ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL FULL EMPLOYMENT
MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
FROM: Tom Kuna, B.S.F.S., MA, International Relations
Contender for the Illinois Republican Party’s Nomination for US Senator from Illinois in 2014
P.O. Box 45
Kane, Illinois, 62054-0045 (an Illinois exurb of St. Louis, Missouri),50 Miles N. Of Downtown St.
Louis, on US 67, between St. Louis and Quad Cities (viz: Davenport, Iowa, etc)
1-618-494-5080, and 1-217-942-9730
tom_kuna@yahoo.com ,
www.amend-the-constitutions.org
20-Hours-Work for 40-Hours-Pay + EICs
HOW THE U.S. SENATE CAN SOLVE
THE WORLD-CRISIS OF UNEMPLOYMENT
& SOLVING THE SOC. SEC. & MEDICARE
FUNDING-CRISES
I endorse Dr. Will Boyd, Independent, for US
Senator in the 2010 election-cycle. See:
www.willboyd4illinois.com
ON FRIDAY, May 1, 2009, the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, I formally announced to the Illinois
and U.S. Publics that I sought the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination in 2010 for the Junior U.S.
Senator from Illinois, on the strongly PRO-LIFE, AND PRO-WORKING & FARMING FAMILIES’ platform
of 20-hours work for 40-hours Pay, with the difference paid NOT by the employer, but by Earned
Income Credits (EICs) funded by a special, graduated surtax on the net, natural-persons’
individual incomes greater than the GNAPCI (Gross National Adult Per Capita Income) [$51,670.89
per capita in 2008] AFTER all other personal, sales and property taxes; AFTER investments and
costs of doing business; and AFTER donations. On the 2009 Tax-Tables, that would have been a
surtax on Taxable Income greater than $63,500 for persons filing singly, and greater than
$250,500 on persons filing as a married couple.
EICs were, after all, the brain-child of Dr. Milton Friedman (may here rest in peace), who was the
chief economist of Republican-conservative, free-market economics. They were enacted into the
Tax-Code during the Reagan Administration.
My qualifications for this high office of public trust are:
(1) I have sought the right strategy and tactics for a just and lasting world peace, with lawful
freedom and prosperity for all, since my age of 5, and especially since my age of 8;
(2) with that aim, I earned the BSFS (Bachelor of Science Degree in Foreign Service) from
Georgetown University; then the MA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins;
(3) the BSFS is equal to 5 minors: i) History; ii) Government; iii) Economics; iv) Pre-Law;
v) Foreign Languages;
(4) my MA at Hopkins concentrated in the Social Aspects of Economic Development;
(5) upon graduation, I chose to become a High School teacher in the Washington, D.C.,Public
Schools rather than to become a functionary for the military-industrial-diplomatic-financial complex;
(6) since 1977, I have been writing books and engaging in unofficial back-channel diplomacy.
These efforts contributed to the 1989 decision of the Hungarian Government to tear down its Iron
Curtain and to allow E. Germans to emigrate to the West, which led inexorably to the end of the
Cold War. Other efforts have led to the Oslo Process, the Road Map, the Arab Peace Plan, and the
negotiations between Israel and Philastina, and, since 1983, to managing a 60% Employee-Owned
Co., (www.w-e-r-co.com ) inspired by the Illinois Employee-Ownership Assistance Act of that year,
passed by the then-Republican State Legislature, signed into law by that great-Illinois Republican
Governor “Big” Jim Thompson, and based on the Republican principle of working toward “The
Ownership Society” rather than the Democrats’ “Bread-and-Circuses Welfare Society”.
My studies taught me that, in addition to the standard business cycle of some 4-7 years of
prosperity followed by 14-18 months of recession, there is a 50-70 years' cycle of relative prosper-
ity followed by more severe recession, or even depression, as a certain complex of technologies
which had saturated its effective demand (which is defined as demand able to exert itself with cash
or credit) during its relative expansion phase, is often followed by a period of 5-10 years of
uncertainty as the newer complex of technologies attempts to become the standard. This cycle is
called the Kondratieff cycle, after the economist who first perceived it.
There is, however, another cycle of roughly 500-1,000 years of relative prosperity and expansion of
comparatively free markets, followed by 300-1000 years of bureaucratism, usually degenerating
into patronage feudalism or even slavery. This cycle is called the Quigley-Bibby cycle, after the
historians who first perceived it.
The current financial and economic crisis is at the bottom-end of a 70-year boom based on the
automobile, the super-highway (and resulting commercial, industrial and residential real-estate
boom), the jet plane,consumer appliances, and computers. It is no longer a sufficient engine of
growth for the world market.
It doesn’t have to lead either to the bottom of a Kondratieff cycle or to that of a Quigley-Bibby
cycle, depending on how we handle it.
