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Cheers back atcha...good Monday (for me) rant.
Nice!
It has, over time, and with many fits and starts, been transformed into a culture where political connections count more than work, where manipulation of numbers or of acting merely as a gatekeeper on others' transactions, rather than producing a product, is the path to *real* wealth, where the very government itself is interfering directly in the marketplace to dictate winners and losers, and acting to promise wealth without work to the connected few, and sustenance without work to millions more
I must demur, sir. There was never any "shared value." People sucked just as much in the past as they do now. Government is indeed the problem.
Nice write! Now what do you think about the money that’s there but supposedly sitting on the side lines because it’s known that more Obamanomics is coming down the pike and is now institutionalized, but it hasn’t all hit yet?
Personally, I think we’re done from man’s manipulations and must figure how to now adapt in a country whose countrymen bloody well liked the money from trees era and forgot their God. Sorry to be negative, but solutions will likely come only in proportion to the time spent on our knees and in reparation.
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There is only one kind of regulation keeping me and many others from manufacturing something useful for others: local zoning “laws” (once ordinances) against manufacturing, even on large lots in the middle of nowhere.
Ask for a variance, and you’ll get closer to who’s behind that regulation. “Closer” is most often older women, who oppose your effort to start a business and threaten to sue in advance for some violation or other against the environment.
Find out who once employed or is directly related to the threatening, older women, and you’ll find out who is behind the regulations against new, small manufacturing operations: he, who will not allow competition against his global manufacturing, real estate or construction empire.
And the socialism and big spending are bipartisan efforts in every locale. Anti-family and anti-small-business laws are for preventing domestic competition from the domestics.
So then try to get into your local political party meetings, and try to change that political party. But before you do that, make sure that you, your family and all of your possessions are very well secured.
I agree. Good post.
Thanks for the ping; post; post. Very good.
From...”The Law”...
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.
Now, since under this definition socialism is a body of doctrine, what attack can be made against it other than a war of doctrine? If you find this socialistic doctrine to be false, absurd, and evil, then refute it. And the more false, the more absurd, and the more evil it is, the easier it will be to refute. Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.
Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
DEFUND/DISMANTLE (when necessary) socialist collectives, foreign and domestic (especially those constructed by “our” government).
...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...
ALTER it.