Ascending The Globe Series: Part 1(Pillar 1 section): A Revelation for Mankind By Edward D.R. James
Lead-in to Pillar One:
These environmental, economic, and political problems we face aren’t just structural, or derived only from policy. No…more pervasive and perverse, these problems are CULTURAL; man-made biases that undermine the very underpinnings of how each of us live and treat one another. Stripping away our integrity and dignity for the “all mighty dollar”, unfortunately, is the presiding corporate culture. One that has mismanaged the scarcity of our resources into this Zero Sum Game-“for me to win, you must lose”; as though the puppeteers of this culture are contriving to have us at each other’s throat with no signs of respite. It is obvious now that our economic system is a Profit-only / GDP-based / Fractional Reserve Ponzi scheme. This “Money as Debt Growth Model” is a False Profit Culture and, therefore, is The Only False Prophet we must defeat by unifying our forces to divest ourselves from it. This Corporatocracy-Capitalism, an ill-conceived “service only to self” culture, has always been that “Anti-Christ”, that “Great Satan” revealed in the passages of each of our respective, sacred scriptures. Dismantling the idolatry of oligarchs and the bondage of their money system is a staple meditation of any decent lover of humanity. Naturally, the questions that arise are: what do we replace it with and how?
In the coming months I will present a series of videos/articles called: Ascending the Global Culture of Economics and Politics. Like ju-jitsu, it’s intended to throw off any possible establishment agenda for a New World Order, and it will regain command over the levers of control to be in the hands of the people. I will submit to you the initial framework for a novel economic model, and propose amendments to repair our broken legislative process. This new economic model will prioritize our values to be ahead of money; one that will increase our profits by first serving others, our planet, and all of her inhabitants.
I will introduce pillars of this framework, each vital to the longevity of the human race—each must be accomplished concurrently. As I described the core pillars, may it stir the wisdom for compassion in organizations all across the globe; especially in organizations like the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), whose members are leaders in economics, business, and politics. May it awaken the soul of every citizen as it did me, to envision our world in complete harmony. Invigorated to serve one another, may our relationships rekindle jubilance in our hearts with each exchange. May our confidence in this new system stand as erect as the summits of justice and liberty—as we continue to define the height and range of those measures. May you be inspired to passionately seek and hold both the thoughts and emotions of creating a new, global economic and political culture; one that extends beyond the security of mankind, enveloping all lives on Mother Earth, herself.
Enter the Revelation Model:
Pillar One: The Resource Oriented Economy to Peg our Currencies with; and the Supply-Demand-Resupply Inventory Network as the Job Creator
A favored chant among the establishment has been that they are the job creators. Yet according to Breitbart, last May the cereal giant, Kellogg Company, announced 185 layoffs for Kansas City, before this were 246 employees in Florida, close to 300 in New York, and 219 more jobs lost in Minnesota.[xxix] This is not to say that Kellogg represents the establishment, rather to spotlight the fact that diminishing profit and sales determines the fate of jobs. It is the customer demand that is the ultimate job creator. In his documentary ‘Inequality for All’, the highly esteemed Economist, Robert Reich, said “The important thing to know is that consumer spending is 70% of the US economy, and the middle class is the heart of that consumer spending…There’s no way to sustain the economy over the long term without a strong, vibrant, and growing middle class.” The documentary included a venture capitalist making between $10-30 million annually, Nick Hanauer, who agreed and said “the problem with rising inequality is, a person like me who makes a thousand as much as the typical American, does not buy 1,000 as much pillows a year, even the richest people only sleep on one or two pillows.”27
I most certainly agree. Apparently, a person’s role as the customer of hundreds, if not thousands of goods and services, has a greater effect on the velocity of money throughout the spectrum of the economy—thus the job markets, than that same person’s role as an employee delivering a handful of goods and services, many times over. So in reply to the establishment, the more accurate statement is that we, the customers, are the more significant job creators—and we must insist this as fact!
