Protected Class

Posted on December 22, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that progressive Elite protect their constituencies while “conservative” Elite allow theirs to be viciously attacked. This has worked well for the progressives and very poorly for conservatives. Yet conservatives continue to allow progressive Elite and those in the unbiased media to attack their base while holding the progressive base totally off limits. Not only does this skew the political discourse but it undermines the people’s ability to make rational and informed decisions about topics that are fundamentally important to all of us.

This is another example of a diabolical means to diabolical ends. As I have stated before in other blogs, the modern progressive has diabolical ends, so he must use diabolical means. What could be more diabolical than to have a “protected” faction(s) within society. Protected from any criticism at all. Yet leveling the most loathsome attacks against the majority of society. Such vicious attacks that people wither away from any association with the despised groups. Even when the despised group is impossible to escape from. Now, how diabolical is that!?

Look at the warrantless and libelous besmirching of the Tea Party. The anti capitalist politicians attack the Tea Party mercilessly. There is no limit to the attacks. The progressive Elite call the Tea Party, racists, anti American, angry, ignorant, etc… without a sound from the supposedly conservative Elite. Often the “conservative” Elite, like Gingrich and Romney, chime right in and attack away at their own base. Attacking the very ideas that flipped the American psyche from the malaise of Carter to the boom times of Regan.

Every poll shows the majority of American people live their lives as conservatives. Meaning, they live within their means, they are dependable and work for a living, they believe in God, equality under the law and give to charity. These are the traditional capitalist, or bourgeois, virtues. Most Americans believe their government has grown too large and have an aversion to abortion. In short, most Americans, are Tea Partiers. Yet there is absolutely no word spoken, about the Tea Party, by the progressive Elite, that is not dripping with venom.

Imagine for a moment how the progressive Elite would react if a “conservative” politician called one of the progressive Elite’s constituencies, angry, ignorant, racist or any of the other attacks levels at the Tea Party. The reaction of all the political Elite would be deafening as would be the unbiased media. It is as simple as this; any “conservative” politician who made such a blunder, would never hold public office again, and would eventually resign in shame. Chased from office by the progressive Elite.

I have already answered why, the “conservative” political Elite keep the progressive Elite’s factions off limits… political suicide. But I am still wondering why those, that supposedly are supported by the Tea Party, have no stomach to run an illiberal from office? If not the stomach for that why not even a word of that they are offended? I am offended, and I am sure most people with their eyes open, are. How can it not be offensive to make slanderous remarks, that are not only patently untrue but verifiably untrue, against the majority of Americans? Remember the racial remark that a congressman claimed was made but when numerous recordings of the event were examined not a bit of it was found. Was the lying congressman attacked, no, the Tea Party was… because, even if no one said it, they must have thought it.

So, the progressive Elite are using diabolical means, ie, attacking regular Americans, while protecting their base from attack, yet the “conservative” political Elite allow them to get away with it. No matter that, the majority of Americans actually fall into the vilified category, the unbiased media and the “conservative” Elite have no problem with the tactic. The “conservative” Elite even go along, with the destruction of one of their fellows, if he should make an offhand remark about an election, decades ago to appease an old man. Yet stand arm in arm with a congressman who was caught with cold cash for bribery. It almost seems as though the hard working American is the real enemy to all the Elite. I would say that… except for the screwing the Elite are giving the retirees.

Makes you wonder, what side the Elite are on… But it would be insanity to police the Elite, like with a NUMA, or something.

Sincerely,
John

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Libyan WMD

Posted on December 19, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the reason Bush got a coalition of countries together to overthrow the tyrant Hussein, was to ensure that the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), that Iraq presumably had in stockpile, would not fall into the hands of Islamo fascists. We have since discovered, that the presumed WMD were either destroyed, or moved to an interim country for storage. No matter, the Iraq war served to keep WMD such as chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, out of the hands of Islamo fascists, protecting the World from the devastating potential. Now, however, Obama, by the overthrowing of Moammar, has allowed WMD to fall into the hands of Islamo fascists. International news such as The Telegraph, have reported that huge stockpiles of chemical weapons have been found in the Libyan desert. Chemicals such as Sarin, a nerve gas used in the Tokyo subway attack, have been found.

We must remember that these WMD were safely kept away from Islamo fascists while the tyrant Moammar was in power. Moammar got the message when Iraq was invaded and put his WMD under UN supervision. The UN, performing up to their established level of excellence, apparently immediately dropped the ball. There have been reports, that are very alarming, about what is now available to the Islamo fascists out of Libya. The truth is, no one knows how much WMD has already disappeared, except the terrorists.

