Incentives Count

Posted on May 10, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that, in every human endeavor, incentives count, but no place more than in the field of economics. Government sets the incentives both obviously and not so obviously. Society and culture also create incentives and disincentives. Incentives are far more important than animal spirits or demand to an economy’s well being. The set of incentives that government creates by it’s actions, laws, regulation, taxation and rhetoric, can devastate an economy, or create the environment for rapid economic expansion. If a person wants to understand why a given economy is faltering or succeeding they need only look at the incentives that government has in place. Your family’s economic well being are subject to this natural law.

The most obvious is the societal attitude to wealth creation. In a society that holds wealth to be a bad thing, there will be few wealthy people, and they will almost certainly be the people who run the government. Under this type of incentives the government will usually be some form of autocracy or plutocracy. Monarchy and aristocracy are most often cited but tyranny and oligarchy are never far away under this set of societal attitudes. The Dark Age in Europe is an example of this societal attitude to wealth creation, with the Renaissance being the watershed moment, that changed the mind set of the people… to embracing wealth creation.

Every parent knows that you punish that which you want less of and reward that which you want more of. Only an idiot would knowingly reward acting out, stealing, lying or any of the other bad behaviors we civilize out of our children. We know this as parents, but amazingly some of us seem to forget this, when it comes to the economy. When government takes the position of a bad parent the economy suffers and the people suffer.

Taxation is most often thought of when talking about the incentives that effect an economy. Taxing something creates negative incentives to that action. Look at the great lengths, companies and individuals go to, to avoid taxes. They invest their money foolishly to get some tax write off. Look at GE in the last few years. They have paid no income tax because they play ball with the government. They buy the electric cars that don’t work, they invest in “green” technologies that cost more, to produce less, etc… This will eventually put GE at a disadvantage to their competitors in the future but today it makes them seem more profitable. Taxing income is an obvious form of discouragement to wealth creation.

When government places more and more regulation on an industry it creates bars to new companies entering that industry. Older more established firms have a regulatory step up, in that they have grown their business around the existing regulation, and can better cope with new regulation as a result. New firms have to research the laws and regulations and have less interaction with the regulators of that industry. Regulatory capture also creates a bar to entry for new firms, because older firms have built a rapport with their regulators, who may not like seeing there “friends” being out competed, so they may look more closely at the actions and business model of a new entry into the market. This is highly pernicious due to it’s undermining the very nature of a competitive marketplace and smothers new ideas. The very definition of Schumpeter’s law.

No matter how much demand there is for a product or service, regulation, taxation, attitudinal incentives and cultural moors have the ability, alone or as a group, to destroy any industry. Incentives can make an economy vibrant or stagnant. When government punishes wealth creation, no matter how, wealth creation slows and can be brought to a complete stop. When this happens we see economic stagnation and depressions. If you think about it a moment, the level of economic activity, as measured by the creation of firms, and how close to perfect competition there is in a country’s economy, is a metric of the incentives to wealth creation and vibrancy, of markets in that country. When we apply this measure to the American economy, since Obama took the Presidency, we see that the incentives his administration have set up… are uniformly negative to wealth creation. We can clearly see that the rhetoric of class warfare is a form of attitudinal negative incentive to wealth creation as well. Under this set of incentives we can expect a continuing lowering of the material standard of living in the USA, and since America is still the engine of the World’s economy, the material standard of living of the people of the World will also suffer.

Even if this concept is completely lost on the Obama administration it is obvious to the American citizenry. Perhaps that is why the Tea Party is ascendant today. They understand incentives…

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Illegal Immigration and the Presidential Election

Posted on May 7, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, when an immigrant to the United States comes here illegally, it is stealing what others have worked for. Those that come to the US legally, have had to make sacrifices… and in some cases have waited for years. It seems unlikely that those who have struggled for years and went without, so they could give their children a better life, would appreciate someone else stealing, what they have worked years for. This is among the most spurious arguments we are hearing in this election year. If the American voter falls into this trap, the progressives have laid, it will ensure that illegal immigration and all the ills that go along with it, are entrenched into American society and culture forever.