Proprietors, principles, and presidents of organizations whether they are private, public, or neither are in truth facilitators. They are the intermediaries between customers and the goods and services these customers seek. Indeed, these positions are noble and worthy goals of ambitious minds. Our current culture, to some degree however, has distorted the relationship of employer and employee to a regard that inches ever so close to that of the master and slave. They treat people like commodities; actuated into monetary risk, to be exhausted through labor until profits finally dictate the terms of their release. Those without enough—no nest egg to retire on, nor a pension to live off of; having but a handful of options, are left to seek out the next master to serve. We keep hearing stories of employees being fired prior to reaching tenure, or long time workers being replaced with younger personnel for less pay. Our heads are barely above water when it comes to our budget; yet they threaten to take away work hours and projects, lower our wages, and cancel our benefits. They threaten municipalities and states of moving their businesses out, unless their taxes are lowered and their terms are met. Instead of protecting people’s jobs, now we’re hearing about the trend of these so called “job creators” to replace people with robots. For the most part, employers “create and protect their profits”, peoples’ jobs are expendable to them—remember that!
Let’s recall Trump’s deal to save around 800 workers with the HVAC maker, Carrier; who went through massive rounds of layoffs this past summer. Bloomberg reported that part of the plan was for Carrier to receive $7 million worth of Indiana tax credits and training grants for the next 10 years, while their parent company United Technologies Corp. (UTC) pledged to spend $16 million upgrading its plants, which would include automation. UTC’s CEO, Gregory Hayes was quoted as saying, “We will take a lot of those jobs that today require very low skill and … eliminate those jobs through automation.” The article continued on saying, “Studies show that 50 percent to 90 percent of job losses at American factories are attributable to productivity gains linked to automation. Except for a blip during the 2008 recession, industrial production in the U.S. has been on a fairly steady rise for decades.”[xxx] If this isn’t enough, there are other innovations that are devouring the labor force like a vulture.
In Greg Palast’s acclaimed documentary “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy”, he told a story of investor Paul Singer’s shameful act of, as Greg stated, “…chewing on the corpses of the Auto-Industry when it collapsed in 2009. Ten years earlier, to save money General Motors had spun off its famous car parts company, Delco, and turned Delco into a separate company called Delphi. As part of a plan to bailout the Auto Industry, the gov’t agreed to help GM buy back Delphi and save Delco’s 25,000 union workers. But what GM and the gov’t didn’t know, was that (Paul Singer) and his partner had secretly scooped up ownership of Delphi. And (they) told GM and the POTUS, that unless Obama gave the (Singer Partnership) $12.9 Billion, they would close down Delphi, and cut off GM’s parts. Without those parts the entire Auto Industry would shut down forever, and over a million jobs would vanish. The US Car Czar called (this) demand ‘extortion’, but the US Treasury paid the $12 Billion. The (Singer Partnership) had bought Delphi stock for $0.67/share, with the bailout move the shares zoomed to $22/share. Paul Singer’s cut was $1,284,514,099. Singer fired every single one of the union workers, and Delphi moved 100,000 jobs overseas, mostly to China.”[xxxi] Certainly not all, but the behaviors of some venture capitalists resemble that of a vulture capitalist. Horrific examples like these, I believe, do represent just a few bad apples, a small portion. Obviously, a greater number of our employers have the best intentions in mind for their employees, their clients, and the communities they serve. One of the ways we can further the endeavors of goodwill is by restructuring our economy to be resource oriented.
By using the systems of a Resource Oriented Economy, our culture will not only reframe our role as customers to be the more significant job creator, but it will peg our currency to our resources. Instead of parlaying an economic system based on monetary profits, GDP, and bonds manipulated by bond rating agencies having conflicts of interests, and then paying-off these bonds with tax formulas rigged to subjugate middle and low income Americans, as well as societies all across the globe; the Revelation Model (RM) will orient the economy according to the measures of our resources. The RM will then distribute these resources, in part, according to the customer’s needs and desires; and the other part through a democratic capitalism-style valuation system, which will be discussed in future videos/articles. After all, real assets provide more certainty, security, and stability. Thus the RM will revive consumer confidence in the markets. The RM seeks to restore the altruistic forces of supply and demand; to earnestly manage scarcity and overcome the challenges of our day. So when natural disasters strike, be it: hurricanes, wild fires, mudslides, earthquakes, volcanos, even massive solar flares, budgetary reasons will not impede the delivery of relief and rebuilding efforts to its completion. For instance, the RM would remedy any shortcomings from the Trump administration’s treatment of Puerto Rico and our citizens there. We will ramp up the supplies and labor, and direct our resources to areas that need them…simply because it’s the right thing to do.
