1) Energy Independence – Capitalism is unable to move away from oil dependency into cleaner fuels for climate interests and trade balance without upsetting the cash flow rhythm and the controlling faculty.

2) Waste Reduction & Cleanup – Corporatism is un-eagar to move from a throw away society and recycle, again because controlling faculties would lose market, and Capitalism does not intend to (when able to thwart) spend cash resources for cleanup needs, like on our Supersites.

3) Population Balance; Natural Resources; Immigration Control – Capitalism is in constant need for expansion as its engine of growth. Take as an example, well manufactured furniture and homes. They would be in less demand with a designed population per acre balance. War as a method for reductions are no longer as politically correct; or advisable on a world war scale of activities. Items 1 & 2 are major injections here also.

4) ToBigToFight – Corporatisms natural drive is to destroy competition. To be a world player and mass produce a widget, a business needs a massive factory. The Good-ole boy network has little interest in sharing, that notion goes against our sporting competitive nature*.

Hence:
Mergers & Acquisitions work against the consumer, who needs a job to buy.
M&A works against the government who needs a competitor factory for its property taxes.
We are where we are because of a Wrung Out Economy with to many laborers unable to labor.

5) Technology Interactivity – a business must utilize products and services and place trust across many fields to produce a product of major standing, researching patents and implementing twists of trade secrets. The interactive nature of data collection will report activity to the collective with the notion that a startup is threatening the Collective.

With items 4 & 5 there is also the Polar Opposite. At levels, little is known, as in the underground cash flow in drugs, prostitution, gambling. Those operations can run with printed cash exchanging hands. A law in nature, “For every action there’s an opposite and equal reaction”. TBTF creates the need for these avenues of small business to exist.

Hence:
6) Disbursement of Police’g Costs – to many USA Capitalism businesses this is a loss. Versus, to some Corporatism interests this is a win. America in large part is policing the world at the expense of the American worker through payroll deduction. Be mindful of a book and notion, Disaster Capitalism side aspect. A small scale example: a glass window replacer’s kid with a BBgun shooting up the neighborhood.

7) Healthcare Debate – in essence is Industry vs. Industry, TBTFight, Interconnectivity in profits generation, Corporatisms drive to wring out as many costs as possible. Pitting cheaper labor markets, robotic technology, and threatened job loss as incentive to play along.

*but coda jump* Music Harmony above Sport Competitiveness .. I do worry, nearly as much .. of the creativity & human drive losses without the sport of competition. I posted over on The Big Picture earlier a reference to StarTrek .. I am just about sure Earth would need to transform from Capitalism / Corporatism to another form of labor for stuff to arrive into that day and age … folks both on Earth and in the stars, content with their roles in the Enterprise.

FYi – last evening I spent over 4 hours rewrite’g (above 20minutequickie-work’g off our points) for the Cspan debate/show mentioned in the 1st paragraph. On posting the piece, it was to long, they have a 250 word limit. (went to bed / woke up at midnight). Attempted post in 3 parts / the editor okd.

seen here at time stamp 10/30/09@1:51am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/suggestions-wanted-for-ca_b_335779.html

Oh and yester-day actually Worked on below civic project & for a change, real customers thru the door & even paper trail making phone calls.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hrvcvideos/

?????????WTF????????????

All I got out of that was:

The voice of Charlie Brown’s teacher…………………………….STAR TREK………………………More voice of Charlie Brown’s teacher…………….

1) TBTF – easy .. capitalisms drive to destroy competition in a super-interactive, high technology, competitive society that is required more and more to be politically correct
2) Technology interactiveness – in a competitive environment people must utilize trusts in products and services across many fields that any one step up the ladder can bring ones unit crashing to the ground into a unmitigatable tangle
3) Jobs Created or Saved / Sm Mid Big Huemega Businesses – these last couple decades has demonstrated how the trickle down of knowledge from super-technological developments and the corps that own the patents and the trickle down of those profit $s has brought upon our pyramid scheme a stratified distribution that capitalism is unable by design to handle … the government attempted to create jobs for folks via building buildings (an enterprise that is about 8000 years in development) and paper pushing (an enterprise that is about 6000 years in development)
4) Disclosure / Public Input – capitalism and its millenniums of development and control is fighting that one tooth and nail .. you can’t blame POTUS44 for that
5) Healthcare – I’m getting tired and this is just a blog entry Ditto 4) … except pull millenniums down to 300 years
6) Good-ole Boy Network – to quote an old song “I can tell by the clothes you wear you come from BarryTown”

