What a complete farce, the only people who are truly counterfeiting the currency are the government officials and their lapdog central bankers, and you can't prevent them from adding zeros to the electronic bank accounts by adding anti-counterfeit measures to the bills.
The only way to make currency impossible to counterfeit is to not have fiat currency in the first place, which means the people would choose something real to be money, I am talking about gold, and you can't really counterfeit that.
Do not talk to the cops, don't pay attention what this story tells you, do not talk to the cops, they are NOT on your side, they are on their own side and their side has nothing to do with justice for anybody.
Your jobs should not exist. 99% of what USA gov't does must stop.
You should be let go and forced to find a productive job in the actual productive private sector, except that of-course your job, and many others like you, that are the government, have pretty much gutted the private sector in USA and the businesses left.
Nobody should be forced to pay "their" INCOME taxes, those are completely illegal and are collected illegally, gov't can't regulate business, that's completely illegal and gov't is not allowed to run ponzi scams, like SS, Medicare, FDIC, but they are. Gov't cannot be allowed to print fake money, but it is.
Basically, gov't has usurped the power that cannot belong to it but belongs in the hands of private individuals. You are part of the problem, eventually this will be taken care of by the inevitable US Treasury bond and dollar collapse and you will be out of job and SS and Medicare will be 'paid' in fake money that will buy nothing. This WILL happen, not because the politicians will see the light and stop raising 'debt ceiling', stop printing money, etc., but because the world will cut USA off the money spigot. The world will no longer buy US dollars and will no longer take US debt in exchange for goods that the world currently sends to USA.
USA has a huge number of hard working individuals that are getting robbed on daily basis and you are part of the Mafia that robs them. The sooner this injustice ends, the better off the American people will be, but the system that exists today, that you are part of, will make the transition extremely painful of-course.
When hiring people I do not care what their level of formal education is, however I do specify the type of knowledge I expect the potential employee to possess.
I don't care if you come from Harvard or Waterloo or you never completed your high-school, I only care that you in fact do know something about computer algorithms, file systems, networking, complexity, etc. I take time to teach you stuff and it is important to me that you can catch up quickly and use the knowledge for work, that's all that matters.
Capitalism requires that increased productivity should cause increased wages.
- sure, earnings of the investors, who spent his savings to increase productivity by investing in some new labour saving device, grow.
So if you are an investor and you bought a machine or figured out a better process to produce something, your earnings will grow. This has little to do with the worker that operates the machine, though if he is required to know more to do the job, then his wages will see a slight decrease. Of-course the real value comes in ability to produce more with less, which allows the investor to lower prices and make more sales, thus benefiting the society in general and himself/herself in particular.
USA gov't made hiring people so expensive (not the salaries, those are almost irrelevant at this point, it's about regulations, liability insurance, all the hidden and not so hidden costs and taxes) that hiring an American to do any kind of work is the worst thing a company in USA can do to itself.
I don't expect many people to be able to grasp this point, never mind agree to that fact, but this is what is happening.
No, I don't care if the goal is at all good or noble, it is beside the point. The point is that this goal cannot be given as a mandate to any type of government, and it was not in fact given as a mandate to the USA gov't (in fact it is unconstitutional for USA gov't to do this).
The point is that in the name of such a goal the government gets ability to destroy individual freedoms, which it does. Government cannot be given such powers, these powers should not be concentrated in the hands of any type of legal authority. This is not a power that anybody should have at all.
If the market sees a need to have a rating agency that rates products and services against any type of a standard then there will be a number of agencies competing for the market share of that industry and the customers can then decide to trust a particular rating brand or not based on their past performance and in fact there cannot be any regulations of any such rating agency by any level of gov't either, or it will become a monopoly that will again, serve to the detriment of the society rather than to its advantage.
Of-course you are correct in that last statement. There should be no FDA in the first place, government is not authorised to run that agency (and do 99% of all other things that government does either).
You don't want to pay down any mortgage, in this system, where money is created out of thin air by the government, as long as the government guarantees your mortgage, you want to get into as much debt as possible.
You will NEVER have to pay it back, so why would you want to do that? You never have to pay back your debt, that's the current system, that's the way it operates. In fact in USA equity free mortgages are back (no downpayment, no skin in the game).
So if you refinance your house and pull out every cent of its current "value", then you are holding that cash, you can use it to buy valuable assets that may appreciate or at least hold purchasing power, while the currency depreciates and your house value is eventually going to crash and burn, when the entire system collapses.