Most people don’t appreciate someone stealing what they have worked for. Lets say, for example, that a person steals a car from a showroom lot. That person needs the car. The car will make his or her life better, in that it will provide for them transportation, which is in itself a form of freedom. Now, the argument that the progressive make, is that the car dealership has many cars and the loss of one is not an undue burden for them. So, since the person who stole the car needs it, and the person who owns the the car doesn’t, the car should just be given to the thief. Anyone with half a brain can see the sophistry there. But illegal immigration is steeped in such emotional rhetoric that logical thought is almost impossible. Those that engage in logic are vilified as hateful people when the really hateful are those that seek an underclass.

Illegal immigrants are not a valid voting bloc. Those that are illegal immigrants have no legal ability to vote. That the Presidential election is said to hinge on the candidates stand on illegal immigration, IE. The one that promotes it the most will win the Hispanic vote, is insanity. It is premised that those who have struggled, waited years, worked keeping their paperwork up to date and then taken the freeman’s oath and become US citizens, will will vote for the candidate that most encourages further theft of what they have worked for, even as those who have been virtuous, wait to bring their family here legally. This seems absurd to me. Do you want the person who steals a car, to keep it, even though you had to work for yours? What are the incentives there?

People who come to America illegally, put themselves at risk, and endanger the civil society of America. Most people who come to America simply want to be Americans and participate in the American way of life. They want the liberty that the American Constitution provides, they seek economic opportunity that capitalism creates, and for their children to be Americans. There are those, however, that don’t come here wanting these things. Those people seek to destroy what America stands for. Be it for philosophical reasons, communists who despise the market system, and understand that for the oppression of Marxism to ever last, there must be no examples of capitalism to exist… no shining city on a hill. Some seek America’s destruction for religious purposes, and others are simply criminals, looking for a more wealthy victim. Illegal immigration allows these evil people to come here, and work their diabolical plans… in the dark.

Promoting illegal immigration is tantamount to endorsing second class citizenship. Those people who actually want a better life for their children are poorly served when they come here illegally. They have no real rights and by definition live on the boundaries of society. They must work for less, and therefore, lower the prevailing wage, for people who are here legally. People who are illegal, are subject to deprivations, the victimizer would immediately meet with a long jail sentence… if they were visited on legals or citizens. But more perniciously, when illegal immigration is encouraged by our government, it opens the door to more of it. Making more and more people subject to these types of oppression, tantamount to modern slavery.

The answer is to allow unlimited legal immigration, to those who honestly seek to come here, and participate in the American experiment. No matter if they are from Guatemala, Nigeria, Slovakia or Thailand. Especially to the oppressed around the World. People who want to be Americans must be legal. Those that seek to undermine our civilization must be barred. Opening legal immigration, and closing illegal immigration, would achieve these results. That our elected politicians argue and act otherwise, is clear evidence, they seek the civil strife and underclass, that illegal immigration results in. The US is a place, where there should never be an underclass, ever! Equality under the law is impossible if some people are illegal… BY DEFINITION!

So, if a politician, or unbiased media person, claims that the Hispanic vote will turn on the candidates stand on promoting illegal immigration, they are engaging in sophistry in it’s purest form. They seek to lower the lot of Mankind, and undermine the very essence of America… Equality for all under the law. But then again, not everyone who hates capitalism and freedom are illegal immigrants… some hold high elected office, along with all those who hold the title of tzar…

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Fundimental Human Rights

Posted on May 3, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the Chinese government has proven it is evil incarnate, along with the diabolical actions of the Obama administration. The blind Chinese dissident Chen is such a threat, that the Chinese government threatened they would have to beat Chen’s wife to death, if he escaped to the US. The black eye Chen gave the Chinese government pales against the one the Chinese government gave itself. This is very concerning, due to the fact that the whole affair breaks with American tradition and morals and shows a total disregard for human rights, in both China and this administration.

