Topic: Economics
Power Outage in Northeast leaves 1.25 Million People relying on Capitalism, not Government 'Planners' Too many people today believe the government must rescue underachievers in the Consumer, Financial, and Manufacturing markets, but no one believes that a government central planner or politician can turn the lights back on in the dead of winter when their power goes out. Now's a great time to appreciate the survival value and life-lifting value of capitalismby Nickalis N. Tower
(libertarian)
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Too many government bureaucrats and politicians in America today like to pretend that they move the world, create all the major values and jobs, and make it possible for the people in poverty to survive.
Too many government central planners promote the false idea that capitalism (which is based on self-interest) and free markets harm people, and that socialism or 'liberal fascism' (which are both based on self sacrifice) and highly regulated markets help people.
Too many people in government promote the false idea that nationalization of the mortgage industry, the banks, and manufacturing industry will create a 'certain' or 'prosperous' future for the 'America's economy'. And too many American people, who depend on these HIGHLY REGULATED INDUSTRIES for a job, support the notion that politicians can rescue their industry and jobs and permit them to economically survive.
Most harmful however, are those government planners, economists, and politicians that pretend and promote the lie that America has been operating under a system of unregulated capitalism over the past 8 years. If president Bush is a free market capitalist, then I'm the pope. Now you know it's not true. President Bush and the conservatives today are political capitalists.
But no matter how important government planners and politicians make themselves out to be, when people's material survival is on the line, such as when their power goes out in the dead of winter, no one believes that government planners and politicians will rescue them and permit them to physically survive. Even the government planners and politicians see reality in this case.
The northeast power outages are a perfect time to realize the values generated by capitalism: plentiful cheap fuel (including firewood, gasoline, kerosene, natural gas), personal electric generators, the automobile, snow and ice elimination tools, insulated clothes and housing, and cheap and plentiful food supply.
A power outage is the perfect time for people to curl up and read a good book.
One small but powerful book, "The Capitalist Manifesto", by Andrew Bernstein (amazon link), shows that the history of statism over the past 2400 years, the history of capitalism over the past 200 years, and the history of communism, socialism, and fascism over the past 100 years prove beyond a doubt that the wealth creating power and life-lifting power of capitalism makes it possible for even the poorest and lowest-achieving person to live in a civilized society of surrounded by material wealth and social good-will.
When those 1.25 million in the northeast get their power back on, it will be due to the efforts of free men, free minds, and free markets over the past 200 years, not government statists and central planners.
Thank capitalism when your lights come back on. Thank capitalism for the light bulb and the personal power generator. Thank capitalism for your job. And most of all, thank capitalism for the fact that you can enjoy your life in comfort and survive northeast winter storms so easily.
It's time to demand that the government decontrol the economy in America. Only then can innovation in energy, housing, manufacturing, and medicine be unleashed. Only then can jobs return to America. Only then can we have an electrical supply grid that will be so reliable, no major blackouts will ever occur again.
It's the men of the mind, under capitalism, that move the world. They are the source of material values and well being in America. Not any government planner. It's time to demand government get out of the way of the markets. (fictional hero John Galt made that demand in another powerful book, written by international best selling author Ayn Rand: 'Atlas Shrugged')
To make your voice heard for limited government, go to DownsizeDC.org, and participate in email write-in campaigns to your federal representatives that will encourage them to pass legislation designed specifically to slow down federal government growth. The 'One Subject at a Time Act' and the 'Read the Bills Act' would prevent items such as the $700 billion bailout from ballooning into hidden trillions.
To decontrol the economy, we must first slow its growth. To have the life-giving benefits of capitalism, we must decontrol the economy and (ultimately) have complete separation of state and economics. But our government planners and politicians will never do this until there is popular demand. If 20% of adults read a good book about the stupidity and futility of government planning the economy (like either of the two books mentioned above), if they make their voice heard strongly for capitalism and free markets, only then will our government leaders face the prospect of either getting out of our way, or being thrown out of office.
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You DO see the pyramid scheme symbol on the back of the USA one dollar bill, right? You DO see the servitude infestation in capitalism, right? And do you see the "pay up or lose your wellbeing" Chicago mob-like felony extortion widespread within capitalism? Do you see the "join or starve" felony extortion done to the 18 year olds... by this ugly competer's church called capitalism? See how forcing competer's religions onto 18 year olds... kills membership in the cooperator's church (Christianity/socialism)?? Do you understand that AmWay (American Way) (New World Order) got "the exclusive" (legal tender) on the TYPE of survival coupons (money) accepted in supply depots (stores) and leverages 18 years olds into the organization via that felony activity as well? (It puts AmWay-coupon slaving requirements called price tags... on all the survival goods). Do you understand how farmyard pyramids work... from your childhood?? Remember?? Upper 1/3 are "heads in the clouds" while the kids on the bottom ALWAYS GET HURT from the weight of the world's knees in their backs? Still with me? Do you see anything illegal, immoral, or just plain sick... in any of this pyramid scheme's activities?
