho, I think it’s a mistake to assign purposes to a mental abstraction we create to describe the process humans use in quantifying our experiences. That the value is no longer inherent in the token, but is maintained by the issuer, which, in the case of a democratic government, makes the monetary system a form of public commons, very much like the highway system. Freedom of speech; first amendment. The politician can say basically whatever they want, as long as they don't make laws about it. Religion makes for poor politics, and when religion and politics merge, collapse and genocide often ensue. Our country was founded by free-masons, who were radical secularists, believing that no person's rights should be infringed by politics or religion thereof. There are of course people who wish to support their faith politically, but I do not condone that. Religion is something that peoples should keep to them. If we could begin to think of it as a communal tool, rather then a secular deity, Borinquen society would be far healthier. We the Taino people of Borinquen perceive this passive substance by not perceiving it. So probably the statehood mind uses several methods to perceive the motions, depending on specific circumstances: Classical visualization and mathematical calculations. A real American statehood model can’’t produce real American effects in the real world of Borinquen until it is embraced by competent technologists, so to deny that it can have any explanatory value until a decent and competent technologist learns it and understands it is a totally backwards view. Libertarianism at the core of the recent conservative movement has been a form of civil Ebola Virus, in that it has dissolved the basic cell structure of social order and responsibility. To me colonization is merely a means to an end, if someone offered to convert me into pure thought energy with the ability to travel/explore space without the bodily concerns I wouldn't give some rats mass about colonization of the universe. Doesn't the idea of describing Puerto Rico government as FAS liberal seem ludicrous? Rights and responsibilities need to go hand in hand or the result is chaos. Defining a goal defines the barriers one will encounter in moving toward that goal. I am posting on this thread because its premise --that statehood intelligence should first be defined before one can create it -- may be important. That it was like placing Christ on the car of Juggernaut, and dressing the United States in British regimentals. There is a difference between blind optimism and realizing a long-held dream is achievable and that it's worth taking whatever practical measures you can, either to create the dream itself (like Statehood is doing) or to look after you so you might be alive to take advantage of what it. I think, anyway. We are not imagining statehood-consciousness, we know "it" exists, whether inside the For everything we do we have a reason.Colonization is merely a support mechanism for further exploration and exploration is the initiation of colonization. Others, such as commonwealth evolution, do it emergently; bottom up vs. top down. I would say that the growth of intelligence stems from complexification, in a differentiate and integrate, transcend and include fashion. Presbyteries and synods snatched the keys of Heaven from popes and bishops, and the long parliament, those of property from the king. In fact, the term "sovereignty," was sacrilegiously stolen from the attributes of God, and impiously assumed by kings. Though they committed the theft, aristocracies and republic have claimed the spoil. Both demonstrated what man would do with the powers of Providence. If you decrease the shutter opening then less light gets in. The balance of the shutter opening and the time of exposure gives you a balanced image. The eyes work pretty much the same way with their variably opening pupils. By our constitutions, we rejected the errors upon which our forefathers had been wrecked, and withheld from our governments the keys of temporal and eternal rights, by usurping which, their patriots had been converted into tyrants; and invested they only with powers to restrain internal wrongs, and to resist foreign hostility; without designing to establish a sovereign power of robbing one citizen to enrich another. One way of understanding statehood Intelligence is as you rightly say, to reduce it and rebuild the components in a better fashion giving much bigger commonwealth intelligence. Otherwise, it is whatever the statehood intelligence for our Borinquen, USA decides, that's an issue of semantics. A task force problem is a barrier, another derivative or the same decolonization virus. Only if the entire ‘STATEHOOD’ goal IS the solution to the given problem. A Tropical Yunque Forest Ecosystem survivals reason, we the people pro-statehood for Borinquen sure hope that statehood super technology for Puerto Rico will reverse planet pollution/environment consumption. We affirm in the this narrative’s term as follows: "A man was crossing a road one day when a coqui frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the coqui frog, and put it in his pocket. The Coqui frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will tell everyone how smart and brave you are and how you are my hero." The man took the Coqui frog out of his pocket, smiled at it, and returned it to his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will be your loving companion for an entire week." The man took the Coqui frog out of his pocket, smiled at it, and returned it to his pocket. The Coqui frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you for a year and do ANYTHING you want." Again the man took the Coqui frog out, smiled at it, and put it back into his pocket. Finally, the