The American Political Scene.

Posted on October 13, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, that the least best form of faux democracy, is a one party State. There can be overtly one party States, like China and there can be covertly one party States, like the United States. This form of faux democracy is pernicious and it is insidious. The incentives are pernicious and the effects on society and culture are insidious.

Today the US democrat party is totally under control of the progressives. Obama, Clinton, Pelosi and Reed are leading members of the progressives. However the democrat party is not the only political institution controlled by the progressives. the republican party is also under the wing of the progressives. The old guard blue blood republicans are also leading members of the progressives, coequal with Pelosi and Reed. The progressives, both democrat and republican, along with the unbiased media and the purveyors of modern culture, make up what I lovingly refer to as, the Elite.

The Elite have set it up so that the American people have a team to root for. Lets say… the democrats are the Red Sox and the republicans are the Yankees. They are both in the same league, and in the case of the political entities, they are largely under the same management. So when the American voter casts his or her vote they have only one real choice… the progressives. The rest is just a team to root for.

Members of the progressives consider themselves to be smarter than the rest of us. You know, some of us haven’t gone to Harvard or Yale (heavens forbid, a Yale man), but it’s true. Obviously if one hasn’t had the correct schooling then one is simply not capable of governing… Of course nothing could be further from the truth. Innovation comes from out of the box thinking not down the line Keynesian demand side ala FDR. Truman wasn’t a member of the Elite but FDR was. Compare how they were each treated by the unbiased press…

The progressives have several core beliefs. That Global warming must be addressed, now, without critical review, by greatly enhancing governmental powers to control industry, (plan it). That all healthcare must be derived from the State. That the tax system should be set up so that people think it is fair, (by taxing high wage earners at confiscatory rates while sparing the wealthy Elite), but is indeed set up to keep the hoi polloi from really competing with the Elite… to hold us down. That the masses should be distracted, as much as possible with Worldly things, especially things that lower our culture- never raising it. That abortion should be on demand regardless of the personal, societal, and/or moral costs. These are a few of the major planks that the progressives hold’s dear.

That is why the Elite hate the Tea party. The tea party represents a true break with the progressives line. The first real break since Ronald Regan. It scares them to the bone. I imagine their blood runs cold at the mere mention of a Tea party rally. It is actually a grass roots upwelling of popular discord with the rule of the progressives. That is also why many republicans hate the Tea party, it represents a threat, to all they have worked together for. That threat is a rollback of the State’s power.

All republicans in name only (rinos), care about, is that power go to the government, possibly more slowly than the marxist faction of the progressives, but inexorably, more and more. Rino republicans don’t mind loosing an election or two. Remember they were totally out of power whenever a democrat was in the White House from the 1940’s up to the 1990’s. and were perfectly happy with it. Progressive republicans are actors, who pretend to be, “small government“, but in fact, are there to insure that no real threat to the progressives’ power ever materializes. Did “conservative” Nixon lower the government’s power or grow it?

Well now a threat has. The republican establishment and the unbiased media are pushing Romney and Perry. Near proof they are progressives but their actions speak louder than words. Romney, despite his rhetoric, has absolutely no intention to overturn Obama care. He helped set it up for Pete’s sake. Perry was a democrat before he was a republican. Not that that in itself is bad but having worked for the most totalitarian democrat in the US (other than Obama) Al Gore, shows a profound lack of judgment in political thought. That along with their past (present?) views on Anthropomorphic Global Warming, show them in stark relief, to be members of the progressives.

Bachmann, Cain, Santorum and Huntsman on the other hand are not members of the Elite. They all proclaim they are pro capitalists and expound a consistent, unwavering belief in small government. They are minimized and vilified by the unbiased press and the old guard republicans. They understand the global threats we face. Moreover, Bachmann and Santorum constantly call for the overturning of Obama care… and that is the first thing that MUST be done if a new President is sworn in.

Because that is the one thing that has hobbled the US economy the most. Years of uncertainty in regulation as each succeeding years new laws go into effect. Unforeseeable regulation, tax increases and insurance increases for years to come, and potentially crippling the US insurance industry, Obama care is not so much a sword of Damocles hanging over us, but a mill stone around our collective necks.

I have no problem with the progressives being an option but not the only option. It is up to the American electorate to decide if we want one or two choices. Most rational people would opt for two…

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Fast and Furious; a Despicable Act of War.

Posted on October 10, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that the US Constitutional Right to keep and bear Arms is under insidious assault along with the entire suite of Constitutional controls on the government. Take Fast and Furious, the US Justice department program to put guns in the hands of Mexican drug gangs. While the US government was arming the Mexican drug gangs, an existential threat to Mexico, an ally, Obama was accusing innocent Americans of it, and calling question to the Second Amendment because of the flow of guns into Mexico. Anytime a Constitutional Right is under assault, let alone the whole Constitution, we as Americans and as interested observers, should pay close attention to the reasons, the tactics and the logical outcome… If we are indeed self interested rightly understood.

