Posted on 07/20/2021 6:33:09 AM PDT by karpov
It is hard to sit by and watch your economy being strangled. Ibram X. Kendi’s book “How to Be an Antiracist” is all the rage now, but the Biden administration and its progressive hangers-on are providing a master class on “How to Be an Anticapitalist” and suck the air out of the economy.
Start by paying people to do nothing—1.8 million workers, according to a recent Morning Consult poll, have turned down jobs due to generous unemployment benefits, including an extra $300 a week from the federal government in some states. Meanwhile, Burger King is offering a $1,500 signing bonus.
Anticapitalists then shut pipelines (except Russian ones) and suspend drilling leases in parts of Alaska, helping send oil prices above $70. The government says it wants to limit carbon emissions, but then it squashes better energy options like nuclear. On June 30, months after New York state closed the Indian Point nuclear power plant, Mayor Bill de Blasio asked New Yorkers to cut back on energy usage during a heat wave. You can’t make this stuff up.
An anticapitalist would next restrict capital formation, so President Biden has proposed raising the top capital-gains rate from 23.8% to a punitive 43.4% and the top individual income-tax rate to 39.6%. Mr. Biden also wants to waive Covid vaccine patents—making pharma companies think twice before investing in new drugs—and is even pushing a series of antitrust bills that could reverse mergers, like Facebook’s 2012 purchase of Instagram, as if that would do anything good for the economy or consumers. Nothing is safe.
Add the Federal Trade Commission’s roadblocks to mergers. It worked hard to block early-cancer-detection pioneer Grail’s merger with genome-sequencing firm Illumina, now on hold as it lets the European Commission investigate. This is moronic.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
—”Operation Mockingbird “
Exactly why conservatives should read “MANUFACTURING CONSENT”
Free PDF, Prof Chomsky does not collect a cent.
https://focalizalaatencion.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/herman-chomsky-2002-manufacturingconsent.pdf
Yes, the book’s covers are kind of far apart...
Just skim the preface and select one of the four case studies. Try one that you are familiar with.
NO! You will not become a commie by reading it.
You will become a stronger conservative.
“But the last word goes to Noam Chomsky. A Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chomsky has extensively investigated the role of today’s media. His analysis is un-nerving. The democratic postulate, Chomsky says, “is that the media are independent and committed to discovering and reporting the truth…” Despite this axiom, Chomsky finds that the media supports “established power” and is “responsive to the needs of government and major power groups.” He additionally argues that the media is a mechanism for pervasive “thought control” of elite interests and that ordinary citizens need to “undertake a course of intellectual self-defence to protect themselves from manipulation and control…” The covert role of the media has now apparently shifted its focus. One time expediter of the “cold war,” it now clamours for the extension of “corporate power.”
For JFK to make the statement in the early 1960's referred to in the prior reply, Mockingbird must of started and gained steam well before that. Mid 1950's is the most-accepted timeframe I've seen around.
Thanks for the suggestion and link.
400 page pdf saved for “offline” reading.
Not worried turning into a communist by reading anything these days. We’ve been fed so many lies, it’s breathtaking. I’m against statism... that goes for communists as well as the DNC and *most* of the RNC at the federal level.
—”I’m against statism... that goes for communists as well as the DNC and *most* of the RNC at the federal level.”
Well said.
The book can be a bit dense, he is making a case, not telling a story.
I have a preference for paper, very simple to highlight while reading in bed. Very inexpensive as a used book, the shipping cost more than the book! About $6 total.
the LEFT does not care if the country is a pile of rubble as long as they are in control...
of the money.
Control the money, control the world.
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