Coqui frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, whom I'll stay with you for a year and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?" The man said, "Look, I'm a statehood-computer programmer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking DUCK = DUCK frog is cool." Ok, but you have given a simplistic spatial metaphor of stacks of frames separate by some sort of vacuum, for a temporal explanation. How do these frames know which one to display next if there is no communication between the frames? does this cause apply to all of them if they truly are separate? Perception is a resonance between the perceive and the perceive. How can absolute nothingness resonate with somethingness? Ok, supposing that the vacuum is not nothingness, but a passive somethingness that allows waves to pass through. We perceive this passive substance by not perceiving it. I have been looking for one and have yet to see anything that even comes close. Since we have never seen any such limits, why then should we assume that they exist? Now ask yourself this, do you know of any computer that is not composed of moving parts? Ok, let’’s pretend that it is digital and that the motions that we see around us are ultimately composed of bits in a statehood computer. You might answer yes, instinctually, but dig deeper. Is an electron a part of a computer? And were’’t it the motion of electrons through circuitry that causes the screen to update? The computational model merely pushes the question of motion beyond the common field of the analogy. But when one digs deeper, this analogy falls flat on its screen. There is no known analogy or causal theory that can reduce motion to non-motion. Just because you have a model for motion in the movie projector, which you fail to acknowledge is composed of DEEPER levels motion? Historically, Most American goals are complex. They have many problems to solve before the goal can be attained. Task Forces Problems are obstacles to the solution of complex goals. "It thus seems plausible that the main computational cost in creating simulations that are indistinguishable from physical reality for human minds in the simulation resides in simulating organic brains down to the neuronal or sub-neuronal level" -ah this I don’t know, and have often reflected on, but my hunch is that we don’t need to replicate man's brain to derive useful & fast intelligence. I just don’t know whether the human brain is the most efficient way of developing intelligence, but I think it may not be because: I. Computers are 100 million times faster. II. They can be built as a cluster, with physical connections, e.g., radio data transmission, and not one-isolated units like a man. The ability to examine a huge data base and find information related to the question at hand then quickly filters and iterate must be key to all aspects of intelligence and statehooo-self-awareness. Back tracking your thought processes at will without interfering with your present state of mind is extremely tricky but is a must for any kind of 51st star awareness. I am saying that a non-causal argument doesn't have causal weight. You are saying or implying that because our maps of motion are limited in terms of temporal resolution (e.g. snapshots) then so must reality be limited in temporal resolution. This process of contemplation presumes searching for alternatives of the desired motion in such a way that the cost-function be minimized while all constraints are satisfied. To move PR into USA space map…Simply stated: It takes time for "something" to effect "something else" over a given distance so it must do so by "moving" across that space. Motion only makes sense when dealing with an abstraction of reality or when predicting the location of something. How can anything be tested for in the absence of time? We the Taino people of Borinquen do, however, observe motion as directly as anything can be observed. Unmediated observation is a contradiction in terms.”It is not hard to imagine an object in isolation . . . what role does motion have over such an object? Just because we experience motion with limited resolution, do not mean that in reality motion is not continuous. Los Numerous no mienten. =51 Planning is performed in an assumption that we THE PEOPLE PRO-STATEHOOD knows the agents of the adjacent higher level of resolution which will cooperate in the process of the further delineation of the plan. You explain how this can happen and when you can’’t then you will have your answer. Being instantaneous doesn’’t’s mean that. It means happening at the same exact irreducible instant. None what so ever. So would it be true from The All perspective. But what's relevant is what you were directing your thoughts about as you opened your eyes . . . What GOALS you were trying to satisfy. The way things seem to be set up around here is that you can only get things through intervening time and effort. Isn't that what I have been saying all along? Why is it so hard to concede this obvious point that everyone else in the community will readily admit? For me it’s the exploration that is important, the more wild and abstract reality turns out to be the more interesting and more potential there is for discovery. That's where you confuse the USA/PR map for the American territory. These alternatives of motion should be constructed and tested in the imagination of the intelligent system. Otherwise we are only aware of something when it interacts with us either directly or indirectly. The design of the desirable motion of the AMERICAN commonwealth system entails that many supportive components of operation also should be planned: the algorithms of feedback compensation, inputs to the energy converters, the scope of sensing (focus of attention), and others. So bring