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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Dear Friends,
It seems to me that the reason Americans don’t save money and the stock market is not a good investment is because the system is loaded.
American’s are self-interested people rightly understood (rational maximizers). We will roll dice all day long. But, as soon as we see the dice are loaded, we pick up our money and we stop playing that game. The dice are clearly loaded in the stock market.
The personal investor is barred from using money gained as a result of a stock trade for 5 business days. But the investment firm is not barred from charging $60.00 to transfer $112.00. Does that seem like regulation that is written to protect the consumer?
No it benefit’s the institution. Regulation and regulators always get into bed with the industry they are tasked to regulate. There is even a term. (If the phenomenon was rare there wouldn’t be a term in the lexicon). That term is ‘regulatory capture‘.
How is it efficient for a firm doing financial business to be so large their net income surpasses 50% of the countries of the world’s GDP? To control such a behemoth requires gobs of bureaucracy. The only advantage a giant would have over an ad hoc group of smaller leaner firms… is regulation.
What about blatant price fixing? When financial firms bring an IPO to market they have agreed before hand on a price floor! Imagine if sofa dealers agreed on a price floor. Someone would go to jail. But no matter the consequences to society the outright corruption of giants is overlooked. But when it is so egregious something has to be done… Government punishes the investors, not the culprits! No one who made the decision to break the law ever has to face negative consequences. They keep their jobs and their bonuses. The investor gets charged. Who is paying the price for the BP disaster? Management or the investor? What incentive does this give to potential investor? What incentive to management?
Government regulation punishes investment and rewards corruption in the people who handle money. FANNIE MAE and FREDDIE MAC are examples of institutions that were intricately involved in the recent economic meltdown. But the regulator didn’t see fit to saddle them with any new requirements. In fact the regulators rewarded them with more money and new powers.
The reason that firms grow too big to fail is that regulation favors that outcome. Why would regulation, that is supposedly there to protect the consumer, be an incentive for businesses to grow to huge scales making supernatural profits, even in a down turn? Because the people at the table when regulation is written are the industries that are being regulated.
That has to be done to get sane regulation. The problem is that the total lack of oversight of government and it’s action results in corrupt officials. If there was no oversight in the business you work for, would the level of corruption go up, or would it go down? Further, add to that, when corruption that will inevitably lead to the diminishing of our standard of living is discovered… people laugh! We laugh at our own funerals.
Now we have a huge amount of regulation flowing down the aqueduct into our investments and our employers investments. Can we trust that our officials are clean and wrote those new regulations with an eye to fairness and without bias? Of course not! What fool would actually believe that? A willing suspension of disbelief would be required.
The amount of shady things institutions can do with our investments is the reason people don’t invest. As soon as you put your toe in you are bombarded with caveats and gotchas that ensure that unless you are extremely luck or somehow navigate around the gotchas you cannot make a profit. Even tough your stocks may rise in value the fees, hidden charges and outright gotchas winnow down the profit to nothing. (Loading the dice). And nothing stops commerce in it’s tracks like a rigged game. No one willingly plays when they know they are being played. Only a fool.
So why go without to invest? The institution you invest in will get the profit and the investor gets the bills. Unless there is a giant catastrophe and the investment houses loose money… then the taxpayer covers the investment houses, the investor takes a bath and is looking at inevitably higher taxes to pay for the bailout. So the investment houses can keep playing the people…
Here’s an idea… Tie the profit of the investment firms (and their employees) to the profits of their clients. Force the alignment of the two party’s interest. Then lay off thousands of government CPAs…
Tags: Americans saving, disincentive, economy, incentive, International Capitalist Party, investment, poor saving rate, rational maximiser, regulation, Sophistry
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Dear Friends,
It seems to me that the integration of African Americans into White society was as much a factor of capitalism as it was political.
Take the example of Jacky Robinson into the major leagues. What today seems obvious is not so obvious before it has been done successfully. We look back and think that it is absurd to exclude people from an activity due to the color of their skin. But, in the day, people were afraid of public opinion. They didn’t have a good read on whether or not it would be tolerated.
