Distributive Justice

Posted on April 10, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that any governmental budget debate can be framed as a debate between whether or not the goods of society should be rightly distributed by either merit or political favor. The definition of merit being the main sticking point. Political favor being self explanatory.

Merit has been defined by Aristotle as a man of virtue, someone who is warlike and ready to defend his city, eschews comfort, is politically engaged and civic minded in his affairs. Distributive justice as Aristotle considered it required that this type of man get the goods of society distributed to him. This is one definition of merit but not the one I am using here.

Another definition of merit is a person or group strong enough to take what they want. As the Gaul King said to the Roman, “By natural law, the law that states the strong should naturally take from the weak.” This definition of merit is absolutely incompatible with the market system, (but compatible with social justice), and is another definition that we will not use.

The definition of merit we will use, is any person who can be considered the rightful producer of that good, whether directly as the person who whittles a tool handle or indirectly by compiling labor time in the form of money to procure the item. This is a form of merit that comports with our definitions of right and wrong and is our working definition of merit.

The distribution of the goods of society by political favor is also called social justice. This social justice is when a person in political power, an Elite, takes the property from one faction of society and redistributes it to another faction of society. This form of distribution of the goods of society, on the face, looks benign or even good.

Attention is always called to the inequalities in society by those people who seek to use social justice. But where the goods of society are distributed by political favor, universally, there is great poverty. Masses of people actually starve, sometimes intentionally to make a political point, sometimes due to the innate inefficiencies of that form of distributional justice. The aggregate lot of those societies that use political favor as the template for distributive justice inevitably goes down.

While those societies that use merit as the template, as much as politically possible, generally have the lot of their people go up. The impoverished in those societies have as their biggest concern, obesity. The gap is large but not nearly as large as in those the seek to redistribute to the poor. That only creates more poor.

It is by a variety of means that political distributive justice leads to aggregate poverty. One is the incentive system it sets up in society. The incentive under such a system is to garner political favor instead of producing a service or good. This lowers the GDP of any country as more and more people drop out of being producers to garnering political favor, making the pie grow smaller and smaller…

Another way political distributive justice or social justice insipiently introduces aggregate poverty in a country is the corruption it creates in government and civic affairs. There is no punishment for bribery, racism, personal vendettas or any other form of corruption in the civil service under social justice. The goods of society are distributed by political favor, if you are in government in the civil service, by definition, you have political favor…

There are many other pernicious ways social justice undermines the good ordering of society. It is especially good at creating people unfit to engage in the market system. Buy making people unable to control themselves sufficiently to engage in work, (How many times have you heard someone who can’t hold down a job say, “I won’t tolerate being treated like that…”), it makes people unable to concentrate long enough to be productive, among others, social justice creates an entitlement mindset that lowers aggregate GDP by rendering a large portion of the workforce, unfit for work, subtracting their production from aggregate GDP.

This all leads inexorably to communal poverty. Aggregate, or communal poverty, leads to more anger in the lower classes. This anger can be strung, tuned and played by the anti capitalist, in those countries that use social justice, to smash the market system and it’s evils like, class mobility and ever improving standard of living, for the stupid masses, who are nothing more than lab rats to be experimented with.

So, if we want aggregate poverty, social justice is the means we should employ, but if aggregate prosperity and an ever expanding standard of living is what we seek, it is meritorious distribution we want. The budget should react accordingly…

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Libyan Civil War

Posted on April 7, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that this Libyan intervention has been handled as poorly as it could have been. Without question, I cannot think of a worse way it could have been handled by the International Community, the United States government and the Arab League. There is plenty of blame to go around.

If the Actors I have mentioned wanted Moammar out, the time to have acted was in February, not in March. The high tide of the uprising is the time to act as did Obama in Egypt. Once the tide is lapping at the top of the dam it is easy to push it over but once it has receded it is much harder to fill the void again. If the International community had acted immediately Moammar would be gone.

But they didn’t, they acted exactly as a political body always acts, they dithered. That is why Republican Rome had Consuls, Aristotle claimed the best form of right government (that was practicable) was Monarchy and every country has an executive branch, to act when acting is practical. But the normal actor on the World stage is the US President. This time the president didn’t act. He waited for the committee to decide.

