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Ralph Murphy

(12/3/2019) A lightly monitored Senate appropriations bill S. 2470 was cleared for conventional review for decreased funding linked specifically to its relevant agencies in the Departments of Energy, Interior and Defense communities. The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies bill also stipulates funding levels and broad control maintenance for regulatory agencies tied to those departments such as the Nuclear and Federal Regulatory Commissions which were specifically mentioned.

The bill itself symbolizes a real control issue and problem at the federal level as it effectively helps maintain a freeze in place on varied relatively primitive technology and suspect service need and cost tied to the supported systems. Without the government role in funding, internal controls and statutory aid to the private sector would likely benefit in reduced costs and improved performance.

To highlight the energy aspect of the concern a fundamental appraisal of source need is simply disregarded as fossil fuels, even nuclear technology is advanced despite evidence renewable sourcing as solar could reduce cost and waste if not capped for marketing. Utilities and their service structures tied to private sector application like communications or transfer mediums grossly symbolize the costs of federal or regional interventions. Phone lines for example carry the exact same type of sound waves the radio or television beams would also require. They conveniently symbolizes a bureaucratic advantage apparently linked to initial acceptance of newer technology and not the potential to upgrade it if it does serve the initial role.

Phone lines seem functional to Morse code lines of the1840 s. The modern telephone sound waves here to America could be marketed by the late 1800 s but again used that transfer method. Radio signals were marketable by the 1920 s and television about a decade after. All would require the phone type lines and infrastructure but are linked to beam technology of electricity carriers in use since microwave technology of the early 1900 s. The point is the electricity also tied to those systems can or could have been beamed or transferred without other physical infrastructure at least since the radio waves were tolerated by regulatory statute to do so. I doubt any electric cords are needed if the home receptors can disperse the beams to an appliance battery.

It's not just the obvious industries like transport, energy. or utilities where the federal or regional control takes a board seat and nationalized ownership in what could be privately run systems. There's also direct involvement in subsidy or statutory restrictions of largely marketable private sector industries to include travel in aviation where for example technology that reduced cross Atlantic travel time by more than half in the Concorde program of the 1970s is no longer available. That three-hour flight to the continent will still take over six hours thanks to the technology of even back then effectively held ransom.

Participation means control and to federal programs that routinely means if it worked at inception it will be a frozen and controlled program with minor variations or fluctuations more likely tied to incidentals as upgrades to standing techniques rather than actually replacing them with preferred systems. Regulatory and subsidy costs at policy whim and crowding out actual demand and supply indicators are consistent concerns with that role. If an older system has marketable demand and is considered non threatening for nostalgia, comfort or traditional convenience it could be permitted and simply eclipsed by the newer market improvement or replacement system. If there's a formal intractable control series such as social understandings or formal statutory obligation the normal marketing is affected.

There can be religious edicts of extreme vehemence but time flexibility in leadership resolve and application that don't address the followers demand signals but are respected for group identification or commitments as otherwise still worth the affiliation. What is integral to optimal market output and presumed but understood as not always feasible is supply and demand based on money and desire but isolating a single market and activity with extraneous issues such as social commitments not included. That again would be optimal but the transient social obligations are best understood by the regions they affect, not just a fad type market. Real inhibitors that don't reach statute for broader application like food or work restrictions based on understandings of what might have been a temporary concern can be unpredictably institutionalized. If they are then made statutory and remain in place as irregular or not in course with a universal law of production need it becomes an arbitrary, costly and often resented way of life that has to be obeyed or worked with pending eventual change.

Social priorities tied to economics have to be understood by suppliers in providing a good or service to markets. A near exact social order to marketing demographic in wealth, race or geographic location can have a completely different demand pattern based on non apparent nor legal understandings. Can a demand pattern of control be justified as intrinsically necessary by itŐs promoter and not for health or safety as universal application would imply? Generally they canŐt.

A real issue that has recently emerged due to levels as a basic cost to varied western interests involve guild or league control. They altered production or demand patterns well outside conventional legal accords but were tolerated as then plausible by argument or inference in assessing output losses or unique projections and expenses. There were four main pillars involving economics as banking and corporate interests, and also political, media and security. The economic manipulation involving caps and redirects of funds and control had to be coerced by security forces and they were turned on by the political or other social groups leading to internal discord. in house policy review and physical positioning of hostile groups was common to federal departments. In short the guilds were maintained by coercion or even violence, the programs became too esoteric or costly and security and the corporate pillars appear to have cut the media and political ones loose. The system works without them but will have to rebound for conventional need in more overt dealings.

The legal control to statute here to the United States is largely regular or predictably application to universal laws that do promote stability and growth. They just have be enforced and lately have been. The guilds were penetrated by external pressures or internal gripes or manipulation and were able to flout the law. In Europe they were more formalized and took on social identifications. Asian ones are less clear as beyond Japan the systems so historically primitive. Theocracies of the developing countries no matter their initial motivations are notoriously irregular as well. The point is overt statute is now being far better enforced at the federal level and binding esoteric of the disconnected news and political projections should merge in more overt processes to accord.

Regulatory function in governing programs should mean legal enforcement and not board control. The leverage to the latter is routinely too difficult for any of its private sector components to surmount often leading to external radical changes not justified by want or need. As a general rule nationalization or what could be a privatized industry will lead to artificial demand or supply affecting, output, cost and distribution. Enforcement of private property, and optimal new system tolerance based on cost benefit to receipts and not other factors is universal in cross-cultural affairs and implied in fundamental economics providing predictable and productive economies and order.

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