The new technologies of solar-thermal, wind-, photo-voltaic, micro-hydro, geo-thermal, tidal and
piezoelectric (pressure) co-generation, nano-technologies, bio-diesel and micro-algae food and bio-
diesel production are not yet ready to carry the world market – mostly because we wasted the last
30 years not investing sufficiently in them.
They are perhaps less labor-intensive than the auto-appliances-real-estate-jet-computer complex,
although recent studies by the group: Green America (formerly Co-op America) show the green
technologies to employ more per capita than the old, dirty technologies.
The quickest way to incorporate the green technologies as engines of growth is to enact an
International Treaty among the 20-chief trading nations which would mandate that the full-time
work-week be 20-hours for 40-hours pay, with the difference paid for by Earned-Income Credits
(EICs), funded by a special graduated surtax on the net personal incomes of the general rich of
each nation, insofar as they exceed the GNAPCI (Gross National Adult Per Capita Incomes) of their
country of citizenship or residency, whichever is higher. This graduated surtax would be on NET
personal Incomes, after all other taxes, costs of doing business, investments and charitable,
religious or educational, etc. donations.
20-hours work for 40-hours pay (viz. 20-hours work-a-week for twice the hourly pay -- paid by a
Social Surplus Profits Tax on the General Rich of each signatory nation) is also the ONLY macro-way
to successfully integrate the over 2 billion people in the world who earn less than a dollar a day and
who have no access to clean water, much less to consumer-appliances or computers, or the newer-
complex of Green-Technologies. This policy would make their demand for goods and services
effective all across the board, by giving them access to decent employment at decent pay. Even in
the USA, the unemployment rate for youth between 18-24 is 30%!! (By contrast, the
unemployment rate for the baby-boom generation is currently only 3%).
Moreover, 20-for-40 is necessary because of the “productivity trap”.
The market economy makes profits possible for anyone by mainly, and continually, making labor-
power more productive per unit-labor-time input. This makes society wealthier in the “short” run,
but in the long run, it makes people appear redundant and expendable, leading to the wars and
genocide that have often accompanied a crisis in the economy.
The ONLY way to peacefully solve the “productivity trap” – even in prosperous nations -- is by
enacting 20-for-40 + EICs. Milton Friedman knew this. That’s why he proposed it and Reagan
accepted it.
20-for-40 + EICs is also the ONLY way to adequately fund SSA and Medicare from payroll taxes, as
20-4-40 is paid by EIC transfer-payments from the general rich to the payroll account of ALL
businesses, and with a much higher rate of employment.
20-for-40 + EICs, and the Federal Personhood Amendment, protecting the right to life from the
moment of fertilization/conception to the moment of natural death, are two principal reasons I
seek to become US Senator from Illinois.
Any Illinois or US voter or eligible voter who wishes to join me in these noble causes by either or
both of volunteering or donating, please phone me at (618)-494-5080, or write me at:
P.O. Box 45,
Kane, Illinois, 62054-0045, USA,
or tom_kuna@yahoo.com
or see www.amend-the-constitutions.org
(If Donating, you MUST fill out the Donations' Info Form on the Lower Right Column of About Us).
On June 3rd, 2009, be on the alert for my next-press release: on local, regional and State,
community-based micro-answers to the universal crisis of unemployment and under-employment,
such as TIME-DOLLARS (see: www.timebanks.org , 1-202-686-5200) a voluntary “complementary
currency” already working well in over 900 USA communities, and B2B (Business-to-Business)
Voluntary Currency, used by 1/4 of all Swiss businesses since the 1930's! (These press-releases
are incorporated now into this web-site)
“Complementary currencies”, and how they can help solve the crisis of public-sector, and especially,
public-school and health-care funding, as well as help to re-prosper the local-market-area small
and mid-sized business and allied workers and farmers who have always been the back-bone of
the Republican Party, will be discussed in depth in that Press Release.
Peace of Y’shuallah Ha-MasiîH (Hebrew-Arabic-Hebrew-Arabic for) Jesus-G-d, the Savior-King of the
Universe and the Just from sin, death, hell and entropy, the Black Davidic-worker, and In His
Blessed-Virgin Mother, Mariyah, the Shechinah, (Hebrew for) the Presence, the Tabernacle, of
Elohallah (Hebrew-Arabic for) the Holy ONE, the Mighty ONE, the Immortal ONE, the Most Merciful
ONE,
Tom Kuna
Kuna-4-US-Senate (the main committee) (Alliance for Full Employment: the subsidiary committee)
P.O. Box 45
Kane, Illinois, 62054-0045
(618)-494-5080
tom_kuna@yahoo.com
www.amend-the-constitutions.org
(Business: www.w-e-r-co.com )
Other web-sites we recommend:
www.afterabortion.org
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
FROM: Tom Kuna, B.S.F.S., MA, International Relations
Contender for the Illinois Republican Party’s Nomination for US Senator from Illinois in 2014
P.O. Box 45
Kane, Illinois, 62054-0045 (an Illinois exurb of St. Louis, Missouri),50 Miles N. Of Downtown St.