Then when the leviathan began to move, the “no fly zone” mandate, was done under the new doctrine of “Responsibility to act.” I wonder if any honest thinker thinks the “Responsibility to act” doctrine will be fairly meted out? Because only a fool could fall for that tripe. Let us not forget who makes up the vaunted UN, tribal tyrants (like Moammar), political tyrants (like communists), religious tyrants (like Iran), Military Juntas, Monarchs, poltroons terrified of the underclass they have created, cults of personality, and a very, very few liberal, pragmatic capitalist countries. (Less every day).

The Coalition air force immediately started engaging Moammar’s ground forces, like armored units and artillery. To save the embattled rebels, hold up in their last bastion, Benghazi. The Allies stepped in just as the rebels were about to fall. The war would have been over in probably less than 24 hours. But the intervention stopped Moammar and gave the rebels the initiative.

The foretold carnage and reprisals at Benghazi haven’t materialized yet, so the Allies have laid hold to that, as results that justify the action. The International coalition intervened in Libya March 18, 2011. Now it is April and the Civil War drags on. There is a river of blood flowing out of Libya fed by the continued fighting. It is hard to imagine how prolonging a war could possibly lower the casualty rate and especially the civilian casualty rate and actually “protect the innocent.”

But what is never remembered, is that the people who rise up at the beginning are never the ones who are alive at the end, if the fighting is too long. Warfare and fighting inevitably leads to the loss of fighters. They have to be replaced. Where are the replacements coming from in Libya? The people that were the most eager have been decimated. Not a great example for those that would join the fight.

So now in frustration with their too little too late strategy, the Allies have put “boots on the ground” although, they haven’t officially put “boots on the ground.” Al Jazeera reports that the US government has the CIA training Libyan rebels, and other countries are participating. It seems that “no fly” means whatever they tell us it means. No way that could be a bad precedent. What we are seeing, played out in front of our eyes, is the effective actions that a One World Government would practice, as promoted by the Open Society Project.

At the outset it was obvious the International Community had no idea what “Responsibility to act“ meant. Deutsche Welle had three politicians on, all had a different point of view, as to the nature of the operation. One claimed it was the ouster of Moammar, another asserted only to keep Moammar’s aircraft on the ground, another was certain it was to kill Moammar himself. The American press was just as chaotic. Everyone had a different opinion about what the UN had endorsed.

So here we are. The rebels have had 2 high tides, the second far lower than the first, the rebels are blaming the Allies for their losses, Moammar is on the move again, there is no end in sight to the even slow the river, the Coalition is still fighting over leadership, simple collateral damage to civilians has led to as many deaths as Moammar would have meted out, and, worst of all, extremist jihadists have moved in to take up the banner, replacements for the democracy fighters who are KIA.

If Moammar is in fact ousted then who will rise to the top? It is my contention that whenever there is heat sufficient to melt then it is always the dross that floats to the top. In the end, the World will have spent billions of dollars, stained it’s hands with the blood of thousands of people (needlessly killed, and set dozens of bad precedents, all to replace dross with dross. This is exactly what we can expect from any more experiments with “responsibility to act.”

As an aside, if the Libyan Rebels want people to flock to their banner, (and they really do want a democratic republic), then the way to do it is to have some Constitution they are fighting for, (there are plenty out there). People will fight for something harder than they will fight against something…

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Capitalist Prayer

Posted on April 3, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that the Capitalists Prayer sums up my thoughts about the role of the Market System in society. The Capitalist prayer is:

“Lord God… I pray that somehow and in some way, I improve the lot of all of humanity, and that my life be a blessing on mankind forever… Amen”

Prior to the advent of the Market System all of humanity lived under some form of the feudal system. (A large portion on Mankind still does). This is a system of government where your prospects for life is determined by your birth. If you were born to a peasant then you would inevitable be a peasant, if you were born a serf then you would grow up to be a serf, there is no class mobility.

Another attribute of the feudal system is that it stagnates the wealth and growth of a society, unless there is some external source of food, ie, a wealthy capitalist society. This stagnation is because there is no incentive for individuals to innovate. Innovation under the feudal system can lead to the death of the innovator for a variety of reasons. Not the least of which is that the aristocracy are very jealous of their power and position which is backed up by a quick temper and willingness to kill any offender.

So prayers under a feudal system will naturally dwell in pleadings to God for benevolent rulers and favorable harvests because these are the things that have a direct impact on the lives of people under such a system. Improving the lot of others while your personal lot is so bad is unthinkable.