Eric Holder, under oath in Congressional testimony, claimed no knowledge of Fast and Furious; but there were records of his getting memos regarding it prior to his acknowledging… his knowledge. In last Friday’s document dump. In his defense he has claimed the Bush administration did it too. However, records indicate the Bush administration’s program tracked the guns from the place of purchase, locating way points and eventually picking almost all the guns back up… before they reached the hands of the drug lords. Fast and Furious intentionally sent the guns, into the dark, and only tracked them when they showed up at crime scenes.

Eric Holder also claimed; that the Congressmen who is pushing the issue was briefed. Which the Congressmen admits. But records indicate that the person sent to brief the oversight committee didn’t know about the guns being let “walk.” So in fact the Congressman was not fully briefed. The problem with the “He does (did) it too” defense, is that it channels valuable time and resources into investigating something other than the crime at hand. Giving the alleged criminal time to hide, destroy and change evidence. This is a form of sophist attempt to focus attention elsewhere, like a magician, so the criminal can escape justice. As such it should be unacceptable. Unfortunately it is one that the democrat party uses all too much.

I would remind the reader that Skooter Libby was sentenced to jail for lying under oath where no crime was actually committed (The person who actually did the alleged crime had already admitted it to the prosecutor but was not prosecuted). Roger Clemons is being bankrupted by legal fees for allegedly lying to Congress. I am very curious if Eric Holder, who came into office wanting to prosecute every Bush administration official, will be prosecuted himself, for lying to Congress under Oath. The likelihood seems remote.

The Obama administration is in favor of the UN treaty on small arms. This treaty would bypass the normal Constitutional process, because in the US Constitution, treaties supersede Amendments. (Treaties were never meant to pertain to the US government’s internal law only to foreign relations, thus the term, treaty). But the UN small arms “treaty” would, at the stroke of a pen, outlaw gun ownership in the US. Bypassing Constitutional restrains. Does anyone think that the assault on Constitutional rights would stop there? Of course not! Banning guns would be only the small edge of the wedge. In short order the US Constitution would cease to exist as a viable document. Treaties superseding every restriction on governmental power. With programs like Fast and Furious providing the rhetorical fodder.

The death of US citizens and the death of a US Boarder Patrol agent, by criminals armed by the US government, is a crime of the highest order. The Government is tasked with ensuring the security and safety of it’s citizens… Not fomenting discord, providing weaponry to criminals destabilizing our neighboring country and using the results to undermine Constitutional rights! Mexico is a friendly country. Why would the Obama administration provide weaponry to Mexico’s drug cartels? Seems to me this is an act of war. I am amazed that the peaceful Obama administration would commit an act of war, against an ally, who is fighting an existential conflict with the drug cartels, by arming those drug cartels? This is not the way the US has historically acted to an ally.

But what if there was a working NUMA in place? There would already be a power in place that would look into it. A properly functioning NUMA would investigate not only Eric holder but the entire Obama administration as well. The Obama administration has apparently been caught, arming the Mexican drug cartels, essentially committing an act of war against Mexico, then using the violence the guns enabled, to justify and all out assault on the US Citizen’s right to keep and bear arms, while senior officials were denying it under oath. If senior Obama administration officials did indeed send thousands of powerful weapons into the hands of Mexican drug cartels then at least those officials should face jail time. But if Obama knew, covered it up and condoned it, while he was vilifying gun ownership… covering up potentially criminal acts was what Nixon was impeached for. A NUMA would see it done.

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Future History

Posted on October 6, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that when the history of our time is written, years from now, they will record the Elite of our day as the most reckless idiotic people who ever lived, nearly causing the entire market system to be overturned by Marxists and Islamo-fascists… Or they will be written as heroes of the revolution.

Lets start with the life and death of Leon Trotsky. He was a comrade of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin), and helped in every way possible during the years of bloodshed. He was riding high until he ran afoul of Stalin (the Georgian bank robber). Then he fled to exile in England where he wrote anti Stalin pamphlets. The good little Marxist who had stained his soul with the blood of countless counterrevolutionaries was murdered by one of Stalin’s agents in London. He did his part and was discarded when he became inconvenient. He is still a hero of the revolution, but was done away with, as the helpful idiots camping out on Wall Street will be when their part is played.