Louis, on US 67, between St. Louis and Quad Cities (viz: Davenport, Iowa, etc)
1-618-494-5080, and 1-217-942-9730
tom_kuna@yahoo.com ,
www.amend-the-constitutions.org
20-Hours-Work for 40-Hours-Pay + EICs
HOW THE U.S. SENATE CAN SOLVE
THE WORLD-CRISIS OF UNEMPLOYMENT
& SOLVING THE SOC. SEC. & MEDICARE
FUNDING-CRISES
I endorse Dr. Will Boyd, Independent, for US
Senator in the 2010 election-cycle. See:
www.willboyd4illinois.com
ON FRIDAY, May 1, 2009, the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, I formally announced to the Illinois
and U.S. Publics that I sought the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination in 2010 for the Junior U.S.
Senator from Illinois, on the strongly PRO-LIFE, AND PRO-WORKING & FARMING FAMILIES’ platform
of 20-hours work for 40-hours Pay, with the difference paid NOT by the employer, but by Earned
Income Credits (EICs) funded by a special, graduated surtax on the net, natural-persons’
individual incomes greater than the GNAPCI (Gross National Adult Per Capita Income) [$51,670.89
per capita in 2008] AFTER all other personal, sales and property taxes; AFTER investments and
costs of doing business; and AFTER donations. On the 2009 Tax-Tables, that would have been a
surtax on Taxable Income greater than $63,500 for persons filing singly, and greater than
$250,500 on persons filing as a married couple.
EICs were, after all, the brain-child of Dr. Milton Friedman (may here rest in peace), who was the
chief economist of Republican-conservative, free-market economics. They were enacted into the
Tax-Code during the Reagan Administration.
My qualifications for this high office of public trust are:
(1) I have sought the right strategy and tactics for a just and lasting world peace, with lawful
freedom and prosperity for all, since my age of 5, and especially since my age of 8;
(2) with that aim, I earned the BSFS (Bachelor of Science Degree in Foreign Service) from
Georgetown University; then the MA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins;
(3) the BSFS is equal to 5 minors: i) History; ii) Government; iii) Economics; iv) Pre-Law;
v) Foreign Languages;
(4) my MA at Hopkins concentrated in the Social Aspects of Economic Development;
(5) upon graduation, I chose to become a High School teacher in the Washington, D.C.,Public
Schools rather than to become a functionary for the military-industrial-diplomatic-financial complex;
(6) since 1977, I have been writing books and engaging in unofficial back-channel diplomacy.
These efforts contributed to the 1989 decision of the Hungarian Government to tear down its Iron
Curtain and to allow E. Germans to emigrate to the West, which led inexorably to the end of the
Cold War. Other efforts have led to the Oslo Process, the Road Map, the Arab Peace Plan, and the
negotiations between Israel and Philastina, and, since 1983, to managing a 60% Employee-Owned
Co., (www.w-e-r-co.com ) inspired by the Illinois Employee-Ownership Assistance Act of that year,
passed by the then-Republican State Legislature, signed into law by that great-Illinois Republican
Governor “Big” Jim Thompson, and based on the Republican principle of working toward “The
Ownership Society” rather than the Democrats’ “Bread-and-Circuses Welfare Society”.
My studies taught me that, in addition to the standard business cycle of some 4-7 years of
prosperity followed by 14-18 months of recession, there is a 50-70 years' cycle of relative prosper-
ity followed by more severe recession, or even depression, as a certain complex of technologies
which had saturated its effective demand (which is defined as demand able to exert itself with cash
or credit) during its relative expansion phase, is often followed by a period of 5-10 years of
uncertainty as the newer complex of technologies attempts to become the standard. This cycle is
called the Kondratieff cycle, after the economist who first perceived it.
There is, however, another cycle of roughly 500-1,000 years of relative prosperity and expansion of
comparatively free markets, followed by 300-1000 years of bureaucratism, usually degenerating
into patronage feudalism or even slavery. This cycle is called the Quigley-Bibby cycle, after the
historians who first perceived it.
The current financial and economic crisis is at the bottom-end of a 70-year boom based on the
automobile, the super-highway (and resulting commercial, industrial and residential real-estate
boom), the jet plane,consumer appliances, and computers. It is no longer a sufficient engine of
growth for the world market.
It doesn’t have to lead either to the bottom of a Kondratieff cycle or to that of a Quigley-Bibby
cycle, depending on how we handle it.