But under a Market System not only is there constant motivation to innovate in every way but there is, inherent in a market based society, class mobility. A person raised in an orphanage can become wealthy enough to save the US stock exchange almost single handedly. A person can go from the lowest rung in society to the highest, in his or her lifetime, as long as they keep the Capitalist Prayer in mind.

Not only for the class mobility that a Market System provides, but as was first proposed by Voltaire, toleration. Toleration of others is a natural effect of a Market System. As I have used the Couch salesman as a example before I will use it here. The couch salesman doesn’t care who buys his couches. He is indiffrent if the buyer is a different race, religion, sexual orientation or sex. His primary consideration, when serving a customer, is whether or not the customer will be able to pay for the sofa. The market system thus teaches the common man toleration.

Voltaire went on to argue that the real question, for or against the Market system, is; equality or abundance? History since his time has proven his hypothesis beyond a doubt. The only way to still hate the Market System is by a blind, ignorant, rage that allows for no argument and will broach no dissention. This bigoted way of looking at the world is counter productive and is the opposite of what the Capitalist Prayer intends and motivates Mankind to do.

The Capitalist Prayer also embodies the dynamism that embodies a true Market System. That dynamism is the Market’s ability to innovate by complex means. The basis of the prayer is a set of instructions to individual actors within a complex system that results in emergent phenomenon, that manifest themselves as a steady improvement in the standard of living, or the material welfare, of Man. This is the mechanism by which the Market System improves the lives of people who participate in it.

The Capitalist prayer shows the underlying nature of Capitalism in many ways. As we have shown here Capitalism and the Market System improves the lot of Man, materially. In his health by producing sufficient food, her welfare is protected under the modern incarnation of welfare state capitalism, his property is protected regardless of his political affiliation, her children have access to a minimum of education (as a necessity element of a modern economy), his old age will not end in a hoodlum killing him and his wife to steal a few dollars and she dies knowing her grand children will live a better life than she was able to.

All these goods are a direct result of the Market System. The best way to create one where you live is to say the Capitalist Prayer every day. It will instill a mode of thinking that will open doors. Walking through them will serve the ends of the Market, to change that which was luxury into necessity and to introduce new luxury to replace the old.

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Once Broken…

Posted on March 31, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that once something is lost, it is much harder to get it back, than to have not lost it in the first place. I cannot think of a single example where this axiom doesn’t hold true. From the smallest thing like a sewing needle misplaced will cost many times it’s value to replace to the family farm lost to foreclosure the simile seems almost universal. Except that there can be no universals or so more than a few Chinese Philosophers, in classical times, would have us believe.

With the World on fire, the President’s lackeys giving Obama the credit, (or blame), we seem to be on the precipice of a great change in the fabric of the World’s governmental structure. If the dominoes continue to fall, Libya, Syria, Algeria, Yemen, Dubai and possibly Iraq the whole region could fall under the influence of an Al Qaeda affiliate.

If this happens Israel would be in mortal danger. The Muslim extremists, including Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have made no question about their antipathy towards Israel. The ensuing war will bring untold bloodshed and chaos to the region. With all the usual horrors of war that follow, like the children of Ares, Famine and Disease. With his adopted child Fallout. Radiation sufficient to make ten thousand Chernobyl’s.

With the people of the World completely ignorant of the precarious position the US government is in fiscally. The official debt pales in comparison to the implicit debt. When the US government implicitly backs a corporation or entity (like Fannie Mae and Fredi Mac) and that entity then issues debt, the US taxpayer is on the hook for that debt. If the firm or entity cannot pay back the loan then the US government bellies up to the bar and pays the tab.

With the implicit debt, (unaccounted for debt) is tallied, it comes to a shocking fifty to two hundred TRILLION dollars!!! Seriously! Depending on the source and the bias of that source the number can be quite alarming and quite hard to disprove. With this actual overhang where the US government is spending more than the WHOLE WORLD is producing, (around 70 trillion), there may be a problem with the US spending.

I was reading the other day that if the US stopped producing and exporting food, millions of people around the World would starve to death in less than six months. Africa would be especially hard hit with as much as fifty percent of some countries starving to death in a year. The magnitude of this is hard to comprehend. Hundreds of millions perhaps billions of human beings, people just like you and I, starving to death.