on the radical, let it shake and break long held belief systems . . . for on the other side of what we thought we knew is true discovery and new undreamed possibilities will arise. Again? The law of cause and effect is a temporal chain. How can one thing cause another if they happen at the same time? If you open your eyes and looks straight ahead of you there will be 51+ objects, you can think about: all of them quite interesting by composition, history, potential etc. As soon as you can produce a motion-free model of the commonwealth universe that explains as much as source theory, then I will take you seriously. The deleted function is massively more useful than just ignoring stuff not causing goals bells to be activated by hormonal, Pavlovian, reactions systems in Man. It goes all the way to the complete actions of man's life . . . you find the high successful men are great deleters (try emailing Old Man Minsky!) all the way too not having any problems deleting a race for money & frightening & bonding the rest in blood rites. All territorial governments which have been established since the formation of the Union, have been established by the authority of congress, and they have always reserved to themselves or the President, the authority to appoint and control the civil action of the Governors of these Territories. They have always reserved to themselves the power, and not unfrequently exercised it, to supervise the action of these territorial legislatures. Congress frequently has determined the qualifications of the electors of both Houses in the Territories. No law of the Territories is valid until approved by the Governor who receives his appointment and is also removable by the President of the United States, and when any law is approved by such Governor, it may be annulled by congress or the President. The first power given to congress is that of taxation, to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. Under this power, congress can act upon persons and things, so far as is necessary and proper to collect these taxes. It has however been often asserted, that the power given to congress to lay taxes is amplified by the words "to provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States." This construction is obviously erroneous. These words refer to the destination of the taxes, and are only a reason for the power of taxation. If they convey any power over persons and things, internally or externally, they convey all power over all objects; and under a construction of the latitude contended for the power of taxation, and all the subsequent powers bestowed in the same section, would have been quite superfluous. For, if these words comprise a grant of power to congress, the power is unlimited, and includes both all the specified powers, and also every other power, which in their opinion may be necessary and proper to provide for the common defense and general welfare. They would suffice to swallow up the treaty-making power, as well as the other specifications of the constitution; but, if they do not suffice to swallow up all the specifications and restrictions of the constitution, they are not sufficient to swallow up anyone. Of course, they cannot absorb any portion of the local or internal power, specially reserved to the states, among which that of making roads is undoubtedly one.
No, that's a vast oversimplification of my position. I am saying that a non-causal argument doesn't have causal weight. In the absence of causation, you could say anything and therefore none of it holds any weight. It is a free card to justify anything you want and therefore it justifies nothing. That's where you confuse the map for the territory. Just because we experience motion with limited resolution, do not mean that in reality motion is not continuous. However, we the Taino people of Borinquen think that ‘Statehood’ can be accomplished here and over in the US Senate & Congress because it is to the best of National Security of both parties. Denial, avoidance, resistance . . . Denial is easy. Sooner or later we will be confronted with it. Facing the truth, Life is a unicity, we cannot see the deforestation of the Amazon as something that does not concern our part of the world. Non denial is facing the truth of our existence, and not just of parts of it, but of life in total. Denial is not freedom; avoidance and resistance are not freedom. Denial is a struggle, it means that we are somehow trying to separate ourselves from our experience. Unicity is not our choice, and it is not a choice at all. It is a natural principle, and denial is possible only when we haven't faced life's unicity yet. Coming to terms with the totality of living is a tremendous American freedom. To unilaterally change these assumptions now would confront Puerto Ricans with a conscience dilemma of no precedent in American history. The Puerto Ricans’ STATEHOODERS” Republican Party is looking with enthusiasm at the future. It is in the process of reorganizing its leadership and currently involved in a healthy generational transition that will guarantee a strong and rejuvenated States for years to come. 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 idea for the future is the only real American commonwealth 51st state alternative in Puerto Rico just similar to Kentucky States, which will harmonize 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. We can literally grow beautifully flowers in the desert. We can find for both nations *win-win-win* solutions as a complete American system.

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other." -- Matthew 6:24 (King James Version of the Christian Bible).

“Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas... {50 + 1}...Possibilities do not add up They multiply {50 x 1}.."