Chen was under illegal house arrest, (under the Chinese Constitution), because he had the nerve to speak up against forced abortions and forced sterilizations. It is self evident that to force an abortion on a woman is evil. It is also self evident that to compel a person to be sterilized against his or her will is evil as well. That the US government would not even acknowledge these atrocities, or even feign to protect that asylum seeker, is damming to the Obama administration.

Traditionally the United States has offered asylum to people who are oppressed and seek it. The Obama administration has taken a new tact. They favor the oppressors and relay threats to dissidents to terrorize them into submission. One of the recent reports says, the diplomatic snafu would have messed up Hillary Clinton’s trip to China, for a joint meeting. Apparently, if it takes a person being beaten to death to make it happen, that is the price the Obama administration is willing for that person to pay, for Hilary’s photo op. A human death for a photo op is a very high price… too high for civilized people, apparently, not for the Obama administration.

The Obama administration has proven over and over it is not a friend of those that seek good in the World. Those that seek to oppress their people are Obama’s friends. He is a friend of any would be tyrant, like the Muslim Brotherhood, and enemy to all those who seek to improve the lot of Mankind in the World. This incident is only the most recent example. Taken singularly it is a smudge on the history of the United States. Taken as a part of a whole it shows a disregard for human rights by this administration.

The lies coming from the Obama administration are staggering. Hillary claims Chen said he wanted to kiss her, but, Chen’s wife says he said he wanted to visit her. The administration claims it never told Chen that the Chinese government was threatening to beat his wife to death, but, he says otherwise. The Obama administration is way out on a limb on this one.

The Chinese government has sunk to a low as well. They are so afraid of a blind man that they threaten to beat a woman to death to keep him close? They routinely force women to get abortions against their will? They force people to be sterilized? The involuntary murder of the most innocent, and coerced sterilizations, are truly Orwellian. This is the American equivalent of the progressive eugenics program, in the US, under the Woodrow Wilson administration. To threaten to beat an innocent woman to death to coerce action, is Machiavellian at best, evil incarnate at worse. But, it seems the World is blind to evil, as long as the oppressor is wealthy and powerful. In this case the blind man sees better than the sighted.

I am amazed that, an administration that came to power claiming it would be the friend to the oppressed, would act this way. This fact, coupled with the obvious lies to the public, show a total disdain for the American people, traditions and public opinion. This egregious affair is in direct opposition to two hundred years of American jurisprudence and Constitutional law. We know that to the progressive, abortion is a sacrament, and John Holdren wants to put sterilants in American drinking water. Michel Obama said that we would have to change our conversation, traditions and history. Apparently they agree with the Chinese government in this. Think about the magnitude of evil this is. How would you feel if you were sterilized against your will… or were forced into an abortion? Your children may find out. Empathy is an emotion lost on this group of people. It is only a political tool… Human rights by political favor, what a pathetic excuse for humanity!

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Envy and Self Interest

Posted on April 29, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me our leaders have absolutely no concept of how the market system works or the implications of destroying it. Obama’s executive order the other day is a prime example of this. In his speech he said, “The sad truth is that there are people out there who are less interested in helping our men and women in uniform get ahead and more interested in making a buck,” This is the most ignorant statement I have ever heard a politician say (other than a few of Obama’s other speeches). If our President is really this stupid then we are deep trouble my friends.

In his book, The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith says that it is not out of a sense of charity that the butcher provides us meat, it is out of his self interest. When we get heating oil delivered, we don’t apply to the oil man’s sense of charity, we apply to his sense of self interest. He doesn’t go through the endless paperwork, red tape, and financial risk, to get a well drilled, out of a sense of charity… it is for profit that he does it. Self interest is the motivating factor in our market system. To vilify self interest while applauding envy is not only ignorant but perniciously stupid.

Envy doesn’t elevate or create it destroys. Envy is the motivating factor in socialism, communism and progressivism. The envy of the wealth of others, is no different than a powerful drug addiction, like to Oxycontin. Those addicted have no ability to see themselves with any kind of perspective. They instead use logic to justify their addiction and not to discern right action. This is the paradigm Obama uses. He is addicted to envy and he uses logic to justify his envy instead of finding truth.