Of course Mao thought starvation a tool of politics. He sent the army into the countryside house to house collecting all the rice. Mao then stored the rice in warehouses. After thirty million human beings had starved to death Mao opened the warehouses and the famine was over. Both Mao and Lenin thought starvation a good tool that would turn the people away from God. Such nice people…

One thing the Bolshevik-anti capitalists were famous for, is taking a person (a kulak), tying their hands, cutting a small incision in the victims belly and pull out a piece of intestine. Then the anti capitalist would nail the intestine to a tree then whip and whip the victim until he or she got up and ran around the tree unwinding their intestines around the tree until they ran out, lay down and died in a few hours. This is typical of how anti capitalists behave once they gain power.

We even have anti capitalists, or Protyranists, in the US openly calling to intentionally capsize the US economy. Openly and overtly. He is backed by many people holding great political power and therefore is above the law. So he works in the open, with only a very few people watching. The unbiased media have bigger fish to fry, ripping into the violent and racist Tea party movement, for example.

If only the unbiased media could find something about them to report. So far, no violence at all in any of their rallies. Well there were a few incidents, when the anti Tea party rallies got out of control but, drats, none from the Tea party itself. The overt violence not only threatened by anti capitalists but acted out is not really news. You see if a man bites a dog, that is news, but if a dog bites a man, that is an average mundane event.

Like a beautiful glass vase, finely sculpted and carefully wrought, by the most skilled craftsmen of all time, cannot be replaced and cannot be duplicated, but is today in the hands of an Lich, with nothing but loathing and jealousy in it’s heart. That Lich is the anti capitalist element in the US government.

It’s time to pick a side and stick to it, not choosing is making a choice, because once broken it can never be replaced…. Especially by a fiend with the track record of this Lich!

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Constitutions, Positive Rights and Class Mobility

Posted on March 28, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that any Constitution that is a list of “positive rights” is nothing more than Slave Papers. Such Constitutions require that one group/faction is entitled to the labor of another group/faction. No matter if, the group/faction that is entitled, is the aristocracy, or the tyranny of the proletariat (as embodied in the person of one man), it has many pernicious effects on society and the market system.

We always see these types of constitutions in countries that are sliding quickly to socialism/communism. The same communism that has led to bloodshed every single time it has been implemented. That is because socialistic thinking is incompatible with a functional market system. It is and was intended to supplant the market system as the dominant doctrine on the means of production. As such it requires the execution of, clergy and capitalists, and the reeducation of the masses of people.

Constitutions that list positive rights are a tool, a means to an end, of the socialist/communist/progressive. This tool is to undermine the market system by poisoning the supply of workers. The poison is an attitude of entitlement. This attitude of entitlement is fostered and husbanded by the socialist by such tools. Like a gardener needs a hoe to weed the ground around his seedlings.

Another, maybe the most pernicious, is that such Constitutions create the environment for oligarchal capitalism to appear. Such capitalism is a form of Stupid Capitalism. Under this type of system the regulation in a country is set up so that the families in power are the only people with access to permits, capital, squishy regulation, and other benefits not available to the people at large. This allows a small group of Elite in a country to amass extreme power and wealth that is mirrored by the extreme poverty in the masses such a system creates.

This is another reason the socialist/progressive love positive rights, it undermines the market system in a way that the ignorant can be misled to believe is a fault of the market instead of the poison introduced into the market. The socialist/communist points at the extreme gap, in such a country, between the rich and the poor and claim it is the fault of capitalism! When they have misled in at least two ways.

One is that they are using a faulty metric to measure the justice of a system The fault is that they are measuring the gap between the rich and the poor. Think about the margins on a page. How far they are apart is not as important as how close to the left edge, (if we consider that the side of absolute poverty), the left margin is set. If we set them too close together we loose the ability to do productive work.

So the real measure is the distance from the left edge to the margin. Moreover, the margin if you will, should be set by the aggregate decisions of the people at large not by government. Whenever government intercedes in such fundamental properties of the market it has created imbalances in the markets, such as rent controls, price controls, and the like. But despite using a flawed metric they come up with the right answer.

The other is that by using a faulty means of getting the right answer they can create profound anger that can in fact lead to revolution. They infiltrate the people and sow the seeds of anger. The communist/socialist can then use the conditions they created, with their Constitution of positive rights, to overthrow the government and any market system in that country. If your timeline is generations it is as elegant as it is evil.

