Hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, all natural disasters and acts of war or insurrection…in the USA, all are primary or concurrent jurisdiction of the Federal Executive branch; in the modern world, there are a number of laws and treaties which automatically involve the IMF and similar apportion-based contributions of money, manpower, or both for countries affected by aforesaid negatives ; Haiti being a rather tiny place in terms of the entire IMF/UN/EU Treaty world, it really won’t help for private people to inundate it with all sorts of things world governments may already be providing…and who even in Haiti would then say “no, please keep giving ME whatever I ask for although already provided, since who cares if anybody else in my nature of position somewhere has not what I have or if I’m as set as reasonably can be for now”? Of course, there’s also concern for how “dumping” on Haiti would ease chaotic conditions, or uphold dignity of Haitians some might “permanently invite” far away then not allow them to participate in their own government, re-building, or comforting of their friends and families. Then there’s the issue of less reputable folks who might solicit to “hold on to money and things” for Haitians pending “government failure to provide”…or longer. 

Even Oregon Attorney General John Kroger (D) early yesterday jumped on the email circuit to warn alert subscribers that likely many types of fake or unnecessary “Haiti Aid” solicitations will be forthcoming, doubtless due to media hype, and that citizens should be slow to respond to such calls. 

One also would hope some Bilderberg Group-type “re-assignment” of Haitians to nations already unable to provide progress to their own diverse residents isn’t afoot through what media downplay, hype, or both. In the broadest sense of their myth, since 1954 the Bilderberg vision of life is simply that earth should have one elite “hotel operator set” per nation who decide where and with what “room service” the immense “sea of transients” will live pending needs of “the hotel”; a clearer definition of what ANY such philosophy would involve currently can be read at (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group ).

That said, let’s see, what do high-wage elected officials have to work with this election cycle?

Hmm…got to pitch in for Haiti (albeit a tiny place); USA dollar has been kept world monetary standard yet the Euro is worth about three times as much; gold is over $1,000 an ounce; leaving out the array of able-bodied non-income conditions not considered states of unemployment, the government benefit-receiving unemployed haven’t fallen below 10% in rate; States like Oregon face budget gaps; last month the Bank of China said China can’t buy more USA Treasuries nor can any other country; and the USA currency portion of the now tiered-defined money supply remains very tight per capita, as does credit availability.

Well, if I were a Federal official, I’d say my bailouts of banks, auto makers, Hollywood, and media are not contributing to ongoing job and opportunity losses…hey, what spin machine living off me would want to bite its only feeding hand? Further, I could get spin support for national health care on spin the trillions my predecessor and I have spent on immigration enforcement will instead pay for health…even if by history literally nothing HAS been expended on border issues, and thus nationals and all immigrants will get “care” from no more money than former border concerns truly got (nada)…with almost no need for taxes (stupid Tea Baggers!). This being the totality of my concern re my economy, I would fend against man-caused disasters re terrorists or simply the idled via inveighing spin and false media cloys/weather forecasts, leaving economic issues to States, Counties, and Towns…earning myself accolades from foreign leaders doing no more for their own economies nor caring that few in the USA COULD buy much from ANYBODY abroad.

If I were next a State or local official satisfied with such Federal position, I would either say “amen, my Savior!” or “Dang! Tisn’t fair, good friends, but shucks…let’s make do for now as best’n we kin! We’re Americans together first and all else after”. Then, I would freestyle spin like a top in whatever seemed plausible for my bailiwick.

For example, in Oregon…amongst the least influential in the Congress and Electoral College…as a State official I would posit I need $472 million for things which will entice FUTURE commerce (roads, walking paths, even more unused constructed spaces) at no cost to little guys, but without Federal funds or foreign investments I must tax SOMEBODY for my progressive agenda. 

I’d ask my local franchisees of bailed-out media to make light of economic worries, and suddenly suggest on public ballot that hundreds of thousands of folks earning $125,000 OR MORE per year lived in my low-density per square mile, 36 County State; I’d stick on up to a $123 per person unemployment insurance tax break to obfuscate what voters REALLY believe their State’s income earners to be when it passes; afterwards, I would be able to fib “um, X-amount of big wage earners fled the State; um, Obama’s economy is excellent, and high-rollers closed down and moved just to hurt him and allegedly lose out on millions and costs of moving/re-tooling rather than pay $2240 per head to me”, and reserve to myself ability to phase in ANY cuts and diminutions I felt like, on ability to grow “gaps” created by “mean-spirited” big income earners “reducing tax take and therefore agency budgets”. Best of all, I could elicit pity later if found out, on grounds: “Hey, voters’ will! YOU knew what you were risking when you cut UI tax in favor of fat-cat taxing; I just followed orders and did the best I could!”.

Of course, for my within aforesaid theoretical responses, I’d first require a stony detachment from humanity other than my own, as if I were a prime believer in and causer of social phobias and dissociative reactions; that’s not the real me, just me playing devil’s advocate for the worst case scenario any “machine” could concoct in these times.

Surely, houses of worship aren’t urging quietism because they’re afraid of congregational economic losses, eminent domain, or audits from some totalist machine…they know such machines use clergy to “stun” congregational deer in front of machine headlights, but today’s clergy join with celebrities in saying our leaders are flashpoints of evolution truly intending to deliver as promised or inferred (office of faith-funded initiatives merely as coincidental as Hollywood/media bail-outs).

So let’s give all officials a chance to deliver exactly as promised. And if any react instead in nature of: “Hey, I was obstructed; Haiti; Iraq; global warming; USA and MOST nations telling their own people to know their place …you know it’s not PC to publicly oppose a brother/sister official or question even private/employment social betters…what COULD I do besides remove the hapless audiences of obstructionists rather than words/conditions of the obstructer(s)?”, at the next election, perhaps vote them out no matter what they “promise” next…regardless of political affiliations.