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Ordinary citizens with great common sense sometime make our lawmakers and economists look like they are still in first grade . Here’s a great example!

I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend.

To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00. My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let’s assume a tax rate of 30%. Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam. But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket.

A husband and wife has $595,000.00. What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family? Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved. Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads. Put away money for college - it’ll be there. Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs. Buy a new car - create jobs Invest in the market - capital drives growth. Pay for your parent’s medical insurance - health care improves. Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else.

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.

If we’re going to re-distribute wealth let’s really do it…instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00         ( “vote buy” ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President.

If we’re going to do an $85 billion bailout, let’s bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+! As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

Here’s my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn’t.

Sure it’s a crazy idea that can “never work.” But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!

How do you spell Economic Boom?

I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC. And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

Ahhh…I feel so much better getting that off my chest.

Kindest personal regards,

Birk
T. J. Birkenmeier, A Creative Guy & Citizen

PS: Feel free to pass this along to your pals as it’s either good for a laugh or a tear or a very sobering thought on how to best use $85 Billion!!

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One of the missions of NPN is to alert readers to emerging trends and to act as a catalyst to the co-creation of a more enlightened and sustainable world. Teleseminars are a great way to learn about and implement shift strategies in our lives. Given the current economic turbulence, any strategies and/or methodologies that empower us to use our minds to create a better future rather than worry and fear the present seem worthwhile.Please pass this information along to anyone you feel might be interested or benefit.

On Tuesday, October 21 from 6:30-7:45pm (Pacific), free-lance investigative journalist, writer, artist and poet, Jon Rappoport, will present a live teleseminar, Old Planet, New Planet, New Mind.

Here is a note from Jon:

“In my last seminar, I briefly touched on the concept of the old planet and how it operates, as opposed to the new planet and what that means. Now I intend to broaden out this inquiry and cover the subject from the beginning and much more deeply.

We are on the verge of making a giant leap into a future that is utterly unlike any status quo in any culture in the history of the planet.

The requirement for making the leap (and it is the individual who does it) is a new mind. This mind is not based on old patterns and old gears. It is, in fact, more than the usual definitions of Mind. It is so much more than a rational tool. It is a quiver full of arrows, and those arrows pierce the sky and beyond.

People have always been aware, to one degree or another, that this new mind exists, and they have tried various ways to get to it. Drugs, meditation, ceremonies, quests, ordeals, gurus, “secret knowledge,” and so on. But when they move forward, they also then feel they slip back. Why?

Because a state of mind isn’t a specific “thing.” It isn’t a car inside a showroom you can buy and drive away. It isn’t a room you walk into, closing the door behind you. A state of mind is really a byproduct of action. Most spiritual systems, in other words, have it backwards.

Not only that, these systems actually believe the cherished state of mind is something you arrive at when you strip away “excess baggage.” That is an attractive notion, but it is an illusion. To use another image, the new mind isn’t a ship from which all merchandise has been offloaded. Such an approach usually leaves a person in a weakened state.

In a nutshell, action is what brings a person into New Mind, where he sees, with great clarity, a new future, a new world—and that action is of a particular type. It is creative action. It is creative action that proceeds from spontaneous imagination. It is creative action that naturally excavates dormant areas of Self and brings them to the surface.

These dormant areas are exactly what does not fit into the old world.

These dormant areas have been buried deep, to avoid the realization that the best part of yourself is beyond the culture of this world.

These dormant areas are emotions and ideas and energies that operate like arrows shot into the blue sky.

When these sleeping energies are awakened, the future is limitless. The future is an infinite number of galvanizing spaces that are the substance of the new world…

When you sign up for the call, you’ll automatically receive an email giving you the phone number to call and your personal passcode to enter, to get into the live call. In addition to attending the live event, you can choose to receive either a CD of the seminar or an MP3. So even if you can’t be on the call, you’ll have a record of the whole evening. This is a one-night event, so the cost is considerably lower than Jon’s 3-night seminars.

To learn more about, sign up for the event, or to learn more about Jon, visit his website and click on the top banner.

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As many readers know, in chaos theory, there is a point of systemic chaos before a reorganization at a higher level. Perhaps this is how we might hold current events so as not to become overwhelmed. The following excellent piece by Steve Behrman, aka, Swami Beyondananda is a new paradigm perspective on the economy from a cellular point of view that resonates with me. You can receive Steve’s Notes From the Trail by visiting his site and signing up for a free subscription.

“With the new bailout plan, the U.S. dollar will be worth slightly less than a dollar in Monopoly money. And the good news? Finally energy medicine is being used to heal the financial world — we have homeopathic currency, diluted down to a mere trace of real value.”

— Swami Beyondananda

A funny thing happened on the way to the election. The house of credit cards economy collapsed. Interestingly but not surprisingly, neither of the two major candidates were able to get out of the box of conventional economics enough to do any more than invite their fellow Americans aboard the bailout express to financial train wreck.

Interestingly and more surprisingly, Americans from all political perspectives have risen up with such outrage and awareness that the railroaded bill is now off on a siding. Curious indeed to see Michael Moore and very conservative Republican congressfolk on the same side, but this economic collapse may be the thing that puts the “unum” back in “e pluribus unum.” [Read more →]

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Powerful video…

J.

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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
–John Lubbock

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