From: The Descendants of Chattel Slaves
To: The Descendants of Chattel Slave-Holders
A Gift To You
Meet Mr. U.S. Debt
Road to Debt Reduction
The non-denomination Challenge Coin has three sides, as depicted below: the heads, tails, and ring sides. The coin is a non-denomination token because it is not in the U.S. monetary circulation. However, if the United States redeems this coin, the value would be $7.3 trillion.
Origins. The factors contributing to the origination of the U.S. debt reduction coin emerged over a span of 25 years. These factors include the issues, concerns, challenges, and policies assembled, archived, and minted to form the framework for U.S. debt reduction. The issues we have faced and the challenges we have overcome as a country continue to exact other challenges and concerns. One lingering issue is how we as a nation address the grievances of the descendants of slaves. An emerging yet persistent concern is the ongoing cyber threats that infect our networks and control systems, thereby compromising our national and individual security. Reparations and cybersecurity are vastly different issues that require quite different approaches to achieve a resolution—or do they?
Urgent vs. Important. Former U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower once said, “Never let the urgent get in the way of the important. The urgent is rarely important and the important is rarely urgent.” President Eisenhower used a decision matrix to address circumstances that arise requiring the urgent and the important to be dealt with at the same time. The $7.3 trillion debt reduction coin symbolizes both the urgent and the important.
The Urgent. When something is urgent, it usually doesn’t have a timeline; instead, it invokes immediacy. The urgent needs to be addressed now. In the case of the $7.3 trillion debt reduction coin, the urgent is indicated on the heads and tails sides and requires immediate attention. The heads side of the $7.3 trillion coin includes the words “Reparations: The Kind We Can All Live With.” Reparations are considered an urgent challenge or concern expressed in any number of policies to address concerns and racial issues. The tails side of the $7.3 trillion coin includes the words “United States Cybersecurity Program – Defense.” To date, the country lacks a comprehensive strategy to defend ourselves in cyberspace, indicating an urgent need. In fact, the nation is experiencing a “Tandemic” (technical epidemic) whereby passwords and corporate secrets are kidnapped and ransomed on a daily basis.
The Important. What dwarfs the urgent (i.e., reparations and cybersecurity) is the $36+ trillion U.S. debt, which is the important. The U.S. debt is so large that interest on the debt is the fourth largest expenditure in the U.S. annual budget, to the tune of $1 trillion per year. Although the important usually doesn’t carry a timeline or fixed date, addressing the debt is also an urgent issue because $1 trillion per year in interest payments is unstainable. The $7.3 trillion coin is a gift binding the urgent to the important. The ring side binds the urgent issues of reparations and cybersecurity and, in doing so, can generate the revenue necessary to reduce the debt. The ring side participates in the U.S. Debt Reduction Bowl.
Coin Redemption. The debt reduction coin is no good unless it can be redeemed; otherwise, the coin is just a symbol while the U.S. debt continues to grow. The debt reduction coin is redeemed for cashed by following a set of methods and procedures in the form of instructions for participating in the U.S. Debt Reduction Bowl. The U.S. Debt Reduction Guide (DRG) serves as the playbook or set of instructions for redeeming the debt reduction coin. The DRG instructs the ring side of the coin, the nation’s elite video gamers, on conducting the U.S. Debt Reduction Bowl. As described in the guide, the U.S. Debt Reduction Bowl incorporates the tail side (i.e., “U.S. Cybersecurity Program – Defense”). The analogy of American football is used intentionally, as there is a strategic and necessary reason for expressing the important and urgent issues in this culture. The DRG is the x’s and o’s that incorporate the Janes and Joes (the ring side) in creating a comprehensive strategy to defend ourselves in cyberspace.
The Guide
Chapter 1: Inherently Governmental and Information Governance
A river runs through it. The information technology river runs through each of the critical sectors identified in the Nation’s Infrastructure Protection Plan. Since each sector is affected the responsibility to protect is inherently governmental. The Debt Reduction Guide details how Information Governance is implemented, thereby preserving those Inherently Governmental functions. What has plagued the US Government is the need to implement standards on properties belonging to the private sector. The Debt Reduction Guide solves the dilemma of where private profits and public security converge.