With the Resource Oriented Economy, war will never be contrived to reset our financial woes. Through diplomacy, transparency, and agreeable measures of scientific and democratic approaches we will distribute our resources fairly, and seek to avoid war. Let wisdom and compassion guide humanity in all our countries, with both the military and civilians marching for peace. The Revelation Model seeks to level the playing field and mitigate, if not eliminate, the socio-economic supremacy complexes that has ravaged the histories of countless nations. The RM seeks to make reasonable adjustments needed for population growth and the usage rate of our resources to match, or even better, the earth’s capacity to replenish those resources. Following the ways of sustainability will fulfill our calling in the book of Genesis that we, the people, are to be good stewards of this planet—our most precious gift.
The Resource Oriented Economy, under the RM, will achieve these goals by creating and maintaining the public information technology, infrastructure, and support system needed to manage the supply, demand, and resupply of goods and services. This means that the items and services we purchase will be registered and tracked through the public Supply-Demand-Resupply (SDR) Inventory Network. These purchases will be encrypted in order to maintain privacy. Each household, organization, and place of business will be able to spontaneously walk into any store and purchase items and services, as they do now. They can place their orders over the phone or online for pick-up or delivery, as they do now. You see, it’s imperative we construct a system that is similar enough to minimize disruptions within our communities, yet different enough to incite meaningful change…change that empowers the people.
Quick note, in case you were wondering: We will NOT mandate body implants of any kind, be it: microchip, RFID, or nano-tracking device! We already cannot filter out pharmaceuticals from our drinking water, how much worse will it be if we have nano-sized transhuman waste infiltrating our drinking water, food chain, and local ecosystems?
Continuing on to the supply side, we will be able to monitor the quantity and quality of goods and services that are being delivered from the extraction of elements or refinement of recycled elements, to further processing on the production lines, to the store shelf, and to which retailers and service providers. Now just as the Bitcoin cryptocurrency has a maximum amount of 21 million Bitcoins as the limiting factor to base its value off of, this Resource Oriented Economy will base its national and global currencies off of the measured amounts and efficiencies of our resources, and its corresponding reserves. Perhaps to some degree we may factor in estimates from the preliminary exploration of certain resources.
Scientific evidence already confirms that pollution is destroying us and our posterity. Contaminants and byproducts are poisoning our sources of drinking water, and are devastating every ecosystem in their path. Pollutants and particulates foul the very air we breathe, and jeopardize the hundreds of millions who live near the rising coastal waters. Obligated, our scientists and entrepreneurs are urged to advance the means and measures for us to monitor the impacts of PRODUCER AND CONSUMER WASTE that are supplied back onto the planet. This is what I call the “Resupply” side of this new economy. Without this resupply side, we delude ourselves into thinking that our resources are forever abundant. Without this resupply side we suffer at the hands of our own neglect; for when the fashion of ignorance is declared a fad, we lay naked in the pollution of our own consequences. Therefore the RM will provide excellent compensation to those who produce goods and services that can be completely composted or recycled, having the lowest carbon footprint and pollution levels, and using the best practices for its community and the ecosystems they influence.
Moreover, the SDR Inventory Network will allow us to peer review the data and studies of various processes, which scientist can recommend best practices for sustainability and product performance that would affect the least amount of harm to other species and our ecosystems. As our technologies advance, we will be able to track and determine the cost-benefit analysis and actual life cycle of each product; from the ingredients that formulated it, to its purchase and usage, then to its final resting place (cradle to grave). We will energize a culture of redesigning goods and services to become cradle to cradle; motivating us to mine landfills and perfect the reclamation process of waste.
