Belgium's politicians are totally corrupt, or at best hopelessly incompetent.
- by default all politicians are totally corrupt AND hopelessly incompetent. They wouldn't be politicians if they weren't both of those things necessarily.
The number of incorruptible and actually competent politicians is in very low numbers. Gov't seizes power so it sells it (corruption) and people who are competent don't go to government, they do much better in private sector.
No, if all the costs added by government and all the license fees, patents, copyrights and costs of passing FDA are gone, then the barrier to entry is insignificant. Anybody can come up with new medical instruments and drugs actually, the technology now made it much cheaper - from DNA sequencers to computer tech and tools, to allow anybody basically to come up with new stuff in their garages.
The reason that there is little development in many medical areas today is not that there is no market and no way to make money, the problem is that gov't added cost is too high to overcome that barrier to entry and it makes it unprofitable to search for ways to treat many medical conditions, so it's much safer just to concentrate on things that huge numbers of population are having real OR perceived problems with (baldness, erectile difficulties, psychological problems and all the related shit - from hair growing elixirs to whatever they use to get your dick up and running at age of 80 to Xanax instead of pot) than to try and find cures for real problems.
The real problem is gov't costs prevents many competitors from entering the market with real innovations.
I didn't RTFM at first and I still didn't now. I don't care who and how this came out to be, that was not the center of my point at all, did you even read it?
My point has nothing to do with who invented THIS particular thing or ANY thing, my point is that government money, influence, power, regulations, laws, taxes, subsidies, protections, bail outs, stimulus and GUNS to our heads make it impossible for normal free market to work and drive costs down via competition.
I don't care WHO came out with what, in free market there is competition that you won't see in this patented, copyrighted, trade marked prison.
The farm, where the system is collecting your tax money to buy the idea from the cows that they NEED the farmer. That it's not just a ruse, just a farm, just slaughter house, where the cows get milked, get slaughter and get eaten, and where the favors are bought with that same money that cows may have produced at some point, and now it's just their lives (and their children lives), but it's instead a benevolent system that is by the people for the people designed to protect the people. It's absurd.
What people are protected by this miserable terrorist mafia organization that you call government and I call your owner? Which people are protected?
The idea that you can have what you want by playing nice with the bully that the government is, the idea that the bully will help you while he really uses you as meat. You are the collateral in the global debt repositioning, you are part of the herd, the farm.
They buy your 'vote' in this, you think - well, they will set it up, I'll have a medical insurance/health system. I'll have a pension. I'll have a union job. May you will. Maybe you are one of those who do get to participate in the union jobs. But then you are just part of the farmer's club. You are not the owner, but you get the crumbs.
But the point is that the system is designed to make you support it with all this nonsense, but the system grows, because all this productivity of the past liberty created all this space for it to grow, eventually it grew beyond the real space and now it's growing in vacuum, just by inertia of the past growth, not by any new production. You don't actually produce anything except debt anymore, and the counterfeit money and whatever can be stolen from those who still do produce (under 7% and shrinking), this can't save the system, but it can create more inflation and more DESIRE for more of the same - having the farmer subsidize more of your 'free' drugs and food and wars and oil and plastics.
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There is no freedom and so there is no prosperity, but there is inflation and there are monopolies and there is counterfeit currency still being printed, and it can be printed for a little while longer.
Freedoms make society prosper and government destroys what it feeds on, because Matrix was only half correct: it's not the humans as individuals that are the parasite and virus, it's the system that humans create - the government system that is parasitic and destroys the host.
There are too many people completely misunderstanding that innovation and inventions and new technology drives costs down.
MRI shortens the time it takes to understand what is wrong with a patient, the precision of understanding goes very high, there is very little need (if any) for exploratory surgery with good imaging. Yet people (and on THIS site!) argue that technology is almost supposed to push medical costs higher. This is absolute nonsense.
When this new algorithm makes it into the MRI machines, do you suppose the costs of using the machines will go or down.
Think about it: if there is more throughput with the same equipment, so there are more people being scanned faster, do the costs go up or down? It's the same salaried stuff. It's the same electricity! It's the same machine that's being amortized (crazy government not letting businesses write cost of capital purchases against taxes in the first year, forcing even loans to be taken for that!)
So think about this new algorithm and every new technology that has been developed in the last 60 years. Now think about the actual costs of health care going up. Does this compute?
Now realize that the other factors include government created inflation, government money - Medicare, government subsidies and protections via FDA (you think you can build a better MRI machine in your garage and sell it more competitively to make a profit? Do you HAVE half a billion dollars to push it through FDA?)
This technology is great, but it only really brings costs down, increases efficiency and actually helps people by not participating in destruction of economy in free markets, not in any type of economies that are government controlled.
Also - there is much to do in medical field. There are all sorts of needs there, but with all the regulations you won't be able to just build a company making this stuff, coming up with new innovations and inventions. You can't do it in USA or the rest of the Western world because of government.
If you have these ideas of profiting from providing people with better technology - learn Mandarin.
