Hello from us here at OKJack™Group™.

As you have undoubtedly noted, our group's web site is now a pared down version of its old self. OKJack™Group™ is reallocating its resources toward the production of a literary dramatization of our views on six traditional areas of focus―Control by the Many of the Few, Income Tax, War and Warfare, Bad Laws, Big Six™ v. Small Six™ and U.S. Presidents. Of course, our views shall always reflect reasoned and seasoned conclusions, judgments and opinions. These, while also applying our usual OKJack™Group™ Extraordinary Commonsense Solutions™ to longstanding unresolved issues that are peculiar to the political, economic and military arenas―as well as to the socioeconomic arena. Naturally, our group's middle and working class views on the aforementioned six traditional areas of focus shall continue to be a reflection of one another.

Stay tuned while our producer's literary dramatization is in process.

In the meantime, consider this when you have a few moments.

There are OKJack™Group™ terms and phrases that we have coined―or certain common phrases that we've from time to time borrowed from the public domain.

Some are old terms that we've simply refined over the past 25 years or so, while others are newly coined and developed terms and phrases―some as recently as the present 2-year election cycle (2011-12).

Examples are OKJack™Group™; Middle and Working Class Disabled Veterans™; We Paid the Dues that Aren't Required™; Mr. and Mrs. Middle & Working Class Reader™; The Best and Finest of Us™; Risk and Sacrifice Our Lives and Limbs, Sight, Hearing and Physical & Mental Health™; Big Six™, i.e., Big Business, Big Politics, Big Media, Big Religion™, Big Government & Big Legal™; Big Six™ Entertainment, Confusion & Management™ and other terms and phrases original to and individually and/or collectively exclusive to OKJack™Group™.

Naturally, we consider many of our definitions and/or accompanying explanations of certain terms and phrases to be original to OKJack™Group™ as well. We are thoughtful in our analyses, syntheses and conclusions―and as to our final literary product.

We'll begin with the following terms and phrases.

Big Government ― The constitutional Article I legislative power and Article II executive power delegated by We the People to Congress and to the President. Today, the U.S. has a 435-member House of Representatives and a 100-member Senate.

Big Legal™ ― The constitutional Article III judicial power delegated by We the People to the supreme Court (lower case "s") consisting of a Chief Justice and other judges (not associate justices). For what it's worth, we disagree with a later statute that "exalted" the judicial branch beyond what in our view We the People intended in the first place. After all, isn't that what the Constitution was designed to prevent? Of course, that assumes that the powers delegated by We the People are not overreached. Unfortunately, since ratification in the late 18th Century, the early 21st Century has brought America inch by inch toward disregarding the spirit and perhaps even the letter of certain constitutional articles, sections and clauses.

Control of the Many by the Few ― The end result of our Multinational Capitalist-Republic Model™―a model that we refined from our Capitalist-Republic Model™ of Control of the Many by the Few, the term multinational referring to the past 25 years since the Reagan/Bush years.

Income Tax ― The federal tax on income from whatever source derived, i.e., earned income, business income and investment income―established in 1913 to implement Amendment XVI to the U.S. Constitution, which was initiated by a republican president and republican-controlled congress, and ratified by 75% of the states in 1913. The earliest income tax rates were established in 1913, and were the same―regardless of the source of income. Later on, investment income (net capital gains) and then business income (net profits) were given preferential lower rates. The optimum and average top marginal rate during the first 75 years of the income tax (and of the first 75 years of the middle class) is 70%―the average bottom marginal rate during the same period being 10%. Today, the top rates for individuals (net earned income, pensions, etc.), businesses and investors are an unsustainable and less than optimum 35%, 35% and 15%, respectively.  In 1988, there was a massive Income Tax cut for the privileged class, i.e., an unprecedented drop in the top marginal federal income tax rate for individuals (70%↓28%)―the top rate already having been cut 25 years before that during the Kennedy/Johnson years (91%↓70%). So, over a period of only 25 years between the Kennedy/Johnson years and the Bush/Cheney years, the top marginal rate was cut in real terms by 69% (91%↓28%).

Middle Class―The majority of Americans whose body and numbers grew out of an untaxed working class which then prospered and created national wealth for 50 years (1913-63). This, through World War I (1917-18); the Great Depression (1929-41); World War II (1941-45) and the unconstitutional and undeclared Korean War (1950-53). This national wealth was redistributed through the Income Tax to the privileged class beginning in  1963, and particularly from 1988 onward when the top marginal rate was cut (70%↓28%), and the bottom marginal rate of the middle and working class was raised  (0%↑15%). At the same time, so much Big Government borrowing took place to pay America's bills and subsidize the tax cuts for the privileged class, that the national debt siphoned off the national wealth.

