Sophist Rhetoric Spanning Logical Chasms

Posted on January 16, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that the adage, “Government is responsible for the welfare of it’s citizens,” is based on a false premise, that we the people, are incompetent to care for our own welfare. This type of sophist rhetoric is a major factor in why the economies of the Western World are declining. This pernicious notion has pervaded the zeitgeist, to such an extreme, that it is accepted without question. This leads to the Elite gaining power, and us, loosing liberty. If you are comfortable, loosing your liberty so the Elite can have more power, then you should stop reading now.

Our adage is an example of framing the subject. A question can be framed in many ways. The language that is used is the rhetoric the presumptions are the sophistry. Control of the rhetoric is a large portion of any argument in the public arena. Most of the audience to the debate, have lives to live, and have no time to look into every item independently, so we often go with out hearts. In this case framing the question is of paramount importance because it can bypass logic by appealing to emotion.

This gets a position accepted without argument. By framing the question in a manner that makes a logical leap has been known since the time of Socrates. It was the topic of Plato‘s book about Protagoras. The most well known modern example is the trial question, “when did you stop beating your wife?” This question has been framed such that it has been accepted, that the person questioned, beats his wife. In the case of the sophist argument, Government is responsible for the welfare of it’s citizens, the premise that the citizens are too incompetent to care for themselves is implicit in the assertion.

This conveniently omits, government is dependant on those incompetent’s, for everything and in every way. Government can only exist, as long as those governed, have sufficient funds for the Elite to take, to fund their operations. Once the Elite have spent the populace into poverty and destitution the government necessarily topples. But, until it topples, the more destitute the people become the more the government is required… to help. Look at Greece. How much longer will it hold out? It is now entirely supported by other governments.

The argument itself opens a whole avenue of potential government interventions in it’s citizens lives. The truly pernicious element, is that the argument makes intervention in the lives of it’s citizens, not only acceptable but a necessary part of governmental functions. Anti smoking regulations, anti obesity regulations, making the weight of a family’s children a matter of legal entanglement, monitoring of it’s citizens, as well as giant overarching laws like, Obama care, the Consumer protection agency, the EPA, and the FED, among others. More and more interference in our lives is justified by this, and other, sophistry.

Welfare is inextricably tied to a country’s economy. What else is more tied to the welfare of a people than their economic well being? This is an opening for the Elite to tinker with a country’s economy. Tinkering, that can only lead to the lowering of the general welfare, not increasing it. Because the Elite, have at the core of their ethos, a theory of power that matches Thrasymachus. They blindly follow Bastiat’s false concept of government. The concept that Bastiat gives in his book “The Law“, namely, that government is a means to loot the money of other factions, and protect the money of your faction, from being looted.

This is but one example, of how the progressives change the debate, to make their positions seem logical without there being any actual logic to them. Unfortunately, most people never look at the premise of an argument, we mostly look at the topic. The progressives always frame the debate with the help of the unbiased media. The two have gone hand in hand, getting the citizens of the World past giant logical chasms, with the use of this sophist bridge. Then, the Elite can ride their rhetorical limonene across, to the promised land of total government.

But don’t worry. This time our overlords will be benevolent… As long as we behave!

 

 

Sincerely,

 

John Pepin

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True Economic Stimulus

Posted on January 12, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, one of the only ways government spends money that is useful to the economy, is in a space program. The technology development from such endeavors is alone sufficient, add to that, the potential opening of the vast resources, that space offers, the potential for human growth and economic advancement are phenomenal. An effective program would amount to a supply side economic stimulus program. Therefore it would necessarily create jobs. With the caveat that the government must allow the developed technologies to filter into the private sector. More jobs and better paying jobs, are what such a program offers to the nation, willing to take on the risk and reap the rewards…

The secret is smart infrastructure growth. Had the US spent the money it has, more intelligently, the human race would be on Mars now. To the World’s benefit. Lets do a thought experiment, lets say, the next few steps in a potential space program. Each step costing no more than an aircraft carrier.