Today, Libya is ruled by a coalition of armed factions, that range the spectrum of political thought, from liberal pro capitalists to radical Islamo fascists. The Liberals have already given up a great deal of their arms while the Islamo fascists have not. Regardless, any upcoming elections will be dominated by Islamist parties, just as every previous Arab Spring election that has that has preceded it. We can rest assured, however, that no matter the elections, the armed Islamo fascists will rule at the end of the day.

Remember the “missing” shoulder fired anti aircraft missiles? They immediately went “missing” as soon as they were reported found. They too slipped into the hands of Islamo fascists. Their path away from Libya and into the hands of terrorists blazed the way for a new commodity to hit the Jihad scene… WMD. It can now flow down the same supply route established by the “missing” shoulder fired AA missiles. Right into the hands of some anti capitalist terrorist group bent on World domination.

Imagine, if instead of a shoe bomber, the terrorists had a canister of Sarin ready to detonate, in an aircraft luggage bay, coming in for a landing at, say, Heathrow, De Gaul, JFK, Moscow or Hong Kong? Imagine the horror, if it detonated and spread it’s deadly cargo, over such crowded cities. The terror effect would be devastating. People would do almost anything to avoid another such attack. How many more of our liberties would we cede to government to make us safe against such a threat?

So, it seems that Obama, in one swift stroke, has undone what Bush did, over a decade of spilling blood and expending treasure. Obama has given to the Islamo fascists what Bush denied them… WMD. The Obama administration, by backing a disorganized coup against Moammar, has delivered WMD into the hands, of the very people, we were fighting in Iraq and are still engaged with in Afghanistan. You would think that such a “gifted,” articulate, “intelligent,” “thoughtful,” and… ahem… “wise man” like Obama, would have thought the results of his actions out… a bit more?

Obama is not the only World leader who carries blame, Sarkozy, and Merkel must shoulder their share. The three make up the modern incarnation of the Triumvirate. Sarkozy, Merkel and Obama, as Pompeii the Great, Crassus and Caesar. They look to their own good above the good of the whole. No matter the European debt crisis is growing more dire, daily, or that US employment is actually dropping, due to people giving up hope to find a job, and you have a Pompeii, Crassus and Caesar. If used effectively, will any of them accept the well deserved blame… or pass the buck? Who do you suppose considers himself Caesar?

There is one conclusion that can be drawn by these events, that is, the power of the Islamo fascist element in the World has been greatly enhanced. Even not used, the threat will be a lever that will be used, to pry liberty from the clutch of humanity. A little at a time is enough. Liberty lost is never regained unless by bloodshed. Liberty, by it’s nature, is slippery and unbalanced. People born to it often drop it from not holding it tight. But once lost, it takes generations and buckets of blood, to get it back.

 

Sincerely,

John

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Dichotomy in American Society

Posted on December 15, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that there is an interesting dichotomy in American society. That dichotomy is; the Elite want to creep in a socialist totalitarian World government to cement their place in society at the top, but the people want to go back to Constitutional government and free markets, to allow for class mobility. The Elite must use underhanded and diabolical means to their ends because their ends are underhanded and diabolical. Why should they care that the pie will get ever smaller? They will have almost all of it.

The rhetoric of the anti capitalists has changed. They are openly calling for socialism today. The new nationalism speech Obama gave, the day before Pearl Harbor Day, was quite startling. Claiming that people seek the middle class? No one tells their child to seek the middle class in America! In America you tell your kids they can get rich if they work hard and keep at it. The average millionaire has gone bankrupt seven times… and so forth. Lowering expectations, is one of the things people who seek to lower the lot of Man, do.

Another thing Obama claimed, that floored me, was that the worst times in the last century were the times GDP grew the fastest! What an idiot I thought. But then I thought about it some more. Of course, Obama’s words were absolutely counter to reality, but, they had rhetorical value. Some people are enormously gullible and will believe it, because the President said it. Regardless of their own experiences. As the saying goes, “who are you going to believe, your lying eyes… or Obama?”

When a party seeks diabolical ends it is incumbent upon them to use diabolical means. Lying about history is only one such method, another is to personally destroy anyone who stands against you. It is not sufficient to meet them in the battle of ideas because the fiends ideas are diabolical. So the fiend must always destroy their opponent, before it gets to the arena of ideas, otherwise the fiend looses.

Of course the diabolist also fills the media with spurious and sophist arguments. All to keep the public unaware of what the conversation is really about. Today the old standby is being called out of the bullpen… class warfare. The sophistry of class warfare is everywhere today. The mindless rhetoric about fairness saturates the media. The thing I can’t help but notice about “fairness” however, is that even though Obama has willing idiots in the press he also has other members of the Elite calling for higher taxes on themselves, or they seem to, but the reality is, they (Buffet), are fighting the taxes they owe today! This my friends is a state of absolute hypocrisy. No run of the mill hypocrisy but absolute hypocrisy! You and I are the target of the higher taxes, don’t kid yourself. When a millionaire stands in front of you, and claims he is going to hurt the rich, don’t believe it, to hurt the rich they must necessarily hurt themselves, because they are rich, and that is not something a normal human being will do. So it must be a falsehood.