Obama ordered the GI Bill program, through executive, order to eschew the market system in favor of the broken collegiate system. You know, the one that leaves their students with over a hundred thousand dollars in debt, and no job prospects to pay it back. The one that intentionally limits enrollment to raise their brand, thus increasing the profit, for those that work in those colleges. The ones that regard knowledge as perspective dependent not objective reality and the ones that graduate students that still cannot read. These are the educational institutions that Obama favors with executive order.

It is obvious to everyone, except the President and his progressive friends who esteem Mao, that there is profit in the non profit colleges. Non Profit University Presidents all make over one hundred thousand dollars, Professors all live in the lap of luxury while having sex with their students. Even a fool can see that these are negative forms of profit. Every “nonprofit” university is awash in endowment money. So much so that they have to constantly build structures to hide the money. Some of the most expensive colleges have so large an endowment, that they could give up charging tuition forever, and fund themselves entirely from the interest on their endowments. The collegiate system, is as corrupt a system as has ever been created by Man…. because all the incentives are pernicious.

Yet, our President sees fit to exclude the boys and girls who have risked their lives and limbs serving our country, from the open doors that a college degree offers. He believes that the gate to wealth should be tightly controlled by an envious Elite. Since there are limited openings in the “nonprofit” collegiate system, there will necessarily be GIs that are left out, under Obama’s executive order, but this is the price Obama is willing, for them to pay, for his political career.

This level of ignorance, if is it ignorance, is very dangerous to our standard of living. If The President has his way, we will all be applying, not only to the meat cutter’s sense of charity for our sustenance, but to the oil delivery man and the car salesman as well. When that is the case, we will be hungry, cold and dependent. Do you suppose it is out of a sense of charity that Obama sought the Presidency or out of self interest. If it was self interest, then we can rightfully say… Obama is the worst kind of hypocrite.

Sincerely

John Pepin

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Suicide Solution

Posted on April 26, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

 

It seems to me we are living in historic times. We are witnessing the suicide of Western culture and Western values. The human race will find herself thrust into another thousand year dark ages as a result. It is an amazing thing to behold, the most prosperous people the Earth has ever seen, turning their collective backs on the source of their prosperity, and towards systems, that have shown time and time again that they produce nothing but famine and oppression. I guess envy is a stronger emotion than love of one’s children.

 

Livy witnessed such times and warned his people as well. His warnings didn’t land on deaf ears, as much as they met the scorn, of all those who heard. Rome would never fall it had lasted a thousand years. But fall it did, to the barbarians that surrounded it, and to the amazement of those that were there. The death was complete, of the thousand years culture and system of government, even their language died out. The most prosperous people the Earth had ever produced till then. Such historic times should be acknowledged, when they happen, they are so rare.

 

There was an economist who lived in the 19th century. His name was Thorstein Veblen. He put forth a theory, of why the American people were so unlikely to rise up and kill the rich, or even so much as resent them. Thorstein said, it is because, in his or her heart, every American knows that some day… he or she may become rich themselves. This was ingrained into the Psyche of every person born and raised in America… until recently. Today the Elite themselves are ginning up hatred for the rich. The Elite are doing everything possible to create envy and vilify anyone who makes money. Prosperity itself is questioned. This is the antithesis of the “American Way.” And is Russian roulette to the American economy.

 

The entire continent of Europe is on fire. Their economy is disintegrating in front of their eyes. What are they doing about it? They are throwing sand into the few gears that still mesh. France will be absolutely destitute in a few years allowing the socialists to institute famine as a political tool. Germany and the other northern European nations will be sucked under by the down tow. Even those that somehow weather the economic collapse will succumb to the Islamisation of Europe. Sharia law is absolutely incompatible with a productive economy. No where has it worked ever in history. Unless there is a wealthy group to rob nearby. After the economic collapse there will be no wealth nearby to steal. Only starving and destitute people fighting to the death for a crumb of unleavened bread.