Our local markets exhibit fierce competition between mom and pop stores, big box retailers like Walmart, and online giants like Amazon—jobs are threaten. Recently, I stopped in my local pet store and asked if they would honor the same discounted prices I could get online. The clerk, muscling away the worried look from her face, professionally excused herself to ask the manager. After a few minutes, she returned confirming the discount and thanked me for coming in the store. “Sure, I’d rather keep you guys in business” I replied, before heading down the aisle for supplies. I remember the look of relief on her face as she thanked me again. At the checkout she confided in me that she had noticed a considerable slowdown in foot traffic these past few months. You don’t have to be an intuitive to know that people out there are uneasy. Most of us live paycheck to paycheck, taking some solace in the notion that if things fall apart…at least we still have our life insurance…
The super algorithm and the “Internet of Things” within this Resource Oriented Economy, intuitively translates into an employment inventory and management grid, since the SDR Inventory Network transparently streamlines the supply-demand-resupply feedback loop. In local markets, this system will remedy ill-effects of the “Zero Sum Game” between competing stores by sharing the inventory of goods and services, and installing an aggressive cooperation-compensation structure; such that an Amazon online order may be shipped from or picked up at the mom and pop store down the street, or a nearby Officedepot on the way home from work. What’s important is that we keep these mom and pop stores and medium size businesses alive and thriving. If not to maintain the employment levels in our communities, then to guard against monopolies which will jack up their prices, “on cue”, once the competition closes its doors.
Balancing the benefits of global trade and local markets are fundamental to our unity and growth. Fair trade can be more streamlined and efficient with a resource oriented economy that is connected not just locally, but globally. Similar to the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), our resources can be exchanged and transactions encrypted through a Global SDR Inventory Network. As the demand for their goods and services increase, small business entrepreneurs, particularly in underdeveloped countries, will finally be able to scale up, and access trade with the global markets; propelling their local communities to newer heights. In contrast, with the obsolete systems in place now, this feat will never be accomplished to its highest degree. Similar to the card game “poker”, wealthy nations with the largest stack of chips has the highest probability of winning, or rigging the game to maintain their status quo. An eye opening book for me was “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” by John Perkins, which detailed some of the economic and military tactics used by the global elites to subjugate less developed nations, as a newer version of colonialism.[xxxii] Parts of globalization that manipulate to acquire foreign resources, and implement predatory lending, labor, and trade practices against less developed nations, along with super subsidizing industries to price out the competition, are complicit acts of exploiting and enslaving our family of nations.
One of the effects of such abusive foreign and economic policies on less developed nations…is the fleeing of human capital. For instance, an argument can be made that NAFTA did more harm than good to Mexico and the two million Mexican farmers who had to leave their land, since their crop’s prices dropped too low to support their families, and they did not have the lush government subsidies that American farmers enjoyed.[xxxiii] To escape poverty many of these citizens became immigrants to countries having more opportunities for upward mobility. And yes, sometimes their situation was so dire and imminent that having the proper documentation was a choice they didn’t have, just as staying at home and making a decent living was a choice they didn’t have. In fact, it was the oppressive foreign policies, agents of greedy corporations, and corrupt government officials that made the choice for them.
Unfortunately in the United States, the innocent children of these immigrants, who are accustomed to the American culture, language, and to the communities they participate in, are now targets sighted in the crosshairs of “El Trump” and his “banda” of Republicans. Outside the first plea for humanitarian compassion to obtain citizenship, and the immorality of wrecking their home and American way of life; there is the conservative plea for securing our investments. We have already invested in these children’s upbringing and education, and they are completely on course, or ready, willing, and able to contribute in and benefit all aspects of American society; including caring for our seniors, and fighting in our militaries. Using the madness of discrimination to waste the investment of a sure American success is so…un-American!
So when someone stands on the pulpit and says “Americans Are Dreamers Too”, this within the confines of a “Zero Sum Game” economy, it’s no wonder why we witnesses convulsions of protectionism and divisiveness. Similar to those jeering “All Lives Matter”, those responding with “Americans Are Dreamers Too” may not have reconciled the full disclosure of economic exploitation, nor their own family’s immigrant story into their frenzy. In contrast, the Revelation Model will not blind you to those factors, and will not “wall-out” your heart; but instead will build the pillars to employ and provide for us all. So much so that citizens of less developed countries will no longer feel the sting of scarcity, nor face the ultimatum to leave family, friends, and country, only to endure the perils migration. What’s the best immigration policy? I may be biased, but I say the more noble and just choice is to build the pillars of the RM, and not spend $25 billion on a false sense of security, that cannot completely wall people out, no more than it call wall out a rigged, compassionless, obsolete economic paradigm. The Revelation Model will seek to end our divisiveness, and to unify and transform our economy into a “Synergy Sum Game”, where one plus one equals eleven…for all nations.
