-- US citizens disapprove of GW Bush's presidency: 61%

-- GW Bush approves John McCain

-- John McCain approves GW Bush

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So who is right for the USA?

John McCain + Sarah Palin?

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-- GSC

Well, just kick him in them - very, VERY hard!

(And get rid of your boy friend, too).

GSC

GW Bush and Gang lied, and lied again, and lied again - and again, and again...

And US citizens re-elected GW Bush in 2004!

Any wonder that John McCain and Sarah Palin are lying too? They do really and truly believe that lying fetches dividends at the polls!

Do US citizens have what it takes to prove them wrong?

(Thus far, I see few signs of that happening: McCain-Palin is running neck-and-neck with Obama-Biden!!!

-- GSC

Only in the USA (and maybe in Nazi Germany) could a despicable liar, incompetent and proven war criminal like GW Bush have gotten elected to be president in 2004 despite all the evidence against him and his Gang.

Thus it is with huge unease that I watch the various tracking polls and see that McCain-Palin (the able successor team to GW Bush and Dick Cheney) is running Obama-Biden neck-and-neck at this stage, less than 2 months before Election Day!

Democrats and other human beings still extant in the USA: you surely do need to get your act together, very speedily indeed! Beware new equivalents of the 'wolves lurking in the undergrowth', the 'Swift-Boaters', and other tricks that Bush-Cheney-Rove-McCain-Palin are for sure getting ready for their final push!

-- GSC

With a considerable sense of relief, I post a link to an article (in WSJ of all places!) claiming that Obama is still a pretty solid favourite in the race:

http://bpp.wharton.upenn.edu/jwolfers/Press/WSJcolumn/15-Making%20Sense%20of%20Market%20Disagreement.pdf

GSC

Some things are clear:

Economics - whether of the socialist variety or the capitalist variety - is truly the 'dismal science' insofar as its current potential to enable us to understand the dynamics of socio-economic systems. It's entirely clear from events around us that economists themselves barely understand this - so what hope have others?

On the one hand we have before us the collapse a few years ago of the Soviet system, and on the other hand, as Pancho has reminded us on this thread (in a message titled "Not Sinking"), we have the near-collapse from the other side:

--SubPrime

--Fannie Mae

--Freddie Mac

--Countrywide

--Merrill Lynch

--Lehman Bros.

--Bear Stearns

--Indy Mac

(The only thing keeping the financial system alive right now is the US treasury press's printing at light speed).

(At another level, millions on millions of individuals who are otherwise reasonable human beings have been behaving like a bunch of crazed lemmings - in regard to, for instance, their behavior with credit cards and also in regard to the way they invest in the market...

(And at yet another level, we have the instance of millions of presumably sane US citizens re-electing GW Bush and Gang to rule their nation in 2004 when they already had clear evidence before them that these 'leaders' were liars, cheats and war criminals of the foulest variety! At least US $ 600 billion have been squandered on GW Bush's idiotic war; Nobelwinner Joseph E. Stiglitz has roughly estimated the real costs of GW Bush's little adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan to be at least US $ 3 TRILLION!! -

(and US citizens have STILL not thought about putting these scoundrels into jail for the rest of their miserable lives... Surely there are a great many lessons to be learnt all round about the 'interconnectedness of things'!!!)

The economic systems worldwide are in a total mess from ground up, and only now are we beginning (very dimly) to realise this... Doubtless there will be many MANY more rude shocks before we learn better sense (if ever we do).

As 'democracy' has spread (even democracy of this phony electoral variety that is in place in many nations, including the world's economic and military superpower the USA for instance), it is clear that the basic requirement of understanding of the 'inter-relatedness of things' in our societal systems has not improved amongst the experts and amongst the citizens who should become aware of such things.

Remarkably enough, the tools to enable us understand this "inter-relatedness of things" have long been available in the seminal contributions of Professor John N. Warfield to systems science - alas scarcely understood by economists (or even 'freakonomists'). Information about Warfield's contributions is available at http://www.jnwarfield.com and at the "John N. Warfield Collection" maintained at the library of George Mason University (check out: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/gmu/vifgm00008.tp)

Based on Warfield's seminal contributions, a uniquely powerful aid to problem solving and decision making has developed that I call the 'One Page Management System' (OPMS): this tool enables anyone - at any level - to apply all of Warfield's sophisticated systems science to develop practical systems for our daily lives.

Individuals and groups can use the OPMS to define with clarity and precision the actions to perform from day to day in pursuit of their complex goals and Missions - and also to monitor performance of those needed actions over time.

It takes a (very) little learning and a fair bit of 'unlearning' to use the effectively OPMS on real issues.

-- GSC

The last sentence:

It takes a (very) little learning and a fair bit of 'unlearning' to use the effectively OPMS on real issues.

SHOULD READ:

It takes a (very) little learning and a fair bit of 'unlearning' to use the OPMS effectively on real issues.

Sorry about that.

GSC