 

China and Russia think they are in the catbird’s seat. They are not blind to what is going on. Russia has all too close memories of this very thing happening to them. They know very well what happens when government spends far outside it’s ability. They are only now climbing out of the fiscal morass visited on them by the USSR. Twenty years later and they didn’t have to be engaged in an existential war. They are laughing now but when the US is taken out the laughing will quickly stop.

 

Their economies will go into a tailspin. China is absolutely dependent on exports to fuel it’s economy and economic growth. The moment America collapses China will have to shutter its factories. There will be no place to sell the tsunami of goods that flows from China. That tsunami will wash the factory cities of China, like a real one… erasing decades of economic prosperity in a single swipe. Russia is dependent on Europe for most of it’s economy and Europe is racing to oblivion at double the speed of America.

 

But, to look on the bright side, once there is universal poverty and oppression, there will no longer be a shining city on the hill. People will have no example of a system that works, no prospect of escaping their daily horrors, and will have no ability to achieve greatness, only just survive. Once that state of affairs is the norm, people will labor like ants… never knowing more and so never wanting more. The perfect society for the Elite to rule and a poison pill for our posterity.

 

Do you think they will call us smart or wise?

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Democracy and Civilization

Posted on April 23, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the reason so many people around the World seek a better life, even to the point of revolution, and find nothing but tyranny… is because they are confused about what means would get them what they truly seek. Revolutionaries throw the word “democracy” around like it is the be all end all. But democracy is not an end it is a means to an end. When ends are confused with means ultimate goals are never met. Moreover, when a sophist means is confused with an end, it is disastrous for society.

What is really sought, is civilization, because it is civilization that is the source of all the goods we all want to see in our societies and in our lives. We all want prosperity for ourselves and our children, almost all of us want to live our lives in peace and to be free of crime, most of us want to be free of coercion even from government and a few want to be free to express our opinions without threat. All these goods come from civilization not democracy. Democracy itself cannot provide any of these goods. It is a means to determine a small part of the whole that is civilization.

No matter how well democratized a government is it can not instill civilization in a people. Religion, culture, capitalism, laws and experience with them… instil civilization in a people. That we are made civilized and not born that way is a self evident fact. This point made by many philosophers over the ages. It is our exposure to civilized behavior, over time, that civilizes us. Pure democracy is, at it’s nature, an uncivilizing endeavor.

Democracy is a good thing, when it is applied to a civilized people, but it can lead to disastrous results, when applied to people who are not civilized. Where a culture, historic government, or system of law is set up for a childish Elite, to have the goods of society distributed to them by political favor, over the merits of their production, that people are not civilized… and will suffer immensely if given suffrage while in this state. They instead should seek a civilized model to adopt first. When the people have become accustomed to civilized behavior, or in other words become rational maximizers, they can be given the suffrage and society can benefit from it.

We see that the calls for democracy, by self described liberators, are never accompanied with a call for civilization… but of the vilification of civilization. How many tin pot dictators have been installed after some coop or other who immediately eliminated the right to vote, either overtly or subvertly, after he was elected? The list is endless. This then, is why civilization is vilified and democracy is called for, it is so the next oppressor can get voted in. The system is a complex one that has the emergent feature of a closed loop. One oppressor is overthrown, by the next oppressor, who calls for an election, is legitimized by the election, and gets to the business of oppressing.

This complex system’s emergent phenomenon of a closed loop, has interdependencies that rely on the people being urged to be egotistical, instead of self interested rightly understood. This tendency of people, who are taught to be egoists, to vote for a pleasant sounding tyrant… is well documented in our history books, but not well understood by the masses in most countries. The call for democracy being the crucial link in the system. If a people were to call for civilization instead, in short order they would start experiencing the benefits that flow from civilization, like a spring producing clean water.

