Federal Budget

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/

Populism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/17/republican-budget-experts-say-trump-budget-dropped-populism/99297530/

Trumps election was a function Populism.  Sub-Category of Populism: Right Wing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_populism

Logically, if there is Right Wing Populism then there is Left Wing Populism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_populism

Trump Populism Southern Strategy:
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+populism+southern+strategy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial

Bait and Switch: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait-and-switch

"Let the Buyer Beware" is a sub category market model ambiguous rule related to the "Art of the Deal" that theoretically balances the market place but in practice should reasonably require the observance and compliance with an ethic value framework or mandatory compliance with a legal framework.  Generally dis-regarded as a function of another rule: Dog eat Dog.  Or Greed is Good.  Or Survival of the Fittest. Generally considered to be un-ethical or even immoral but an excellent model for making money.

"Making Money" is a bottom line thing.  Where the rubber meets the road as a function of (or in spite of) what went into prior design of  entity relationships and implementation of functions among them called a sale or trade.

Fair Trade? That is a judgment thing that has a degree of ambiguity and a function Trust.
https://www.google.com/search?q=fair+trade%3F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial#dobs=fair%20trade

Trump won the prize position of President as a function of what he offered to win it and who he offered what to whom and why it was attractive enough to win their support.  Now that constituency is getting what they wanted and bargained for in return for their vote on emotional  and other issues.

Trump wins on the bottom line of "Making Money".  The general public gets a handful of beans.  More money moves to the establishment, the small percent that make the most money.  Less money moves to the people.

Nothing personal.  It is just business.  Might have been much the same result if Hillary had won.

I believe that there would not be so much slip between the bait and a slip if Bernie had won.

Where the money goes in the Federal Budget, or does not go, is the consummation of the "Deal".

We been had?

Most of us already knew that, the rest are beginning to see it.  Enough to tip the balance...seriously.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-budget-republicans_us_58cc107fe4b0ec9d29dbb9ed?5oq2h4zwa5rk9&

The National Budget is where the Bait gets delivered....or switched!  The ones that benefit from the switch...the few...must be very happy.  The rest of We the People?  Not so much.

The Federal Budget is not generally understood.  The link at the beginning of this blog entry is educational.  Yes it is but the challenge of education is convey learning of the education content to the target demographic entity.  Every citizen in theory. Enough citizens in reality to give a majority of informed citizenry to swing the majority vote to favor the General Welfare of our democracy and the application programs that the democratic operating system supports.  Or something good like that.

I repeat:  The Federal Budget is not generally understood by the enough of the public to make it subject to the will of the majority.  The lead link attempts to present the Federal Budget, and abstract structural entity in a fashion that can be understood.  The following link presents a view on the sheer difficulty in doing that:
http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/the-public-is-clueless-about-the-federal-budget-and-it-s-the-new-york-times-fault

How in the world is it possible to reduce the complexity of human designed abstract social systems to simplicity that can be grasped by at least the majority of citizens to assure that assure that their vote on the operating system and its application programs result in the serving the common good?  Extremely difficult when the foundation of the economic social system is each person acting freely and independently in their own self interest?

How can reduction of a complex abstract social system be reduced to simplicity so that the majority of citizens can exercise control of the top level entities of the system with assurance that applications of the system at lower levels where the rubber meets the road and does something are a directly linked function of the design intent and control built in at the top level where the levers of governance are in the hands of the people?  Sufficiently in the hands of those who are governed that assure that those chosen to operate the governance system govern as intended?

Good question.  Maybe the answer is taking the product of the past that has the abstract substance of a big marshmallow created by human minds on a trial and error methodology like nature and make it into a highly defined abstract operating system machine to run our social application programs on.  A system founded on natural law of science but enhanced by our human intelligence that extends beyond science into the domain of belief.  Beliefs that we choose to be self evident.

Intelligence does extend into the domain of belief beyond natural world science.  In that domain a science based extension of our intelligent minds projects itself.  So far so good, historically.  To go farther we need to create an abstract machine intelligence to serve us.  Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence is the creation of abstracted computer machine based systems by the gifted few of us, scientists, engineers and builders to serve all of us.  They know best in the complexity of their domains, private and public sectors.  The public is a stakeholder with specification interest in their efforts, also a consumer of what they create.