Chapter 2: Football versus Soccer
The constant reference to football has several reasons that begin with Football is uniquely American. The late United States Senator, John S. McCain’s final legislative focus included the need for a “comprehensive plan to defend ourselves in cyberspace”. Hence, the US Cybersecurity Plan – Defense. The reference to Amercian Football serves to reinforce that in football, defense is played by specialists, unlike soccer where the same player plays both offense and defense. The Debt Reduction Guide provides a playbook for conducting the Debt Reduction Bowl and identifies the seven defensive specialists, whom we call cyber cleaners, needed to protect ourselves in cyberspace.
Chapter 3: Plague and the Tandemic
Sure, you’ve heard of the Covid pandemic. What about a Tandemic? We call malicious software or malware residing in our critical telecommunication networks and control systems undetected the Technical Pandemic, or for short the Tandemic. The Debt Reduction Guide is clear on the need to clean our networks and includes the JGI ‘contractor-in-place’ method to ensure that the Debt Reduction Bowl is performed using the best technology America has to offer.
Chapter 4: A Marriage of LA 4 and Tx 18
Who says Reparations cannot be agreed upon. There is a kind of reparations that we can all live with. The Debt Reduction Guide identifies the Satisfaction, and the Guarantee of non-repetition needed to Make America Fun Again.
Chapter 5: Whole of Government
Different from Chapter 1. Chapter 1 of the Debt Reduction Guide lays out who is responsible while this chapter begins to assign tasks to the ‘whole of government’ to perform the US Debt Reduction Bowl. No, no more planning without actual and factual outcomes at the same time. The Debt reduction guide details how the lead agency is the US Department of Commerce to ensure that the focus remains on the Important, which is US Debt Reduction.
Chapter 6: Lipstick on a Pig
Whats the Lipstick and what is the Pig? If we deploy broadband on already dirty networks, it is tantamount to putting lipstick on a pig. A technical paper was published years ago by the Jones Group International with the same title. The Debt Reduction Guide shows how networks are cleaned and provides lipstick that says, “Let’s Make America Fun Again”.
Chapter 7: The Rough Ashlars
Ashlar is a symbol of elegance with 90-degree corners. Fieldstone provides an informal appearance. Rough Ashlars are like fieldstones and includes the Massive Multiplayer On-line Role Player (MMORPG) video gamers. No H1B1 visas when the nation’s gamers can protect our critical telecommunication networks and control systems. The Debt Reduction Guide identifies, characterizes, and lays out in detail how we finally acquire a return on our video game investments. We put their Skills of Enjoyment to use as Careers of Employment. The rough ashlars become cyber cleaners.
Chapter 8: Generating the $7.3 trilliondollars in new revenue. New revenue will begin to appear either at halftime or beginning the third quarter of the US Debt Reduction Bowl. The methodology and approach to this revenue generation is closely tied to Chapter 5, Whole of Government. Much of Chapter 8 is classified.
The Bowl
How?
$7.3Trillion Dollar U.S. Debt Reduction Bowl
Reference is made to the sport of American football in the context of U.S. Debt reduction. This reference to football runs the risk of this debt reduction enterprise not being taken seriously. Those who harbor the idea that the effort is unrealistic will no doubt feel more graven to know that the debt reduction of $7.3 trillion will occur over a 48-month span.
The upper left indicates the nation’s current debt which is the accumulation of yearly deficits. Increasing taxes or tariffs will increase revenue which can offset the debt. Reducing spending or fiscal outlays will also reduce or offset the debt. A combination of increased revenue and reduced spending provides the third option in debt reduction.
The $7.3 trillion dollar debt reduction bowl ushers in (generates) new revenue and omits the reduced spending option. This is not to say that spending cuts are not helpful but spending cuts are not the subject of the debt reduction bowl. Back to the reference to American football. The reason the debt reduction effort is framed in the context of American football is that the sport, unlike soccer, has dedicated specialists on defense. Like U.S. Football, to host a bowl more than the teams playing needs attention. The accommodation of the spectators, rules of the game, and prizes awarded, all constitute elements of an American football bowl game. The late Senator John S. McCain lamented the now current situation the country finds itself in when he said “we lack a comprehensive approach to defend ourselves in cyberspace”. We interpret the ‘lack of a comprehensive’ to mean a lack of a ‘whole of government’ approach to defend ourselves in cyberspace. The debt reduction guide provides the playbook and strategy that incorporates the ‘whole of government’ in producing and orchestrating the U.S. Debt Reduction Bowl. U.S. Cybersecurity Program -Defense. The program is but the X’s and O’s being executed by the Jane’s and the Joe’s (i.e. the players)