As I continue to discuss the various pillars, you’ll begin to see how private bank financing will not be necessary to free-up the flow of resources and commerce. This will put an end to paying finance interest, and may even cut out the current middlemen when it comes to raising our government’s debt ceiling. Potentially, this SDR Inventory Network will make it easier to balance the budget, resulting in fewer threats to shut down the government. To prevent a centralized plutocracy, every citizen will then be able to vote on, not only those scientific recommendations for sustainability, but on the algorithms that evaluates the currencies, its model of distribution, and more; effectively setting up the layer of a one world government that’s owned and operated by the people, purely for the benefit of the people. This layer of global governance will be directed to compliment the national, state, and local layers of governance, not circumvent them. The details of this voting system will be discussed in future videos/articles.
With the advantage of this public system, any person will be able to view the entire globe for production, consumption, and reclamation rates and figures of any specific item and service within each local market, each municipality; no FOIA form need be filed. The town may even decide to make transparent these supply-demand-resupply indicators for each subdivision, or city block; again while providing complete anonymity per household and individual. Interestingly, there are already companies with the technology to glean our spending patterns, location, internet search histories, you name it—they probably have it. Under the current paradigm, these companies profit off of our individual habits and decisions. Unfortunately, we have a tendency to forfeit these assets once we click the “I Agree” button, after scrolling down the long list of legal-ese they call the “Terms and Conditions”. Then all the cookies and tags latch on to every stroke of the computer keyboard and smart phone, siphoning away our metadata, and selling them to the highest bidder. In Greg Palast’s documentary, he investigated Karl Rove’s voter database called the ‘i360 Datatrust’, saying “(it) hourly track(s) over 1,800 (data points) things about you Mr. Voter; down to-if you ordered Chinese food just before you voted.”31 The marketing campaign these days are ferocious. In order to peruse through an online article, webpage, or email, you are greeted with a gauntlet of items you recently searched for. With all these floating ads and random pop up banners to avoid, scrolling down to the bottom of a page becomes a test of one’s nimble aptitude.
Unlike the current economic system, the RM will rightfully transfer these metadata assets back to the individual. The RM will compensate us handsomely for our transparency; yet still allow us to control the varying degrees of privacy we decide to partake in. These data mining companies will then be converted to work for the people, rather than the plutocrats.
Sophisticated—the super algorithm and “Internet of Things” within this Resource Oriented Economy, effectively is an employment inventory and management grid; hence, if the elite are so enamored with automation, then let’s take automation to the job creation level using the Revelation Model, and then we’ll see how these “so called” job creators like it.
To further elaborate, by having a more transparent system to audit our supply-demand-resupply loop, we can further optimize the utilization of our workforce. Whether an organization is owned privately, publicly, or otherwise we can scale up or downsize facilities according to the thresholds and guidelines we collectively place, when assessing the performances and demand for their goods and services. Industries can maintain specific production lines for consistent cyclical orders, and modulate other production lines to meet the massive demands of unforeseen events.
As I alluded to earlier, at the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria we are left with hundreds dead, damages affecting millions of people and over a hundred thousand businesses. Preliminary damage estimates for Hurricane Harvey according to a Ball State University analysis could be up to $198 billion, and CNN Money reported an estimate of up to $95 billion for Hurricane Maria. Although the official cost of damage for the U.S. 2017 hurricane season are months away, the grand total may very well surpass $250 billion. On October 23, 2017 CNBC reported that, “The number of structures destroyed by the 245,000-acre Northern California wildfires climbed to 8,400…” and that estimate may still rise, which again will cost us billions.
Devastating pictures of the landscape in the some of the aftermath were like glimpses of future scorched earth and dooms day scenarios—a reminder that no amount of “nuclear taunting” on the playground of politics can ever be justified…at least one would think.
In the current model’s response to natural disasters: rescue, relief, and rebuilding efforts seem to be stipend according to budgetary constraints, and perhaps an area’s political loyalty—as others have suggested. However, with the RM’s Resource Oriented Economy the raw demand will automatically allocate manpower, equipment, food, water, temporary and permanent shelter, etc. to fulfill all phases necessary to get our people back, not just on their feet, but hitting their strides toward success on that road to recovery.