Apply Artificial Intelligence design to the Federal Budget?  A design that most can follow at the top level and be assured by trust in experts that the entire system serves us in application performance.  Much like the Internet and World Wide Web.  A Federal Budget System where each and every citizen could pull a thread that leads from them individually to the general performance of the entire system for the common good.

At the most granular level in the Federal Budget System is a single dollar. In an Artificial Intelligence Federal Budget System the unique dollar that is a uniquely identified granular level entity unit of the entire system is the end of the thread to be pulled that connects it to the effectiveness of all dollars in the system to serve us.

The Federal Budget is a top down breakdown of proposed spending  of dollars.

Federal Budget execution is the actual application of a single uniquely identified unit dollar by the Federal Budget Operating System.  Every single unique dollar applied must be traceable to compliance with the Operating System and the intentions of the Operating System design to serve the Common Good.  All that is about as difficult to understand at the macro and micro levels of Operating System and Application Programs as the computer system of the Information Age.

Operating Systems and Application Programs of the Information Age serve me well.  My email works.  My bank accounts work.  My Netflix works.  My online shopping works.  When they don't I can find out why and correct it or get it corrected.  If my chosen provider of Information Age services does not work then I chose another provider.  On a higher order level if a provider of major sectoral service does not provide adequate service then a new provider will find an opportunity.  The Federal Budget works for me and should be no different.  In the case of the Federal Budget not working for me individually as well as us collectively then  a new Provider of the Federal Budget is collectively chosen.

Perhaps we the people should chose a new provider of the Federal Budget whenever there is a majority lack of confidence in the current provider, not on a schedule of every 4 years?

As a citizen I want to be able to pull the string on every single unique dollar of my choice chosen from all Federal Budget dollars spent to discover when it was spend, what it was spent for and who received it.  I want that information on a micro dollar unit level as well as a macro level by Federal Budget category.

That requires the creation of a big system.  No bigger than the system that they government has created to monitor all current information age systems and traffic for "security" purposes that have questionable actual security purposes.  I would rather have all those resources dedicated to the creation of an Operating System and Application Programs applicable to the Federal Budget as well as the general Banking Monetary System using blockchain technology to assure without a doubt that our governance system is delivering for the common good.

Big information systems have a long history of development to serve users.  This is an excellent story about the VA health care information system designed to serve users:
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/03/vista-computer-history-va-conspiracy-000367

Like the Federal Budget and our Banking Monetary System it has its granular unique system unit: the VA patient.  The unit that can be traced in history about which all information is related.  Analogous to  the single dollar.  The link is a fascinating story of development.  If only the established Federal Budget System had such gifted and motivated people to change what was once a paper accounting system to an information age system.

It appears to me that the legacy Federal Budget System design was simply implemented on a computer without significant restructure to serve the needs of operating system Information Management and Control of its Application Programs.  Application, What a Budget System does rather than what a Federal Budget System is continued to be secondary and what it does in Application Execution continued to be primary in system design.

Exactly like the Monetary system design.  The Federal Budget System is a functional oriented design.  Based primarily on what it does, Secondarily what it is and how it operates with a controlling Operating System to produce Application programs accomplishing what it is intended to do.

The old legacy story of function driven design vs Object Oriented design.  Horse before the cart system design of old school functional design legacy systems that are so well entrenched but must die.

Finance is all design focus on function.  Focus on what money does and creation of a functional oriented system of Application Programs.  Finance is all Application Programs designed in accordance with the domination of the functional approach to serve and objective:  Making money.  Focus on what money is?  That would create a different system.  One that would overcome the failures of the legacy functional oriented debt money system.   Another legacy Functional Design Based system that deserves to die.  Since it will not evolve to a Object Oriented design it will die a catastrophic death it deserves.  The chaos that causes is our greatest national security problem.
http://wolfstreet.com/2017/03/20/sp500-eps-stagnate-despite-share-buybacks-non-gaap-reporting/

"Financial Engineering" What a joke.  Engineering is done in the operating system rules of the game, not the play on the field which is the function of the operating system rules.  Finance wants no operating system rules except those of the "Market" which are all functional.  Just like black magic.  Total focus is on the action of the deal, the object nature properties of the medium of exchange involved are obviated by their debt nature.  Debt is not an object at all.  It is a Case situation.