The Elite make sure the government careens to the precipice of default. Ratcheting up spending no matter what. No problem can be solved without raising revenue… is what they pull from their rear ends and expect us to swallow. No amount of taxation would suffice. There is absolutely no association, program, slush fund, rent seeker or half witted brother in law they can see their way clear to cut. The Elite either want to drive the car over the cliff of a general default or they are incompetent to drive the car in the first place. Yet drive they do…

The problem with deficit spending is the deficit spending part. I wouldn’t think it would be that hard to understand but to the Elite it is. They apparently believe that the problem with deficit spending is that others are greedy and not willing to give their fair share. While all the time those that chastise the rest of us for being so greedy, buy their yachts in Australia to avoid the high union labor costs, dock their yachts in neighboring States to avoid the Massachusetts tax, forget to claim income and are occasionally caught with a cool one hundred thousand in their freezer… untaxed. Yet we are greedy…

The hypocrisy is bad enough but the reckless nature of the way the Elite are running the country is amazing. Take the Wall Street protests. They are obviously backed by some heavy hitters. The people protesting are being fed and being given free healthcare while they are protesting. Paid for by whom? Poor people I presume. They claim to be nonviolent but that is mere sophistry because they have every intent to be violent. There have already been arrests. As soon as they have reached critical mass, the protests will immediately turn violent and the useful idiots will rampage through the streets, demanding free this and free that, simply for being barbarians, smashing all they come across and beating a few bystanders for good measure. But the Tea Party is violent with their flags, lawn chairs and old people‘s glasses…

Encouraging barbarians is the worst thing that the Elite could do; but again that is exactly what we see them doing. If a barbarian is offended he or she gets a few hundred other barbarians together, they riot and burn down a city pillaging in the process. The Elite quickly give and change law, societal moor, or cultural norm to suit the barbarian. If a civilized person is offended or has his or he rights stomped on, they try to go through the legal system, which has been set up as a capacitor. It soaks up the complainers and bankrupts them. So, either the Elite want a barbarous society, where violence is the only way to interact with your government, or they are incompetent and should not be in control. Why would encourage barbarism?

Now I ask you, are these things happening? If they are then why are they? Either the Elite want a general collapse or they are stumbling towards one, but if we don’t do something different, one is coming. Encouraging barbarians, deficit spending as far as the eye can see and the outright hypocrisy of the Elite are combining to put us all in a real bind. But not them. The Elite think they will sail over the chaos they have wrought on the rest of us. Maybe they will. But if we recover and the market system is saved they will claim it was not their fault. No, once again they will claim, it was outside human ability to correct. Until it is corrected. They will claim that if they hadn’t acted, as they did, things would have been much worse. But most of all they will claim that the only truly innocent… were the people in charge when it went bad.

On the other hand… If the market system is lost, they will be hailed as heroes of the revolution, even as the newest tyrant orders bags put over the heads of the old elite, because bullets are so expensive. Machiavelli said that tyranny mostly oppresses the aristocracy. He never experienced Communism / socialism… they oppress everyone. Not just those that bring it on… too bad.

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Human Equality

Posted on October 3, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that the concept human equality is a relatively new phenomenon. In the annuls of human history, there have been many steps made towards this ultimate concept, or philosophical breakthrough. Each a step in the right direction with a few stumbles along the way. The concept of Human Equality however, is extraordinary in that it has led to the largest, fastest increase in the material welfare of Mankind that there has ever been. It would be a shame to discard such a useful concept and replace it with an outmoded one that would set us back a few thousand years in philosophical advancement. Our toys would be our downfall if this were the case.

Perhaps the first written step was the Upanishads from Hindu theocracy. While it ushered in the concept of man’s immortality, and an escalating status each rebirth offered, depending on the virtue that an individual showed in his or her past lives. This was an important first step. It started men thinking about virtue and how their actions interacted with society. But it also had within it’s cannon that not all people are equal. There was, and still is, the caste system. A person born to a lower caste is less than a person born to a higher caste thus it’s cannon codifies people as less than equal.

Confucius coined the tern, as it has been variously translated, Human Heartedness. This new philosophical concept, (from 550 BC), had as one of it’s three legs, the Golden Rule. Confucius may have been the first teacher to introduce the idea of the Golden Rule. But even Confucius believed that those born to the aristocracy were born to lead while those born to peasants were born to farm. Another leg of Human heartedness is that people should be content in their status. This idea calls attention to the fact that not all are born equal under Confucianism. There is the aristocrat, the emperor and the peasant each should be content in his or her place.

The civilized world has a debt to Islam, in that the Islamic wars of expansion and depredations forced most of the civilized people to retreat to Europe, massing the World’s civilization in one place and thus setting up the conditions for the Renaissance. Which otherwise may have taken another thousand years or maybe never would have occurred at all. But in Sharia Christians and Jews are considered Dhimini. A lowered status, that essentially means, diminished human. The Dhimini must pay the dhimini tax or the jizya, (ransom themselves and their children to the Islamic State), else they can be raped, murdered, enslaved or anything else the Sultan or Islamic ruler thinks appropriate… (those of other faiths have no human status under Sharia). So, there is a codification that not all people are equal, within Islamic cannon, political, and personal laws.

