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First Short Quiz

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1. “It’s the economy, stupid” was, according to legend, taped to the shaving mirror of what U.S. President during his entire 8 years in the White House 1993-2001?

2. Did his daily reminder prevent him from, over the objections of labor unions, negotiating and signing NAFTA (aka the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement pursuant to which so many American jobs have been exported to Mexico), from negotiating and signing a free-trade agreement with China, and from negotiating and signing the worldwide free-trade agreement creating the World Trade Organization -- among the total of approximately 300 free-trade agreements he negotiated and signed with other countries?

3. What is “The Establishment” of the Republican Party? What is “The Establishment” of the Democrat Party?

4. Do the billionaires who “own” virtually all of the pols of both parties as a result of their campaign contributions act in the best interests of blue-collar workers? Much less in the best interests of America’s Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste which comprises approximately 30% of our population?

5. Indeed, don’t “The Establishments” of both parties (if, indeed, the same billionaires do NOT “own” the pols of both parties) overwhelmingly dictate that American jobs should be exported?

6. And don’t “The Establishments” of both parties overwhelmingly dictate that illegal aliens should flood the American labor market to compete for American jobs that cannot be exported geographically?

7. And haven’t we studied on numerous occasions how illegal aliens are de facto slaves because their labor is NOT subject to any minimum-wage laws as a practical matter because (A) employers are free to deduct from the minimum wage whatever they please for meals and housing, and (B) illegal aliens cannot, as a practical matter, complain about anything for fear their employers will report them to Immigration?

8. Didn’t we just study for our 8/12/2015 meeting “What Is The Matter With White People” which focuses on the exodus of blue-collar workers from the Democrat Party because all of the Democrat Party pols have been screwing American workers (please pardon “my French”) by exporting their jobs and importing illegal aliens to compete for the remaining jobs?

9. And aren’t we currently witnessing the rejection of those blue-collar workers by “The Establishment” of the Republican Party and the pols they “own” because they also want to continue screwing American workers?

10. Why have the members of America’s Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste been so loyal to the Democrat Party when the Democrat party refuses (as do the Republicans) to lift a finger to mainstream the Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste by providing its children with a decent education?

11. Since most of the 30% of America’s Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste subsist (to the extent they are able to subsist) in America’s inner-city ghettos, why haven’t they revolted like we see the residents of Europe’s Islamic ghettos doing?

12. Since both of “The Establishments” (Democrat and Republican) refuse to do anything for American blue-collar workers or for America’s Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste, why haven’t the blue-collar workers and the Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste formed their own political party, which would obviously be the New-Majority Party and relegate both the Democrat Party and the Republican Party to insignificant status?

13. After all, why shouldn’t voters (aka workers, and all of the potential workers of America’s Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste) form their own party to oppose the War On Workers that has been conducted by both the Democrat and Republican parties for more than 20 years?

14. Should their failure to do so comprise one of “The Seven Wonders Of The World” (bumping the current seventh wonder while rocketing to the top of the list)???

15. What is meant by the ancient oil-patch phrase “tax-paid cost”?

16. If no oil company has ever been able to survive without knowing the incremental cost of each extra barrel [in terms of “lifting costs” (their quaint term for current out-of-pocket costs of production), royalties and income taxes], why should The Establishment think citizens are so stupid as to believe that America competes with other countries in terms of income-tax rates?

17. Isn’t the sad reality that American jobs are continuing to be exported, NOT because America may (or may not) have high income tax rates, but because the “tax paid cost” of an American worker also includes the wages of American workers which have not yet been reduced to third-world poverty levels???

18. And because the “tax paid cost” of American workers includes workplace-safety costs and environmental costs that do not exist in third-world countries???

19. What is meant by the historical phrase “Pax Brittannica”?

20. What is meant by the phrase “Pax Americana”?

21. Did Britain and its citizens at least get the economic benefit of draining wealth from a worldwide empire in return for footing the bill for providing worldwide “peace”???

22. Does the United States get any economic benefit (vs. benefit to the multi-national companies that export American jobs) in return for footing the bill FOR ATTEMPTING to provide worldwide “peace”???

23. Is America likely to be subjected to attacks from Radical-Islamic terrorists as the only thanks FOR ATTEMPTING to provide worldwide “peace” for the multi-national companies that export American jobs???

24. Is Osama bin Laden’s most famous fatwā (because it requires nuking 10 million Americans and about which the Founding Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government wrote a famous book entitled “Nuclear Terrorism” about how to deal with the fatwā) BINDING ON ALL OF OSAMA BIN LADEN’S FOLLOWERS [Al Qaeda, ISIS (which, before founding its Islamic State Caliphate, was known as Al Qaeda in Iraq), etc., etc.]???

25. Since we know from Britain’s negotiations to re-establish diplomatic relations with Iran after the demise of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 during which the Brits tried UNSUCCESSFULLY to have revoked Khomeini’s fatwā to assassinate Salman Rushdie for his novel “The Satanic Verses” THAT A FATWĀ CANNOT BE REVOKED AFTER THE DEATH OF THE PERSON WHO HAS ISSUED THE FATWĀ -- why does the American news media studiously ignore Osama bin Laden’s fatwā to nuke 10 million Americans which can NOT be revoked???

26. After all, during the first few years after 9/11, didn’t experts such as Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA 1972-1997 and Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee 1987-1995), Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN 1977-2013 and Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 2003-2007) FORM A FAMOUS SO-CALLED “POSSE” with the 9/11 Commission Co-Chairs to regularly publicize their opinion that it was only a matter of time until one or more American cities were nuked???

27. And didn’t quite a few Hollywood movies of the time depict nuclear attacks against the U.S. by Radical-Islamic terrorists???

28. Indeed, in 2005 didn’t by-then-retired-Senator Sam Nunn’s Nuclear Threat Initiative Foundation release a 45-minute Docu-Drama (entitled "Last Best Chance") illustrating the threat of nuclear terrorism with former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson (of TV’s Law and Order fame as Manhattan D.A. Arthur Branch) playing the part of fictitious U.S. President Charles Ross -- and, playing themselves, Tom Brokaw, Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar???

29. And hasn’t the U.S. ignored the recommendations of the Founding Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and of the “Posse” of Senators Nunn and Lugar and the 9/11 Commission Co-Chairs -- to lock down every iota of fissile material and to prevent any additional countries such as Iran from enriching uranium/plutonium???

30. So why does America regularly provide Armed Forces to fight wars for the worldwide multi-national corporations which export American jobs -- if having 10 million of our citizens nuked is the only thanks we can expect???

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