The Best and Finest of Us™―Middle, working and poor class Americans who Risk and Sacrifice Their Lives and Limbs, Sight, Hearing and Physical & Mental Health™ while serving in the active duty uniform of our great nation during War and Warfare, or in peacetime. This, the uniformed service that the privileged class refuses to engage in―and which even the middle class has mostly avoided since the active duty draft ended at the conclusion of the SE Asia Counterinsurgency (Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia ― 1963-73).

Big Six™ ― Big Business, Big Politics, Big Media and Big Religion seeking to gain or maintain control over Big Government and Big Legal at the end of each 2-year election cycle.

Big Business ― The opposite of Small Business. Big Business can be loosely described as Big Banking, Big Manufacturing & Production, Big Investing, Big Insurance and so forth. Some refer to it as simply Big Corporations. In reality, American privileged class managed Big Corporations provide only 25% of the middle and working class job base inside of the United States today. On the other hand, American middle class managed Small Business is now responsible for 75% of middle and working class jobs inside the United States. American-in-name-only privileged-class-managed Big Corporations (e.g., Apple and hundreds of other such Big "American" Corporations) have converted 75% of American middle class jobs to foreign (e.g., Chinese) poor class jobs earning $1-$2/hour―creating these poor class jobs on overseas manufacturing campuses where employees are housed in dormitories and fed, clothed and otherwise supplied by company stores. This, much like U.S. labor (e.g., coal miners) was treated prior to 1913 and the advent of the Income Tax and the American labor union movement.

Big Politics ― The democrat and republican party liberal and conservative power structures. Big Politics seeks to gain or maintain control over the office of the President (and the office of the constitutional commander in chief of the U.S. Armed Forces) at the end of every other 2-year election cycle (4 years). Big Politics seeks to gain or maintain control over the House of Representatives at the end of each 2-year election cycle. Big Politics seeks to gain or maintain control over the Senate at the end of each 2-year election cycle―one of three classes of senators being constitutionally required to face election or reelection by the middle, working and poor class swing voting electorate once every 6 years, e.g., 33 senators in 2012 (until 2018), 33 senators in 2014 (until 2020), 34 senators in 2016 (until 2022).

Big Media ― Every conceivable method of broadcasting and publishing used to apply  Big Six™ Entertainment, Confusion & Management™.

Big Six™ Entertainment, Confusion & Management™ ― The privileged-class system applied to middle, working and poor class swing voters during each 2-year election cycle. Entertainment pretty much describes the primary and general election campaigns conducted by the Big Six™ Big Politics (liberal and conservative party power structures), and is liberally (and conservatively) used to distract swing voters from the real issues facing the nation―this, during the 2 years leading up to the election, e.g., 2009-10 and now 2011-12. Confusion of swing voters is dispensed by Big Politics and by Big Government usually from October until voting day of each election year, e.g., 2010 and now 2012. Management is the post-election strategy used by Big Government to minimize rocking the boat for swing voters during the year following an election, e.g., 2011 and 2013.

Big Religion ― The majority religion, i.e., Judeo-Christian.

We the People ― Refers to the phrase, We the People of the United States.

Economically and politically repressed (and then militarily suppressed) 18th Century colonial aristocrats of the imperialistic English crown began to seriously think of themselves as a sort of We the People type of patriotic movement―some of them loyal compromisers, but more of them being not so loyal secessionists.

During the age of empire, the aforesaid colonists were sent by the privileged class of European imperialistic governments to exploit the natural and human resources on all the other continents, i.e., North America, Africa, Asia, South America and Australia.

Note that the age of empire is euphemistically referred to as the age of discovery―while we here at OKJack™Group™ characterize it as the old age of exploitation.

The colonial apparatus of the old age of exploitation did not completely come apart at the seams until the conclusion of the most destructive conflict in global history, i.e., World War II (1939-45). This, some 25 years after starting to self-destruct during World War I (1914-18).

Leading up to World War II and the just mentioned end of the old age of exploitation was the beginning of the new age of exploitation. The remnants of the former Ottoman Turk empire and its vast southwest Asian oil reserves became the major focus of this post-World War I/pre-World War II new age of exploitation.