The first step should in some way leverage existing space infrastructure like the International Space Station (ISS). This would be utilized as a construction platform at first. We would build reusable transfer vehicles, that would go to lunar orbit (HLO) from low Earth orbit (LEO) and back. We could call them HILOs. These vehicles would be fueled by water, lugged up as cheaply as possible, turned into hydrogen and oxygen, by electricity created with solar panels in orbit. After the new infrastructure is operational the ISS would be a way station in low Earth orbit. Next to it would be the space fuel station.

This space fuel station would be specified, with standard features required, and then posted for the market system to produce. Perhaps it would be even better for Nasa to put out a contract(s) for hydrogen and oxygen delivered to LEO. Then let the market sort out how it can be done most effectively.

Along with the development of the HILO space craft, there would be concurrent development of a reusable HLO to lunar surface, and back, landing craft. The Lander could be carried back to Earth orbit for fueling and back on the HILO, or, if it is more efficient, it could be left in high Lunar Orbit and fueled there.

The base would have to be in a commercially viable location, like the rim of a crater, on the Moon’s south pole. There has been proven to be water in the form of ice there. Providing a potential fuel source that is not subject to Earth’s gravity well. There is constant access to sunlight in some locations, facilitating solar arrays to power such a settlement. The location would also lend itself to astronomy.

The lunar base would be the construction facility for the next step… Building a reusable space ship capable of, safely getting people and equipment from Earth to Mars and or Venus and back. We could call it ERMA. The first trip would land people on Demos and or Phobos using the tried and tested reusable Lander. Samples could be taken regarding commercially valuable minerals.

If the trip were successful, the next step would be to develop a Mars Lander/ ascent craft, that would get people to the surface and back to orbit, on the second trip. This in itself is a giant technical feat, that would yield up gems of technology, for the economy and personal comfort. Once people have landed on Mars, studies should be undertaken into the feasibility of terraforming Mars, and the viability of colonization and commercialization.

Some of the economic effects would include… Demand for technicians and skilled labor in developed countries would denude the workforce. This would compel companies, to look to undeveloped countries, for labor and engineers. The lot of the World’s people would be greatly enhanced from the demand for all sorts of people. All we have to do is avoid a war, and get rid of a nuclear program or two to fund it, the World’s people could live safer, better and happier lives. With the security that humanity could avoid a catastrophic event such as a meteor strike.

If we actually had a Leader in the World then this could be a possibility. Unfortunately, our “leaders” have always liked war… far better than they like actual progress in the lot of Man.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Pernicious Meme that Socialism is a Viable System

Posted on January 9, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, while people will die to institute a Marxist regime, people are only lukewarm about one that protects the right to do business. The socialist creates a feeling of team and esprit de corps, while the capitalist shouts, every man for himself. The one stirs the heart while the other clenches the rectum. We are an emotional people who’s reason only rides our emotional elephant. No matter how vividly we see, that the results of socialism always fall far short of it’s expectations, we hope it will work, just this once. While at the same time knowing, that the result this time, will be just as dismal as it has always been. This is a tough meme to break. But understanding that it is a meme, and that we have the ability to break it, is the first step to actually ridding ourselves of this pernicious belief… That socialism is a viable economic or political system.

Emotion is why, despite the history of the market system in front of us, we fail to see the truth. Every advancement that the human race has seen, in the last five centuries, has been due to market forces at work. Adam Smith’s guiding hand. The logical argument was won, conclusively, by the nineteen forties. Yet there are more socialist regimes in the World today than then.

Apartheid in South Africa was overturned almost two decades ago, and the people of South Africa are more destitute today, than under the despotic government of P. W. Botha. The people united, under the ANC, against apartheid. It created a sense of esprit de corps and unified the people against apartheid. The Afrikaner people were granted freedom under F W De Klerk and immediately voted in the ANC. The ANC was, of course, a socialist organization. It instituted socialist regulation of the economy. Today we see the results of the ANC’s radical mishandling of the South African Economy. Yet, in the upcoming elections, the ANC is expected to win handily.

No pro market political party would ever get so much forgiveness of such an economic mess. Pro market political parties are attacked before they even come into power. Their legitimacy is attacked and the people who make up a pro capitalist political party are vilified. History and logic are eschewed as propaganda, while emotionally based sophistry, is regarded as supreme truth. Even when a pro capitalist is driven from power they are hounded by the socialist… Given a good fair trial and executed.

