Something about me - My political philosophy and some of my best blogposts & tweets ~ Fabricating

I am a private stock market trader and have been since 2000.
As such I have an interest in keeping up with the news.

I am very interested in politics, economics, geopolitics, current affairs and history and write about them frequently.

I take a very active interest in how the monetary system works.

I basically learnt from seasoned private stock market traders with 30+ years of experience.

I am very active on twitter.

I have my own blog which normally has a new article every day about a particular topic that is active in the news for that day.

My political philosophy

I support drastic reductions in military spending and Corporate welfare.

I support better living standards for the poor and middle classes.

I support better job prospects for all Americans.

I support addressing the balance between record Corporate profits and 40 year lows in real median wages and rapidly increasing poverty. The trend needs reversing - dramatically.

I support increasing social mobility. America has one of the worst records of social mobility anywhere in the developed world.
http://www.oecd.org/centrodemexico/medios/44582910.pdf See chart on page 187

I support wealth creation and a wide distribution of that wealth.

I support a thriving middle class.

I am against pre-emptive war. I advocate a Jeffersonian foreign policy.

I support making Healthcare in America more efficient and affordable.

I am against the farcical prohibition of drugs which costs US taxpayers $200bn a year and massively increases criminality, corruption and violence on the streets. And it creates more hard drug addicts.

I am against the class warfare justice system. The poor can get 20 years jail time for minor drugs possession. When was the last time you heard of a Wall St banker getting jailed for snorting cocaine?

I am against the banks being above the law.
I am in favor of reinstating Glass-Steagal and the big banks getting broken up.
I believe the banks should be prosecuted for their frauds and money laundering and top execs should get long stretches of hard jail time for their crimes.

I am against large multinationals getting tax breaks, when small and medium businesses do not. There should be a level playing field.

I am against Oligarchies.

I support drastic Campaign Finance Reform.
I support getting money out of politics.
I am against the system of lobbying and the revolving door between government, lobbyists and big business.

These are some of the things I support and are against.

What do you support?

Addendum

Barack Obama does not support any of the things I support, neither does the GOP leadership.

15 sample tweets

One of my tweets during Davos.

It got some heavy traffic on my blog (4,000 hits in the hour after I posted it and 8,000 in that one day)

Why Paul Krugman is 100% wrong &@Nouriel Roubini is absolutely right
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-2tn-of-excess-bank-reserves-is.html …@NYTimeskrugman Davos #p2 #tcot

https://twitter.com/Ian56789/status/294394593473093632

I try and look for suitable trending topics on Twitter to ride the wave (there aren't many suitable ones about politics or economics).

This one got over 500 RT's and 135 Fav's

https://twitter.com/Ian56789/status/251072479555092480

CBO spending plans, GDP growth projections, future deficits and future National Debt levels - $40tn+ by 2023 with current policies

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/cbo-projections-of-future-gdp-growth.html

What needs to be done to turn the American economy around - increase disposable incomes for ordinary people

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-government-is-being-incredibly.html

How to save $1.3tn+ a year of Corporate Welfare, military spending and other forms of extreme government waste without losing that many jobs. (These job losses to be more than compensated for by massively cutting taxes for ordinary people and rasing their disposable incomes.) http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/it-is-very-easy-to-cut-1tn-from-federal.html

THE main economic and geopolitical developments in the world today

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/greek-scenario-and-us.html

Paul Ryan's effect on the election chances of Mitt Romney

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/paul-ryans-effect-on-election-chances.html

Electoral College Map

This didn't change since it was written on 5th May - because it never needed to.

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/electoral-college-maps-romney-cannot.html

Delegate count during the Republican primaries

Running totals were kept from early March.

I had the most accurate delegate count in the entire world.

When the votes were actually tallied up in Tampa I was zero to 10 out for each candidate - there were 2286 delegates.

I bothered to read up about the election rules in each state (hardly anyone else did) and took account of what was happening in State Conventions etc.

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/true-delegate-count-achieving.html

A catalog of criminality - the big banks

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/a-catalog-of-criminality-big-banks.html

What should be done about the big banks

http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/shut-big-banks-down-stop-them-holding.html