Sudden Knockout
In 1929, the presidential post was taken by Herbert Hoover, an ingenious engineer and entrepreneur who was the Secretary of Commerce since 1921. He was the one who brilliantly “propelled” the American and international markets and led the country to prosperity... And nearly killed the bureaucracy’s hopes for power and all-permissiveness that were once promised to it by the first American “Bureaucracy Monster,” President Harold Wilson.
And precisely at that moment, the Federal Reserve, which was a product of the savvy bureaucrat Wilson and essentially a criminal degenerate of state bureaucracy and Wall Street, delivered a thoroughly calculated knockout blow to the economy of its own country and, as it later turned out, of the entire world, resulting in the Great Depression and World War II. The villain’s calculations were precise:
- The preliminary charted time and circumstances of the strike at the New York Stock Exchange allowed them to play the “bear speculation” game and pocket a vast part of the country’s wealth while crushing the resistance of the market-oriented middle class.
- The destruction of the economy allowed the bureaucrats to bring to power their leader and protege – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president who caused the country the most damage in US history. We will dedicate one of our subsequent articles to his feats on the glory of bureaucracy.
Then, the new deja-vu – bureaucracy again destroys its economy. For eight years, George Bush heroically fought the bureaucracy spreading like a malignant tumor. And despite the powerful resistance of his bureaucracy, he brought the country to new market prosperity. He kept moving things towards the next Republican president, John McCain, to continue the battle against the bureaucrats.
But the situation was asymmetrical. While the country’s interests were the absolute priority for Bush, his opponents, the bureaucratic conglomerate, struggled for power and didn’t care in the least about America’s interests. So, they exactly repeated the 1929 knockout scenario. Less than two months before the election, a deliberately organized bankruptcy of one of the largest investment banks, the Lehman Brothers, led to the chain of other bankruptcies and impoverishment of many people[1]. Again, just as in 1929, the following took place:
- Bear speculations, appropriation of enormous market wealth by financial gangsters, weakening and suppressing of the middle class.
- The rise to power of a political marionette, a recent graduate with no practical experience in politics, economy, management, or creativity – Barack Obama[2].
And here is another deja-vu. We felt ashamed of our country, the one we had a chance to fall in love with: why was the US chosen to prove the idiotic idea expressed by Vladimir Lenin that “any cook is capable of ruling a country”?
Constantly and with growing horror, we witnessed what the bureaucracies in America were doing under the formal rule of Obama and how America was coming dangerously close to bureaucratic Russia. By the end of the “Obama era,” the bureaucracy in America became nearly almighty. It merged with other powerful and infamous world bureaucracies using legal and illegal financial and corruptive channels. The four horsemen of the bureaucratic apocalypse – Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping – were leading the way for legions of minor demons, the bureaucrats, all over the world.
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love at first sight
On August 6, 2015, we switched on the TV to see the first presidential debates of Republican candidates. We instantly “fell in love” with Donald Trump. A new and the most fascinating deja-vu – it seemed as though we’d already seen him and known a lot about him but couldn’t remember when and where... And the more we watched Trump – his battles against the opponents, the unusual decisions, his smart and funny jokes – the stronger this feeling grew. Finally, we realized whom Trump resembled so much!
Assignment for the readers
Write us your opinion – whom do you think Donald Trump resembles most in his nature, ideas, actions, appeal, and charisma?
It is probably impossible to imagine a more fantastic movement than the one started in the US in 2015. One person stood out against a massive force of the government and corporate bureaucracy, the Democratic party as its “political wing,” a variety of all kinds of ultraleft liberals, the System of Mass Disinformation (aka the media) allied with the bureaucracy, trade-unions, educational systems, etc. It seemed he did not have even the slightest chance! Nonetheless, he marched from success to success!
November 8, 2016. The day of the Presidential Election. We were glued to the TV all day, gradually losing hope. By 5 pm, exit polls predicted the victory for Hillary Clinton with a 90% probability. The Fox New commentators nearly cried. But somewhere around 9 pm, after the polls had closed, instead of the expected overwhelming victory by Clinton in Virginia, the vote count was still close, and very experienced Chris Wallace thoughtfully said that in his opinion, Trump might have a chance of becoming our 45th president. At about 10:40, Florida voted for Trump. By one o’clock in the morning, we were all shaking with excitement – how would the dice fall? And at 2:40 in the morning, Pennsylvania dropped the curtain on this election! This meant total defeat for the Democrats. In the end, Trump received 35 more electoral votes than he needed for the victory. Around 3 am, we watched the appearance of Trump with his family and his closest associates; we drank champagne wine and went to bed happy...