In all of South America, Chile stands out, as a country that moved from socialist policies to pro capitalist policies. The pro capitalist policies, like moving the Chilean social security system to a market based one, changed the dynamic of the entire Chilean economy. GDP started growing again. The young mavericks, that emerged from the tutelage of Milton Freidman, changed the Chilean economic paradigm. The dictator during that time, General Pinochet, has been tried and convicted in abstentia. Were he not already dead they would kill him. Yet how many former anti capitalist dictators and their henchmen have been even tried let alone found guilty… Other than Nuremburg?

When we compare the treatment of the two political ideas, we see a huge discrepancy, in how they are regarded and talked about. The media puts forth the notion, that socialism is actually a viable economic system, despite mountains of historical evidence, because they feel it must be. Their emotions trump their reason. If a well educated person in the unbiased media, who has the benefit of a liberal college education, is so powerfully controlled by his or her emotions, to our mutual detriment, then how much less in control is the average citizen, who does not the benefit of a thorough knowledge of the actual history, of the market system verses the socialist system?

In this, the State run school monopoly, has let us down. Not only in the US but the World over. No matter the proficiency of graduates in math, science, reading, and social justice, the complete whitewashing of economic history, is unforgivable. If not for that, more people would be aware of history, especially economic history, the percentage of our society that falls victim to the pernicious notion, that socialism is a viable system, would go down. Some of us are less driven by emotion, but we need knowledge, for reason to drive our emotion. Else, lacking another driver, emotion will rule the day… and so will the socialism meme.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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We Are Entering a Brave New World Under Obama…

Posted on January 5, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, this new Consumer Protection Bureau, will be a Constitutional catastrophe. The more I read about it the more my blood runs cold. It is only one of the many ways, our Constitutional rights are being directly challenged, like they have never been challenged before. The new Defense budget gives the President the “right” to detain a US citizen without charge and without legal representation?!! Our negligence is putting our children’s liberties at risk. Look at the child you are raising or have raised. We have already spent, a large portion of their prosperity, due to our allowing the government’s profligate spending. Do you want that little angel, (or little devil), you love, to live under a despotic government?

The Consumer Protection Bureau is amazingly unconstitutional. It’s budget is not overseen by Congress! They are funded by the FED. Another group of Elite with absolutely no oversight. This new Bureau will have the ability to WRITE LAW! Unelected Elite writing laws to benefit the banking system (Themselves). No way that could ever go wrong. Apparently, the way “forward” is with unelected Elite writing law, and the police picking people up without warrant, representation or any hope of getting out. Kind of like Burma, oh, sorry, Myanmar does. Huh, Is Obama, taking advice from the Myanmar Junta?

The really pernicious part, is that it creates a whole web of regulation, that firms will have to navigate through. A web that will, assuredly, eliminate competition, creating the perfect conditions for oligarchal capitalism. The oligarchs will be the ones who have access to the political Elite. If you think about it for even a moment, it should be obvious, that a huge new web of regulation will prevent, or at least hinder, new firms from competing with older established firms. Therefore, old firms will, necessarily, get bigger…. NOT smaller they will get bigger. The whole scheme will result, not only in unelected Elite writing law, with absolutely no check, or balance, by Congressional oversight, or the electoral process… it will make too big to fail a much bigger problem! Exactly the opposite of what is was “supposed” to do. Like, for example, the Energy Department Carter created, which was supposed to, eliminate America’s dependence on foreign oil. Another huge success… oh actually no, we are far more dependant today than then despite finding HUGE national reserves and spending billions of dollars…. Well spent I’m sure.

What hubris of president Obama to acknowledge that he now has the “right” to detain any US citizen he deems a terrorist… But won’t use it? Who is defined as a terrorist? Obama doesn’t think an Islamofascist is a terrorist he has said so. He believes that people who, own guns, have affinity for the US Constitution, are War veterans, anyone (the government) considers “Right Wing,” People concerned with illegal immigration, People wary of a One World Government and anyone expressing strong disagreement with government policies… is who, President Obama, deems a terrorist. So, if you or I fall into one of these groups, in the future, it will be possible for the US government to come into your home in the middle of the night, ala Elia Gonzalas, and abduct you. Take you to an undisclosed location. Hold you for as long as they want allowing you no access to a lawyer. As an American citizen however, you are subject to, water boarding. A torture, if used on a person who kills anyone who doesn’t follow his or her violent ideology, but acceptable to use on US servicemen (citizens), as a training tool. The killing, by executive fiat, of a US citizen precedent has been set, so that impediment to Obama is already out of the way.