France will be voting today, the outcome will determine if the people of France, are rational maximizers… or egoists. The total break from civilization in France is at hand, if the masses reach a critical mass, of egoism. With a total break from civilization and the unloosing of their collective ids, the spring that is civilization in France will turn to a sewage pipe, leading to the ill health that Greece, Spain and Italy, are suffering. The leaders will blame the egoist people, who are merely a reflection of themselves, for the catastrophes. The people will shout for democracy, and the cycle will begin anew, reset to a lower standard of living for all… Thus proving our assertion.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Courtesy and Economic Well Being

Posted on April 19, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, one important measure of the civilization of a people, is the courtesy they show each other and to visitors. Courtesy, as a measure, is empirically testable. It is indicative of a whole host of other attributes, that allow a market system to function, as well as to have an ordered society… with a strong ladle of freedom. Societies that are not courteous, have more societal problems, have less liberty and more dysfunctional markets, than societies that are more courteous. This is a critical point, if you want the society you live in to be prosperous, because it can truly be said; courtesy begets prosperity.

We must qualify our statement with a definition of courtesy. While smiling at strangers, shaking hands and holding the door for the next person, are all measures and aspects of courtesy, the nut we are going for is… truthfulness, follow through and intolerance of evil. These are the core attributes of a truly courteous society and culture. The outer manifestations, like smiling and door holding are reflections of the inner state of being, that is courtesy.

If these outward manifestations of courtesy are motivated out of fear, then they are not reflections of inner feelings and motives, but of the external threat of violence. This is patently not a courteous society and will not reap the benefits of passing manifestations of courtesy. In this type of society people are forced to tolerate evil as a matter of daily life. This can never be a truly courteous society.

When the outward and inward attributes of courtesy are present in a society and practiced regularly… that people will be prosperous. We see this in history as well as around us. Since the rise of the market system and the modern age of economics, those societies that have been most courteous, have been the ones who benefited the most from capitalism. The material benefits penetrating to the very core of their societies, while the benefits elude those rude nations… who believe they deserve it more.

As with everything the leaders in society lead, and the masses follow… where we are led. The Elite then are responsible if society under their watch becomes more or less courteous. As the leaders in society become less and less courteous the people will follow and become less and less courteous. The outward manifestations will drop first, but the inward feelings and motives, will drop, eventually. This inevitably lowers the material standard of living of a people.

A lowering standard of living makes people more prone to fall into a trap. The trap, of thinking the government can redistribute wealth… without consequence. This is the snare many have been taken by… Wiemar Germany, Argentina, the USSR, Rome, and many others. As the material wealth of the people was drained away, the people became less and less courteous, and more and more demanding. This set up a feedback loop that led to the total collapse of their societies economies. Today, in Argentina, the pawn shops are still full of the former wealth of the former Argentinian middle class.

But, in a society that has the benefit of a liberal education including history and logic, and who have suffrage, should be able to understand this paradigm. A people schooled in a human hearted, religious doctrine, Christian, Jewish or Buddhist for example, will be able to maintain their courteous ways, in the face of a rude Elite. If the religion can be sufficiently undermined, however, any people can be led to their own destruction. The key, is for society to cling to our religion and our guns, and weather the temporary rule of a rude and self destructive Elite, and get past, without us becoming like them.

Else we join that illustrious group of examples of what not to do…

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Evolution of Organizations

Posted on April 15, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the worst thing that can happen to an organization, is success. Because success means the irrelevance of that organization. To an organization irrelevance is the death knell. No one, who has spent time and energy putting together a group of people, who ultimately succeed, wants to see it disintegrate. This is a fundamental fact of organizations. This is why we see so many that exist as ghosts, they still have a small cadre of devoted followers, but the reason the group was started, has long been rendered moot. However, some are not as much ghosts… as lichs, vicious and evil, trying desperately to reignite the societal problems that begot them, thus making them relevant again.

Most organizations start as a noble enterprise, one devoted to righting some societal or cultural wrong. They work often in the name of God to see that the lot of Mankind is raised. In their birth they understand that, it is only when all are served… are all served. Groups that arise from this type of virtuous founding are often successful.