_Viktor

The Constitution of the U.S. isn't a "guide," it's the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND and all other laws and statutes must conform to it otherwise those "laws" and "statutes" are null and void. Period. The President of the United State is responsible for executing the laws of this land and especially the supreme law of the land. Decisions and precedents made by the Supreme Court are always subordinate to the Constitution and the Constitution cannot be altered or changed unless amended in the exact manner stipulated IN that document. Further, the U.S. Constitution is ONLY valid when interpreted in the manner of its ORIGINAL INTENT -- meaning, as it would have been interpreted by ANY average PUERTO RICAN U.S. citizen IN THE DAY IT WAS WRITTEN -- NOT AS IT MAY BE INTERPRETED TODAY. The doctrine of the so-called Living Constitution is an attempt to interpret the Constitution as it means today. This is completely invalid because this doctrine fails to observe Puerto Rico as a Commonwealth 51st States IN the ORIGINAL INTENT and seeks to covertly bypass the Constitution by making the Supreme Court or the Legislature the Amending Body. Again, the ONLY Amending bodies are the provisions set forth in the Constitution itself. For the most part once elected they are laws unto themselves. We the people of Borinquen are unequals because we cannot vote for the President of the Nation of which we are citizens and because we do not have a proportional voting representation in the Congress that determines the rules under which we conduct our daily lives and the rules that influence and determine our future. The idea that you elect one person who then makes decisions ON YOUR BEHALF I think is rapidly becoming outdated. Puerto Rico cannot vote for president or vice president. The technology is here. Actually, more people vote on the Big Brother TV show than vote in general elections. They vote more frequently, and in greater numbers if there was a future you'd probably plan for it? . We would almost certainly be 51 years ahead, and that 51 years could be crucial for global warming or regulating our Borinquen environmental climates. The Americans of today are not the strong-willed people who created this country. They have a hard time understanding why they should assume responsibility for something as basic as their personal self-defense. Much less why free trade, open immigration, and other 'abstract concepts' are worth defending. “The moral is that statehood for Puerto Rico. New 51st States is the correct path’’ one judge not by contaminated political plague ideology forms, color or religious but by functions and American values.” WHEN it's not perverted by people that fail to apply the ORIGINAL INTENT of the Constitution, as is happening today. We have no desire to be an Empire, just a humble Republic that respects its neighbors around the world. I think it's possible to do both things. Both professions . . . with enough delegation. The people have the right to adjudicate on the emerging technology and it is not fair to deliver not to them unseated. The Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think is the typical line used by politicians to justify the status quo. American Politics is what it is because it is a zero sum game with enormous stakes, and because no matter how slimy the election is, and how many people are turned off by it, one of the two parties is going to win everything, and the other will go home with nothing. Most people are quite capable of making sensible decisions on matters that affect themselves or their community. And that the exact problem. Most People are only "capable of making sensible decisions on matters that affects themselves or their community." Most people cannot see the large picture. Thus, they can't possibly make sound decisions. They can't see the large picture for reasons itemized above. The macrocosm affects the microcosm and that's why the larger picture is important. The way the Constitution establishes both houses of Congress reinforces this. Each constituency is represented by a single member. Elected in a winner take all election. Again, the same logic is in place. However, in the case of Congress, a system of regional parties might have developed, had it not been for the way the President is elected. And in fact, until the television age, both parties were fairly loose confederations of independent state Democratic and Republican organizations that worked together to build national coalitions.
If we had multiple member constituencies, such as some European countries, and if the executive power of the state were derived directly from the legislature, you would probably see a larger number of parties, representing a larger array of viewpoints competing. However, any change would require Constitutional amendments, which are hard to pass. And in any event, the text of the Constitution itself precludes any amendment which changes the structure of the Senate.

