But has everything goes to hell in a handbasket, it will all be blamed on free markets, despite what Brutally Honest calls “change some continue to believe in”.
The fundamental political strategy is that the more moochers, the more votes there will be for mooching.
Proposed reforms, both left and right, are unlikely to have any effect on the continuing massive misappropriation from the financial system. It is absurd that people are discussing obscure details of the credit swap market.
To fix the financial crisis, we have to revoke, or at least denounce and denigrate, Marie Curie’s Nobel prize.
When they gave a Nobel prize to Marie Curie for being female, that did not hurt anyone except more deserving potential Nobel prize winners. But handing out phony Nobels on the basis of sex, race, and nationality necessitated handing out phony degrees on the basis of race and sex, and handing out phony degrees on the basis of race and sex necessarily led to a crisis where these phony degrees were being ignored by employers, so employers necessarily had to be forced to give out well paid phony jobs on the basis of race and sex.
But being given well paid phony jobs on the basis of race and sex failed to result in recipients living a middle class lifestyle, so lenders had to be forced to give out a middle class lifestyle on the basis of race and sex.
Which has led to our present financial crisis. It all began with Marie Curie. Each lie required a new and bigger lie. We need to start by acknowledging that genders and races tend to have different abilities – that if you are looking for people that are the best at something, whether the fastest runners or the greatest mathematicians, they will almost all be of one particular race and gender, and some races will be completely absent, and if you are merely looking for people that are acceptably good at something, for example accountants, basketball players, or donut makers, they will be mostly of one particular race and gender.
We cannot end the crisis unless we admit who is defaulting on their mortgages, we cannot admit who is defaulting without admitting that they cannot perform their jobs either, we cannot admit they cannot perform their jobs without admitting that their degrees are phony, and we cannot admit their degrees are phony without admitting that many Nobel prizes, starting with Marie Curie, were phony.
Whenever one sees supposedly insurrectionary leftism, one usually detects a government official sponsoring it, as for example in the recent suppression of US flags on Cinco de Mayo.
Observe the recent firebombings in the Greek riots, where the “rioters” murdered three people.
Here are a couple of videos of the “rioters” firebombing police.
The “rioters” charge the police, and bang on their shields with light sticks, making no attempt to jab through the gaps at the actual bodies of the cops, nor using sticks heavy enough to even shake the shields. No axe handles or baseball bats.
Hey guys, if you want to bang on armored cops, I have a sledgehammer that would make a pretty good mace. It goes through concrete mighty fast.
They then fall back, and hurl firebombs – but they do not hurl firebombs at the police, but at the ground in front of the police. One cop gets one of his boots splashed with burning petrol. He rolls around, and a couple of other cops put him out. In the second video, same scene shot from a different angle, we observe that the cops make not the slightest attempt to arrest the firebombers for attempted murder, and the rest of the mob for assault and as accessories to attempted murder. It is all theater. When they see that one of the firebombs has actually hit, the theater pauses.
When right wing militia listens politely to an FBI provocateur at a meeting proposing that they bomb someone, they all go to jail for plotting crimes. The “rioters” firebomb a cop, and everyone acts like it is an unfortunate accident – which of course is exactly what it is.
The “rioters” in the Greek riots are government employees put on the streets by government sponsored unions that are themselves as much part of the government as the police were – and predictably, in a supposed riot supposedly between police and government employees, the only people actually murdered were neither police nor government employees.
At live oaks high school, government policy is that Red, White and Blue is verboten on Cinco de Mayo.
Compare and contrast with Saint Patrick’s day:
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By enforcing what the thugs want, the government endorses and supports that thuggery. The government will empower any group that supports bigger government, for example Mexicans as a voter block, and disempower any group that objects to bigger government. So, predictably, Mexican thugs were empowered by the school administration, the administration being part of the government.
Lots and lots of people are predicting China will crash, though The Money Illusion doubts it. Supposedly, debt fueled construction, decreed by central planners, Soviet style, is sixty percent of GDP – except that there is absolutely no evidence that this remarkable statistic is true. It is not an official government statistic. Where does it come from? If it was sixty percent of GDP, most of the population would be working in construction, which obviously they are not.