* LOL this moment (30 min ago) at SquawkBox (StarTrek) intro .. I am just about sure Earth transformed from capitalism to another form of labor for stuff environment … to have folks on the planet and in the stars content with their roles in the Enterprise

Or the string of broken promises…

1.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama said he would “not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days”. But the “sunlight before signing” promise has already fallen by the wayside with Mr Obama signing three major bills without public scrutiny.

3.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama solemnly pledged that “no political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years”. In practice, Mr Obama has granted several waivers to this rule, allowing lobbyists to serve in the top reaches of his administration…

“I saw that survey on the air today .. what a mashup of pollsters”

Yeah, I suppose when the approval ratings were 78 they were dead on accurate, but now it’s just a “mashup”, makes a lot of sense…

Because we know the dissatisfaction could not possibly come from this:

‘Jobs Created or Saved’ Is White House Fantasy: Caroline Baum
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aUuHhaDx8Hr8

Excerpt:
Actual hiring seems to be lagging behind the model’s land of make-believe. For small businesses, which are the source of most job creation in the U.S., the government’s increased and changing role in the economy isn’t a confidence builder. Businessmen have no idea what health-care reform will mean for their cost structure or what whimsical tax policies the government might impose when it realizes those short-term deficits are running into long-term unfunded liabilities.

“If you take your foot off the gas, the car goes from 60 back down to a slow crawl,” Romer said in clarifying blog post.

ps – if the WH is monitoring .. FYI .. imo ChicagoFOX is not exactly like NationalFOX
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)

Re: ZH and Google searches

Apples and oranges.

Neilsen ratings are the equivalent of hits.
Regarding a web site, the number of hits is a lot more important than Google searches. I never search for ZH because I have it in my RSS reader. Doesn’t mean I don’t read it.

Google searches would be more like how many people looked in the TV schedule to find what channel ZH is on.

In similar news…78 (January), down to 53 (now)…and counting…

Barack Obama sees approval rating plummet

Barack Obama’s decline in popularity since the summer IS THE WORST of any US president at the same stage in a first term in over 50 years.

The most recent public opinion poll carried out by the research company Gallup found Mr Obama’s approval rating stood at 53 per cent for the third quarter of 2009.

The figure represents a sharp drop for the 62 per cent he recorded from April.

When he first entered the White House, Mr Obama’s rating stood at a LOFTY 78 per cent, but since then has been crippled by the long-running debate over his health reform plans and accusations he is “dithering” over sending more troops to Afghanistan.

Commenting on the latest opinion poll, Jeffrey Jones, from Gallup, said: “The dominant political focus for [Mr] Obama in the third quarter was the push for health care reform, including his nationally televised address to Congress in early September.

“[Mr] Obama hoped that Congress would vote on health care legislation before its August recess, but that goal was missed, and some members of Congress faced angry constituents at town hall meetings to discuss health care reform.

“Meanwhile, unemployment continued to climb near ten per cent.”

Republicans have stepped up their attacks on the president in recent weeks, sensing public opinion turning against some of his more dividing policies.

In a speech to a thinktank in Washington last week, former US vice president Dick Cheney accused Mr Obama of being scared of making a decision on Afghnaistan.

“Having announced his Afghanistan strategy in March, President Obama now seems afraid to make a decision, and unable to provide his commander on the ground with the troops he needs to complete the mission,” he said.

“It’s time for President Obama to make good on his promise. The White House must stop dithering while America’s armed forces are in danger.

“Make no mistake, signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries.

“Waffling, while our troops on the ground face an emboldened enemy, endangers them and hurts our cause.”

The US has delayed making any decision on further troop deployments until the result of a run-off in Afghanistan’s presidential election are formally confirmed.