All these tactics are not only being used by the Elite but are out in the open for everyone to see! They are open about their goals now. Shackling the market in a planned economy. The Elite know the unbiased media have no interest in telling the truth. The unbiased media figure if they go along they will get a good gig in the fundamentally changed order. Maybe some will but most will be eliminated. By whatever means is expeditious- read history.

While the push from the masses is for a more free and more open country… More capitalism and more opportunity is what the masses seek. And even as we seek a candidate who has the same core values as us, the unbiased media claim, anyone who does, is unelectable. Presumably, because I will not vote for a candidate who I agree with, only for one I disagree with. Once the Elite get two progressives in it’s time pick a jersey. Some root for the reds and some for the blues, but the truth is, they are all on the same team. This is possibly the most diabolical method the Elite use. Romney has admitted he is a PROGRESSIVE and so has Gingrich by saying FDR is his favorite President! (I presume he will rule like FDR). They are the front runners, we can pick from one of them, the unbiased media personally destroyed the three conservative candidates, they are unelectable after all… At this time, the unbiased media tell us it is down to communist Obama, progressive Gingrich or progressive Romney. (No one else is electable).

So, here we are, the Elite want to move the country and the World in one direction and the people want to move it in another. We the people want free markets and freedom but the Elite want a World socialist government. There are laws on the books, forbidding a company from misrepresenting their products, wouldn’t it be nice to have a NUMA, it would hold the Elite to that law as well.

You know, a President of the US, claiming that markets have never worked, standing in the most prosperous country the World has ever seen, all based on the market system, is one of the most stupid things a President could ever say, almost as stupid as, a candidate for President of the US, not knowing how many States are in it. But a truly unbiased media would shout such idiocy to the heavens…

Sincerely,
John

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Russian NUMA

Posted on December 12, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if Russia enacted a NUMA, it would quickly become the most prosperous country on the planet. The Russian people have been honed in the crucible of tyranny and slaughter, they have an ability to endure that is almost unique among peoples. Giving such a caliber people, true freedom, and open markets to do business and you have a recipe for unbridled growth and improvement in the lot of Mankind.

Of course this all is predicated on the Russian Elite shackling themselves with a NUMA. This is as hard for them to do, as it was for the king, to sign the Magna Charta. The powerful never willingly cede power; especially to the people. A sovereign will cede some power to an aristocracy but few tyrants trust the people. The unwashed masses are to be controlled never really allowed to control.

If the Elite can be coerced into instituting a NUMA, that is effective but not a source of tyranny itself, then the Russian government, which is notorious for it’s corruption, will quickly become a public service. Bribes would be rapidly prosecuted and examples would be made. The more powerful the politician the better the example. The Elite are very smart, that is why they are the Elite, they would catch on quickly. Legalized insider trading for politicians, the need for special prosecutors and voter fraud would be eliminated, because… All laws that pertain to the people shall also pertain to all members of government and all citizens and non citizens, equally. With no exceptions.

Lets look at how the removal of such a burden, to the Russian people, and to the Russian economy, would effect them, individually.

The people’s minds would be at rest, for the first time ever, that their government was doing it’s job. The people would be able to exert their will through the election process, without today’s Elite undermining the process to replace them, with tomorrows Elite, that more closely follow the will of the people.

People would feel freer to start a business. No bribes, no protection racket, no onerous taxes (because the Elite would be subjected to the highest rate they subject any faction of society to), the entrepreneur would be able to work away, on what ever his or her project was, without government interference, and people could just live their lives, within a system that was sufficiently prosperous that anyone willing to work… would live a good life.

The economy in such a system would have the anchor of corrupt government removed. This alone would propel it for some time. But, add to that, the other overt effects of a NUMA. One is that the elected would be subject to the most onerous laws and regulations they allow or enact upon any faction of society. Random drug tests if they require that of anyone, the highest tax rate they require anyone to pay, the least loopholes they allow any faction to have, etc… They could not escape their own onerous laws no matter how hard they try. The NUMA would always bite at any attempt to carve an exception for the Elite.

This alone would be like putting miracle grow and water on a plant that has been growing in poor soil; for any economy. The growth rate would dramatically pick up. The productivity would be so much better it would be hard to imagine it is the same plant (economy). But, take away the fertilizer and extra water and the plant will become just as sickly as it was before, perhaps worse, because it has to re-inure itself to perpetual want. If you think about it, it is hard to argue that, if a plant has sufficient demand, for water and nutrients, supply will be found, and it will have sufficient water and nutrients, but it is not hard to argue that, if a plant is supplied sufficient water and nutrients then it will have sufficient water and nutrients.