That is the role of the entrepreneur… to see an opportunity and seize on it. If you reduce baseball to it’s capitalist roots you see that each firm vies to have the “winning team.” the more winning your team the more profit there is in owning it. With this as the incentive it is in the best interests of the owners to put the very best players on their teams… that are available.
The entrepreneur notices that the available players are not necessarily the best players alive. So in his evil way the entrepreneur changes the parameters of what attributes are allowable. In this case erasing skin color as a disqualifying attribute. The entrepreneur who makes the leap first… successfully makes monopoly profits until the rest catch up. But in the interim the entrepreneur has bought up the best players at the beast prices. Monopolizing them to his evil ends.
Take the example of the wicked factory owner. He wants access to the cheapest labor he can get. Cheap in the smart capitalist terms… Lower labor cost per unit produced. Cheap cost is not necessarily cheap labor. Labor that is very inefficient is not cheap at any price… He sees that there is a segment that is excluded from his factory. If the exclusion were removed the available pool of labor would go up and his labor cost would at least stabilize if not go down. So the self interested entrepreneurial factory owner will seek to open up the formerly excluded people to his labor pool. It is in his self interest.
This is a fundamental attribute of capitalism and the market system. The very thing that make capitalism so hated by the romantic anti capitalists. Like Moser and Freyer worrying about the market system’s effect on community and the loss of ethnicity. To Marx and (in his own way) Schumpeter, on the imminent demise of capitalism… In the case of Schumpeter his book might have saved us all decades of stagnation at the hands of the progressives… One uniting attribute of all the anti capitalists is that they have a fixation on groups.
They love to group people and think about them in groups and as members of groups. Like meteorologists use blocks of data to represent large volumes of air in their computer simulations. It makes the computing task much easier. But introduces a huge amount of discrepancy. That discrepancy is why the weather man claims it will rain and it actually is clear and sunny. People are people. We react as individuals. Our actions then aggregate into societal action. But to try to represent human beings as groups looses a huge amount of data. This is a case of arguing from the specific to the general.
Because capitalism has introduced the ability of the individual to follow a path according to his or her desires and propensities. Allowing people access to the means of human improvement. The very thing that the original conservatives like Burke wanted to protect. That genie or djinn is loosed from the bottle. It will wrought what it wrought. But it is loosed. The internet only exacerbates the situation for the anti capitalist.
As more and more people follow their own paths and free themselves from group attachment we will see an improvement in the reactions of people to those that are different. As we have said before the sofa salesman cares nothing for the color of the customer’s skin he only frets over the color of his money…
But this vanilla-ing of society infuriates the romantic anti capitalist. They look at people doing their own thing and never fail to find fault. The planet cannot sustain it! Is a modern cry. But it has echoes from the past as well. During the 1930’s the Elite were claiming the Depression was caused by the diminishing of the Earth’s natural resources. As we have seen, empirically, that was not the case then, nor is it the case now.
It is romantic, to be anti capitalist, but romance is blind, and it is often foolish.
Tags: anti capitalists, capitalist, economy, elite, freyer, government, International Capitalist Party, moser, politicians, recession, redistribution, shumpeter
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Sunday, August 15th, 2010
Dear Friends,
It seems to me that the term, “nuanced view” is most often synonymous with dialectic defeating logic.
There once was an ancient Chinese sage, who made the argument that, a white horse is not a horse but a yellow or black horse is. Using dialectic Kung Sung Lung effectively proved that a white horse is not really a horse. (Knowing himself that a white horse is of course a horse). What he was really pointing out was that the deficiencies in language make it possible to prove that a white horse is not a horse. I.e. Prove the empirically impossible.
We all know that a white horse is a horse as is any other color horse. Because color is a subservient attribute to species. But in the language that Kung Sung Lung spoke it was possible to prove otherwise. He used language (dialectic) to defeat logic (or empirical reality).