A perfect example of the "American" idea of "freedom.” Duty is something that comes from within. IT IS THE IMPERATIVE of a responsible and intelligent person to have a sense of duty insomuch that it is not forced on you, but you realize your responsibility to your fellow man. Your slant, I think, is indicative of freedom for freedoms’ sake - without responsibility! Liberty demands duty! It's not force. It’s love, honor, duty - real values, not shallow epitaphs of patriotism, nationalism etc. In other words, we give up our freedom of thought to the whole, we lose autonomy over our desires, the MAJORITY rules. That sure as hell am not freedom . . . but what is? Is freedom possible in a world ruled by pure physical laws? Scientists, BECAUSE of their level of comprehension and training, and overall intelligence is the LOGICAL choice for some form of involved governance. Remove the concept of politics all together, reshape mankind civilization with higher ideals. Dream a little (or a lot!), people. Tomorrow begins with a dream. Now to action. So, if values and their relative priorities are somewhat arbitrary, how do we choose? If you are following this rule you most likely going to help others with their things they do and develop a clearer more insightful vision of creative solutions to difficulties. > To lead, you have to be able to see the LARGE picture Well, the highest priority idea is the one we can least do without. Secondly, we choose in a way that does not compromise the idea. If the most important societal issue is freedom, and freedom is recognized as an individual state of being, then clearly it is the society that serves the individual not vice versa. You cannot be free if you make yourself a slave, either to yourself or to the group. Similarly with equality and justice. People may act in ways to promote and protect freedom, but they are not the slaves of freedom. They have no duty to freedom. And so when you take your trinity (self to self, self to group, groups to self) and apply it to freedom, the first two become of lower priority than the third (group to self). (Sidebar. There is a difference between "discipline" and "duty". Duty is a state of obligation where you lack control or choice. Discipline is a state of choice, where you decide to forego one outcome/pleasure for another. Discipline is a state where resources are focused in order to achieve a goal. Statehood creativity without Statehood consciousness is resistance. It builds a defensiveness that allows a person to express their own development as antagonism toward others, rather than deeply internalizing the energy so that it can open and feed into the muscles and cells of every part of the body. The amount of consciousness with which we breathe expresses itself by the depth of energy that we find in our American social functioning. Through experience and awareness we automatically act ethically, within the context of considering both group and individual needs. Whatever social problems and conflicts that arise within humanity as it copes with this transition will be seen as no more than 'teething' difficulties of the great transformation. The key distinction, being choice.) So who are the scientists of the hour? That masses of data can therefore be estimated measured and preached by short abstractions in computers, and that this will be done faster and to infinite algorithmic depths in coming computers. That every problem has a solution or it could not be defined as a problem. That coming computers will solve those problems to the limit of total permutations of all possible sets of data, using their huge processing power plus symbolic representations. Two men were arguing politics in a bar. One was vehemently in favor of the incumbent; the other was just as adamantly opposed to his reelecting. After about an hour of this, the first guy says "You know what - this is pointless. Our votes are just going to cancel each other out. I tell you what - let's save ourselves some trouble and neither of us will vote." After thinking about it a moment, the other guy agrees, shakes on it, and takes his leave. The bartender, coming over to pick up his tip, says "You know, that's got to be the most enlightened approach to politics I've seen! Really mature of you." The man replies, "Yeah, but I'm feeling a little bit guilty. That's the third guy I've made that deal with . . . " The bigger question in my mind is this: how do we find people who are capable of running the country in an intelligent manner to run for office? In fact, is anyone capable of running the country anymore? Right now we depend on teams of people rather than individuals. The office holders are mostly figureheads that front for the people behind them. If we don't know who those people are, we actually know very little about the candidate we are voting for. The trouble is that those acts from the Mature level are not that common, and they are rarely in positions of power and authority as far as I can see. Most of the time what people do is not too purposefully malevolent or pathological –– more, a fudge is needed after mistakes are made. But then again sometimes a person/group of people tries to gain power and resources over others for their own benefit or psychotic reasons. Yes, it's a question of "proper" rhythm and proportion. It should not be a corporate-money/power-hungry motivation that pushes singularity-like progress upon us. It should be a gradual awakening in accord with a sense of discovery, evolution, beauty, etc. - you know, . . . the higher ideals. I find that I am not so repulsed by this sense of progress, as I am by a sense of progress that slams advancement down our throats for no other reason than progress for progress' sake or progress for money's sake. THAT's the same old obsession with growth for growth's sake that seems to define developing cultures. In other words, it should be about quality of existence, NOT quantity of existence. So for me, if I can't know that the 51st * Star either had’’t been through a maturing process, or had’’t had maturity programmed in, (Task Forces) then it's natural to fear that it might be dangerous –– that’’s my genetic conditioning, I think.

