<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bob Reuschlein</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobreuschlein@gmail.com">bobreuschlein@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 2:34 AM<br>Subject: Dear Future US President,<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Link
to send or tweet to others: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/dear-future-us-president/" target="_blank">https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/dear-future-us-president/</a></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dear Future US
President,</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">by
Professor Robert Reuschlein</span><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">America</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> has
signed and ratified the law against war and even the threat of war, the
Kellogg-Briand Treaty of <a href="tel:1928" value="+661928" target="_blank">1928</a>. To bring America
into compliance with the treaty would have significant economic benefits to the
nation as well as extremely positive worldwide implications. The Treaty is the supreme law of the land,
according to the US Constitution. You
may not have been asked about the Treaty as part of the process that has gotten
you the Presidency. However, this should
not dull the importance of the Treaty for you and the nation as a whole. The lack of attention to the Treaty reflects
a kind of historical amnesia, one which this letter and many other efforts, we
hope, will end. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Perhaps you are unaware of the op-ed of Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz in
the British paper <i>The Guardian</i> on
January 22, 2003. He was, of course,
President Bill Clinton’s chief economic advisor in the nineties. In this op-ed titled “The Myth of the War
Economy,” Stiglitz says “</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">War is widely thought to be linked to
economic good times… Today, we know that this is nonsense. The 1990s boom
showed that peace is economically far better than war. The Gulf war of <a href="tel:1991" value="+661991" target="_blank">1991</a>
demonstrated that wars can actually be bad for an economy. That conflict
contributed mightily to the onset of the recession of <a href="tel:1991" value="+661991" target="_blank">1991</a> (which was probably
the key factor in denying the first President Bush re-election in <a href="tel:1992" value="+661992" target="_blank">1992</a>).”</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">In fact, redirecting the capital rich military economy between
<a href="tel:1985" value="+661985" target="_blank">1985</a> and <a href="tel:1999" value="+661999" target="_blank">1999</a> and allowing those potent economic resources to be applied to the
manufacturing economy instead lead to unprecedented prosperity in the post Cold
War 1990s.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Further proof of this critical choice between the manufacturing
sector and the military sector is the fact that manufacturing increased in the
late nineties despite various trade deals that are sometimes presented as
putting the US
at a disadvantage. Manufacturing will indeed
boom if given the resources normally devoted to a nonproductive military
economy, and the US
can compete with other nations if it refrains from military buildups and active
conflicts. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Evidence for
the proposition that military spending hurts the economy has only mounted since
2003, as the 2.8 million manufacturing jobs lost in the twenty-four months
after 9-11 are coupled with the military buildup and jobs lost through shifts
in trade. 1.7 million jobs were lost to
the military buildup and one million jobs to trade (as was often discussed in
the 2004 US
election). A steady rise in unemployment
leading up to the Great Recession began after the Iraq “surge” troops began to be
deployed in July 2007. The unequal real
estate boom from the military buildup fooled many parts of the nation into
expecting the economy to continue upward.
When it did not, the drain from the $70 billion “surge” apparently pushed
the fragile mortgage economy into a severe decline. This pattern is similar to the 1980s with the
military buildup transferring moneys from the productive economy to the
unproductive economy, distorting the local real estate market until the Savings
& Loan (S&L) bailout was the result. The murder rate is also linked
with military spending. Although no
criminologists can explain the drop in crime in the nineties, military spending
and murder rates strongly correlate among the youngest five members of the G7, America, Japan,
Germany, Canada, and Italy. The Cold War peace dividend benefited the
nineties economy and crime. It is
becoming more evident through the decades that the economic stagnation caused
by high levels of military spending leads to the collapse of empires and the
related social decay. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Another
benefit is that lower military spending improves the national strength over
time, as military spending can actually increase faster as a small percentage
of a fast growing economy. Tailoring the
military can make it more nimble than ever and less encumbered with obsolete
heavy forces; it can also improve America’s image in the world. Let more regional forces deal with the
world’s ground military problems and primarily provide technical backup. With decreases in military spending, America
will become more closely compliant with the lofty goals of the Kellogg Briand
Pact of <a href="tel:1928" value="+661928" target="_blank">1928</a>. The Pact may have been
wrought in a previous century, but it provides guidance that reaches far into
the future.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">As you face
the future as the President of the United States
(from whatever party or background you hail), considering the Pact as a guiding
principle alerts the world that the US is deeply committed to its own
economic wellbeing along with larger global peace and justice issues. It may seem that following the Treaty is an
act of altruism. However, the Treaty’s
direction would lead the US
into a more prosperous and productive-- as well as peaceful-- future. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Dr. Robert Reuschlein, details in <a href="http://www.realeconomy.com" target="_blank">www.realeconomy.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">For a short booklet on the effects of
Peace Economics:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/4108656/BOOKLET_for_Peace_Economics_11_charts_24p._2011" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.academia.edu/4108656/BOOKLET_for_Peace_Economics_11_charts_24p._2011</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Professor Robert Reuschlein, Dr. Peace, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize 2016</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Real
Economy Institute, Madison,
Wisconsin</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">CONTACT: <a href="mailto:bobreuschlein@gmail.com" target="_blank">bobreuschlein@gmail.com</a> 608-230-6640,
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">INFO: <a href="http://www.realeconomy.com/" target="_blank">www.realeconomy.com</a> </span></p></div>
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