It is taking advantage of these deficiencies in language that allow people to act, speak and think anti-Semitically but not be anti Semites. They have nuanced views on the subject. But people who have no opinion at all about Jews are anti Semitic, (There is no nuance in their view). Nuance allows a politician to claim that he didn’t realize doing personal business using company property, and premises, during working hours, is a bad thing. (Soliciting campaign contributions on government phones in his government office during working hours). Nuance is why an unborn baby is not a human being but in a matter of seconds it becomes a person. Nuance gives cover when a politician lobbies for a bank teetering on bankruptcy that her husband is a large stockholder in…
Twisting language to make the absurd seem plausible is the bailiwick of lawyers. (the modern incarnation of the ancient Greek sophists). That is why a sneak thief who cuts himself on a window, he broke, getting into a hose to rob it, gets millions of dollars from the lawsuit. But the guy’s legal bills, who invents delayed wipers, outweighs the settlement. Nuance is the side of the toast the butter is on… for lawyers. That butter is rendered from human flesh however.
For the rest of us it is a source of friction. A few examples include, higher taxes, more red tape, higher unemployment, lower wages, more off shoring of jobs and a generally higher stress level in society than would otherwise be. The extra costs associated with protecting a business, person or organization from lawyers is astounding. Much of the insurance industry is simply legal costs.
But to argue that this is a positive externality is spurious. As Bastiat said about the broken window. The economic stimulus from the broken window comes at a price. That price is, whatever other use that capital would have been put to, say… a new pair of shoes. So the window maker gets a windfall at the expense of the cobbler.
What incentive does the lawyers butter set up in society? The incentive to rob homes. If you get trapped in the garage and have to subsist on Gatorade, for a week, until you are rescued by your victims, they owe you millions. Legally… How about the incentive to improve the lot of Mankind?
This butter for lawyers is a pernicious incentive to inventors and entrepreneurs. The rise of the legal oligarchy coincides with the fall of the entrepreneurial ethos. Using nuance lawyers undermine the ability of entrepreneurs to bring dynamism to markets. Stability benefit’s the wealthy Elite. (Old money).
The very dynamism that has led to the largest increase in the standard of living of the human race ever. In only four hundred years, since the invention, of the market system Humanity has gone from a state of perpetual want to a state of constant surplus. The industrial revolution itself would not have been possible if not for the market system.
So while it is nice to have a segment of society that has means. It is not in societies best interest to have that segment’s means come at the cost to dynamism in our markets. That insures we go from growth to contraction. No matter to lawyers… They make money in growth or contraction. People can be induced to fight over an ever smaller pie easier than an ever growing pie.
Nuance, it has it’s place… in History.
Tags: Bastiat, elite, government, incentive, International Capitalist Party, kung sung lung, Law, nuance, poverty, regulation, sophist, Sophistry
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Dear Friends,
It seems to me that to hold another person to a higher standard of personal conduct than one holds himself is not human hearted. To be “not human hearted” in this way, historically, qualifies a person to hold public office.
For all of human history people in power have never been held to a standard of personal conduct that is close to the demands placed on the people. The ancient Greeks with the temporary ostracism, and Romans with the Censors made gestures in the direction of holding powerful people to standards. But those two systems were flawed in that they still hadn’t solved the problem of power of personality or cults of personality.
The ancient Greeks ostracism was a direct attack at charismatic power. If an aristocrat would get too powerful the people would call a vote. They would write yea or nay on a piece of pottery or ostrakon
and count the vote. If the ayes had it the person was sent away for a few years to let his partisans cool and his charismatic power to wane. His possessions were kept safe as were his family and slaves. When he returned he could participate in public life again. This practice visited any number of catastrophes on Athens. From Pericles (with the misshaped head) to Alcibiades the ostracism was a wash.
The Romans had the Censors. Powerful aristocrats that had draconian powers to look into the personal dealings of other aristocrats. Unfortunately with no effective public oversight the Censors used their offices to garner bribes and indulgences from the powerful people they were supposed to regulate. An early form of regulatory capture. Both pernicious and both inevitable if the conditions are right. Human nature being what it is.
Human nature is unchangeable. When faced with the choice of; Let someone burn you with a cigarette and they will give a million dollars, to charity the charity of your choice, for each hour of torture. No one would submit to it. Unless they were sadomasochistic. Despite the obvious societal good from the windfall to charity…. But give another that choice over someone else and the perspective is widened considerably. They would have no problem with this Faustian bargain. The fact that they feel no pain when the cigarette is applied is irrelevant. Or so they will say. It is universal and it is human nature.