The only prophet to say, explicitly, that all people are equal… is Jesus Christ. He put in many ways, “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” “Look not at the mote in your neighbor’s eye but the plank in your own,” and “Judge not lest thee shall be judged,” along with many others. The very nature of Christ’s message is the call for the true Christian to have love in his or her heart, even for those that are your enemies. Jesus did not qualify or modify his statements of equality and love; he made them universals.

While Christianity has been accused of atrocities, it is clear that the atrocities that Christians have been accused of, are in direct contravention to the values codified by Jesus Christ. There is no question in my mind that Jesus weeps whenever a sin is committed in his name. If the subject of a Republic, does the opposite of what his law orders him to do, is it the Republic’s fault, or the subject‘s?

At the garden of Gethsemane, the greatest burden for Jesus was that, not all of us could be saved by his singular act of virtue… dieing on a cross for our sins. This weighed most heavily on his heart. Not the coming pain, degradation and death. It was his compassion for us that was the hardest to bear. Knowing many of us would fall under the spell of false prophets, and millions of us would be enslaved, tortured, raped, robbed, castrated and simply slaughtered by the followers of the various prophets to Baal… was what he found most torturous.

The first codification in political law, of the philosophical concept that all people are created equal, is the United States Constitution. It was the first, and possibly still the only, political document that openly avows the universal equality of every member of the human race. Others modify their statements of equality. Modification means a lowered standard or subset, ie, a red jeep, clumpy soil, soft bed and tough nut, modification by it‘s definition is exclusive not inclusive. Therefore, those that modify their statements of equality, in fact, have no equality at all.

So we can see that it has only been within the last two thousand years, that any religion’s prophet has stated openly and many times, the equality of all people. But it has been only in the last two hundred years that the equality of the human race has been codified in political law. The last hurdle we face is culture. Once our culture not only nods in the direction of equality of the individual, but acts as all people are equal, will the Human Race emerge into a new era of understanding, peace and prosperity.

I wonder… Is class warfare a form of holding all people as equal or as unequal? Therefore is it a step forward or backward?

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The Golden Rule and Social Justice

Posted on September 29, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that the concept of justice, as it has existed across time, civilizations and age, is rooted in the concept of the Golden Rule. You remember, the one that goes, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Pretty simple really. Do things to other people that you would like them to do to you… And don’t do things to them that you wouldn’t want them to do to you. This is true justice. As opposed to social justice which means, “Do unto others before they do unto you.” Which is actually a form of injustice masquerading as justice.

Confucius went on and on about how the ruler should be the ruler he would want while the subject should be the subject he would want and the father being the father he would want while the son is the son he would want. He put it many ways like, maintain the fences to the left as you would have your neighbor on the right do his. Piled up they amount to the golden rule. So much so, we can safely say, one leg of Confucianism is the Golden Rule.

I bet almost all religions have at their core the Golden Rule. This should give us pause. If so many sages across the ages have agreed on the Golden Rule being a fundamental truth of life, I ask you, why do so many people eschew it for social justice? Perhaps it is because they have been misled? The media are full of questions.

Questions such as, should the government do all it can to improve the lives of it’s citizens are specious. They presuppose that an activist government improves the lives of it’s citizens. To presuppose such a giant thing requires hubris. Especially when a large and growing segment of the World’s population are relearning things that have been intentionally hidden. The advances of the Enlightenment.

The Enlightenment taught us that the market system is the only system that has ever raised the lot of mankind. Every other system, ever tried, has lowered or at best maintained the standard of living, for the few, at cost of the manys’ very liberty. This was one of the principle advances of the Enlightenment. To have forgotten such a profound truth is a tragedy. To have intentionally hidden it is a sin.

Social justice flies in the face of thinkers such as Voltaire and Hobbs. They were all about the liberty of the individual to seek his or her interests without government coercion. They were big promoters of the market system and free economy. They saw clearly that people, when left to their own interests, not only made their own lot better but in doing so, improved the lot of everyone else too.

But Social Justice finds the Golden Rule too simple. The promoters of Social Justice are looking for a more nuanced form of Golden Rule. They want to do what they want, to those they don’t like, the rich for example, while denying the “rich” the ability to do back unto them. In other words, the person who favors Social Justice, is a hypocrite.

The very definition of hypocrite (from Dictionary.com) “A person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.” We can say that hypocrisy is a form of breaking the Golden Rule. In this case the hypocrites are open about their hypocrisy. Not only open but actually yelling it from the rooftops. Unabashedly calling attention to their moral failings, while cajoling others to join them, with sophistry and rhetoric.