Us American Christian socialists are still patiently awaiting the natural fall of the pyramid-o-servitude, or the busting of the free marketeers felony... by the USA Dept of Justice. Us Christians are VERY CLOSE to issuing a cease and desist order until the servitude and inequality goes away... which means it turns into a commune. Commune is a word we LOVE when used in the word "community"... but its one the caps HATE when used in the term "commune-ism". Go fig. PROGRAMMED!!
Time to level the felony pyramid scheme called capitalism. Abolish economies and ownershipism worldwide, and hurry. Economies just cause rat-racing, and rat-racing causes felony pyramiding. BUST IT, America! Look to the USA military supply/survival system... (and the USA public library system) for socialism and morals done right. Equal, owner-less, money-less, bill-less, timecard-less, and concerned with growth of value-criteria OTHER THAN money-value. Quit doing monetary discrimination immediately, and make it illegal. There are MANY measurement criteria of "value"... not just dollars. Try morals, efficiency, discrimination-levels, repairability, etc etc. Economies are cancerous tumors, and to cheer for their growth... is just insane. Profiting causes inflation, so if caps LIKE inflation, and if they LIKE a terrible time in afterlife when they meet the planet's ORIGINAL OWNER before caps tried to squat it all with ownershipism, then keep it up with the felony pyramiding. I dare you. While us Christians are finally bulldozing that pyramid scheme back to level, lets make servitude and "join or starve" (get a job or die) illegal in the USA, and lets level the architecture seen in USA courtrooms, too. Right now, USA courtrooms are church simulators or "fear chambers", by special design. Sick.
Larry "Wingnut" Wendlandt MaStars - Mothers Against Stuff That Ain't Right (anti-capitalism-ists) Bessemer MI USA
You clearly don't understand Capitalism. Our current government is NOT capitalist and NOT a free market. In a true Capitalist free market society, there would be plenty of room for free willing voluntary Christian communes like those that you want. In a true free market society, whoever wants to join your commune is free to do so without taxation or the IRS mob robbing you. In your commune you can establish your own rules, your own form of cooperation between your members without any form of monetary or pyramid schemes and have your own followers under the freedom of choice, freedom of association and freedom of religion. Capitalism allows for that.
Socialism by the state does not because of the heavy use of taxation and forced currency by the state.
However, if you want to force (not encourage or promote) your commune principles to the rest of the people who may not want to participate, then you become fascist as well and will be no better than the current U.S. Government. Then you become a dictator who wants your beliefs imposed on the rest of the people and people will be under the servitude of your commune and that will be no better than the servitude of a job or servitude through the current taxation.
So ironically, a true free market and capitalist market will allow plenty of room for practicing anti-capitalists like you as well. You are not FORCED to use currency or a system under a real capitalism.
Hi trd! Thanks for the comments and friendly demeanor. Yep, it'd be a "join if you like" commune if I had my choice. I'm not really a designer of communes, I am a buster of pyramid schemes. I'd say model the commune after the military supply system (moneyless, ownerless, discriminationless)... and use the military's critieria in determining what is a necessity and what is a luxury.
But, a proper "Team World" commune has no borders and doesn't honor ownership... especially ownership of land. Truth-seekers know that all Earth materials (and thus things made there-from) can't be owned, for their original owners were never consulted. Entitlements of ownership is a police-gun-backed belief, and is not legal. It is a "made up" phenomenon... part of AmWay... the same folks who bring us price tags, cost-of-living, and money.
We all know capitalism has to go... pyramids always get top-heavy from all the rat-racing to get to set-for-life land. Its collapse is inevitable. I wonder why the military supply system ALWAYS provides basic wellbeing... food, clothing, shelter, healthcare... to ITS troops, no matter the rank, tenure, funds, race, gender, religion, characteristics... and the civilian supply system doesn't. Could it be... that the military supply system, just like the USA public library system... is a socialism? Could they be... two of the best-working socialisms ever seen?
Sure, you can corral the commune into a chunk of infertile lands and try to make Amish and Quakers out of them, but don't you think its time we did that to the entire planet, and thus remove all the borders between nations... and between yards? Happy Holidays! Wingnut
True Capitalism will allow for communes as well. True Capitalism should have no country borders. True Capitalism can also occur with no fixed government currency or money or pyramids like you call them. In a True Capitalism all forms of trade is allowed whather currency or not. True Capitalism will have no taxation. True Capitalism will have charity as a way of taking care of each other. In True Capitalism we can have a sense of community (comune) to help each other out voluntarily. In a True Capitalist society you can build a self-suficient comune that does not depend on Government or does not have forced taxation.