We all know the history of Communist tyrannies. They have visited the greatest horrors on Mankind to date. Over 120,000,000 people, just like you and I, murdered by Communists, in the most horrible ways possible. Yet today’s Communist is not even the least bit recalcitrant. No today’s Communists claim the same mantle of ruthlessness as their predecessors.

But if the End is a democratic republic the only means, that has been devised to date, is the market system. A functional productive, lightly regulated market system where every person has access to and no one is excluded the means of production. With all the trappings of a functional market system like the protection of private property, both real and chattel, free hold land rights and personal protection from unreasonable searches and seizures. The list can be discerned in the US Constitution…

As I have said before, a market system can exist under both tyranny and liberty but communism/socialism/progressivism can only exist under tyranny. So if you want liberty, first you must have a market system, then liberty can follow. To have a functional market system you must allow everyone to participate and let there be class mobility. Because in the end it is class mobility that is really destroyed by the introduction of “positive rights.”

Class Mobility being a meta attribute of a functional market system. It must be encouraged and husbanded by a Constitution so that entrepreneurialism can prosper. Even though the Elite despise class mobility and the poor are kept ignorant of it…

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Romantically Involved with Revolution

Posted on March 24, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that we all romanticize that which we know nothing of. Those that know nothing of war romanticize it and think they would emerge strong and heroic from one if they were involved. But whenever the real chance to become involved appears we recoil at the stark horror of what war really is. We romanticize marriage… until we are married… We romanticize many things but the reality of them always fails to meet our expectations.

Like the anti capitalists romanticize the worker. To a man, from Marx and Moser through Toonies and Marcuse, they worshipped work and eschewed it at the same time. Not that Moser was lazy like Marx or that Marcuse was the hypocrite Toonies was, but none of them had any real hands on knowledge, of manual labor. Yet they, and today’s anti capitalist like Obama, have never labored and would never labor yet they claim to worship the laborer.

But is it really a form of worship to subject a person to servitude? How many times have the romantic anti capitalists gathered sufficient masses to lever the reigns of government to their own ends. Whenever this has happened it has always resulted in economic stagnation, widespread poverty and outright starvation, but most importantly, political repression. History shows us one thing, that the Market System can exist under both tyrannies and republics but socialism and communism can only exist under tyranny.

Romantic anti capitalists have always used, as their willing pawns, the youth. Led by upper middle class youth, (the most dangerous people on Earth). The romantic anti capitalist revs up the youth to rise up and revolt. A few misled but bright young kids killed in smashing capitalism is a small price the anti capitalist is willing to let them pay.

Look at Mao’s cultural revolutions in the 1960s. What was the point of that? To instill in the people the political ethos of the right to revolution? Or to so demoralize the people they expended their will to fight on each other instead of examining their own lot. It was effective at culling the population and terrorizing the people. Mao used the youth, the most dangerous people in any society, to do his handy work.

Because they have no experience. Knowledge without experience to temper it is very dangerous, it has led to the attempted extermination of more then just the Gypsies and the Jews at he hands of the Nazis, communists and socialists have murdered tens of millions of people. Che and Castro praised the willingness of the youth to kill in the name of the revolution. I have read, Che was fond of killing people tied up and begging for their lives, what a big hearted man.

Today the youth of the World have been urged to rise up… demand you be heard, and take back power from the tyrant! They are being wound up to run into the meat grinder of tyrannical politics. For their own good? Or for the mischievous purposes of a few Elite who would be kings. Do you think the kids running the revolutions around the World might be a tad wide eyed?

We all want liberty for the people of the World. Everyone deserves the right of self determination and is sovereign. The only system that has ever been devised that raises the lot of Man is the Market System. The youth who are rising today should instead seek market reform, lifting regulation, stomping down corruption in the civil service corps and strong protection of the property of every person with no exemptions. This would serve to raise the standard of living and more importantly teach the people of the middle East how to live in a republic, (what the unbiased media calls “democracy”).

The recent election in Egypt calling for immediate parliamentary elections and a rewrite of the Egyptian Constitution will certainly bring the Moslem Brotherhood into power to write the new Constitution and rule for the meantime. Does anyone think that regulation reform is on the agenda for the Moslem Brotherhood? Or that the wide eyed youth have the experience to force them to?