To decry human nature is foolish as it is to decry gravity. Without it we could not exist as we are. The wise lawgiver looks human nature in the eye and works with it. Doesn’t try to change it in others while waxing his own.
That has been the problem with governments through the ages. The Elite try to force others to live as the Elite wish and the Elite live as they wish too. This sets up a fundamental tension in human governments. That tension is the underlying energy source for class struggle.
The ancient Chinese had it close. Despite their arguments and the internecine squabbles of the States the Chinese philosophers in classic times had it by the tail. That their governments ignored the good teachings and embraced the bad is just a function of human nature….
Perhaps, if some nation at some time held their leaders to the same standards they hold the people to, this fundamental tension would be relived. So maybe, to be not human hearted should disqualify a person from public office.
Tags: confucius, evil, good, government, Hsun Ching, Human Heartedness, incentive, International Capitalist Party, Law, meritocracy, society, Socrates, tyranny
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Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Dear Friends,
It seems to me that the ultimate example of capitalism is nature. Does the flower address the bee’s charity? No… the flower addresses the bee’s self interest. In that way the bee gets a need met and the flower gets a need met. A basic capitalist exchange.
Nature is filled with other examples of capitalist exchanges throughout. From ants protecting a fig tree to people planting cucumbers that is the way the ecosystem has grown. One species of fauna eating a species of flora and thus spreads the seeds of it’s preferred food. Small Wins adding up to a great win for the ecosystem.
There are examples of fraud in the natural world, (corpse flowers and pitcher plants are a few) as there are examples of monopoly (miles of forest… all one aspen tree, duplicated over and over, monopolizing the habitat). The environment around us is rife with examples of the market economy complete with division of labor. (Our little self interested bee handle’s the pollinating segment of the tomato production process).
On a meta scale plants produce sugars and oxygen, and animals use those sugars and oxygen to produce locomotion to move plant‘s seeds and pollen. On a personal scale soy produces oil, sheep-wool, dogs-protection, apple trees-apples… the list is endless. The division of labor in nature is there for anyone to see… if they only open their eyes and look. Marx pointed out that capitalism (the market system) is dynamic. As is nature.
The term capitalist and markets are human words created to explain a phenomenon. There is nothing unnatural at all about exchanging one thing for another or specializing in a job. That is what separated cats from dogs millions of years ago. There is something unnatural about demanding charity from individuals in the form of slavery to government. Benign or otherwise.
I have never heard a complaint about how the flower exploit’s the bee‘s labor. In fact if someone did complain that the flowers were exploiting the bee’s labor and getting rich doing it I suspect people would give the argument the weight it deserves…. None. When we look at a phenomenon from a distance we have perspective. We can see the big picture. But an attribute of perspective is that the closer we get to something the less of it we can see. Like the story of the three blind men describing an elephant.
I can imagine a bee flying into a hive. Tired and frazzled. Birds tried to eat her all day. The flowers were picked over. Her wings are tired and her stinger is sore. She lands with a paltry amount of pollen and nectar for the receivers. They complain she must be slacking off to have so little nectar… It would be easy to convince her that the flowers were exploiting her labor. Then further to convince her the flowers need to be controlled and many would have to be killed in the revolution. In the long term… Would it be in the bee’s best interest to follow, and kill many of the flowers? Does it make a diffrence if the flowers trying to convince the worker bee that other flowers care nothing and do nothing to help the bee cope with, Verona mite, tracheal mite or even the dreaded colony collapse disease?
Today most people know what would happen if we allowed an open river of effluent to run down our streets. We also know what would happen if vermin lived too close to us… Black Plague. Or some other deadly disease. By not taking care to have a full waste cycle we open opportunities for the smallest players in the ecological market to exploit the niche. They will step in and use the nutrients available to them with devastating results for other larger players in the ecological market.
Government policies that restrict supply or demand for a service or thing forces inefficiency into the system. This drives capital into the streets so to speak. This inefficiency is like effluent running down the streets. The wasted capital (effluent) becomes a source of funding (nutrients) for the underground economy. Government policies directly incentivize the underground economy. With the negative externalities that all underground economies have.
Ironically in some countries people are more virtuous to each other in underground economies than they are in the open markets. Because in the underground economies participants are held to their actions. If someone lies or cheats, if they are not executed, they will be ostracized. In the open market they are protected by government policies. Unenlightened policies that are tantamount to flushing effluent into the open streets.