Laws that are normally scoff laws would be rescinded do to their annoying the Elite. This would lead society to be more virtuous, because, if scoff laws are removed and people don’t daily break some meaningless law, then they will become more respectful of law. People follow their leaders. If their leaders are virtuous, then the people will follow them and be virtuous, if leaders are corrupt, then the people will follow them and be corrupt.

Put in the context of complexity theory, a NUMA would be a facilitator of interdependence and adaptation, that would, once it’s effects reached a phase transition, set off a cascade of events, leading to a macro outcome that was different from the individual input, or in other words, an emergent phenomenon in society.

Of course these effects could be applied to any country that enacted a NUMA. The effects on growth and personal freedom would ramp up the rate of GDP growth of any economy. People know what is best for themselves, a NUMA would get government off their backs and let them do what is best. The invisible hand could work, and everyone would benefit, a classic win win,

But, alas, for the egos of the Elite…

 

Sincerely,

John

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Is Your Government a Good Deal or a Bad Deal?

Posted on December 8, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that we don’t mind spending money on what we see as a good deal but when we feel we are being taken advantage of, or think it’s a bad deal, we use every excuse or cover to get out of paying. This self evident fact of human nature can be used to deductively reason, (A posteriori), that if we are reticent to pay for something, we see that thing as a bad deal. We can now say, if people don’t want to pay for something, it is probably a bad deal and inversely, if they want to pay for it, it is probably a good deal. This simple and logical conclusion has very important implications on international affairs.

Take first the example of a good deal. If you or I find a good deal on something we want, or especially need, and we perceive the window is closing on our ability to purchase it, we will force money into someone’s hands. We want the good deal and are unwilling to pass it up. So much so that we vote with our pocketbooks.

If we are cornered in a bad deal, however, we seek a way out. Lets say your brother makes a deal and commits you to it. You look at it and believe it to be a bad deal. Will you gladly pay or try to stop the deal? Maybe even just get out of paying for it. No one likes to waste hard earned money. Least of all on a bad deal.

So now we can take the inverse to be true, namely that if someone is willing to pay for something they see it as a good deal, but if they don’t want to pay, they see it is a bad deal. We know this from our own reactions. So if we take this as true then we can use this as a yardstick to measure, by people’s actions, how highly they value any given deal. Simply by gauging their willingness to pay for it.

The unbiased media are reporting that the problem with the European debt crisis, you know, the crisis that is threatening to collapse the World economic order, is that tax evasion is rampant in Greece and Italy to a lesser extent. This tax evasion, the demand sider economists say, results in huge government deficits. They go on, that if only the tax evasion could be corrected, then the problem would go away.

Lets apply our spanking new yardstick to the problem. Tax evasion is another way of saying that people don’t want to pay for their government. In the case of Greece it would seem that the citizens of Greece don’t feel that their money is being spent wisely by their government. Pretty damming really. The people who have the clearest view of an organization’s spending believe that it is a bad deal. Pretty damming.

So the people of Greece believe that their government is such a bad deal, they are not willing to pay for it. Yet expect other people, from other countries, to pay for their bad deal government? A bad deal is a bad deal. If I have to pay $600.00 for a cord of green wood, it is a bad deal, no matter if it is I that spends the money or someone else. In the case of Greece the government is a bad deal pure and simple.

But what do I mean by a bad deal you might ask? In the case of government a bad deal is where people’s perception is that their government wastes money. People who work for government, public servants, are overly paid and corrupt, money is given away without oversight let alone fiscal prudence, Money is given away unjustly, and regulation make following the laws including tax law something only the profoundly sadomasochist would do. These are all reasons why people might find their government a bad deal.

But what is to be done about the European sovereign (government) debt crisis? The people themselves have voted that their governments are bad deals, but the political and economic Elite are telling the rest of us that they are good deals. If only they can be floated awhile longer. The unbiased media claim the Elite will come up with some way the national governments can kite the system for a minute, (or two), longer. What they mean is they want to force the market system to absorb the losses from the bad deal while the Elite protect themselves. The check kiting is magnifying the problem to such an extent, it is becoming obvious, now almost everyone sees it, even the most myopic. Now, we stand at the precipice and no one is willing to tell the people of the planet why we are here, except a very few. No matter how we fall, it will be the same people who threw us all off the economic cliff, that will run the show afterwards. Because it is only in politics that the people that run the show are never to blame when things go wrong.