The next day, nearly every commentator on every channel tried to analyze what happened. There were multiple speculations, most of which were correct to a certain extent. But based on our observations and inventive resource analysis methods, we could see the main point (as we thought).
We worked on a flexible schedule, so we voted around 10 am. Many people were at the polls, mostly college students, mothers with small children, and the elderly. It seems that those who voted in the morning, for the most part, had no set working hours. Many of them were typical Democrats – the establishment, the officials that were given a chance to get out of work for this purpose, students, professors, welfare recipients, and, perhaps, even illegal voters.
But in the evening, the polls were flooded by the working-class people who worked during the day. Truck and taxi drivers, qualified workers, contractors, hospital staff, office clerks – all those who previously were not too interested in politics and preferred to watch football or drink beer in the evening. They recognized that Clinton’s continuation of Obama’s trend to strengthen bureaucracy would pose an immediate threat to them personally. And they went to vote to stop this bureaucracy expansion, even though they did not formulate this in our terms but just felt it at the subconscious, intuitive level.
Thirty-five years after Ronald Reagan, the USA got another extraordinary market-oriented president. There came four years of fantastic success and then - an insulting loss to a new bureaucratic marionette!
And the last deja-vu of the day. One of the authors (guess who?), 60 years ago, finished his first round of the first boxing fight in his life lying flat in the corner of the ring. Nevertheless, in the last round, he was standing above the opponent, lying flat in the exact same place... Trump brilliantly won the first round against the massive bureaucracy army but sadly lost on points to the con artists in the second one...
BUT THE NIGHT IS STILL YOUNG!
- We hope that in this election year, Congress and the Senate will become Republican and anti-bureaucratic.
- We hope that in 2024, the president’s post will again be taken by Donald Trump or someone capable of leading the way in the fight against bureaucracy.
- We hope the Democratic Party will discard the crazy socialists and corrupted highest-level bureaucrats as trash and start representing people's interests.
We consider this series of articles to be our and your, dear reader, contribution to the joint protection against the fatal strengthening of bureaucracy. Here is the approximate plan of the articles in the series “Bureaucracy and Life”:
- Bureaucracy from the Toilet. Parkinson's Law – the effect of bureaucracy malignant transformation. Why did senator Rand Paul yell in the Senate at the assistant director of the Energy Department, “Toilets are not working in my home, and it's your fault!”
- Leftist Plague. Ideologies are the bureaucracies’ tool. Socialism is the ideology of malignant bureaucracy. Socialists – from Wang Mang and Savonarola to Marx, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and, unfortunately, Roosevelt – are the authors of the most horrible events in human history.
- Why did Bureaucracy Still Not Defeat Reason? Bureaucracy maintains order in the country; it is needed, and it is impossible to get rid of it. It strives for unlimited power, but we know by experience that there is something in society that can more or less limit it. What is it exactly?
- Bureaucracy and America. From the pilgrim fathers to slave-holding bureaucracy. American anti-bureaucratic revolution. The ingenious Second Amendment of the Constitution.
- Democratic Party of Racism. The party of enslavers and Jim Crow, the racism of Harold Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Barack Obama. Welfare as the exterminatory strike at African Americans. Anti-negro provocation of the Critical Race Theory.
- Bureaucracy poet Harold Wilson.
- The Main Bureaucratic Monster of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
- The Main War Criminal of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
- The Savior of the World from Bureaucracy, Harry Truman.
- Bureaucracy of America is the Servant of Organized Crime. Attorneys and judges of Soros. capturing of America by drug cartels.
Our supply of material on bureaucracy is not limited to the above articles. We intend to use a lot of information on the slow-approaching Bureaucratic Apocalypse during the Obama rule and on the brilliant presidency of Trump. As the elections are coming closer, we try to devote more attention to the “bureaucracy today” subject.
We are counting on your feedback and look forward to many exciting discussions...
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Question to the readers: what limits the bureaucracy?
Hint: forget the trivial references to the Great Election Democracy! This is precisely what bureaucracy tries to indoctrinate us with, this deceptive “excuse” invented by the demagogues of Ancient Greece and Rome and is still messing with the heads of people who are naturally stupid or dumbed down by the bureaucratic education and propaganda.
Assignments for the reader
Write us your opinion – who does Donald Trump resemble most in his nature, ideas, actions, appeal, and charisma?
Forty years ago, we came up with the idea of using the “inversion” technique proposed by Altshuller (changing the meaning of a statement to its reverse) and the “subversion analysis” method proposed by Zlotin (examining any system from the viewpoint of “how to mess it up”) for transforming scientific problems into inventive challenges and solving them, i.e., building scientific ideas, hypotheses, and theories.