The promoters of Social Justice are not only hypocrites but are falling into the very trap Bastiat warned of. That people would come to have the mistaken belief that the role of government is to seize the wealth of those not in power and protect the wealth of those in power. We see this attitude in bills that seek to make the system “fair” by punishing some group that is disliked by those in power. This inevitably leads to the disordering of society due to everyone being acutely interested in the affairs of government, fighting with their political enemies and not looking after business.

So, we have reasoned, that Social Justice is actually hypocritical and destructive to the body politic, therefore it is indeed a form of injustice. The injustice of Social Justice must not be let to grow further. It’s growth leads directly to the lowering of the lot of mankind. If however, the truth of Justice is the Golden Rule, and people apply it to more and more situations, the lot of mankind will be improved greatly.

The question is, do we want injustice masquerading as social justice, or a better standard of living for everyone through real justice… the Golden Rule and the market system.

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Neo Nero

Posted on September 25, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that the best analogy to Roman leaders, as related by Plutarch, to Barack Obama is Nero, so much so that we could call Barack Neo Nero. He composes a play while the World burns. We shall have to wait to see how the play ends, unfortunately, our fates are caught up in the outcome, be it good or bad. Like the original Nero, Obama chooses to play, instead of organizing a bucket brigade.

As I recall, from my reading of Plutarch’s biography of the life of Nero, when Nero came to power he was heralded as a wise man to replace a corrupt Caesar. Initially he was a reformer but soon sank into madness, (possibly brought on by the lead put in the wine by elements of the Praetorian Guard to sweeten it and make the drinker insane). There were even rumors that Nero himself had started the blaze that engulfed Rome so he could rebuild it the way he wanted it to be.

This time around Neo Nero has indeed set the blaze. By his unwise rhetoric. When Obama called the original protester in Tunisia, you remember, the guy who set himself on fire, Rosa Parks. When he called for Hosni to step down but not Ahmadinejad and called for a youthful rebellion in the Middle East, Obama set the blaze, no less than if Nero himself had run naked through Rome, torch in hand, lighting every livery he came to.

The economic breakdown started before Obama came into office. What was Obama’s reaction to the fire he inherited? He tried to smother it with hay. Ratcheting up government spending to unprecedented levels, piled regulation upon regulation, creating a web of red tape only the most skilled, determined and politically connected lawyer could navigate. These piles of hay initially smothered the fire back to a smolder, but now, the fire is catching up to the added fuel.

So, what is Neo Nero doing, now the World is ablaze? He composes a sonnet. He plays the class warfare instrument instead of organizing a bucket brigade. Not a bucket brigade to heap more hay on the pyre but actual water. In this case, water would be to get deficit spending under control, to tamp down the fires in the Middle East and to clear the mounds of regulation from the books.

The Republicans in the House have passed a bill that meets all the needs of the US in regards to disaster relief and PAYGO. It was sent to the Senate and immediately rejected, no compromise, no negotiation. Then the Democrats in the Senate claimed the Republicans are being the party of NO. While never actually passing anything themselves…Yet. Every speech that proposes anything is simply more tax increases to keep us down, more regulation to make sure no one can effectively compete in the marketplace against the new oligarchs like GE, and increased deficit spending that will, sooner rather than later, bankrupt the US and lead to a total collapse.

Meanwhile, back at Radio Ranch, Dale is trying to balance her books. Her mother hasn’t had a social security cost of living increase since Neo Nero came into office. Her husband, Buck, is laid off. Neo Nero has befriended Ming and invited him to give a speech at the UN. Dale is working two jobs while Buck looks for anything that will pay the bills. Neo Nero tells them “Don’t worry, I’ll just extend Buck’s unemployment check a few more months.” Keeping the eventual cliff in the haze for our plucky couple to step off, into the abyss…

As the lot of the people goes down and down Neo Nero thinks Class Warfare is the way to go. He has burned down our economy, created millions of vehement enemies and equipped them with both nuclear weapons, (in the case of Iran) and is helping them aggregate a large geological presence for their Caliphate. The only possible result is a total collapse of the system as we know it along with a good bloody protracted war.

It seems to me that it is impossible that people educated in Harvard have no idea what they are doing. It seems equally implausible that they would want to collapse the system and have such a war. Yet here we have their actions speaking louder than their rhetoric. Actions that seen to imply, at the very least, that our leaders want the World to burn to the ground… So they can rebuild it anew.

In the form they find most pleasing to themselves.

But not the rest of us…

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Third Party

Posted on September 22, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, whenever two people meet to do business a third disinterested person to arbitrate any issues that come up, facilitates a fair outcome for both parties. This, is one of the legitimate roles of government, to be that third person. Sometimes two parties will disagree about an issue, often one party holds far more power to arbitrarily decide in their own interest. This is where government has a legitimate role to play. In other words, we can safely say that if person A is interacting with entity B, in a self interested way, then the interaction is facilitated by the introduction of arbiter C. But what if person A is you, and entity B, is the government bureaucracy? Who can, legitimately, take the role of arbiter C?