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Energy

Posted on March 20, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that if the Maya had not polluted their own drinking water, with the corpses of their sacrificial victims, they would not have collapsed as a civilization. What we are doing with energy is almost the same thing. People in the future will say, “How could they have been so stupid?” As they burn methane hydrates to power their industry.

We are told that we must not use nuclear energy because it is unsafe. Demonstrably so, in that we have had three nuclear disasters, since the inception of nuclear energy. Three Mile Island, Fukushima and Chernobyl, the total estimated death toll of all three is less than 8000 people over a 65 year span. This death toll is considered to many to warrant the dismantling of all nuclear power stations.

While at the same time children are killed on bicycles at the rate of 300 a year. If 300 children are killed a year times 65 years, there are 19,500 children, killed on bicycles in the same span of time, (in the USA only, the other victims are worldwide, none are in the US). Given these facts, we can only conclude that bicycles are far more dangerous than nuclear power plants, and under the logic of closing nuclear power plants, we must outlaw bicycles. It follows necessarily. The only difference is that the children killed on bikes are spaced over a greater territory and the people effected by a nuclear plant are in the neighborhood of the plant itself.

But given Ohm’s law electricity production must be as close as possible to keep the losses in transmission as low as possible. Each time the voltage is stepped up for transmission or stepped down for distribution there is loss. This loss is magnified by distance. So, regions that are also point draws for electricity need large producers of electricity close, to keep transmission losses under control.

Coal does most of the heavy lifting today though. The USA has more accessible coal than any other country. Hundreds of years worth of coal, but with the increasing regulation, driving up the costs of coal fired electricity production, both in mining and in burning coal, the price of electricity will necessarily skyrocket in the next few years.

Coal to oil is a possibility but environmentalists have labeled it as Nazi oil, because the Nazis used this technique to produce oil for their industry when the Allies had destroyed Germany’s access to the sources of oil. The label seems to have weight because no plant has been successfully permitted in the USA that I know of. But I never hear anyone, except me, calling nationalized healthcare Nazi healthcare, even though it was the Nazis that introduced single payer to Europe.

Natural Gas is also plentiful in the US. With the implementation of a new technique for the extraction of natural gas from difficult strata another hundred years supply has been opened up in a band from Tennessee to Texas. Unfortunately there have already been lawsuits filed to stop this process due to potential environmental impacts.

The long and short of it is this, modern economies need economically priced energy, without which economies grind to a halt. Energy is a primary input to almost ever aspect of economic activity. From the package delivery guy’s gas price to the heavy steel manufacturer’s price for heat for his steel, the price of energy can be a deciding factor, if a thing is better produced in one place than another.

With the continued and stubborn employment dilemma in the USA, one would think the government would seek to lift barriers to employment, like the price of energy. But this government seems intent on driving up the price of energy to the point of breaking the back of not only the US economy but the economies of every country in the World.

In this case the victims are the Coal, nuclear and natural gas industries and the well is our collective economies. Not much different from throwing the heartless corpses of your victims into your own drinking water is it?

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Japanese Disaster

Posted on March 17, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that some politician somewhere said, “You should never waist a crisis.” He meant that a cagey politician should use any crisis that comes along to further their political agenda. Never mind, the crass and pernicious nature of the argument’s premise, the progressives have saddled up and are riding the unspeakable disaster the Japanese are going through now for their political advantage.

Lets examine the premise of the saying before we get into how this present crisis is being used to further a political agenda. This saying requires that the first priority of the speaker is egoistic self interest. Not even a hint at the virtue of empathy or concern from this speaker only blind self interest. Unlike, when people‘s avarices are channeled through the market they are turned to society‘s interests, this speaker seeks to meet his interests outside the controlling mechanism of markets and seeks blatant political power to meet them. To say, and especially mean, You should never waist a crisis is unconscionable.

In as far as the inherent dangers of generating electricity through nuclear fission are well known they hardly need pointing out. .But the constant hype and the undertow of fear generated by the uninformed excitement of the unbiased media creates an irrational fear in society. The unbiased media feed this fear with ever more fantastic coverage of the problems in the Fukushima Nuclear plant. People in the USA are going out and getting iodine pills to prevent thyroid cancer! I wonder how many of those same people don’t wear seatbelts, eat high fat foods, engage in risky sex, take drugs, smoke or drink and drive?