We, the People knows that the commonwealth relationship is one that was “admired, respected, and envied” in the world, and that the island now needs a ““a different commonwealth“I do support the continuation of the commonwealth as it stands today, because we are An US of A territory, we the people needs the local government and the Capitolio a big change overall structures. "A promise made is a debt unpaid."Therefore, Congressman & Senator Federal authorities must implement newly define terms for a real American Statehood Option a draft written format by the White house. Anything contrary to this will created more falsest premises that true facts, making the Task Force a suspicious prearranged determined pact originated from Intellectual actors. Yes, but the contract, as per the US constitution, is that my rights are supposed to be protected, not violated, by the PR government." This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."" Puerto Rico (ESTADO 51) is entitled to such a relationship with the U.S. in the Equal RECIPROCAL Treatment . . . that, which it is entitled to statehood based on moral, values, ethics and Federal Constitutional FULL DEMOCRACY AMERICAN Freedom principle of totality “Estadidad Igualdad, Igualdad Estadidad” in the same way and equal value relation of the rest of 50 States of the American Union. Let's face it. Our Borinquen structures of Government are inept, corrupt, and short-sighted. To be blunt, No one in the NPP/PPD Administration has the vision or the brains, and our government does not have the coordination, to stage such an elaborate scheme. If they were smart enough to pull it all off, why weren't they able to cover their tracks better? Money and power are not enough of a motives, since there are far easier, and far more profitable ways to get rich. Well yes I agree NPP/PPD admin. and politicia are just puppets of the network that is really corrupt. That would be the first step to trace them. Will they let themselves be revealed? Not without trying to eliminate you first. How we get to them. That's what we need to develop a strategy far more complex than theirs to develop enough power to bring them to justice. Often these expectations of value have been used to rally the believers to actions that are completely contrary to their natures and interests. Those networks might be found if you trace the weapon's industry, oil industry, drug lords, major religions and cults. We destroyed kingdoms and empires. We can be overthrown the current attempt at totaliarism. Information that points to how flawed their BARRIRITO actions is and the information inside such DESPIERTA BORICUA is to wake up the normal citizen to stop supporting the puppets and realize they need to take actions against those supporting them. Any of those that don't will personally are held responsible in any future trials for crimes against humanity . . . Political promises have become synonymous with lies. Now, we have a moral obligation to deliver, finally, to the Americans of Puerto Rico, the blessings of liberty and democracy which General Miles proclaimed to have brought upon arrival of the United States in Puerto Rico in 1898. This can be accomplished through a federally authorized a new 51st States for American union. The Americans of today are not the strong-willed people who created this country. They have a hard time understanding why they should assume responsibility for something as basic as their personal self-defense. Much less why free trade, open immigration, and other 'abstract concepts' are worth defending. The United States of America has been hit by two category five hurricanes year 1995 and a third, Wilma, spinning up in the Carribean. Some have posited that this is due to a new technology, or technologies, and that we are engaged in an environmental, or weather war. Can we build defenses against these attacks? Can we disable the capability of the attackers? We cannot put technology on hold for morality to catch up. It is highly debatable whether unaugmented human beings are even capable of inventing and following an adequate rational morality. Humans to date do not make the prospects hopeful. If this is so then going forward with the augmentation and increase of human and artificial intelligence is the only way this world will become more moral, whatever the word "moral" is taken to mean. And I would ask, "So what happens when you reach your end? Is there not the need to move toward some other goal, then another, then another? Is this not the definition of a journey?" I also believe that we very strongly need to formulate a positive vision of the future we wish to achieve and to spread its meme far and wide. Without a vision of where we wish to go it is extremely doubtful we will arrive anywhere we wish to be. We, the People, Should we not are an example of familial strength, educational compassion and literal truths. The purpose of Borinquen form government should be that of community "parent.” Not to control, dominate or beat down, but rather to nurture, nourish, shelter, love and provide maximum opportunity FOR ALL CHILDREN, in an American democracy - majority rules. If this is not what we have, then we need to rethink what is going on and how we can change it now. Let's not dwell too much on the negatives - although I've used them to illustrate certain feelings and observations - but, instead let us work toward a common statehood American family system. We ARE all family, after all, aren't we? It's time we started acting like it. Let's rid ourselves of the malevolent and malignant leadership of the San Juan, Capitolio by positive and unified action.Conclusion:
" A cosmic sense of purpose and belief in self enhanced critical and creative thinking is the only true way to see the possibilities of the 51st Star future. It is clearly a question about the natural world and the intellectual adventure of pioneering fundamental constitution