At the end of the previous century, we were addressed by one very important-looking lady, a Congress candidate from one of the states, looking for some silver bullet to use in her election campaign. The task was “simple” – to invent something extraordinary in fighting the obesity epidemic that has been torturing America since the 1950s.
We used the TRIZ approach to solve this problem:
- First, we defined the problem as scientific: “To fight the epidemic, we must determine its reason.”
- Then we inverted the situation, making it an inventive problem: “How to make people get fatter?”
The project included standard steps:
- Gathering and analyzing information on the reasons for obesity.
There is a lot of disorderly and often plain false information out there. Typical psychologic inertia:
- The fast-food industry is to blame, so there is nothing to research; all McDonald’s restaurants must be shut down.
- Fat people are to blame; they should stop guzzling like animals.
- Verification of the “public opinion”:
The authors grew up in Russia in the 1950s, where barely anyone heard about the home or even store refrigerators; the meat and sausages we ate were hardly ever fresh, and the food in diners, including the school cafeteria, was always unattractive. Salmonellosis, food poisoning, and intestinal worms were habitual things.
Today, most “obesity victims” are found among the regulars of fast-food restaurants, where everything is tasty, high-calorie, and affordable. But at least it's fresh food. So, what is worse – obesity or endless poisonings? Both are worse!
- Preliminary conclusions:
- Instead of fighting the fast-food industry, move the focus on obesity (not ignoring fast food as an obesity-related issue).
- The key point of the search. Something happened in America in the mid-50s that started the active obesity epidemic. And it is NOT the appearance of fast-food chains.
- Using TRIZ:
- Inverting the problem: how to make a person eat more?
- Simple solution (one of many discussed): accelerate the digestion process, so the food moves faster from the stomach to the intestines, freeing up space in the stomach for more food.
- Searching the libraries of the still weak Internet back then – how to accelerate digestion? The most obvious answer is food additives, medications, heavy exercise, sports... Nah, not interesting.
- Narrowing down the search: how to remove the food from the stomach faster, so a person can eat more?
The Internet found an article in a medical magazine dated back to the 1960s. It told a nearly-anecdotical story. A patient visited a doctor to have a stomach x-ray. As required by the procedure, he drank the barium sulfate solution (the x-ray contrast fluid), but the capricious machine refused to operate. It took about half an hour to revive it, and the resulting x-ray picture shocked the doctors. The stomach contained no barium whatsoever... This puzzled them, so they researched the issue and found that the solution was made a couple of days ago and stored in the refrigerator. It turned out that cold water, cold food, or just swallowed pieces of ice facilitate the fast opening of the duodenum sphincter (valve), and the under-digested food falls through into the intestines. The confirmation of this effect was also found in other publications. We then tested it on ourselves: if we started dinner with iced water or cold beer and drank it along with the meal, we could eat one and a half to two times more.
Now, back to America. Since the times of frontiersmen, Americans have been washing down their food with much water (it is a hot country, for the most part). They always used room temperature water, but in the 1950s, the manufacturing of special refrigerators for restaurants started, so the water was served with ice. And today, ice water is present in all home refrigerators.
There is no doubt that restaurant-keepers soon discovered that serving ice water substantially increases the order sizes and, subsequently, their profits. So here is another reason for obesity.
The lady, our customer, was horrified – her major sponsors were restaurant-keepers and food manufacturers!
The end
[1] This background for the strike on the economy was prepared by the Clinton administration. In 1997, a wonderful, in terms of objectives, the program was started that helped people to implement the American dream – owning a home. Unfortunately, this program was carried out using bureaucratic methods. The financing of high-risk mortgage loans was organized not via the market way but through the state-supported mortgage agencies – the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA, Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC, Freddie Mac). Naturally, the bureaucracy made no bones about slicing off a hefty chunk from this “free money” flow. For the purpose of controlling the processes, a new private-state partnership, the National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR), was created, and it essentially was just a pump for transferring money into the bureaucrats’ pockets. This gave them the opportunity to manipulate the program as they wished. And this is exactly what was done in 2008.
[2] No need to accuse us of racism – we all hoped to vote for the black woman Condoleezza Rice, the advisor to President Bush on national security, US State Secretary, doctor of political sciences, professor, provost of Stanford university, very successful businesswoman, wonderful musician, ballerina, master of figure skating, fluent in 4 foreign languages... And a beautiful woman... Didn’t work out...