I guess it’s not a bad deal for everyone, just you and I…

Sincerely,

John

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Business Ideas

Posted on December 5, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that I have several business ideas but I do not have sufficient time and interest to make them work. I am offering them free to anyone who wants to put them into production for his or her own profit. Maybe some are already in the works elsewhere but I offer these two in good faith. In the end, that is all we ever can do, offer in good faith, since no one has perfect knowledge. Someone however, maybe you, may get very rich from reading this blog…

The first is an oil shale extractor. Surface deposits of oil shale and tar sand of varying degrees of productivity exist all over the World. These are, at present, untappable sources of, sometimes high quality, crude oil. They are often remote or in too small in size to make building a giant factory, on site and custom designed, profitable. The initial costs far outweighing the productive potential of the site. However if a small scale design could be commercially produced. One that could be moved to the site cheaply. Similar in size to a modern crushing/ screening operation, (which it would be an add on or adjunct to). Producing a relatively small amount of oil, but at $100.00 a barrel, a production range of 100-1000 barrels a day, would be quite profitable, especially for a small scale operator. The other output, dirt, would be sold as clean fill. This scale operational output could be efficiently trucked by roads or shipped via railroad to a port or small scale refiner.

Ideally, it would use a recovered solvent instead of heated water to extract the oil, in the ground up shale or sand. It would be containerized, so it could be efficiently transported, World wide, directly from the factory. The machine would probably be tracked so it could be moved around the quarrying or mining operation to make it more efficient. (Line it up with crushers, loader areas, oil loading areas etc…) It would be as modular as possible making equipment maintenance as easy as possible. A modular design would make equipment repair much more simple but would also enhance the profitability of each machine that left the factory floor. This would be a relatively simple engineering task for a large, or maybe small but entrepreneurial , producer of crushing equipment.

Distributed crude oil production would drastically reduce the power of the point producers. Oil could be produced locally and refined locally as well. This would necessarily lessen the World’s need to ship oil over long distances thus reducing the likely hood of a large scale disaster. Producing oil in this way would also bring billions of barrels of newly recoverable oil onto the World markets. The lot of Mankind would be greatly improved.

The second is an EMP protective laptop/tablet computer case. The Sun is entering an active solar cycle. It has been overly quiescent for a few years and scientists are expecting it to enter an extremely active cycle. This will result in heavy bombardment of Earth from the Sun in the form of solar flares. They can have powerful effects on electronic equipment. In the case of an unprotected laptop or tablet computer, the expensive machine can be destroyed in such an event, with loss of all the data it contained.

It would be made up of a hard case made of hard nylon reinforced mu-metal, a foam rubber layer with a fine copper screen then a nylon cloth inner sleeve. The copper screen would be a faraday cage and would probably be connected to the mu-metal outer shell with capacitors. The outer shell would be coated with neoprene rubber of various colors. Or perhaps silicon, whichever has the best characteristics for slippage, durability and adhesion to the hard case.

The EMP laptop/tablet case could have an optional solar battery charger and compartment. This would enable the owner to charge a laptop even if the power grid were down for a time. This would allow a person to be productive or if the internet is up they would have access to valuable information. Such a system would only be effective if the laptop or tablet were in it. However, the likely hood of a person’s data surviving such an event, would be exponentially better if he or she had one than if they didn’t. Especially if some public notice were given.

These are a couple of the ideas I thought someone might be able to make some money on. Perhaps you. But, what is important is the point that, what makes a business idea good… is that it will profit your fellow man. If an idea creates new luxury, makes old luxury necessity or in some other way improves the lot of Man, it can be said to be a winner. Mo Ti said that it is in our interest to be of profit to our fellow man.

That is the reason capitalist societies flourish while others flounder.

Sincerely,

John

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Luxury to Necessity or Necessity to Luxury, (It’s your choice).

Posted on December 1, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that one of the best things about living in a capitalist society is that the market system creates new luxury and at the same time turns old luxury into necessity. That was one of the complaints the original anti capitalists had about the market system. The original conservatives wanted to return to the feudal system, for a number of reasons, this being one. But to me the fact that I live in a society that is constantly creating new luxury and turning old luxury into necessity is awesome!

I feel sorry for those that live under socialist systems however. The reality of socialism is that it takes necessity and turns it into luxury. What the perpetual state of want, that the socialist system creates in any society that takes up the burden of it does, is lower people’s expectations. It comes to power with all sorts of promises of a greater material standard of living for the masses but delivers lower and lower. Largely due to the built in pernicious incentives that socialism has within it.

When you reside in a capitalist system there is a general positive feeling. People naturally have a skip in their step because they know in their hearts that the sky is the limit. The only real impediment is their own ambition or lack of it. Those with real ambition and drive get rich and those that want the nine to five get a good living. Think of it this way… If you know that whatever you want to do, there is a very good possibility that you will succeed, then your whole outlook on life is gleeful.