Success breeds political power. Political power is a magnet to the sociopath who seeks to lord over his or her fellow man. As the organization evolves and matures, the less virtuous attributes of the founders get passed on, instead of the more virtuous ones, because the next to come on are those who are attracted to the power instead of the cause.

As power takes the place of the cause in an organization, it becomes more dedicated to it’s own longevity, than the reason it was founded. If society outruns this group’s reason to exist, it will point to nonexistent injustices, as a reason for it’s continued political relevance. Some, who have really strayed outside the ranch so to speak, will actually try to recreate the conditions, usually of violence, that begot them in the first place.

This is truly a sad state of affairs because it sullies the honorable names of the founders of those organizations. The crass Elite that take over every group of human beings, are immune to the cries of the suffering, in fact, they play the weeping like an instrument of politics.

The misery is only the resonating strings, society’s heart, the resonator. We, with our short memories, are prone to remember the latest leaders, not the virtuous founders. The Elite play their instrument for their audience and it brings tears to to eyes of the beholders. The founders my be spinning in his or her graves… but the new Elite, mesmerize the multitude with suffering, they instigated.

It is unfortunate, it is not in the fundamental nature of groups and organizations, to recognize when they have become redundant… and announce their happy end. Society would be better served and our culture would be less cluttered, with various dated grievances. Stumbling on the arguments of the past, and not moving forward, hinders our ability to grapple with the problems of today, and predict the issues of tomorrow. It would be a great benefit to society if people in charge of organizations acted in this enlightened way.

If those groups that are redundant let go of their members, those members would have the time and energy to join new groups, that are dedicated to tackling today’s problems, or tomorrows troubles. This is how the market system works through the creative destruction of firms. This dynamic, that comes into play in the capitalist system, is not active in the charitable, religious or justice oriented spheres. This is one reason the market system is so much more efficient, at meeting human needs and why the Elite in those other spheres of human operations, hate the market. We all hate when our failures are highlighted by success.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Why are the Elite Stirring up Violence?

Posted on April 12, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that the Elite in society are trying mightily to stir up racial animosity. The Elite in the unbiased media selectively report the news. Promoting their program to the public. The Elite in our government selectively apply the law creating more anger than is warranted. The question is not that they are trying to stir up racial tensions, it is self evident they are, but why are they trying to stir up racial tensions?

Presumably, the Elite in the unbiased media and the Elite in government, know that someone somewhere will die, because of the emotions that they have lit and are gently encouraging, from a mere spark into a bonfire. It would seem that the reason they seek to create anger, where there should be cooperation, is so important that it trumps human life and economic prosperity. Therefore, what ever reason they are stirring up racial tensions in society for, it must be very important indeed! To be more important then someone’s child.

I call the main stream media, the unbiased media, because they call themselves unbiased, while having a demonstrable bias. As the Elite in the unbiased media decry those that admit they have a bias, and so their listeners and watchers have the foreknowledge to filter what they hear, while listening to the unbiased press wide eyed. I am simply using their own appellation. The unbiased media are regularly caught doctoring recordings, and actually fabricating documents to forward their agenda, in the face of evidence to the contrary. But the unbiased media never let the truth get in the way of a good story. By good they mean one that forwards their agenda.

The Elite in government and the Elite in the media are both doing this. We must be open to the fact they could have different reasons for their actions. The unbiased media may simply be acting out of greed. Like the yellow journalist of old they may be acting out of egoism. Create violence in society and get rich reporting on it. If anyone in the unbiased press are upset or offended by this insinuation, I wonder if they were as incensed, by Obama’s accusation that doctors are cutting off people’s legs to make a buck?

That might be the actuating factor in the unbiased media but what about the Elite in our government? Eric holder will go down in history as, not only the most corrupt Attorney General ever, but as someone who stirred up violence in society, and using the power of his office to do so. His actions in the Fast and Furious case are telling, he was using the violence the unrestricted access to guns he gave the Mexican drug cartels, as rhetoric to vilify gun ownership in the US. When he was discovered, Obama and Holder backed off on the rhetoric then, but this is another chance to vilify, not only gun ownership, but place into question the very idea of the absolute Right of Self Protection.