Putting aside that digression for the moment―we return to the privileged class colonial landowners & slaveholders on the North American continent. They utilized their literacy and political, economic and military awakening as the means of becoming what would later be almost religiously referred to as framers and founding fathers. In the latter capacity, they wrote the Declaration of Independence, and then "this Constitution for the United States of America".

In the latter document, they referenced the phrase We the People after collectively agreeing on the final wording used in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, i.e., "We the People of the United States...do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Note that the phrase for the United States of America found its way into the last few words of the preamble―rather than of the United States.

As for us here at OKJack™Group™, we're confident in our Rare Event Root Cause Analysis™ and Extraordinary Commonsense Conclusion™. That is, we're confident in our collective analysis, synthesis and conclusion that the Constitution is basically a privileged class document, and not a working, poor and indentured class document. After all, there was no middle socioeconomic class in late 18th Century colonial America―and the working, poor and indentured class was by and large illiterate (men as well as women).

As a matter of fact, white women were unable to use their future literacy to force white men to give them the right to vote until 1920 when Amendment XIX was ratified by 75% of the states. Even today almost a century later, all women are still working toward political and economic emancipation. A few women are desirous of military emancipation as well.

The phenomenon of the American middle class as the untaxed and literate core of the U.S. economic arena did not begin to materialize until the early 20th Century, some 150 years after U.S. independence. This, when the Income Tax was constitutionalized by 1909's Amendment XVI (ratified in 1913), and implemented by the Revenue Act of 1913.

Said constitutional amendment was written and passed by a privileged class republican-controlled congress and republican president. A privileged class democrat-controlled congress and democrat president wrote and passed the first income tax rate schedule and accompanying law.

It is clear to us here at OKJack™Group™ that creating the American middle class was the last thing on the minds of the privileged class when creating the Income Tax. It was an accident that would continue growing the American middle class economic arena at the expense of the privileged class for another 75 years―before finally being rectified by a privileged class coup de grace that was formally administered in 1988 to both the progressive income tax system and to the national wealth created by the American middle class.

In 1913, all income was subject to the identical progressive rates, regardless of whether the source was personal income, business income or investment income. This perfectly sensible progressive income tax system began to fall apart when the privileged class republican party regained control of congress and the presidency after the Woodrow Wilson democrat administration.

By the time of the Kennedy/Johnson democrat administrations that ensued in 1961, and the Reagan/Bush republican administrations that began 20 years later in 1981, the privileged class coup de grace was more or less formally administered to both the progressive income tax system and to the national wealth created by the American middle class.

America's $15 trillion U.S. Public Debt bears witness to the fact that Big Government privileged class borrowing and printing & minting has resulted in privileged class national debt being substituted for the once diffused middle class national wealth, while privileged class personal wealth has become more concentrated at the apex of America's hierarchal pyramid of Big Six™ Wealth, Power, Privilege & Control™. In the process, 75% of America's middle class jobs have been converted to foreign poor class jobs by American-in-name-only Big Business.

Putting aside that digression for the moment―we return to the Constitution. Said document appears to lay down the singular and exclusive power and control of We the privileged class People over We the People―to include the exclusive power of We the privileged class People to create a federal government and then to delegate certain legislative, executive and judicial powers to the corresponding branches of that government. These three powers are enumerated in Article I, Article II and Article III, respectively.

Note that there are also Article IV through Article VII―as well as the Bill of Rights consisting of the first 10 amendments (I through X), thereafter followed by 17 separate and additional amendments (XI through XXVII)―all amendments requiring 75% of the states to ratify them, said ratifications taking place in various years between and 1795 and 1992.

We think of the Bill of Rights as something which those of the privileged class decided on as a means of altering the Constitution to actually include those of the working, poor and indentured class.

The Constitution was ratified on June 21, 1788―and the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791, some 3½ years later.

Interestingly, if the first two articles proposed for the Bill of Rights had been ratified, then what we call "First Amendment" freedoms, rights and privileges would be referred to as "Third Amendment" instead.

 More as time goes along from us here at OKJack™Group™.

P.S. Occasionally we are asked by readers how to see this web site's primary true type fonts as shown on each of the two gray interactive buttons, below, i.e., Bernhard Fashion MT and Book Antigua.

To do so, simply click each of the two gray interactive buttons―and then save the corresponding True Type Font (.ttf) files to any computer's operating system fonts folder, e.g., to C:\WINDOWS\fonts.