Why is it that when people interact in self interested ways it is helpful to have an arbiter? Because people cannot be objective when their self interest is involved. From the shop owner who demands his $20.00 on tab but the patron refuses to pay because the food is eaten, to the lady calling an insurance company, distraught and in agony over the loss of a loved one, and getting the run around… there is a need for an impartial arbiter to facilitate the fair interaction between individuals and entities… to address the imbalance of power in any interaction.

“But government is all of us, it must be fair” someone might claim. – Government is as much a self interested entity as is the most hideous conglomerate of big oil. Every person who works for government, is a human being, subject to all the failings that befall every one of us. They have the same failings but have no check on their acting them out. Call any government agency, with a real problem, examine their reaction from as much perspective as you can, and ask yourself, would you get fired if you acted this way to a customer? If you would, (and you work in the private sector), then we can safely say that the civil services worker is held to a lower standard of action, than a person in the private sector.

Why is that? Because there are no consequences. Look at impoverished countries, they all have one thing in common, a very corrupt civil service. I have a friend who lives in Guatemala… Brolio. I asked him about us partnering and buying land in Guatemala, we could apply Silvaculture practices I have learned here in the US, to forest land in Guatemala. He laughed and laughed. I asked him what was so funny, he replied, only certain people can own land in Guatemala… Of course only they can… How naïve and wide eyed of me…

But why are there no consequences for absolute corruption in the civil services? Because there is no third party arbiter. If a hairdresser in Afghanistan applies for a license to do business in Kandahar, she should not have to pay a bribe, not have to perform sexual services, she should be given the license if she meets the criteria. If any other criteria, outside what is required by government regulation is asked, then she should have an outside arbiter. Not only to punish and make an example of anyone engaged in corrupt actions, within the civil services, but to facilitate the smooth communication between Afghan citizens and the Afghan government.

A neighboring country cannot be the arbiter, because an outside government can never be trusted in such a task, due to human nature. Another means of finding a third party to arbitrate interactions between governments and their citizens. That means is a NUMA. A Fourth branch of government dedicated to overseeing the actions of government officials and arbitrating when citizens come into conflict with their government.

It would be far too dangerous to invest in a NUMA the ability to pass legislation and enforce it on the Elite, (like they do to us), so all other functions of government would be handled as they are now. Police would generally be under the Executive branch, legislative powers would be under the legislative Branch and Legal Jurisprudence would be under the aegis of a Judicial Branch. The NUMA would only be a police of government officials and arbiter of their interactions with the citizens.

The introduction of the rule of law and standards of measure greatly facilitated the market system. Just as the growth of the market system, can be said to flourish under conditions of smart regulation and fully considered standards, the introduction of an unbiased arbiter, to the interactions between the governors and the governed, would be greatly facilitated by an arbiter. This common sense solution to an age old problem is feared by the Elite, far more, than mobs in the streets.

Mobs can be gassed and shot… Handcuffs are more demanding.

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Incapp’s Platform on Job Creation in the US

Posted on September 19, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that the International Capitalist Party should propose a platform of job creation for other parties to emulate. To that end, here is our platform on job creation, explicitly for the US in 2011-2012, and implicitly for every time and place.

1) Eliminate Obama care in it’s entirety; Obama care has already hit against some hard Constitutional walls. Walls that were set up to protect the people from their government. Obama care has, at it’s core, a fundamental reshuffling of power from the people to the government. This is an evil that is magnified by the fact that it is phased in over an extended period… to protect the ruling Elite from the political consequences. Moreover, it creates ongoing uncertainty in employers, as to future costs per employee.

2) Streamline all regulation; Swimming through regulation is like swimming in water with molasses. The more molasses added the more likely a swimmer will drown. Even the guy, who mows lawns for a living, has to have more on the ball than anyone in the Obama administration. A person who mows lawns professionally, must have a zero turn mower, (to be competitive), a line trimmer, probably a push mower, a truck and trailer to haul the equipment around. He has to keep track of personal vs. professional use, if his truck is diesel then fuel usage for both, as well as several other regulations for diesel work trucks. If he has an employee he has to keep track and pay social security, workers comp, and all the other regulated expenses government adds to his cost of doing business. God forbid he or she run afoul of some arcane EPA regulation… The academics in the Obama administration have had to struggle, in college, with toga parties, and in academia, with peer reviewed papers…

3) Standardize medical paperwork across fields and companies as much as possible; The stated goal of Obama care was to lower the costs of medical treatment. But as we have seen with every try at command and control efficiency drops and quality diminishes. Standardization and capitalist specialization are the way to lower costs and improve quality. This has been the Capitalist model since the 1500s. Standardization is the first step. Were this done a great deal of work in doctor’s offices would be averted. The increase in efficiency would help offset the skyrocketing costs of medical care. If every doctor’s office had a single sheet form to access insurance no matter the illness, injury or company they could focus more fully on medical care as one example of standardization.

