Showing posts with label united states. Show all posts
Showing posts with label united states. Show all posts
Monday, December 21, 2009
America No Longer a Free Country
The tipping point for freedom versus servitude is necessarily vague. Certainly, if we depend on the state for our livelihood, we cannot choose an alternative and so are not free. If James Turk's claim that 58% of Americans depend on some level of government for their livelihood is true, that means that the majority are no longer free. It is no longer a matter of choice as to how we make our living. Like slaves, the majority are compelled to live and die at the behest of masters.
Monday, April 27, 2009
The United States Is Irremediably Divided
Barack Obama's supporters would like to claim that Mr. Obama is uniting the nation. However, when their president's abilities are questioned, they become belligerent and refuse to countenance debate. The Obama cult does not permit questions. This is consistent with the monotone in the banker media, CNN, CSPAN, MSNBC, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Newsweek, NBC, and NPR. If the nation were united, a public debate would transpire. Where the press is not free, as it is not in the United States, virtually all media sources say the same thing. The election results were 52.7% versus 45.9%. Yet, virtually no questions are asked.
The absence of an American free press arises because of financial interests' control of virtually all media. The financial interests are the crux of the military industrial complex that in turn relies on Federal Reserve Bank funding and federal government regulation to retain control of credit and of economic development. The major corporations in the United States, especially the financial community, do not create value and are unsustainable except through violence (i.e., state support) and extraction of rents from the public. This violence is only viable through extensive propaganda via universities and the media. Thus, alternative views on key issues--the structure of the banking system for example, which was of paramount importance to Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers-- are barred.
In fact, Jefferson and the Founding Fathers would have found the current adoption of Federalist and Whig ideology to be a disgrace and a major failure. It is laughable that in the media and in universities elitist views that were scorned in Jefferson's day are called "progressive" and "new" and are the mainstay of the ideological propaganda. As well, journalists, television announcers and the like are so poorly educated that they do not understand what Americans have traditionally thought. The Progressive fixation on centralization and authoritarian solutions, alien to the American ethos, is the only currency of public discussion, ranging from right to left.
Nevertheless, enough of the Lockean impulse remains in rural America that the nation is irremediably divided between traditional Americans and Progressives. I do not think the nation's current centralized approach will permit a friendly reconciliation of the sharp differences of which Mr. Obama's election reminds us. Certainly the solutions he and the Democrats have on offer are ridiculous. Mr. Obama's election has divided, not united, the nation.
The absence of an American free press arises because of financial interests' control of virtually all media. The financial interests are the crux of the military industrial complex that in turn relies on Federal Reserve Bank funding and federal government regulation to retain control of credit and of economic development. The major corporations in the United States, especially the financial community, do not create value and are unsustainable except through violence (i.e., state support) and extraction of rents from the public. This violence is only viable through extensive propaganda via universities and the media. Thus, alternative views on key issues--the structure of the banking system for example, which was of paramount importance to Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers-- are barred.
In fact, Jefferson and the Founding Fathers would have found the current adoption of Federalist and Whig ideology to be a disgrace and a major failure. It is laughable that in the media and in universities elitist views that were scorned in Jefferson's day are called "progressive" and "new" and are the mainstay of the ideological propaganda. As well, journalists, television announcers and the like are so poorly educated that they do not understand what Americans have traditionally thought. The Progressive fixation on centralization and authoritarian solutions, alien to the American ethos, is the only currency of public discussion, ranging from right to left.
Nevertheless, enough of the Lockean impulse remains in rural America that the nation is irremediably divided between traditional Americans and Progressives. I do not think the nation's current centralized approach will permit a friendly reconciliation of the sharp differences of which Mr. Obama's election reminds us. Certainly the solutions he and the Democrats have on offer are ridiculous. Mr. Obama's election has divided, not united, the nation.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Foreign Students No Longer View US As a Land of Opportunity
I had a long discussion with a someone who is a Chinese national on Saturday. The individual is a manager in a manufacturing firm in the New York City area and a weekend MBA student at NYU's Stern School of Business. This student mentioned to me that her Chinese expatriate friends regret coming to this country and are now thinking of returning to China because of America's declining economy, its incompetent policies and its unwillingness to confront its own decline.
Moreover, she was disturbed at the recent inflation of the American monetary base and the foolhardy bailout plan that the American mass media cheers. She said that hyper inflation has begun to afflict China, and the Chinese are not happy either with the American monetary policy or the fact that they are holding over one trillion dollars in treasury bonds.
Obviously, if the Chinese decide to sell some or all of the US bonds, there will be a dramatic decline in the dollar and hyper inflation as dollars return here. Over the long run factories would return here, but the adjustment would take decades.
In my view, the United States is no longer a free country. It is a slave state. Americans in many states, such as New York, pay more than one half of their earnings to the government. Only foolish slaves would be happy to live in this condition. Americans have become a nation who do not deserve the world's respect.
On May 13, 2008 I wrote a blog entitled "Chinese Tragedy Ahead". I wrote that:
'This country and China have squandered resources in stupid ways. The bubble will burst as all credit bubbles do. America may have enough resources to reassess its errors. The Chinese likely do not, and many there will be hurt."
Moreover, she was disturbed at the recent inflation of the American monetary base and the foolhardy bailout plan that the American mass media cheers. She said that hyper inflation has begun to afflict China, and the Chinese are not happy either with the American monetary policy or the fact that they are holding over one trillion dollars in treasury bonds.
Obviously, if the Chinese decide to sell some or all of the US bonds, there will be a dramatic decline in the dollar and hyper inflation as dollars return here. Over the long run factories would return here, but the adjustment would take decades.
In my view, the United States is no longer a free country. It is a slave state. Americans in many states, such as New York, pay more than one half of their earnings to the government. Only foolish slaves would be happy to live in this condition. Americans have become a nation who do not deserve the world's respect.
On May 13, 2008 I wrote a blog entitled "Chinese Tragedy Ahead". I wrote that:
'This country and China have squandered resources in stupid ways. The bubble will burst as all credit bubbles do. America may have enough resources to reassess its errors. The Chinese likely do not, and many there will be hurt."
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