So it makes 0 sense to pay down any part of any mortgage, most likely your house is worth almost nothing at the moment of the system reset, because most likely there won't be any jobs for anybody around where you live (for different values of 'you') and so just like people left houses in Detroit and moved on, many others will also leave houses and move on, because the houses are worth zip in an area, where nobody can afford to live, because there are no jobs.
The inflation bubble is bigger than this 'shadow banking' system. Shadow banking is a clear response to the gov't meddling with the businesses, money, income taxes. What we should have is less government, no government involvement in banking, in business, in income taxes, in any form of wealth redistribution and then all of a sudden it's just a free market system and there is no 'shadow banking' anymore.
Government only creates corruption by definition when it goes above its Constitutional authority of doing one thing: protecting individual freedoms, lives, property.
English dictionary for USA should be amended with the new definition of the word 'seriously' to mean: irrationally, hysterically and with maximum use of government violence.
Everybody knows that hydrogen atoms are compromised by NSA, you can't just rely on this high level stuff, you have to reduce the abstraction to the basic minimum and go as close to the metal as possible, so unless you are rolling out your own atoms with custom made muons, electrons, positrons, neutrons and a dash of neutrinos, it's just an expensive security theatre, as any hydrogen-atom-script kiddy would surely acknowledge.
Ferrari is obviously awesome, the company understands what many people want in a car. Of-course few people can afford a car from a company that understands this, but then there is the government, which is actively against everything people actually want and the government has the power to destroy what the free market does to satisfy customer demand.
My point is: the roads. Ferrari needs to invest into building private roads around the world and it should lobby and ensure that gov't cops are NOT allowed on those roads and that people on those roads CAN in fact exercise their own will and do in their lives as they see fit rather than some collectivist mob version of totalitarian oppression control...
Right, you don't need 'Rock Star' developers. You also don't need 'Rock Star' sales people. You don't need 'Rock Star' management. You don't need 'Rock Star' marketing. You don't need 'Rock Star' janitors.
You can live without any of that and actually be a profitable venture, but how are you going to improve, what is going to be a good motivator to try and achieve more, how will the company distinguish itself among all the rest?
An interesting study would be to compare long term survivability of companies with and without 'Rock Star' in the ranks and management.
Looks like your current Constitution is a fantasy version, it only exists in a fantasy, nobody cares about it at all and that's where the problems start.
As to my version: I wouldn't have ratified the document the way it was created in the first place.
There shouldn't be ANY Constitutional legalisation of any type of a monopoly or special privilege handed out by any level of government to anybody under any circumstances, copyrights and patents are not special, individuals cannot be punished by governments for breaking copyrights or patents, it should be left out of government completely and up to the free market solutions for any of it if there has to be a 'solution' at all.
All that these government powers have done is create a privileged class of people who enjoy protections not granted to others and also it took freedoms away from the rest. This is yet another violation of principles of equality before law and leads to destruction of any justice.
- yeah, the 'free market' of government infused money that is.
In a free market houses don't go up in price just for the hell of it, actually they come DOWN in price. It is in a government controlled environment, that housing becomes more and more expensive only due to the destruction of the real economy and inflation that government creates, namely - money printing.
Why do you think the Canadian dollar is still almost 1:1 with the USD after all of these years of USA printing its currency like they are running out of trees? It's because Canadian government is doing whatever it takes to grow its own money supply by buying up the US dollars off of any of the exporters and printing the CAD to buy it.
Yeah, "if it isn't me", that's right, you are ready to jump in there, head first, and tell us who will live and die. Of-course those, who make such decisions, their close ones and friends are pretty much always above that particular type of a lottery.
I think this may fit the definition of irony, that people, who just may eventually be hunted by drones, are trying to get licenses to hunt the drones, while the drones that hunt them, do not need any license, because the people have already given the government enough power to ensure both: that they eventually can be hunted by drones (and no license required) and that they can't actually get a license to protect themselves.
On the second thought, this is not irony, it's just oppression.
Prices are not everything, it's the volume that makes real profits. Higher prices only moderate access and are an excellent instrument to distribute scarce resources, but they do not result in more revenues.
Revenues come from volume, and higher prices with lower volume, even if the margins are higher, will still provide much lower revenue and thus much lower profit.
Industries in a competitive market want to lower prices and to increase volume, not the other way around.
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What a complete farce, the only people who are truly counterfeiting the currency are the government officials and their lapdog central bankers, and you can't prevent them from adding zeros to the electronic bank accounts by adding anti-counterfeit measures to the bills.
The only way to make currency impossible to counterfeit is to not have fiat currency in the first place, which means the people would choose something real to be money, I am talking about gold, and you can't really counterfeit that.