4) Implement Capitalist Social Security; This would be a real step towards moving the US national retirement system from government, where it is subject to the whims of political parties and factions, to the market system which, over time, has shown itself to be a true performer. In short; Capitalist Social Security is a system where, under special government tax laws, a special federal/national corporation would be set up, that would be funded by some of the money that would otherwise be sent to social security and money invested by individuals and corporations. That money would be invested in dividend stocks and AA bonds. The dividend and interest would be reinvested across national markets and industries, but only in dividend bearing stocks and AA bonds. If a stock ceases it’s dividend it is sold and another dividend stock is bought to replace it. When a person came of age, or by his, her or it’s contract, became eligible to collect he, she or it would get 50% of their share of the total net proceeds, the other 50% reinvested. When they died their portion would be inheritable and so go on indefinitely. Generation after generation building and building… instead of costing and costing.

5) Move from a system that taxes income to a system that taxes spending; The demand sider would scream like a scalded cat at the very mention. But if spending only were taxed then the poor would not necessarily pay any taxes but the wealthy would pay in proportion to their income in a far more equitable fashion. It is a presumption of the present societal ethos that income should be taxed at a progressive rate. That is a pernicious twisting of the underlying idea that the wealthy should pay more as a percentage of their wealth for the machine of government. The first punishes the job creator and protects the existing Elite the second rewards the job creator and punishes the standing Elite. In other words… It promotes class mobility.

If one adheres to the philosophy of Schumpeter and believes that the economic expansion/contraction cycle is entrepreneurial driven and the aggregate supply/aggregate demand model is over simplified, then one would also believe these are the primary sources of economic friction in the US today. To lower them would be to unleash the economic pressure that has been building. The result would be another roaring decade of economic growth.

Until some political hack of a demand sider starts calling for more “fairness”… to protect the new Elite and his political backer’s interests.

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Logic and Justice

Posted on September 15, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that just as logic, to be logic, must be consistent else it is spurious, justice, to be justice, must be consistently applied, else it is injustice. This may seem obvious on the surface but is not practiced by the Elite and the unbiased media. In fact the exact opposite of this maxim is true of the actions of these people. The real question is, whether or not you and I want to live in a just society, or an unjust one.

Lets say that an arguer observes that person A is bad because of action D, then it is brought up that person C is also guilty of action D, the original arguer claims however that it doesn’t apply to person C. The original arguer is not using logic but rhetoric or sophistry. If action D is bad it is bad no matter who does it. Logic does not broach transgressions in application else it ceases to be logic.

In the same way, justice must be evenly applied else it ceases to be justice and becomes instead, injustice. Another example in Aristotelian language is; Person A commit’s a crime. The crime costs society 17 million dollars, (to grab a number from the air). The State prosecutor decides that it is not in the public interest to prosecute person A. Person B commit’s a crime that costs society $20.00. That person is then tried and punished to the full extent of the law.

Can we honestly say that it was form justice, to not even prosecute person A, when his or her crime was so much more costly to society than person B‘s? What if, person A is politically favored, is it ok then? What about if person B is from a politically disfavored group? Now lets say that person C is observed trespassing but he or she is in a politically favored group. The police arrest the trespasser and are attacked in the unbiased media and their jobs are endangered by the State governor and the charges dropped. While person B is serving probation for petty larceny. To take the point further, lets say that in a hypothetical society, politically favored people or groups were held to a much different standard than the masses. Can we honestly say that this is justice? Or is it a case of injustice? Moreover is society well served thusly?

Lets also consider why a group of people are allowed to break certain laws that make them second class non citizens. They are tacitly protected, but still illegal, making them subject to all sorts of deprivations. Akin to the old practice of indentured servitude… or slavery. Would that be a just state of affairs? Or an unjust one?

So this illegal group, that are protected in some ways but always in fear of government punishment, is even more afraid of having to follow the law, because of the consequences. These people would be perfect to undermine the capitalist system in a country. They would work for peanuts, no labor law would apply to them, they could be sexually harassed with near impunity, they could be worked at too early an age for societal norms, and they could be murdered with far less risk of punishment. The introduction of such unjust labor practices would totally undermine the wages and employment of those citizens that are held to the labor laws. Would this be a just system or an unjust one? Moreover what would be the motivation for the Elite in a society to do this?

What if a certain group within a society were subject to a totally different set of laws than the rest of the society? There are many cases of this in history. Slavery is one such example, the old dark age laws where Christians prohibited Jews from most business except money lending… many countries in the World today. They all have one thing in common; they are all a form of societal injustice.