For another example, think back about ten years ago to the collapse of the Minneapolis I-35W Bridge. Prior to the collapse, the Indian Concrete Journal published an article that stated, “In 1990, the federal government gave the I-35W bridge a rating of ‘structurally deficient’, citing significant corrosion in its bearings…over 75,000 other U.S. bridges have this classification!”[xxxiv]
Eleven years later, another report noted “…although fatigue cracking has not occurred in the deck truss, it has many poor fatigue details on the main truss and floor truss systems.’ Researchers from the University of Minnesota’s Department of Civil Engineering continued on to concluded that, ‘The detailed fatigue assessment shows that fatigue cracking of the deck truss is not likely. Therefore, replacement of this bridge, and the associated very high cost may be deferred.’ No time frame for deferment is mentioned…
Then four years later, the bridge was again rated as ‘structurally deficient’ and in need of replacement, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Bridge Inventory database. The scale used was a ‘sufficiency rating’ which ranges from the highest score, 100, to the lowest score, zero. A score below 80 indicates that some rehabilitation may be needed, while a score of 50 or less shows that replacement may be in order. The I-35W Bridge was given a rating of 50 in the year 2005. Out of 104,348 heavily used bridge structures (those with more than 10,000 vehicles travelling on them per day), only 4,227 or 4%, scored below 50, according to an analysis of federal records by MSNBC.”34 Finally, on that dreadful rush hour evening of August 1, 2007 the bridge collapsed, plunging 13 people close to 100 feet to their death, and injuring over 100 others.
Although the warning signs were clear, the current system failed to protect those people. And although good and dedicated workers try to prevent these tragedies, it’s the system that remains ‘structurally deficient’. Had the RM been in place, it would have not prioritized the budget, and instead recognize the need and provide the appropriate resources to reinforce or replace the infrastructure. And this benefit would not end with roads—facilities would stay maintained, as well as underground infrastructures, like pipes for sewage and water.
For instance, the governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, commissioned the Flint Water Advisory Task Force, which issued its final report on March 2016.[xxxv] The following is an excerpt of the ‘Background Summary’ and ‘Timeline of Key Events’:
“On April 16, 2013, after a symbolic Flint City Council vote that accompanied the Flint emergency manager’s decision, the City joined the Karegnondi Water Authority (KWA), which had been established to develop a raw water supply pipeline from Lake Huron. After being advised of the City of Flint’s intent, Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) notified the City of the termination of its then-current water supply contract terms, effective April 2014. Although the State of Michigan was in control of both cities at the time, efforts to arrive at an agreement between the parties during the final year of service to the City of Flint ultimately failed. In April 2014, the City of Flint began treating Flint River water at the Flint Water Treatment Plant (WTP) on a full-time basis and distributing the treated water to its customers. A critical element of that treatment— corrosion control, as required under EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule (LCR)—was (incorrectly) determined by Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) not to be required immediately; instead, Flint could complete two 6-month monitoring periods and MDEQ would then determine whether corrosion control was necessary. Soon after the City began distributing treated water from the Flint WTP, Flint residents began to complain about its odor, taste and appearance. Numerous water quality problems and operational challenges resulted in water quality violations related to E coli contamination and disinfection by-products (total trihalomethanes or TTHMs). Ultimately, the corrosiveness of the drinking water leached lead from pipes and plumbing fixtures, and it may have increased the likelihood of water contamination with Legionella…
On October 14, 2014: Valerie Brader, State Deputy Legal Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor, emails Governor’s Chief of Staff Dennis Muchmore and other top aides arguing for a return to DWSD because of water quality problems. Michael Gadola, then the Governor’s Legal Counsel, responds by agreeing with Brader. Brader and Rich Baird, another senior aide to the Governor, then discuss the idea with Emergency Manager Darnell Earley, who maintains the water quality problems can be solved and it would be cost-prohibitive to return to DWSD.”35
The state-appointed Emergency Manager’s “cost-prohibitive” decision resumed for over a year. The report continues, “[On] September 8, 2015: Virginia Tech posts to FlintWaterStudy.org sample testing results on 252 samples of 300 sample kits provided. The Virginia Tech researchers concluded that: ‘mathematically, even if the remaining 48 samples returned have non-detectable lead…FLINT HAS A VERY SERIOUS LEAD IN WATER PROBLEM.’…On September 24, 2015: Dr. Hanna-Attisha presents her findings about children tested for lead in a press conference at Hurley Medical Center, reporting that the proportion of children with elevated blood lead levels has increased since the switch to the Flint River water source in April 2014…
Prior to the switch…the number of cases of Legionellosis in Genesee County had not exceeded 10 cases per year for several years. [From June 2014 to October 2015, there were at least 87 cases of Legionellosis in Genesee County, with at least 9 deaths.]…This was described by an expert from the CDC in 2015 as ‘one of the largest [outbreaks of Legionellosis] in the past decade’ …On October 16, 2015: Flint switches back to DWSD as source of drinking water for the city.”35
The unelected Emergency Manager’s “cost-prohibitive” decision only demonstrates how this obsolete economy’s cost of hubris prohibits the value of human life and liability. And contrary to what we’d like to believe, history and our current paradigm continue to prove that “not all lives matter”.