The threat to our lives is so miniscule none of us will have enough time on this planet to be effected. We will be exposed to far more radiation then a million Fukushimas when Iran decides it’s time to move. The nuke they use to take out Tel Aviv will expose us to many times the radiation. Perhaps if the people who are panicking today used reason to predict the exponentially greater risk of radiation from the Persian theocratic tyrant getting atom bombs they could put their energy to some good..

The utter heartlessness in which the unbiased media are vilifying the Japanese government is disturbing. No government has been more careful of nuclear technology or has used it more responsibly than Japan. They have had a mature attitude towards it’s research and implementation. In fact the Japanese government has been far more responsible in the use of atomic technology than the unbiased media have been about being impartial.

We must remember that this was caused by an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami. Entire cities and towns have been erased from the map, the infrastructure in the area effected is decimated and filled with debris, ranging from upturned hula-hoops to hotels, thousands of people have died and hundreds of thousands are homeless, the nation is not in the best position to respond in any adequate way.

But when you get right down to it what are we supposed to heat our homes with? The progressives can’t abide us using nuclear, coal, oil, or anything else that produces carbon dioxide, they decry the looks of windmills on ridges, solar is only just beginning to produce a bit more electricity than it takes to make the panels, so what are we to use? Or do the progressives want us cold and hungry, shivering in a corner waiting for some crumb, to be donated to us, by the munificent new aristocracy.

The thing that amazes me is that the plants stood a five Minuit magnitude nine-.something earthquake, (they are still upping the strength), and it didn’t smash the plants to bits. Without question the safety of existing nuclear plants worldwide should be examined by well trained and led teams. Taking the lessons of this partial meltdown and applying it to other systems. Fantastic assertions in the unbiased press only serves to motivate people to panic not to be prepared.

We will see how the disaster sugars off. As in the case of the BP oil spill the environmental effects of the politically appropriate disasters will be over stated and the results of the natural disaster will be underplayed. But that is the nature of the legacy unbiased media we have. They are still largely controlled by progressives. People who have whole heartedly endorsed the speaker’s words.

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I pray for the quick recovery of Japan and the quick return of the Japanese people to their normal daily lives. May the people of Japan live long, healthy, happy lives, find their burdens light and go to heaven when they die…

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The Revolution Standard

Posted on March 14, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that the major difference, between the American revolution of 1776 and recent revolutions, is that there was a working government in place, that had practiced Republican principles from the start, moreover, the people were, as De Tocqueville put it, self interested rightly understood.

The actual form of government in the Western countries are Republican forms of government, not Democracies. Republican forms of government have, as an attribute usually, some form of democratic representation but republican forms of government also include monarchy, and aristocracy.

Aristotle put it like this, There are only three right forms of government, monarchy, aristocracy and polity, there are three perversions of these right forms of government, tyranny, oligarchy and democracy. Because tyranny is rule for one person, oligarchy is rule for one faction and democracy is the tyranny of the many over the few. A Republic is a blending of two or more of these right forms.

So where we have a call for democracy we actually have a call for the tyranny of the many over the few. This was a very hotly debated item in the founding of the new American Republic after the revolution. They were very aware of Aristotle’s thoughts on this subject, and others, especially Montesquieu’s adding a third branch of government… the Judicial.

Modern revolutionaries have no such advantage. The opposition parties always seek to, replace the tyrant; not overthrow tyranny. They all make the same claims, they call for social justice, they decry violence even as they apply it themselves, they all seek for the benefit of a single faction of society only and seek the submission of all other factions of society. Universally when they come into power they install a more despotic government than the one they replaced.

Especially with the help of the protyranist elements in Western culture. The Michael Moores and the George Soroses epitomize the protyranist faction in Western society. They seek tyranny and believe it the best form of government. They have, at their philosophical core, a firm belief that the masses are only fit to serve. The masses are patently unfit to rule. “Democracy” is only a way to prove it to them.

Once the democratic experiment has failed the people will turn to another tyrant to restore order. That will be the communist or some other savior in name only. They will then reestablish a form of feudal system where they and their children will be the aristocracy and the benefits of society will be distributed by political merit instead of by market means.

There were protyranist elements in colonial days but they were separated by kilometers of ocean and were easily turned against one another. Just as today’s protyranist turns capitalist elements against each other. To reestablish the new fiefdom will take the same tactics as it did to destroy the old feudal system.