You cannot have a group within a society held to different laws than the rest of society. Was it right to have a totally different set of rules that Black people were held to in America? Was that time in US history a just time for Blacks or an unjust one? Would it be just to introduce such a system now? But what if the group effected wasn’t African Americans? Would it be just then? Of course not! The laws of a society MUST apply to EVERYONE uniformly. There can be no exceptions.

Exceptions break the rule. Any society that holds more than one set of laws under its jurisdiction is unjust. Unjust and illogical is not a way to have a healthy society, it is a means to destroy a healthy society, turning it cancerous. The overt injustice poisoning any society, that trips down this primrose path, eventually ending in a gut wrenching death. To argue otherwise is to argue sophically with spurious logic as your lance. It is like saying, “You can’t arrest him for taking a bribe, he is a Congressman!”

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911 The Real Goal and the Real Enemy

Posted on September 11, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that before a person can fight he or she must know what they are fighting. To flail at a thing haphazardly is useless and opens the flailer to attack in his distraction. Once the true foe and his intention is understood flailing can turn into deadly blows. This is especially important when the barbarous threaten another dark age. A dark age that descends over the entire World, and may last another thousand years, or maybe lower humanity back to the level of the apes.

Today is the anniversary of the 911 attack on the United States. But really, was it an attack on the United States, or was it an attack on something else? Lets examine what was attacked. The first plane hit the World Trade Center. In other words; the center of World trade. The first attack was on something that had world trade in it’s very name… a symbol of what, do you think?

The attackers could have targeted the White House, they could have targeted air ports, they could have targeted a nuclear reactor or any of a number of terrifying things, but, they attacked specifically, twice, the World Trade Center, the focus of global Barter. What could have been their point? Is it possible the real target was, and remains, capitalism and the liberal democracy that capitalism and the free market system make possible?

The second target was the US Pentagon. The center of capitalism’s military power. Again, why target the Pentagon, if terror and humiliation is your goal? Perhaps a better target would have been the Washington monument, the Lincoln memorial or maybe the Capitol building. Rest assured, the Man burning in hell for eternity, thought of all those possibilities, and finally decided on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. We will never know where the last plane, taken down by the patriots over Pennsylvania, was headed, probably, given the modus operandi of the attackers it was the Pentagon again.

So, it seems apparent, that World Capitalism was and remains the target, not freedom. Freedom was only a tertiary target. Now that we have determined what the actual target is we can look at the attackers. They made videos before they committed the mortal sin of suicide and compounded it with the mortal sins of mass murder… What do you suppose they said when Jesus Christ came to them in their deaths and in profound mercy offered salvation?

The ethos that they espoused is, expansionistic, tyrannical, theocratic, monopolistic and an overtly violent philosophy. It has all the same characteristics of Nazism. Even to the oligarchal view of the market system and the vehement anti Semitism. The Islamo Fascists who perpetrated the crime were and remain a dire threat to the market system today.

They believe, that the fact that God put oil in the ground under their feet impels them to export their twisted fascist ideals on the World, funded by the wealth oil gives them. Instead of industrializing their societies and ensuring work for generations of their people, the Islamo Fascist goads the people into having many children, to grease the gears of the new Fascist War machine.

Now the US and NATO have provided Libya and Egypt as ground for the Islamo Fascists to till. Syria is tilting as are other powerful oil rich countries. Their fall will further encourage the Islamo Fascists to step up the War effort. Even while the US president calls for the ceding of power to the Islamo Fascists, he eschews calling for the primary Islamo Fascist, to step down, Ahmajinedad, amid cries for mercy from his people and rapidly expanding nuclear arms program.

So the enemy is an ideology that wants to destroy the World capitalist system. Very similar to another ideology that is bent on World domination and seeks to destroy the World’s capitalist system. The two have this one thing in common, they seek to destroy the World capitalist system… and are vocal about it. They both understand the consequences of this, if they were to succeed… The deaths of millions of people around the World through famine, war, and outright executions of those that fail to obey. This is a price the Islamo Fascists and the Communists are willing, for others, to pay.

As we have experienced from the struggle with the Marxist anti capitalist philosophy, bent on World domination, an ideology is very hard to fight. Especially one that is based in a perverted religious view, (atheism in the case of the Communists), and has such a powerful emotion impelling it, jealousy. This both ideologies share as well. It is jealousy that drives them to hate, jealousy that makes reason impossible and the hate generated makes them dangerous.

Now that we have a basic understanding what is at stake and who we are fighting it should be much easier to envision methods to fight. Stop the flailing, (enabling the Islamo Fascists through multi culturalism) and start landing some deadly blows. It took total war and the total destruction of Europe to wipe out the original manifestation of Fascism, lets hope and pray, that this crowd of Beelzebub sycophants will be defeated, at far less cost.

Why, do you suppose, the immediate call from the Elite was and remains, “Forget the Alamo!” er… 911.

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