Shorthopping

At some point the adrenalin of “save the ship” will subside and there will come the time to pay the bill.  There will probably never be a reliable accounting, so roughing it in will have to make the point.  The general population has invested in the order of $2.5 Trillion a year in administration and defense for the country for the last few years.  For this investment, they have received;

• A $10 Trillion hangover from the Bush years

• A $2.8 Trillion tab for subprime market failure which looks less and less like irrational exuberance and more and more like legislative failure

• Probably another $1 Trillion unforeseen liability

A $14 Trillion loss in a private enterprise with a $2.5 Trillion admin expense would reinstate the guillotine.  Now lets get to the indirect costs which will color the image of the United States as a responsible organization.

• $85.6 Trillion unfunded liabilities in domestic programs

• Say 10% drop in global GDP for, say, 18 months – $9 Trillion

Grand Total failure assessment – $22.8 Trillion direct and another $85.6 Trillion passed on to the next seven generations.

Shorthopping baseballs is a defined term:
Pete Colombo – 6/15/2004

• I tell my players to get as close to the hop as possible with the glove and try and use the free hand as a cover against the ball riding up out of the glove.  Show them that if they can get their glove right on where the hop is, it will almost always go right into the glove. Of course, they must ACTUALLY SEE the ball go int the glove.  If they don’t see it in, the chances are greatly reduced that it will go in.  Also, tell them that a short hop is a bad throw — they ARE NOT expected to make the scoop — they ARE expected to block the ball from going past them.  When the scoop is made, it is a web gem.  This will help them relax and not take it so hard when they do not come up with the scoop.

Recognizing the potential for error in the logic construct chosen for this website and accepting humanity’s transparency when dealing at the level presumed to have engaged, the unusual intensity of raw anger shown in the following  impression must find a focal point.  This page details events forming the basis of my barber’s comment “Where is the outrage?”, echoed by many.  There will be no consequences of his outrage.  After all, what is one barber vs. those who contributed to the debacle.  That being said, and therefore taken off the table,  we must try to find inevitable consequences should a more abstract organization make decisions on the fact base of the current situation.  One such consequence is threaded in this Phase V impression.

• Someone picked up Pullman cars of a train and one by one threw them across a room into the opposite wall.  – The old man was briefing some people he wanted to send as ambassadors.  He reviewed their capabilities to transform using the slightest hand motion.  One he was about to send became concerned about the old man’s health.  At the end of the briefing, the old man disappeared, to be replaced by a younger and more vital one.  His students had become quite attached to him, and expressed their concern.  A distant voice announced that he had them all.  A cluster of small trowels – A pendulum at the right edge of an arc (11-12-09)

If the Wegelin analysis leaves any doubts regarding a need for a carefully calibrated and sustained reaction to this threat, the Economist should remove them.  To quote Buttonwood:

• “In response to this second shock, governments have deliberately taken on the debts of the private sector. In most cases it has been assumed that governments have almost limitless capacity to assume such burdens. But you can see welfare states as national Ponzi schemes in which governments grant benefits and take on spending responsibilities, confident in the expectation that the next generation of citizens will pick up the bill.”

Probing reactions with IPv8 suggest a certain impatience on the part of others in a large organization who wonder why the planet is not actively pursuing all its options.  This view is reflected in these Phase VII impressions.

• The mute symbol on the speaker icon in the Toshiba – Some children on a bus going to a religious cult’s medical treatment center in a rural area got a visit from the devil.  “What are you doing here?”  “Just curious”  The devil then disappeared.”  (6.29.10)

• A bank vault door  (7.6.10)

Work In Progress