Do not talk to the cops, don't pay attention what this story tells you, do not talk to the cops, they are NOT on your side, they are on their own side and their side has nothing to do with justice for anybody.
Your jobs should not exist. 99% of what USA gov't does must stop.
You should be let go and forced to find a productive job in the actual productive private sector, except that of-course your job, and many others like you, that are the government, have pretty much gutted the private sector in USA and the businesses left.
Nobody should be forced to pay "their" INCOME taxes, those are completely illegal and are collected illegally, gov't can't regulate business, that's completely illegal and gov't is not allowed to run ponzi scams, like SS, Medicare, FDIC, but they are. Gov't cannot be allowed to print fake money, but it is.
Basically, gov't has usurped the power that cannot belong to it but belongs in the hands of private individuals. You are part of the problem, eventually this will be taken care of by the inevitable US Treasury bond and dollar collapse and you will be out of job and SS and Medicare will be 'paid' in fake money that will buy nothing. This WILL happen, not because the politicians will see the light and stop raising 'debt ceiling', stop printing money, etc., but because the world will cut USA off the money spigot. The world will no longer buy US dollars and will no longer take US debt in exchange for goods that the world currently sends to USA.
USA has a huge number of hard working individuals that are getting robbed on daily basis and you are part of the Mafia that robs them. The sooner this injustice ends, the better off the American people will be, but the system that exists today, that you are part of, will make the transition extremely painful of-course.
When hiring people I do not care what their level of formal education is, however I do specify the type of knowledge I expect the potential employee to possess.
I don't care if you come from Harvard or Waterloo or you never completed your high-school, I only care that you in fact do know something about computer algorithms, file systems, networking, complexity, etc. I take time to teach you stuff and it is important to me that you can catch up quickly and use the knowledge for work, that's all that matters.
Capitalism requires that increased productivity should cause increased wages.
- sure, earnings of the investors, who spent his savings to increase productivity by investing in some new labour saving device, grow.
So if you are an investor and you bought a machine or figured out a better process to produce something, your earnings will grow. This has little to do with the worker that operates the machine, though if he is required to know more to do the job, then his wages will see a slight decrease. Of-course the real value comes in ability to produce more with less, which allows the investor to lower prices and make more sales, thus benefiting the society in general and himself/herself in particular.
My deduction skills paint me a picture of a 20 something y.o. lesbian, who may be dating a jew or a gipsy, is this correct?
USA gov't made hiring people so expensive (not the salaries, those are almost irrelevant at this point, it's about regulations, liability insurance, all the hidden and not so hidden costs and taxes) that hiring an American to do any kind of work is the worst thing a company in USA can do to itself.
I don't expect many people to be able to grasp this point, never mind agree to that fact, but this is what is happening.
No, I don't care if the goal is at all good or noble, it is beside the point. The point is that this goal cannot be given as a mandate to any type of government, and it was not in fact given as a mandate to the USA gov't (in fact it is unconstitutional for USA gov't to do this).
The point is that in the name of such a goal the government gets ability to destroy individual freedoms, which it does. Government cannot be given such powers, these powers should not be concentrated in the hands of any type of legal authority. This is not a power that anybody should have at all.
If the market sees a need to have a rating agency that rates products and services against any type of a standard then there will be a number of agencies competing for the market share of that industry and the customers can then decide to trust a particular rating brand or not based on their past performance and in fact there cannot be any regulations of any such rating agency by any level of gov't either, or it will become a monopoly that will again, serve to the detriment of the society rather than to its advantage.
Of-course you are correct in that last statement. There should be no FDA in the first place, government is not authorised to run that agency (and do 99% of all other things that government does either).
Monday.
You don't want to pay down any mortgage, in this system, where money is created out of thin air by the government, as long as the government guarantees your mortgage, you want to get into as much debt as possible.
You will NEVER have to pay it back, so why would you want to do that? You never have to pay back your debt, that's the current system, that's the way it operates. In fact in USA equity free mortgages are back (no downpayment, no skin in the game).
So if you refinance your house and pull out every cent of its current "value", then you are holding that cash, you can use it to buy valuable assets that may appreciate or at least hold purchasing power, while the currency depreciates and your house value is eventually going to crash and burn, when the entire system collapses.
So it makes 0 sense to pay down any part of any mortgage, most likely your house is worth almost nothing at the moment of the system reset, because most likely there won't be any jobs for anybody around where you live (for different values of 'you') and so just like people left houses in Detroit and moved on, many others will also leave houses and move on, because the houses are worth zip in an area, where nobody can afford to live, because there are no jobs.