However, True capitalism will also have property rights to land. That will be the only thing different from your view. But you can still achieve property land transfers or usage without cash by doing trade exchanges or crop sharing.
Nevertheless, in reality, today we don't really own the land that we 'purchased'. Even if we pay the mortgage in full, the Government still owns it. We merely pay rent for its usage in the form of property taxes and income taxes. We pay for the rights to use it, not really to own it.
The military provides its members with everything like a comune but the problem is that they steal from us civilians to give to their members.
And I was not trying to demean you. I was merely suggesting an inclusion of voluntary socialism (not forced socialism) or voluntary comunes allowed inside a True Capitalist borderless and FREE Society.
Hi trd. I was being straight-shooting when I said you had a friendly demeanor. Most people call me every name in the book after they read one of my "campaign" posts like the first one. You, instead, went right to work on the subject and didn't personal bash at all. Pretty cool.
I guess I (we) have never seen one of these "true capitalism" like you describe. Does it promote competing? Does it do "join or starve" and are folks forced to work FOR others instead of WITH others? Is there bossing? Is there "ordering", or else? Are hamburgers still "ordered" and the restaurant employees made to jump to serve the customer, or else? If any of that non-equality stuff is still seen in this "true capitalism", I'd have to work to stop that, too. One would think that in any situation where people are treated or waged inequally based upon any criteria whatsoever, rate-racing for toys and power will happen... and that leads to pyramiding (heirarchies and empowered folks). If the people are all wellbeing'd exactly the same as each other, why use money and ownership at all? And without money and ownership, CAN a cabal-like ruling elite form at all? When we take away the tools that allow "getting a leg up" or "capitalizing", ruling elite groups can't form. They/we have nothing to be elite-with, except maybe intelligence and tenure. There would be no selfish advantage to being in the upper layers of the pyramid. It seems to me that... as long as inequality and the tools to do inequality... exists, rat-racing will occur. So is there any advantage to this true capitalism you speak-of... over the current rat-racing seen? I don't see how, without eliminating money and ownership. As best I can tell, competition is the opposite of cooperation. Competition has been researched to show that it serves the self, whiole cooperation serves others or "the team". This is why corporations are seen to cooperate within "in here" (the team), but corporations compete (often brutally) with "out there". But even in corporations, people compete with each other over climbing to higher positions on the corporation's pyramid scheme-o-servitude, and they tend to blame and bill each other for hours and costs, cross-departments. So even though corporations do a lot of "we're all on the same team" propaganda on their bulletin boards, its actually a football game of yardage gobbling and sneaky plays... within most companies. Competing (toyboax tug-o-warring) never works except to make people fear and distrust each other... and destroy the things being tugged-over. Ownership and over-production (capitalism) needs to make 5 privately-owned crappy shovels so 5 people won't fight-over the single well-built shovel. I think its better to learn and teach cooperation... and share one really good shovel (Amish/Quaker).
By the way, as soon as you/we understand that ownership doesn't exist, nor does renting (of an unowned thing)... then "they steal from us civilians to give to their members" is impossible, right? The us/them war you just built between "they" and "us" is gone, because there is only "us". Best regards! Wingy
A True Capitalism does not currently exist, but a true no-ownership society does not exist either. There will still be pyramids in your World Comune because to start such movement you would need some kind of leadership. How do you prevent such leadership to ban ownership and not become a dictator. Such leader will then "own" everything including the people while the rest under him owns nothing. In tribal times you had tribal comunes taht although all the members were equal, they usually had a leader who their members obey.
It seems to me that no matter the system: Communist, Socialist, Democratic, Anarchy, Republic or Comune, there will always be some kind of Pyramid scheme and there will always be some kind of rat-race.
The Catholic Church, for example, is one of the biggest comunes around the World. It also crosses country borders and work withing all different political systems. The priests who serve under the Church took a vow of poverty (NON-OWNERSHIP). These priest members own NOTHING but regular cheap clothes. They also took a vow of celibacy (Who wants that?) and a vow of OBEDIENCE (so they are servants of their almighty Pope). They rely purely on donations or voluntary cooperations of the non-priest members to spread the wealth and do their own form of voluntary social welfare even among thier non-members. So they do wealth redistribution though voluntary taxation.
But even in that comune you have hierarchy and the pyramid scheme with the Pope at the top, archbishops, bishops, politics, employees, etc... And the Church, not their priest members, owns property around the World. They even own their own self-governing sovereign state: The Vatican City. So even with the largest comune in the World where thier priest members are banned from owning property in exchange of food, shelter and health care, the pyramid is omnipresent.
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