There is no glee for those poor people who have to live with the burden of socialism. They have the certain knowledge that, no matter how hard they try, the system is built to grind them down. Down and down to the lowest common denominator. The dreary and mechanical existence as a slave to the State is not the least enlightening or enjoyable. Those poor souls, who must toil under the State slavery that is socialism, have no possible means of improving their own lot… Let alone someone else’s.

I am positive everyone who reads this blog will have seen movies of the roaring twenties. Prohibition, Tommy guns, Speakeasies, rum running and all the dancing. Every film of that time shows people dancing and living it up. Times were great and the whole of the planet was enriched. Capitalism abounded and people were happy. In fact, that is kind of the theme of the roaring twenties, if you think about it, isn’t it? Happy go lucky. Make a million by noon and loose it in a card game that night. Easy come easy go… under the capitalistic times of the roaring twenties.

Under the socialistic times of the 1930’s it was far different however. Soup lines, the depression, WPA, rationing, price controls, drastic monetary interventions, and every where… poverty. The more the government intervened the worse it got. People wandered the countryside looking for work. Any work at all would do. Folks were destitute. The only thing people had to hold on to was FDR. He was the cult of personality that held it together. The unbiased media were right in there with him. Together they chained the animal spirits of capitalism in the basement.

The 1980’s – 1990’s were an exultant time where capitalism ruled. The kids of the dot com generation’s future was so bright they had to wear shades. Every kid started a business and became wealthy or learned life lessons by it. The entrepreneurial ethos was at it’s apex. How many dot com millionaires have you heard about? Capitalism at that time was heralded as great and luxury quickly became necessity. In 1980 almost no one had a personal computer but by 2000 they were endemic around the World. An entire industry was born and has matured in that time..

Today our governments have made a decidedly anti capitalist turn. When the democrats won the 2008 election in a landslide they called an end to capitalism. They announced that radical change was underway. Apparently they meant it. Unemployment is at a decades high, but worse, workforce participation in the US is at an all time low (since the introduction of women to the workforce in the 1970‘s). People’s expectations have been lowered due to the “new normal…” socialism’s first effects. Later, if there is not a drastic change in direction, we will see far more negative effects than merely lowering necessity to luxury.

There is one thing that need never change however, times may change and governments may change, but your attitude need not. If we have the attitude that we live under a capitalist system, and the sky is the limit, we will unconsciously put that paradigm into effect. Not only in ourselves but in the World at large. Our attitude stands outside the World yet effects it. It is incorporate within us and we control it. Sometimes like a rider a horse but we control it and it has power. Jesus said, “as a man thinks so is that man.” Think good thoughts and do good works, like putting together new luxuries for your fellow man, turning old luxury into new necessity… and becoming wealthy in the process.

Yup, that’s right, follow Jesus to riches, both worldly and other worldly…

Or so the miracle workers would have us believe…

 

 

Sincerely,

John

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Republican Primary Candidates… My Take.

Posted on November 28, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me the republican primary candidates all have their personal strengths and weakness. In that, they are as human, as you and I. They hold vastly different places on the political spectrum, yet are all far less statist than their potential adversary in the general election… Obama.

Mitt Romney is a progressive pure and simple. He was against true liberalism before he was for it. He used to be for, gun control, abortion, amnesty for illegal’s and most of all government health care… Nazi healthcare. This is his baggage. Romney is vehemently opposed to all these things… now. But to the much jaded American “conservative” he looks pretty much like the Elite’s choice.

Newt Gingrich is another progressive of a different stripe than Mitt. Gingrich, while being quite progressive in many of his stances, hasn’t changed them as much. With Gingrich what you see is what you get. He is a smart guy who lives the hedonistic lifestyle that our culture portrays as the highest and best. He has delivered on true liberal (neo conservative) values however. In his contract with America he promised and then delivered on many true liberal values. Holding Congress to many of the laws they had been exempt from in the past, spending cuts through welfare reform and he was in fact the real driver to the US budget surplus of the time. Much because of his controversial statements and lifestyle.

Rick Perry is so similar to Mitt Romney it is eerie. Except for his religion which Rick Perry wears on his sleeve. Not that religion is a bad thing, I believe it shows a candidate holds him or herself to a higher power, and also shows some level of humility. He does have some actually long standing conservative values like abortion. But Rick Perry also has a great deal of progressive baggage. The US true liberal electorate are wary of progressives. We have been tricked too many times before. Perry sounds to us like Bush.

Herman Cain has the all American life story. He embodies what Veblen claimed, was the reason the American people of his time were insensitive to class warfare, because there was a pervasive feeling, that at any time anyone, could become rich. If only he or she had the right idea and the guts to pull it off. Herman Cain did and did. He has proven himself smart and capable but politically inept. The unbiased media put out a hit on him and they pulled it off. He and the candidates that follow don’t meet the Elite’s view of who a real candidate should be. Likening back to the old arguments between the Patricians and the Plebeians about who could and could not be a Consul.

