The roots of economic chaos
What Will Rogers said was once funny: "Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for!"
It isn't funny today. We get not only the government paid for by massive takings by force from all of us but even more government paid for by putting our children for generations in debt, massive borrowing and running the money printing presses like mad.
Worse this is supported by officially sanctioned economic doctrine. Keynes and latter day disciples like Krugman claim that spending and "demand" are the engines of wealth and that the only investment in production ta actually helps is from government. You couldn't make this crap up.
It isn't funny today. We get not only the government paid for by massive takings by force from all of us but even more government paid for by putting our children for generations in debt, massive borrowing and running the money printing presses like mad.
Worse this is supported by officially sanctioned economic doctrine. Keynes and latter day disciples like Krugman claim that spending and "demand" are the engines of wealth and that the only investment in production ta actually helps is from government. You couldn't make this crap up.
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We really need two different words for what they teach Keynesianism means in school and what it means here. I haven't read the primary soruces. I just know the two are nothing alike. If it means gov't spending results in growth, I disagree. If it means paying off debt or going into debt affects aggregate demand, which affects the economic cycle, I agree with it strongly. We need two words.
which I used to teach others, later, in the certified manager
program out of ICPM in Virginia. -- j
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I did very poorly in school because I would rather fail than suck up to most of the asshole teachers.
The paternalistic assumption that the gov 'knows what is right for us' is upstream from its assertion that 'therefore it can take the money from whomever it wants to make that happen'.
Jan
...so to speak.
Jan
who was teaching grad school on the side. . I begged to
differ with him about Keynes. . he was not amused. -- j
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sh!t for education, and punishment for having a thought. -- j
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Kinda like asking who are the number one shyster businesses and not mentioning Cingular ATT. Some of us , me included took them to task for not recognizing the disenfranchised 35% to 50% nor the existence of undervoting and None of the Above. Some of that is starting to work. Interesting work covers a wide category of poltiical and consumer oriented questions. They also were leaving out purchasing by internet and that's been added.
I also kicked them about using wrong definitions etc. just like I do here. Why? Why not? The one's we've been spoon fed for years do not work....my personal system does.
Not voting on that particular line is 'undervote' = No Confidence vote in parliamentary systems and for us translates to "None of the Above."
Currently runs 35 or so percent in Presidential cycles and right at 50 percent in non Prez elections.
Unless they start counting all those who didn't vote and those who didn't register as winner take all. A step I wouldn't put past the left for half second.
That 35 to 50 percent is a source of real power but there is no one or no one entity to lead that sort of cooperation. Still the rule remains
First - cease enabling.
Second - regain control
Third - Make changes of common ground agreed areas
Fourth - then deal with the rest of it....
The other option is learn to say We Serve The Party!
So much for the flower children....where have all their lineage gone? Gone to jackboots everyone. Looks like they'll never learn.
The more wealth you have, the more likely you are to think from an investment mentality. The less wealth you have, the more likely you are to think with a consumption mentality.
It is the people who think investment that produce things, vs. consuming them.
The demands are different. Teaching people to invest, even when they are poor, is the road to wealth, the American Dream. Not consumption.
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