The RM’s Resource Oriented Economy would have never switched Flint’s water source to begin with, because it would never ever seek to find the cheapest route, carrying the most risk to the planet and people’s health! This brings up other advantages for the SDR Inventory Network.
In order for the benefits of our new economy to remain boundless, a healthy workforce must be a prime directive. To improve the longevity of our workforce from pre-natal to postmortem: healthcare, alternative medicine, dental care, child care and senior care, even wellness and fitness centers will be free to the patient and customer. And as we incentivize our workforce to live healthier lifestyles, we ameliorate the risks of disability and early retirement associated with disease and disorders. Again the more these pillars are revealed, the more you’ll be able to imagine these probabilities.
Similarly, we will optimize the appropriation of education, vocation training, license renewals, along with hiring programs to better utilize our workforce. In his documentary, Economist, Robert Reich said, “In the 3 decades after WWII (1947-1977)…not only did the economy boom (in the United States), you had very low inequality (13% to 9%)…We made education a national priority, particularly higher education. (US Census Bureau 2012 Graph on Higher Education showed that by 1940 only 5.9% of adult Americans had a 4yr degree, but that percentage began to explode to roughly 24% by 1977). The GI Bill paid college cost for those returning from war. And the subsequent expansion of public universities made higher education affordable to many. By the late 50’s we had the best educated workforce of any country in the world. Countries that kept focusing on higher education were able to deal with globalization better, by creating a highly skilled workforce. Look at South Korea, look at the Netherlands, look at Germany; they’ve invested substantially in education, in skill building, of all of their workers.” I concur, a well-informed citizenry is another supreme asset, and through the RM all education programs will be free to all peoples, no matter what the demographics are, or where you live, all around the world, from our first breath to our last.
By using the SDR Inventory Network for a Resource Oriented Economy, not only will it solve the unemployment and underemployment problems we face today, it promotes the restorative days of tomorrow with more certainty. One that allows you to stand alongside your boss with a more robust streamlined information system, and accurately determine the amount of orders your team needs to fill that day or week; thus enhancing our management of time. The RM will offer you more time and individual freedom to pursue your happiness, than you have today. Should the work orders dip and your time free up, you can choose to spend that time however you see fit. You can choose to go home and be with your family, work on other projects whether personal or business. You can exercise, sing and dance, relax, pursue a hobby, whatever your leisure. You can spend more time researching and staying updated to make better decisions and vote on political topics, community issues, and participatory budgeting.
Or if you’re an ambitious workaholic, you can go to a second job, or you can study and train for a second job. With the Revelation Model you may even study for a second job, while working at your primary job, waiting for the business to pick up pace. This may all sound too good to be true, but it would make for a more flexible and well trained workforce—ready to contribute to society’s most needed demand. It makes even more sense knowing that the RM will “sweeten the pot” and reward your employer for allowing this; especially since the next pillar grants the Revelation Model the authority to pay employers, silent investors, shareholders, including all employees—in fact, the RM will pay everybody.
(Continue on…)