Just sit back for a moment and think about what you have just read here. If you doubt any of it, or all of it, ask yourself this one question, “Wouldn’t it be really bad, if only one single thing here, is true… a new bureau without Congressional oversight, unelected officials writing law, evolving the US Constitution so that the Executive branch can arrest anyone it sees fit, without any Constitutional protections… would any of these things make you concerned if they were true?” How bad would it be, if even one of these things were true, let alone all? I have included links so you can see for yourself… They are all true.

If no oversight works, then why not eliminate the police and FBI, letting us police ourselves? Because, it would be stupid, that’s why. The same as, it is stupid, to let the Elite police themselves! If group A need policing, and group B comes from group A, then necessarily, group B need policing too. Logic, it seems, is perspective dependant… I clearly see, the people are reprobates and need to be policed, but I am so perfect in thought and action that I need no policing myself… So say the Elite…

So what do we do with this information? Go back to sleep? I think it is time to put some teeth in the US Constitution. (And all other Constitutions as well). In light of the unrestricted assault on the US Constitution, the Obama administrating is waging, I would like to add a new idea to my NUMA concept. That is, if an elected official is found to have been derelict in his or her duty to protect of the US Constitution, the most important function and duty of any government official, they will be, impeached, personally fined, or jailed, if the Constitutional attack was found to be intentional. The penalty levied by the NUMA and prosecuted by the NUMA, adjudicated by the Judicial Branch, for the people.

But then again… we have never had a problem with the Elite breaking the law… they are not subject to it… We are.

 

 

Sincerely,

John

 

Oh, hold on, Someone’s at the door…

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Spending More Than Income

Posted on January 2, 2012 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me the root of all the sovereign debt problems, in the World, ever… can be traced back to one thing; spending more income. You would think this is so obvious that it would be the topic of conversation. However, people hotly debate where to find new sources of revenue, they call for more taxation on vilified factions of society, in the name of “fairness” while all the time… avoiding the real argument. It is like a husband and wife who argue. They are on the same side, but fight to the bitter end… while their marriage slips into divorce.

If a government is set up, such that, it’s incentives are to spend more money than it takes in, is unlikely to balance it’s budget, no matter the revenue stream… or river. We have seen this over and over in human economic history. From City States that bankrupted themselves due to incessant wars, the tulip bubble at the dawn of capitalism, through the Argentine monetary hyperinflation crisis… to now, with the European debt crisis and the soon to be American debt crisis. The simple fact is, government, with this set of incentives, cannot be fiscally sound. It is impossible.

Like I said in an earlier blog, even if space aliens landed and gave our collective governments a trillion dollars a day to spend on social programs, the resulting debt would dwarf any ability to pay it back. Because of the incentives that our Elite have set up. They have inculcated in society, the false notion, that the roof can support the foundation. Resulting in a greater rise in demand for government services than could possibly be provided for.

Having the people supported by their government is like a house that’s foundation is supported by it’s roof. That should seem obvious. A house that could do such a thing would be wonderful indeed. But, as we have seen over and over in the annuls of human economic history, socialism fails every time. It fails because it defies basic economics just as our house would defy physics.

The fundamental answer is not to seek stronger structural supports for our house. They come at cost of liberty. A house supported by it’s roof must be strongly constructed with no room for any slack. If there were any slack even the slightest wind would impose impossibly powerful forces on the structure. Just as a society that is largely supported by the government must have few liberties else at the first challenge people will flood the streets calling for change. The result is; the house collapses.