But as with Tracheal mites, it is better to keep the hive free, than to use menthol to control them.
Tags: capitalist, ecology, economy, environment, government, incentive, International Capitalist Party, market, market economy
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Dear Friends,
It seems to me that when a millionaire ten times over says he or she will hurt the rich and help me… I know I am being lied to. Because for a rich person to hurt the rich violates human nature. They would have to hurt themselves. No one hurts themselves… No one. Unless they are mentally deranged. I hope not many of our lawmakers are mentally deranged… but their actions an the other hand…
John Kerry is a perfect example. He went to New Zealand to buy a 7 million dollar yacht. (Apparently he doesn’t like union workers in Massachusetts). Then he moored it in Rhode Island to avoid paying the five hundred thousand dollar sales tax bill and the seventy thousand dollar a year excise (luxury) tax, (that Kerry supports). Here is an example of a man who claims to help the poor by hurting the rich. I.e. Raising taxes on the rich. Apparently he doesn’t believe himself rich… People who have exponentially less money then him are rich. Their taxes are going up. But the billionaire is not.
The best part of this story is that a reporter asked Kerry; if he docked the boat in Massachusetts would he have to pay the Massachusetts tax then. Kerry responded, “It depends on who owns the boat.” [A very rare example of honesty in a lawgiver.]
The premise of this statement is that some people are subject to taxation and others are not. I ask you… What incentive does this set up in society? Where the people who set tax law are not held to that law? Is it likely, self interested, human beings will keep tax law fair if they are not subject to it? Of course not.
It is not human nature to hold the interests of others as high as one hold’s his or her own. In this instance Hsun Ching is correct that the congenital nature of Man is evil… Self centered. Philosophies that hold human nature to be wrong and force whatever the Elite believe, today, is “virtue” are flawed. To have at the core of a philosophy of ruling people a premise that is diametrically opposed to human nature is like building a gasoline motor and trying to run water in it. It is flawed. Not the motor… or the water… just that they will not work together.
Over and over we have examples of why people cannot self police yet we staunchly believe that the Elite will violate human nature. I.e. be un-self-interested. Even when we have grievous examples like the one above before us many say; “so what.” To them tomorrow is a white fog. Impossible to predict and mysterious as a Stephen King novel. I dare say too many people are of this persuasion. When the fruit of their nonchalance is visited on them they will lament that it was unforeseeable.
“How could this possibly have happened? I voted for the same people over and over but things never got better. They only got worse and worse.” is the lament of the willfully ignorant.
Another sophist argument that I hear and am dumbfounded at is that I personally have it ok now so why worry about the future. To make this argument and believe it a person must live in a one dimensional world. A point in time with no past no future, and no other possibilities then what is.
I love the way de Tocqueville called American individualism as opposed to egoism; “The doctrine of self interest rightly understood.” What a beautiful way to explain the truly civilized person. Someone who understands that sometimes we have to subordinate immediate gratification for long term gratification. To understand that self interest is intricately tied to societal interest. And that safe streets are in our own best interests. Of course the progressives are working to undermine this character trait in the American ethos.
The Elite are not held to the law in most places and times on the Earth. Their self interest need not be rightly understood. If they are not subject to a law will they give it the same scrutiny that they would if they were subject to it?
The modern Elite (progressives) seek to change people from individualists to egoists. Then the egoists will willingly forge the chains for the Elite and even bind themselves with them. Egoism is stupid self interest. It requires that one not think critically about our leaders. An egoist lives in a singularity. Egoism makes a person think a job flipping burgers is beneath him but being on the public dole is honorable. An egoist believes that the world owes him or her. An egoist calls another greedy because he doesn’t want to give more of his hard earned money to the lazy egoist but the egoist will scream like a scalded cat if a dollar of his money is missing.
By the way… did you hear about Barney Frank flipping out over not getting a senior citizens discount that he was not entitled to?
It cost him an extra dollar for the ride.