Ron Paul has some good ideas about the economy. I get the feeling he actually means them as well which is a big gold star in my book. He understands what the outcome of our economic policies will be if we stay on the same road. It is well worn, from Weimar to Argentina, it looks like the best road… until the end. The swamp at the end sucks everything down. But the Elite are willfully ignorant that the same road always leads to the same place. Ron Paul, however, is extremely dangerous in his foreign policy. No matter how well our economy is doing, a well placed EMP from a nuclear armed suicidally apocalyptic Iranian regime, would kill 70% of the US population in 6 months and 50-70% of the populations in Africa and the Middle East in a year… due to starvation. Such an extremely dangerous attitude in foreign policy is absolutely unacceptable.

Michele Bachman has it exactly right on economic policies. The first order of business, to get the American economy back to being the engine of the World’s economy, is to rescind Obama care. She is exactly right in her wanting to reform Dodd Frank, into something that addresses the actual problems instead of exacerbating them, as does Dodd Frank. Move the power from giant institutions, that are too big to fail, to smaller more distributed banks that can more efficiently compete. Unless the power of regulation is used to stifle competition as does Dodd Frank. Bachman is accurate in her assessment of the threat of a nuclear armed Iran. She understands the threats our way of life are under and she has guts enough to get us out. But she is a woman and perhaps the American electorate are not ready for a woman to be president.

They are all smart and dedicated. Some to the future of the country and some to themselves and their own power. As are all politicians. It is when they direct their drive for power, into the improvement of Mankind that it is good, and when they use it for their own personal enrichment, at cost to humanity… it is bad. We again clearly see the outcome of demand side statist solutions the last few years with Obama. We worry about more of the same in Romney, Gingrich and Perry. Cain has been politically tainted by the unbiased media and will need some powerful cleaning up. The exculpatory truth will probably come out in a few months but the hit will have worked. Ron Paul has his mortally dangerous foreign policy as his chief baggage and Michele Bachman is a girl.

There is not one among them, however, who wouldn’t be one thousand times the President of Obama.

Sincerely,

John

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Language and Hypocrasy

Posted on November 24, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that our language is under attack for political purposes. The definition of words is the main focus but actions are being redefined too. “Liberal” publications even call attention to the fact that if you want to change people’s opinion about a subject rename it. There are people who put absolutely no limit on the scope of their actions when it comes to politics. However, there is real danger in unfreezing language… It might refreeze at a point no one imagined. Changing fundamental things in ways that no one could have predicted. With possible dire outcomes. Moreover once a tactic is used in the political arena it becomes fair for any political actor. As we saw when republicans used a tactic thought up by democrats on the democrats and the democrat reaction was as hypocritical as can be. Our mutual liberty and prosperity are threatened by these actions.

This is altogether logical. The people who are changing language, to suit their wants, work in an egoistic way. They have no arguments that have not been thoroughly debunked. The arguments of Marcuse and Tonnies, not only being absolutely hypocritical (in the way they lived their lives), they have all been uniformly proven false. There is no intellectual argument that can be made, to empower the State to enforce political fairness, that has not been made. They are all equally egoistic and spurious. Therefore those that seek this political outcome must use unethical means to their ends. Logic is their enemy; Emotion is their friend.

Hypocrisy is laughed at by the unbiased media and the political Elite. It must be, for the hypocrisy of the unbiased media and the Elite, would otherwise be shown in stark detail. The most glaring example, (no matter where you fall on the overall issue), is abortion. Nothing could be more hypocritical than to urge the murder of an innocent unborn child, in a safe clinical atmosphere, while protesting to keep a cop killer alive. What about… supporting late term abortion and eschewing fur? The list is endless in the ways that legalized abortion is hypocrisy writ large.

The “liberals” have been seeking to normalize deviancy, for generations, by renaming it. They call a vitriolic attack on Roman Catholicism “art” but they would never broach such an attack on Islam, Buddhism or any other religion. The curious thing is, when communists get power, the first thing they outlaw is pornography, homosexuality and religion. The Nazis, Lenin, Mao, Fidel, et al. the list is complete. The communist government controls the individual to the nth degree. Even to the point of selecting his or her recreational activities. None of which are hedonistic. (Read Shang Yang). Just a bit hypocritical eh?

Even the term Liberal has been redefined to mean illiberal. Look at the positions of those calling themselves “liberal” today. They are uniformly anti capitalist, they call for the elimination of Israel, they demand thought laws, they seek control over the most mundane choices in our lives, they loathe Christianity, they always fall on the side of a bigger more powerful State and the modern “liberal” hates free speech unless it is his speech. Lets face it, they are the same people who brought us the French Revolution, communist revolutions and all their excesses. Their minds are as closed as a factory in Chicago.