It is an attractive notion.. to have a society where no one has to work. Everyone gets a check from the government. Would you like to be idle? To live like mold. Have the motivation of mold and the charisma of mold. Not to denigrate mold that much I like the benefits of penicillin. To many idleness is attractive. We all seek leisure. But leisure is a means not an end. To believe it is an end is to loose focus on the truth of life. We exist to some end, a life of hedonism and leisure is a denial of that basic end… therefore that basic truth.

Because no end is achieved by absolute leisure except decrepitude. Ends are achieved by action. Perhaps as Lau Tzu said, through passionless action or as Christ said, empathetically loving action, no matter the end, it requires action. Action being the opposite of leisure. Not to say that there is no place for leisure. Nothing could be further from the truth. Moses ordered, the Jews must have a day in seven, for leisure. It is needed for the Human psyche but not as an end in itself…. anymore than penicillin, taken daily, would help prevent anything.

All these things lead inexorably to impel government to be profligate with the public purse. The spurious notion that leisure is the highest good should be shown as the sophistry it is. It leads to the insanity that a society can be supported by it’s government. When nothing could be further from the truth. Reality is stark and unforgiving. We all live in the real world but the Elite live in a fanciful world of fanciful make believe. They can build their hypothetical houses/governments, so tight, that they must be sound… and soundly stifling.

It all boils down to this, the incentives in society are set up wrong, the societal myth of hard work leading to riches, has been supplanted with a sophist notion, the house analogy, and this leads to the pernicious incentive for government to spend more than it takes in… no matter how much it takes in.

Now that we have found the tap root… should we chop it out, or should we fertilize it and water it?

Sincerely
John

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CEO Salaries and Congressional Perks.

Posted on December 29, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that most people in business have no idea what business is about. They are utterly ignorant of how business works. Business is about getting the customer to love your product, good, or service. It is that simple. Not maximizing revenue or making a good IPO it is about the customer. This fundamental fact seems to be lost on most people in business today. Netflix anyone?

When a firm does a good job at a reasonable price that firm is profitable. It is when a firm seeks profit ahead of customer satisfaction that firms go wrong. When You or I, am satisfied with a product, I know I continue to use that product, you probably do too. In complexity theory it is called, explore or exploit. Once a satisfactory good has been found that fills a need or want then the most profitable choice is exploitation. It less profitable to explore as more satisfactory products come into our understanding. In this context, when a firm provides that satisfactory product, then that firm gets the business.

Making a product that works, for the use it is sold for, is so important that you would think it wouldn’t need to be mentioned… But, alas, it must be. How many times have you bought a tool or item that broke immediately? Not only did it break but any one you bought would break in the same way? I bought a garden weasel once. The handle was made of luan. Seriously, it was made of luan, the wood from the Philippines they make the sheet board from. It broke immediately into a very sharp stake. I then tried to use the dangerously sharp, and much shortened handle, and it broke again! The ultra low quality handle made the rest of the product useless. No matter the quality.

A product that is ill suited by design or material usage does not build brand loyalty. It does however generate revenue. If an unsuitable handle for an implement can be purchased for 10% of the cost of a suitable one, the 90% that I save, can go into management’s pocket, as a bonus, for the short term profit. The long term consequences will be born by the stock holders of the company, who, by the way, didn’t get a dividend payment for the short term revenue enhancement, (or have any say in the decision about the handle).

What we have here is the principle agent dilemma. The principles being stockholders of the various companies and the agents being the managers of those companies. Corporate America has become the poster child for the principle agent dilemma… in action. The giant salaries of idolized CEOs are only one small example that is plainly obvious. More pernicious examples are when, Americans eschew American products, because of a perceived quality deficiency. Defects often totally due to engineering or not meeting jobbing specs.

As in the case of the garden weasel the casting and assembly was done in America but the handle was made in, I’m guessing, the Philippines. The quality of the American made part was perfectly acceptable, (from how it appears unused), but the dangerously unsafe foreign part gave the perception of low quality. Here we have a problem with management that let this go out the door. The workers who made the metal parts did a fine job. But are probably now out of work because of the dangerously unsafe handles.

Structural economic malfeasance is what the principle agent dilemma in American boardrooms, as well as some European ones, have become. Structural in that it is endemic and unpunished, it is a form of malfeasance in that it is utterly cupidity and it effects the economies of the various countries that have this as a problem, by lowering GDP growth… Which magnifies the negative economic effects over time.