The inflation bubble is bigger than this 'shadow banking' system. Shadow banking is a clear response to the gov't meddling with the businesses, money, income taxes. What we should have is less government, no government involvement in banking, in business, in income taxes, in any form of wealth redistribution and then all of a sudden it's just a free market system and there is no 'shadow banking' anymore.
Government only creates corruption by definition when it goes above its Constitutional authority of doing one thing: protecting individual freedoms, lives, property.
Your post is too long, here is all you needed to do to describe the problem: link to this
English dictionary for USA should be amended with the new definition of the word 'seriously' to mean: irrationally, hysterically and with maximum use of government violence.
Everybody knows that hydrogen atoms are compromised by NSA, you can't just rely on this high level stuff, you have to reduce the abstraction to the basic minimum and go as close to the metal as possible, so unless you are rolling out your own atoms with custom made muons, electrons, positrons, neutrons and a dash of neutrinos, it's just an expensive security theatre, as any hydrogen-atom-script kiddy would surely acknowledge.
There is this thing, some guy way back, named Nu Tan described it, one moment, I'll try and remember what it was called.... oh yeah: In Earth Sha.
Ferrari is obviously awesome, the company understands what many people want in a car. Of-course few people can afford a car from a company that understands this, but then there is the government, which is actively against everything people actually want and the government has the power to destroy what the free market does to satisfy customer demand.
My point is: the roads. Ferrari needs to invest into building private roads around the world and it should lobby and ensure that gov't cops are NOT allowed on those roads and that people on those roads CAN in fact exercise their own will and do in their lives as they see fit rather than some collectivist mob version of totalitarian oppression control...
Right, you don't need 'Rock Star' developers.
You also don't need 'Rock Star' sales people.
You don't need 'Rock Star' management.
You don't need 'Rock Star' marketing.
You don't need 'Rock Star' janitors.
You can live without any of that and actually be a profitable venture, but how are you going to improve, what is going to be a good motivator to try and achieve more, how will the company distinguish itself among all the rest?
An interesting study would be to compare long term survivability of companies with and without 'Rock Star' in the ranks and management.
Looks like your current Constitution is a fantasy version, it only exists in a fantasy, nobody cares about it at all and that's where the problems start.
As to my version: I wouldn't have ratified the document the way it was created in the first place.
There shouldn't be ANY Constitutional legalisation of any type of a monopoly or special privilege handed out by any level of government to anybody under any circumstances, copyrights and patents are not special, individuals cannot be punished by governments for breaking copyrights or patents, it should be left out of government completely and up to the free market solutions for any of it if there has to be a 'solution' at all.
All that these government powers have done is create a privileged class of people who enjoy protections not granted to others and also it took freedoms away from the rest. This is yet another violation of principles of equality before law and leads to destruction of any justice.
Finally something that is done 'in error' is actually something GOOD for a change.
Libertarian, free market guy in any government? I just hope he is in fact a real libertarian.
not the grossly inflated free market costs.
- yeah, the 'free market' of government infused money that is.
In a free market houses don't go up in price just for the hell of it, actually they come DOWN in price. It is in a government controlled environment, that housing becomes more and more expensive only due to the destruction of the real economy and inflation that government creates, namely - money printing.
Why do you think the Canadian dollar is still almost 1:1 with the USD after all of these years of USA printing its currency like they are running out of trees? It's because Canadian government is doing whatever it takes to grow its own money supply by buying up the US dollars off of any of the exporters and printing the CAD to buy it.
Yeah, "if it isn't me", that's right, you are ready to jump in there, head first, and tell us who will live and die. Of-course those, who make such decisions, their close ones and friends are pretty much always above that particular type of a lottery.
and of-course we'll put you in charge of who lives and dies today for the better tomorrow...
I think this may fit the definition of irony, that people, who just may eventually be hunted by drones, are trying to get licenses to hunt the drones, while the drones that hunt them, do not need any license, because the people have already given the government enough power to ensure both: that they eventually can be hunted by drones (and no license required) and that they can't actually get a license to protect themselves.
On the second thought, this is not irony, it's just oppression.
Nonsense, nonsense and more nonsense.
Prices are not everything, it's the volume that makes real profits. Higher prices only moderate access and are an excellent instrument to distribute scarce resources, but they do not result in more revenues.
Revenues come from volume, and higher prices with lower volume, even if the margins are higher, will still provide much lower revenue and thus much lower profit.
Industries in a competitive market want to lower prices and to increase volume, not the other way around.