Some of the terms being redefined are; To be racist is to be pro-capitalist, because no matter what a pro-capitalist says, it is called racist. While blatant anti Semitism is not denounced as racist – those that do denounce it are called racists. To be progressive means wanting to return to the Feudal System. In the end, that is what communism, and socialism, but, forms of feudalism. Where the goods of society are distributed by political power. Ala aristocracy, oligarchs run the show and distribute the goods… not the “unfair” market.

Look at the way the democrats reacted to the Swift Boat Veterans for Justice. The democrats had been using far more vitriolic attack organizations on republicans, for at least two election cycles before that, but when the republicans finally caught on, the democrats were horrified. The Elite and the unbiased media all denounced the tactic. The unbiased media were silent, about the fact, it was democrats that invented the tactic in the first place, and have several still in existence, Move on dot org is just one… Not the least hypocritical.

While it is clear that, people are changing language for political purposes, what remains unclear is how. Language is a factor of culture not politics. But today we see language not only becoming politicized but criminalized. So indeed politicians have seized the power to effect language but the cultural Elite still have far more power to effect language. Hollywood and other cultural purveyors including the unbiased media have great authority in this regard. As Maxwell Smart used to say, “Too bad he used his power for evilness instead of goodness.“

Too bad indeed…

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Whack A Mole

Posted on November 21, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that the unbiased media are playing “Whack a Mole” on the republican candidates for president. Remember that old carnival game? There was a board with four by four rank holes. A plastic mole head would randomly pop up and you had to hit it with a mallet. Then it would go back down and another would pop up somewhere else. While it is an amusing analogy it has profound implications for our material welfare and the welfare of our children.

We have seen quite a few republican candidates rise to the top only to be whacked down by the unbiased media. They put wall to wall coverage of some flaw or fault of the “flavor of the week” candidate. They air unsubstantiated allegations as true, ask questions of people who’s only knowledge is hearsay and post it all as fact. Next year the truth will come out but the whack a mole will have worked the election will be over.

The only republican who seems immune to this is Mitt Romney. He gets a pass from the unbiased media. They target any potential threat to Romney’s candidacy. Because they know Romney can’t attack Obama on his weakest point… Health care. That is why the unbiased media want Romney so bad. A Romney candidacy would, to some extent, suppress the neo conservative (true liberal) vote.

The level and vitriol of the attacks goes up with the level of free market thinking of the candidate. Michael Bachman is probably the most conservative, with the possibility that Santorum is as conservative, and the level of vitriol poured out against her was horrific. Even Fox News called her a kook to her face. Imagine if an unbiased news reporter called Obama a kook anywhere let alone to his face! That reporter and his or her network would be bankrupt in a month.

The unbiased media would be wise to heed the advise of Lycurgus, and not to wage war too much against the same adversary, else that adversary will learn to wage war himself. In the case of the unbiased media we have a core that attacks anyone who is really a free market thinker (ala Hayek). We saw with Ronald Regan, that he could effectively take on the unbiased media’s attacks, so much so, the unbiased media called him the “Teflon President.” Tacitly admitting they had thrown more mud at him than at any other president previously but none of it had stuck.

When a republican points out a democrat’s foible, like blatantly breaking campaign finance laws, the unbiased media say everyone does it, and attacks the republican as engaging in the “politics of personal destruction.” Then the unbiased media destroy that republican personally. Things that are universally overlooked by the unbiased media when a democrat does them are severely attacked when a republican does them. Take for example, the way the unbiased media’s attack on Cain for taking a moment to form a cogent thought in a newspaper interview, to Obama’s not knowing how many States are in the United States.

Isn’t that exactly what the whack a mole mallet is; the politics of personal destruction? Done by people calling themselves unbiased it has had real bite. I am thinking, that it will be a factor in my level of support for a republican candidate, the level of vitriol and bile the unbiased media pour on them. This will unerringly show who they despise and who is, most probably, the best person to turn our Titanic away from the ice burgs in our path.

By eschewing Lycurgus’ advice the unbiased media have thickened the skin of the neo conservative voter. Empirically speaking, the attacks the unbiased media poured out on Herman Cain, were far less effective than they have on previous candidates. Like a body, slowly getting immune to snake venom, the American electorate are reacting less and less to the unbiased media’s attacks on neo conservative candidates.

Thank God for the new media. Where some of the diabolical attacks can be shown to be baseless. Like the papers falsified by CBS about Bush’s Military service. As the electorate become more and more aware of the unbiased media’s agenda we will become increasingly incredulous to them. The conundrum is, when there is a real problem with one of our candidates, wolf has been cried so many times, we will totally ignore when a real wolf comes into our ranks.

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