What is the source of this corruption? I would argue the source is the corruption we see in government. Congressmen and women engaging in legal insider trading, with no consequences, a vice president admitting he broke the law but without an “overriding legal authority” he was in the clear, Cold cash, banking scandal, House post office scandal, Nancy Pelosi’s jumbo jet while she was Speaker, the list is endless. Confucius said, leaders lead and the people follow. If the leaders want a more human hearted people the leaders must be more human hearted themselves and the people will follow… Pretty sage advice from a sage… Too bad it’s not followed.

Sincerely,

John

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Age of Grace

Posted on December 26, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

Merry Christmas!

It seems to me that Mankind has a lot to be rejoicefull for. Our single biggest benefit is; we live in the age of grace. No matter our problems and tribulations we are indeed blessed. Not only are we blessed but our children and grandchildren are blessed. The age of grace we live in is both a blessing, and a calling, it is up to us to open our eyes and listen with our hearts.

At no other time in human history has there been such an abundance. Not only is the abundance rife in our World it is available to anyone who opens up to it. Even in starving North Korea, where the tyrant has died and the new tyrant has taken power, there is abundance at hand. If only the blind men in charge would let power to the one eyed man. “He has but one eye.” the communists accuse, yet they are utterly blind, and so, have a predilection of finding cliffs to fall over.

Since the time of Christ we have seen a thousand fold increase in the lot of Man. Like any complex organic system the gain has not been uniform or smooth. There have been spikes up as well as spikes down. But, taken as a trend the lot of Man has gone up exponentially, and will continue to do so. Accelerated by the market system coming into general usage. The market system would not even have been possible before the age of grace. The philosophy of Man wasn’t up to the challenge. We should be thankful for the market system and the fundamental attribute of it, it’s ability to create new luxury and cheapen old luxury, so that it becomes new necessity. That is a lot to be thankful for.

It may seem as though the barbarians are at the gate all the time. That is because they are. They wait for civilization to lower it’s guard so they can strike making a spike down. It is not their fault they are barbarians no more than it is a dog’s fault it is a dog. It is divine to love those that hate you. It is worldly to hate those that hate you. To be divine is to store up treasure in heaven and on Earth as well. To be worldly is to waste treasure in heaven and to amass the enmity of your fellow man. The one is a path of grace and the other a path of degradation.

Living in an age of grace requires of us a divine calling. Our nature is to envy and avarice. We have gained “grace” in that we have the ability to conquer our emotional elephant and reign it under the control of our reason. We must always remain vigilant that the elephant doesn’t get out of control. The elephant of emotion that our reason rides, that has power, but is prone to destruction. As the rider is strengthened, we affirm the fact, we live in an age of grace.

We have been given grace, not from any good we have done to merit it, but that God sees the time as ripe for us to receive it. It is to our great benefit that we have been so blessed. As I have shown we live in times of plenty. It is that our fathers and their fathers lived in grace that we have such plenty. Our ability, to pass on a blessed land to posterity, is dependent on us living as Jesus urged us to. By, loving our neighbors as we love ourselves, do unto others as we would have others do unto us, God forgives us our trespass’ as we forgive those who trespass against us, so let us pick up our cross’ and follow Jesus.

These are the philosophical truths that he brought into the World. These truths were unimaginable, before he was born, yet they reverberate with us today and are why I say, we live in an age of grace. The grace bestowed upon us by Christ. Not only for Christians, but for all people of the World, both believers and unbelievers. That is just another example of the grace we have been given. The grace to forgive and turn the other cheek. To be divine in our actions even as our nature is worldly.

Rejoice and be glad for we live in a time of grace. Live gracefully, promote blessings on all mankind, and we propagate the age of grace. Understand that those who hate and are closed minded simply have not opened up to the grace that bathes them. They steadfastly say no when yes opens up new opportunities and blessings. Like drinking from a filthy puddle when a clean clear spring is at hand.

“O Lord, I pray that somehow and in some way, I improve the lot of humanity, and that my life is a blessing on mankind… Forever. Amen.”

So goes the Capitalist’s prayer… In the age of grace.

Sincerely,
John

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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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