But really, who doesn’t want to live under a feudal system… like communism? It is great. You have no decisions to make your lords make them for you. If you are lucky you will be the equivalent of a serf in the new system. Then you will be looked after by your lord, or owner, depends on how you look at it. But really what could go wrong?

Everything. The loss a functional market system under a Caliphate or some Socialist fiefdom would throw humanity back into another dark age. One that I am sure we will pull out of, eventually, and reestablish a functional market but the loss to humanity would be incalculable.

There is a basic Republican system, that provides a standard, for new revolutions to follow in forming their new “Democracies,” it could possibly benefit a few. But, if any are helped, the better for us all. The standard, rarely followed, is the US Constitution, (arguments for and against) and the Manifesto of the International Capitalist Party…

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The Price of Anything

Posted on March 10, 2011 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, that everyone who has grown up in a market based economy, should have a basic understanding of the way supply interacts with demand, to reach a price equilibrium, and that if demand is reduced, cost goes down and if supply is reduced, cost goes up. But I run into more and more people, who profess no knowledge of this economic law whatsoever, and maintain that it is totally the oil companies that set the price of gasoline.

The supply, real and perceived, of any thing, not only commodities, is a factor in it’s economic value. The value of gold is high because the supply is very limited and the demand, for all uses, is great. The value of a thing is not determined by it’s utility, water for example is usually cheap, because it is plentiful, but put a person in a desert for a day, where it is not plentiful, and he or she will pay a fortune for it. This is another example of the relationship between supply and demand.

The Obama administration, has at every turn, made decisions that will lower the supply of crude and coal. From changing drilling regulations and outright bans on drilling to curtailing coal production the administration has proven it’s willingness to raise the price of energy to protect the environment. This is one of the planks of their platform. Energy prices will necessarily rise… To make renewables competitive with dirty energy.

Due to a hoax. The hoax of anthropomorphic global climate change. They changed the name from warming to change, because they aren’t sure if the planet is still warming or cooling, so the name, change. The global warming we have experienced from 1959 to 2008, (or sooner) has been mirrored on Mars with a congruous shrinking of the Martian polar ice caps. The predicted warming has not materialized here however. It seems to have leveled off. But what it all boils down to is this, they don’t know if the planet is warming or cooling, they don’t know the mechanism of it’s warming or cooling, but the one thing they are sure about, is that it is our fault.

With a hoax in hand they have sought to shrink the ability of the market to meet short term supply interruptions. Take bobby pins, say there are 4 factories running at 50% capacity, meeting the demand for bobby pins. Now take one factory down, perhaps from a fire, what will happen to the price of bobby pins? Probably nothing… the remaining factories can ramp up production to meet the increased demand.

Take the same example but the 4 factories producing bobby pins are now running at 100% of capacity. Take 1 out, from a fire, and now what happens to the price of bobby pins? The price necessarily skyrockets. It is necessary because, the factories remaining cannot ramp up production, they were already at 100% of capacity. So the price will rise to a new equilibrium. Higher then you would think due to the perception that the supply of bobby pins is now at risk…

The result, of the administrations decisions, is that the US is producing far less oil and coal than it could. If the US was producing even 10% more, than it is now, there would be a dampening effect on global prices. But with a hold on US oil sands, coal to oil, intractable permitting for coal, nuclear and most of the US’s coastline off limits, the US government, under this administration, is intentionally lowering the ability of the US to produce energy. This puts not only the citizens of the US at risk but the citizens of the world.

Economic production is tied to energy prices. The single biggest factor in the rise in the economic production of the worker, since the industrial revolution, is the leveraging of his or her productivity, with mechanical power. This leveraging has led to the rise in the standard of living in countries that participate in a market economy. The application of mechanical power makes the price of energy a major portion of any economic player’s cost structure.

Now that the ineptitude of this administration, has set the Middle East and North Africa on fire, like a child with a matchbook, the supply of oil in the world is being interrupted. Overtly undermining Momar has led to him setting oil wells on fire, even a hint of unrest in Saudi Arabia will drive the price of crude to $200.00 a barrel, (from Bloomberg Radio) and the continued unrest in Egypt and Tunisia is leading to a possible flood of refugees. How will that effect the world economy?

But people keep insisting it is all the oil companies…

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