Tags: corruption, de Tocqueville, egoism, elite, evil, government, Hsun Ching, incentive, individualism, International Capitalist Party, Law, marx, progressive, socialist, sophist
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Dear Friends,
It seems to me that the time of the progressives, socialists and communists is coming to a close. With the wide dissemination of the internet and the dramatically enhanced access to information it offers people will increasingly be lifted from the ignorance enforced by the progressives, socialists and communists. Light will shine on their philosophy.
Today the power of that faction appears to be at it’s apex. The US is controlled almost exclusively by progressives. The President and both houses of Congress have sizable majorities of progressives. Most are democrat but some are republican. The Supreme Court is at the tipping point. A few more hard leftists and the job will be done there too.
But the power of progressives, socialists and communists lays in ignorance. Not of reading writing or arithmetic but in history, economics and current events. These are the ideas that undermine progressivism. People who have not been steeped in the tea of communism and the “benefits” to mankind that it offers see the world differently.
We have our eyes open. We are pragmatic not dogmatic. Progressives, socialists and communists are dogmatic. Even as they point the finger of dogmatism at every one who disagrees with them. But they fail to see their own dogmatism.
To follow a political philosophy that has at it’s core the fact that when it gains control millions of people will have to be murdered to “protect” the revolution requires quite a bit of faith. Those egoists, people who refuse to follow the tenets of social justice and communal salvation, will have to go. They have all done it. From Vladimir Ulanoff to Pol Pot. Moreover they will always to do it when ever they get power. It is ignorance of this fact that feeds the left. Ignorance of the atrocities that they have done and pledge to do if they ever get power.
But the ignorance that feeds progressivism, communism and socialism doesn’t stop there. Every modern event must be couched in just the right terms and in the right way. Until recently the progressives have controlled the unbiased media. The have controlled the horizontal, the vertical, they have controlled what we have seen. Welcome to the outer reaches of the progressive limits. (There are none).
US collages have a plurality of progressive, socialist and communist professors. They aim at convincing every student to follow their pernicious philosophy. The fact that most don’t is a testament to common sense. But it is also a testament to the power of knowledge. Those who know the history of progressivism in the US and it’s ties to Fascist socialism will recognize the parallels today. People who understand the difference between rhetoric and truth will see through the veil of half truths the unbiased media place in front of us. Folks that have access to the information to dull the blade of ignorance are less liable to be misled. Too many of us will refuse to sit in the cave and watch pretty shadows dance on the wall.
That is why it is imperative the progressive, communists and socialists control the internet. They must keep us ignorant, angry and dependent. Their power depend on it. The Elite that run the show on the left know this. If people knew the truth they would loose their power in a heart beat.
Fortunately people are waking up. The actions of the progressives are enlightening the people to the reality of who they are. The mask has been lifted a little. It should be totally removed. Then the people would recoil in horror at who they have voted for and supported in the past.
When that happens the progressives will have breathed their last breath, The socialists will have disheartened the last soul and the tyranny of communism will evaporate from the Earth. All this good from one thing… Light shining on reality.
Didn’t someone else say that evil grows in darkness and withers in the light?
Tags: capitalist, communist, constitution, corruption, education, elite, evil, good, government, group, information, International Capitalist Party, internet, light of truth, Socrates
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Dear Friends,
It seems to me that the Progressive Elite want to force the people of the world to reset our way living. They believe that we must move out of our large homes that require us to have cars and move into high density apartments. Within walking distance to amenities. In that way, even if we are too stupid to do it ourselves, we can just be pushed to it. How do I know this… they are saying it on WSJR today, Sunday July 11, 2010.
By using government to drive up costs for energy, housing, transportation, etc… forces people to move closer together… to cut down on those costs. Taxing carbon is one way to artificially force up the cost of energy. Regulating the economy of cars (CAFE standards) is a way to drive up the cost of basic transportation. Government policies that create high unemployment rates drive people to accept dependence on government. There are many ways government can force society to this “more sustainable” way of living. The key is enough government power and the right people in charge.
The American Constitution forbids such power in the hands of our elected leaders… but today the Constitution is a “living breathing document.” If five people on the Supreme court agree… Voila, the Constitution is re-interpreted. The barn wall probably needed repainted again. The people in charge are critical…
People who are willing to move society away from independence and comfort to discomfort and dependence. People who, if it is needed, would eliminate those that would stand in the way of the revolution (fundamental change). People who have no squeamish qualms about the means. A cabal with only the goal in sight. The progressive Elite.