The new technologies of solar-thermal, wind-, photo-voltaic, micro-hydro, geo-thermal, tidal and
piezoelectric (pressure) co-generation, nano-technologies, bio-diesel and micro-algae food and bio-
diesel production are not yet ready to carry the world market – mostly because we wasted the last
30 years not investing sufficiently in them.
They are perhaps less labor-intensive than the auto-appliances-real-estate-jet-computer complex,
although recent studies by the group: Green America (formerly Co-op America) show the green
technologies to employ more per capita than the old, dirty technologies.
The quickest way to incorporate the green technologies as engines of growth is to enact an
International Treaty among the 20-chief trading nations which would mandate that the full-time
work-week be 20-hours for 40-hours pay, with the difference paid for by Earned-Income Credits
(EICs), funded by a special graduated surtax on the net personal incomes of the general rich of
each nation, insofar as they exceed the GNAPCI (Gross National Adult Per Capita Incomes) of their
country of citizenship or residency, whichever is higher. This graduated surtax would be on NET
personal Incomes, after all other taxes, costs of doing business, investments and charitable,
religious or educational, etc. donations.
20-hours work for 40-hours pay (viz. 20-hours work-a-week for twice the hourly pay -- paid by a
Social Surplus Profits Tax on the General Rich of each signatory nation) is also the ONLY macro-way
to successfully integrate the over 2 billion people in the world who earn less than a dollar a day and
who have no access to clean water, much less to consumer-appliances or computers, or the newer-
complex of Green-Technologies. This policy would make their demand for goods and services
effective all across the board, by giving them access to decent employment at decent pay. Even in
the USA, the unemployment rate for youth between 18-24 is 30%!! (By contrast, the
unemployment rate for the baby-boom generation is currently only 3%).
Moreover, 20-for-40 is necessary because of the “productivity trap”.
The market economy makes profits possible for anyone by mainly, and continually, making labor-
power more productive per unit-labor-time input. This makes society wealthier in the “short” run,
but in the long run, it makes people appear redundant and expendable, leading to the wars and
genocide that have often accompanied a crisis in the economy.
The ONLY way to peacefully solve the “productivity trap” – even in prosperous nations -- is by
enacting 20-for-40 + EICs. Milton Friedman knew this. That’s why he proposed it and Reagan
accepted it.
20-for-40 + EICs is also the ONLY way to adequately fund SSA and Medicare from payroll taxes, as
20-4-40 is paid by EIC transfer-payments from the general rich to the payroll account of ALL
businesses, and with a much higher rate of employment.
20-for-40 + EICs, and the Federal Personhood Amendment, protecting the right to life from the
moment of fertilization/conception to the moment of natural death, are two principal reasons I
seek to become US Senator from Illinois.
Any Illinois or US voter or eligible voter who wishes to join me in these noble causes by either or
both of volunteering or donating, please phone me at (618)-494-5080, or write me at:
P.O. Box 45,
Kane, Illinois, 62054-0045, USA,
or tom_kuna@yahoo.com
or see www.amend-the-constitutions.org
(If Donating, you MUST fill out the Donations' Info Form on the Lower Right Column of About Us).
On June 3rd, 2009, be on the alert for my next-press release: on local, regional and State,
community-based micro-answers to the universal crisis of unemployment and under-employment,
such as TIME-DOLLARS (see: www.timebanks.org , 1-202-686-5200) a voluntary “complementary
currency” already working well in over 900 USA communities, and B2B (Business-to-Business)
Voluntary Currency, used by 1/4 of all Swiss businesses since the 1930's! (These press-releases
are incorporated now into this web-site)
“Complementary currencies”, and how they can help solve the crisis of public-sector, and especially,
public-school and health-care funding, as well as help to re-prosper the local-market-area small
and mid-sized business and allied workers and farmers who have always been the back-bone of
the Republican Party, will be discussed in depth in that Press Release.
Peace of Y’shuallah Ha-MasiîH (Hebrew-Arabic-Hebrew-Arabic for) Jesus-G-d, the Savior-King of the
Universe and the Just from sin, death, hell and entropy, the Black Davidic-worker, and In His
Blessed-Virgin Mother, Mariyah, the Shechinah, (Hebrew for) the Presence, the Tabernacle, of
Elohallah (Hebrew-Arabic for) the Holy ONE, the Mighty ONE, the Immortal ONE, the Most Merciful
ONE,
Tom Kuna
Kuna-4-US-Senate (the main committee) (Alliance for Full Employment: the subsidiary committee)
P.O. Box 45
Kane, Illinois, 62054-0045
(618)-494-5080
tom_kuna@yahoo.com
www.amend-the-constitutions.org
(Business: www.w-e-r-co.com )
Other web-sites we recommend:
www.afterabortion.org
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