People want to believe that China will crash.
Who wants to believe that China will crash?
The people who believe that China will crash also believe that China is a command economy, which obviously it no longer is, except in the sense that Europe is a command economy, and America has recently become a command economy. They also believe in Soviet growth statistics – that the Soviet Union grew just great, at least at first.
Further, those who believe that China will crash, also believe it has already crashed: that China’s prosperity is based on forcing
peasants into grinding poverty in sweatshops on two dollars a day, that China has no middle class (hence the supposed absurdity of the present building boom in china creating vast amounts of middle class housing, offices, and shops), and that Cuba’s quite astonishing health statistics are true.
Their beliefs about China are incoherent, internally inconsistent, and mutually contradictory, showing that they don’t really believe what they believe. I suspect that what they really believe is that basing a society on self interest is morally wrong, and therefore must surely be punished by the heavens. Obviously the right way to run a society is to put people like themselves, who know what is good for society, in charge and then make everyone else do what is good for society, and any society that allows greed to run riot is obviously doomed. Therefore, they subconsciously think, China is obviously doomed, due all the rampant greed that is not properly restrained by good government.
I just don’t hear any one who confidently and sincerely believes that self interest is the proper basis for a society, predicting doom for China.
No doubt China will have a recession, sooner or later. No doubt some speculators will lose their shirts, sooner or later, for in a free economy, speculators take risks, unlike America where the elite gets bailed out by taxpayers when they bungle, but China is growing mightily, and will continue to grow mightily, with the usual minor interruptions from time to time.
This evil person has been detected expressing a forbidden thought in private email. She suggested that wrong think could possibly be true, and the evidence needed to be considered. She has of course given repeated grovelling public apologies for her horrifying crime. Her career is of course dead, and all right thinking people condemn her, and should continue to condemn her. Failure to adequately condemn her may cause you to be similarly suspected of wrongthink. No person capable of wrongthink can be permitted to hold any important position in our society, since to consider the possibility that wrongthink might be true shows that your mind is dogmatically closed, that you are stupid, ignorant, and hateful, and therefore fit only to be hewer of wood and carrier of water.
Probably not as much as Donna Ron was.
This rapist, terrorist, and bomber, is a frequent visitor to the Whitehouse, one of the most powerful men in academia, and the major ghostwriter of Obama’s book “Dream’s of my father”.
The US representatives at Basel probably thought themselves political moderates and mainstreamers – being in about the center and mainstream of Harvard University professors and the New York Times – which of course puts them far to the left of the American public, and a great deal further to the left of the people who created the banking system.
At Basel, the Americans were the “right wing”. The “center” and “mainstream” at Basel was a good deal further left. Thus the mainstream at Basel were people that the ordinary American would think far left crazies, and that those who reorganized the banking system after the great depression would have thought a bunch of bolshie nut cases who needed to be lined up against a wall and shot.
America was the place where the future was created. All the world depended on America for progress. It ceased to be that place under Clinton, and things got worse under Bush.
We cannot rebuild the two towers, we no longer have a human presence in space, and the next big thing on the internet, networked money that bypasses our legacy banking system, is coming from China, and, God-help-us, Africa.
Remember that in the 1950s, we were about to settle Antarctica, (but government swiftly stepped in and saved Antarctica from the evil humans) and that back then we expected that in the year 2000 we would have jet packs, widespread private plane ownership, and lunar colonies.
Here is what Obama plans for you to be driving in a decade or two:
Planned range, 25 miles, planned top speed, 25 miles per hour. Quite a step down from jet packs. (more…)
A leftist women, who merely wants humans to return to the stone age, was publicizing her book criticizing the far left, who want to get rid of humans altogether (They want the stone age with no killing of non human animals, an arrangement where one’s life expectancy would be measured in weeks.) A bunch of far leftists attacked her. They did not throw pies at her, they punched her with jalapeno pepper pie. The people in the audience, even those nominally male, sat back and watched while a bunch of young males attacked an old woman.