The progressive Elite constantly remind us that it is not possible for everyone on the planet to live as Americans do… Comfortably. Lower class Americans live better than middle class Europeans. Europeans know it and are resentful. But are not willing to give up dependence on the State. They are willing to give up personal independence and personal comfort for the support of the State. For them it is a good trade. But when they see the positive effects of the other side of the equation they are resentful.
Resentment is a tool to the progressive Elite. They make people resent the wealth of the capitalist. But keep the people ignorant of the avarice of government in both money and power. “After all comrade, would you deny a pig a place for his head?” People who are resentful are in a fog. Overwhelming emotions have that effect on us. People in a fog are easy to herd and then marshal into an army.
Like the Brown Shirts. They were resentful of the wealth of the Jews. (Wealth the Jews earned from being Capitalists).The National Socialist Party turned that resentment into hate and used the hate to herd the whole of Germany into one camp. Then the faction that controlled the camp marshaled the Germen people into a killing machine that visited great sorrow on humanity. Hate and resentment are bread and butter to progressives, communists and socialists.
But today capitalists are called racists, haters, bigots and everything that is an anathema to a capitalist. The progressive Elite tell us we should hate the greedy racist capitalist. While to be a true capitalist is to be the exact opposite of a bigot. Bigotry is bad for business. Bigotry is a luxury that is reserved for progressives, socialists and communists. When you sell a guy a sofa you don’t care about the color of his face… only the color of his money. The market system is the greatest eliminator of racism there has ever been.
The progressive Elite like to use bigotry to “fight” bigotry. After all, isn’t “affirmative action” a form of State sponsored bigotry? The means taints the ends. The progressive Elite don’t care if it does. The ends are so glittering. They are certain they are right… “So personal is their knowledge.“
Isn’t that the definition of a zealot though? Someone who looks at the end and disregards the means. The means being subservient to the end. And the end is total power… Thrasymachus would applaud.
Tags: bigot, capitalist, communist, elite, government, incentive, International Capitalist Party, poverty, progressive, racism, racist, reset, standard of living, Thrasymachus
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Dear Friends,
It seems to me that the stance of the Federal government as stated by Eric Holder is idiotic. To say that state authorities have no ability to arrest people found to be in violation of federal law opens a whole can of worms.
Is this a blanket statement? If it is then what about machine gun laws? They are federal. If a local law enforcement officer comes across a person brandishing a machine gun, that officer wouldn’t be allowed to even notify federal law enforcement about it… according to Holder. Let alone arrest him or her for it. Does this make sense to you?
If it is not a blanket statement then why the constitutional carve out for illegal immigrants? What legal basis could there be for it? So, if Mr. Holder claims that there is a carve out of federal law for illegal aliens, then is it because, there is a clear need for them in the US. One that is so important that it outweighs the mass of legal precedent. Legal precedent that is… all people are equal, under the law. Or has it changed to… all groups, are equal. There are some that are more equal then others. Illegal Aliens for example…
But if the administration is right, that local and State law enforcement cannot enforce Federal law, then I expect people will be getting out their printing presses and printing up $100 dollar bills. Only the FBI can enforce Federal law under the Holder leadership. A person could knowingly pass a printed counterfeit $20.00 bill and the Federal government would frown on a local police officer taking notice.
Slavery is another example. Does it make sense for local and State officials to turn a blind eye to a slavery ring operating in the US? Say…Trafficking in young girls? Under Holders assertion local and State police would be barred from reporting Human traffickers to federal authorities. To do so would make it less likely that people would report crime to the police. Using Holder’s logic.
What if Local police came across a treason plot that was about to be hatched? Holder would argue that it isn’t local police authority to intervene. If the government was overthrown and a communist regime set up, that then murdered twenty five million Americans, according to Eric Holder, that would be the price for liberty…. Or something. All to overturn a law Mr. Holder has not read.
No… Holder and the administrations want to use illegal immigration as a lever. A lever to use to move the American people to accept “comprehensive” reform. The law, as it is written, is “unsustainable.”
