Posted on 05/26/2013 5:16:55 PM PDT by neverdem
We have a ruling class that despises the free market and does all in its power to restrict its scope.
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In these pages a few years ago, Angelo Codevilla gave us a lengthy analysis of Americas Ruling Class (TAS, July/August 2010). The major parties aspired to merge into a governing class, he said: Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the...
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The ruling class also supports and is supported by a client underclass which receives lavish government benefits and votes reliably Democratic. It is opposed by what Codevilla called the country class, and might now be called the Tea Party.
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Think of a ladder whose the lower rung is too far off the ground. Making that big step up may well entail losing your state benefits. Therefore it is rationally discouraged. Why get up and go to work when you can earn more by staying home? As argued in these pages last month, the black overclass, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the NAACP work against the interest of poor blacks by supporting a higher minimum wage. In so doing they resemble true-blue ruling-class members.
The old class system as seen at Downton Abbey had its unjust aspects (privilege shouldnt accompany birth, for example), and the market system that replaced it was far more productive. But the old system had its merits. It lasted so long that it was obviously stable. Our own new class system, with its anti-religious overtones and with the institution of marriage teetering, is likely to prove unstable. And once the wobbly, less-than-free market that sustains it begins to topple, there will be hell to pay.
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Had that cute redhead Lavinia was with a lower class me and not the limp (in many ways) Crawley boy....she might have survived the Spanish flu
Class warfare and Downton Abbey in one swoop
Yeah! When bipartisan, socialist owners of American-based manufacturing on foreign soil send their environmentalist, lesbian daughters to outlaw manufacturing on American soil, that’s called “competition.”
Couldn't agree more.
No, that's not competition. It's called 23% unemployment. It's called an out of business strategy. It's not good for producers, they get run out of business by products made by communist slave labor rates. It's only good for consumers in the short run. In the long run, they cease to be consumers and join the other 23% in the unemployment line.
It's not good for this country. As Thomas Jefferson eventually learned, you need a strong manufacturing base to defend a free state. He had advocated letting American remain primarily agricultural and was happing to obtain manufacturing goods through trade. That was until the "unthinkable happened" (Jefferson's words) and Europe cut us off from manufactured goods.
Like I said, no one on this forum has ever experienced free trade.
How's that working out for the 23% of Americans that are now unemployed?
We can use cheap foreign labor as long as we are at full employment. But when we let foreigners decimate our industries, when we open our markets to competition from countries with closed markets, When we allow unrestricted trade with countries that have large excess labor even as our own unemployment skyrockets, we are destroying our own country. And yes China is closed because their taxes equate to 90% of their GNP. Government collects the profits so there is very little return trade.
Try Somalia. I hear there is no government regulations there.
What you just described is the current EU....and there are people on here who think the US should have an economy like the EU....free trade, high income tax, and no jobs. And they call that a free market solution
Hey! Comic-books are a good illustration of economics... just look at the price for Action Comics #1, or Amazing Spider-Man #121.
(Respectively the first appearance of Superman and the comic where Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker's first main girl-friend, dies.)
A perfect illustration of Supply and Demand.
If you think about the situation long enough, you can see the weak spots where the dam might break first.
History challenged, pro-moslem socialists have stolen our government without outcry from the Republicans. Worldwide - the baby-boomer nomenclatura support the war plan called Islam and ignore the Christian revolution exploding in Asia, Africa and the old Soviet Union. The umbrella of civilization is not held by Islam, social justice christians or the new world order no matter what we are told.
With so many nukes ready to fly, it is statistically likely that there is a need to prepare for long term radiological poisoning of the air, land and water.
I have potassium iodide tablets.
They believe in a ‘natural’ order of things and are willing to use the power of the state to undo any naturally occurring successes.
LOL are you too young to know what a broken record is?
At what point do you realize you’re wrong?
It’s the lefty bums that cause all the trouble and keep the Lear Jet Leftists in power. They’re losers made winners by the power of the state.
No, it is not.
We must tell you over and over that China is.
The emerging China is not the China of Mao you fixate on. You prefer to support an enemy that is the liberalism of a state industrialized economy. The wet dream of a return to making our own paint brushes and screwdrivers is not ever going to be reality. The prounion mindset is daily diminishing and further degrades your dream.
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