This must be the all important reason, the Elite in our government are ginning up tensions, they know will result in human deaths. This is what they consider so important, your child can be killed in the street, to make their point… it is so important. The unbiased media are willing to sacrifice our children, and us, to make a buck… Or, perhaps the unbiased media’s reasons are more “altruistic”. Perhaps they are willing for some of our children to die, in random violence they stirred up, so that guns can be taken from society… like the motivation of the Elite in our government.

If this is true, we can only conclude that the unbiased media seek to place themselves and us, under a tyranny. If they and the Elite in government, seek to remove that most basic precept of human moral understanding, the absolute Right of Self Protection, and replace it with a right to a foot massage every Tuesday night at ten, done by some guy the Elite in government don’t like so much, then we are living in state of arbitrary rule. Because, If we don’t have the Right to life, we have no Rights at all…

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Deeming your way to prosperity.

Posted on April 9, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, it would be nice to simply “deem” my daily work done, and get to the relaxation part, like they do in government today. One example is when they “deemed” Obama’s healthcare law passed, at the election of Scott Brown, so they wouldn’t have to actually vote on it. This was eye opening but today the Senate budget leader Conrad made the argument that some new debt limit law “deems” the budget passed for years to come. Then claimed the best way forward is to give today’s Elite, unlimited access to the public purse now, while passing laws that will restrain the Elite in coming years. As if the sophistry of this notion is not glaring enough the certain outcome of this bunch getting anymore power is economic ruination.

Today’s Elite seek to control tomorrow’s Elite through legislation. Moreover, to force tomorrow’s leaders to do what today’s leaders will not do, out of egoistic self aggrandizement. They seek to set the precedent of simply deeming work done and others will do the actual work later. Imagine if the septic technician did this? I can see it now… Fred leans back on a chair. He is wearing brown overalls they say, “Fred’s septic” on them. A customer calls complaining his septic has not been pumped but he has been billed for it. Fred leans forward and says, “Are you stupid or something? I said, I Deemed the tank pumped. Someone else will have to do it in the future. But I deemed it done today so I billed you.” The stubborn customer continues arguing. Fred shakes his head and retorts, “Hey, the government does it all the time, are you saying my work is more important than theirs…” In the meantime septic tanks overflow flooding playgrounds.

The Elite must think we have an absolute lack of reasoning power to believe we will fall for this. They are no more restrained by any of their predecessor’s laws then their heirs to the throne will be theirs. That is obvious. But I guess the argument keeps the ball in the air. They can pretend to defend the indefensible, as they concentrate on things other than their actual job. I do hear that hard working Obama has shaved a few strokes off his game, while deeming his job done, then relaxing in the White House. At least he is getting something accomplished.

While the Obama administration was busy taking over one third of the US economy, by deeming a law passed… they would not let anyone read, the economy was on fire. The Administration focused on a soon to be deemed unconstitutional law, instead of passing regulation and tax relief, to help the economy and the working stiff. The Command and controllers in this administration, are passing reams of new regulation, the printing of which will put ink makers in business for centuries to come.

Command and control economies have failed every time they have been tried, the only partially successful try was Nazi Germany, but that economy soon collapsed in the flames of the war it thrust onto humanity. Command and control is distributive justice by political favor. These types of economies love to deem this, and deem that, regardless of the impact those regulations have on the economy and therefore, human beings.

That is why progressives, socialists and marxists love command and control, they love to simply deem what society must do. They reason that, individuals are too unpredictable but government giveth and government taketh away… predictably. In the absence of God the Keynesian is god. Those that control the purse of government therefore can deem anyone’s money into the general pocket. It’s really too bad that the general pocket is not generally controlled, but specifically controlled. Handed out as political favor. Distribution by political favor is great if you are favored, terrible if you are not, with anonymity leading to neglect and starvation…

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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