The definition of “comprehensive” is making all the illegal immigrants citizens… again. It had such a negative effect on illegal immigration the last few times it was tried it should definitely be tried again, and again, and again… Government loves to re-try things that have failed in the past. The bigger the failure the more it must try again.
The definition of “unsustainable” is anything the government wants to take over and control. If the government wants to take over and control health care they call it unsustainable. A word that, I am sure, has been thoroughly polled and tested… for it’s public palatability.
The real issue is that a faction of the American political Elite see an opportunity. They believe, if they make millions of poorly educated people who can’t speak English citizens, then the new citizens will reward that faction with their political support. It is not totally unfounded. Most of the poor and uneducated in South America vote reliably for communist governments. The faction of the American Elite that want to make them citizens agree with communist philosophy… they just call it progressivism. Their (illegal immigrants and the Elite’s) interests seem to be aligned.
Of course this would make a true underclass in the USA. Something the progressives have wanted for years. Real inequality… Not the ginned up, pretend variety they have been claiming is in the US. Real poverty, enforced by a language barrier and an education ceiling. Trapped in poverty and ignorance the Elite believe the Latinos will keep them in office forever…
Forever trapping the “undocumented workers” in poverty. Because to ever let them get up would undermine the power of the Elite… And if the power of the Elite is ever threatened… The Elite become dangerous even to their old allies.
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Dear Friends,
It seems to me that the inevitable outcome of the judicial philosophy of Aharon Barak is an oligarchy of judges. There is no other possible outcome of such a philosophy.
Elena Kagan, Obama’s newest supreme court nominee, says Ahron Barak is her judicial hero. To say such a thing implies, at the very least, some sympathy to the judicial philosophy of the man. To be sympathetic to such a philosophy is to be ignorant of the inevitable outcome or to sympathetic to the outcome. Neither is a resounding attribute for a Supreme Court Justice.
His philosophy, that I find so onerous, is;
Judges should be able to decide if the people can change the Constitution, Judges should have the final say in all matters relating to the government, Judges should be able to change the meaning of laws (a dynamic new power), Judges should be removed by other judges only, and that no human action whatsoever is outside the discretion of the law.
In other words, Judges should decide what the Constitution means, the meaning being dynamic, they should re-interprets the meaning of the constitutions they felt necessary, they should rewrite law to suit their needs and be unaccountable to no one for anything except themselves. I ask… Why bother with the expense and trouble of the other three branches then Aharon. Simply the convenient bureaucracy? Or the illusion of freedom?
I cannot believe that everyone on the planet including Aharon Barak cannot see the inevitable outcome, the fruit if you will, of the type of philosophy. Absolute power in the hands of unelected, unaccountable, flawed human beings without limit to their time in office. Hey, The military junta that rules Myanmar should start calling themselves the Supreme Court of Myanmar. Then Aharon Barak and the rest of the Progressives would have to, logically, turn their disdain to admiration. What the tyrant calls himself effects public opinion.
I am a great admirer and follower of the philosophy of William James. His philosophy of Pragmatism is a terrific guide to understanding the good and bad in a given ethos. In his method you look at the fruit of any philosophy to determine if it is “truth” or not. If the fruit is bitter… it is sophistry. If it bears sweet fruit for humanity it is, at least a form of, truth.
Under the philosophy of Aharon Barak, the fall into the tyranny of, a faction (Lawyers) that rule for it’s self serving interests will accelerate. Within a generation that faction will have seized control in perpetuity. (After all, who is more qualified to enact law, prosecute law, control and protect the Constitution, be commander and Chief and run the lives of the people… than an attorney). Democracy will mean (like it did in ancient Rome before the overthrow or Tarquinious), that the people will get to vote for the people who install their oppressors.
The US Constitution gives too much power to Lawyers. As a result lawyers have become a defacto oligarchy. Today they control all three branches of government. Every court ruling that awards someone millions of dollars for cutting himself while breaking a window to rob some people the result is more power for the faction (Lawyers).
Putting in a person who claims Aharon Barak as a hero on the Supreme Court is dicey at best. To do it without having seen sufficient jurisprudence to show temperament from Mrs. Kagan is just plain stupid.
I expect she will win overwhelmingly… Such is the caliber of our leaders.
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