You are exactly right. Government supports monopolies. It prefers monopolies. It creates monopolies. Every single unelected office, every single regulation, every single bit of business and money that government gets into is about supporting, promoting, subsidizing and protecting/bailing out/stimulating monopolies.
Government loves monopolies. It gives out franchise licenses and other types of licenses and it puts its hands all over the market, distorting it, creating artificial scarcity and preventing competition.
The RICH are getting RICHER because GOVERNMENT PROTECTS THEM from the next big thing - something somebody makes on their own.
There is no way to compete ONLY when there is government standing with a gun to your head, and don't be mistaken - government power, all of it is about having a gun to your head.
DHS is just another unelected office, created by push regulations that destroy your liberties and obviously your economy in the process.
You didn't think things like "Patriot Act" and DHS cause harm to the economy as well as your liberties? Anything that causes harm to liberties hurts the economy, there is no way around it.
Fight against this obvious take over of your government by basically fascists on all sides, vote for Ron Paul.
It's like that little bill they passed that was not exactly adding to the liberties of people, quite the opposite, but it passed because it was conveniently named 'Patriot Act'.
1912 is the year before Federal reserve was established, it is the year before IRS started collecting income taxes, it is the year before the destruction of American economy began.
1/100th size of gov't is the size of gov't that existed about then, and in 1921 the gov't was cut by 70%. To do the same cuts today it takes over 99%.
I am not at all saying that States will do less damage, my point is that whatever federal gov't is doing is unconstitutional. At least with 50 States there are 50 competing entities. With federal gov't there is only 1 monopoly.
Yes, the free market handles everything morally and equally, including human life, which is not handled morally or equally under the command type economy or whatever fascist state system that exists today.
50% of the people today don't pay income taxes. Those who do pay, pay significantly more taxes than their parents and grandparents. It's all about effective rate, it's not about what the law sets for marginal rate. Parents and grandparents paid no more than 20% at any moment in time even when rates were the highest (94% or 70% etc), because nobody would report an income that would be paying those rates. People are smart and they don't work for a few pennies on a dollar, so that's why parents and grandparents did business in USA and currently people moved and are still moving business abroad.
The difference is in all the centralization, in all the ways that taxes cannot be reduced by writing off expenses. Nobody who could have an income of 10,000,000 back in 1949 reported an income of 10,000,000. They would have reported just a bit above average income and would have taken care of all their expenses from their corporation.
What can't you afford that lifting all taxes would allow?
- it's not only taxes. It's all of the regulations. Every single regulation that is put in place prevents some form of business. It's all about creating gov't assisted monopolies, it's all about destroying currency with inflation, it's all about taxing to the max. Of-course people move their investments and businesses elsewhere, but it's not because they don't like America, it's because the government has now made it impossible to invest there.
Switching BACK to the gold standard is asinine and only serves to line the pockets of those that have been investing heavily in gold for the last decade.
- gold is the only Constitutional money, it's the only system that would prevent politicians from spending what they don't have and from faking money price (interest rates), it would have prevented the current problems with the fake money being pumped into the system and no reserves present to back up all those gambling bets.
But gold is just one type of money, the point is to allow people to choose what they use as money. Gov't doesn't want that to happen obviously, because they want to control every bit of currency that's printed as they want to print it and it's all about buying power, helping the special interests, etc. Allowing THAT to continue is asinine.
As to people not having gold - no shit. They are ALL broke.
let's fix the problems instead of destroying all we've built over the last 200 years.
- just the past 100 years, don't put words into my mouth I didn't say. The last 100 years have been disastrous and like a bad build they have to be rolled back, the Constitution has to be fixed to prevent this type of abuse from happening again.
It must be expressly forbidden to tax income rather than impose excise taxes, it must be expressly forbidden to allow gov't to set price of money, to print money, to create currencies, to counterfeit in any way, it must be expressly forbidden for gov't to interfere with business in any way, it must be expressly forbidden to subsidize anybody, any bail outs, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, guaranteeing any types of loans, business, student loans, etc. It must be completely forbidden for gov't to do
Interest is not purely profit. Interest is designed to offset inflation
- another problem in itself is that gov't shouldn't be 'designing interest'. Interest is price of money and as all price controls this control fails too.
Of-course government prints money and since it's worthless, the interest is also a meaningless idea on money that is counterfeit in the first place. So it's 0 to the owners of the government, because why not? But businesses cannot get any loans at these rates and savings are impossible so investments are impossible and any existing investments have to outrun inflation and make some profit, so there will be no jobs.
Students loans are theft by government, because all loans guaranteed by government is theft, because government counterfeits the loans and then it counterfeits the guarantees, but they buy real stuff with the counterfeit money - from companies and mortgages (houses), to labor (wages), to obligations (student's futures), whoever gets paid in counterfeit money gets stolen from.
It's very simple and I have been pointing this out for almost a decade, but who cares? The money originates at the source, that's where it has to be chocked off. There cannot be fake money pumped into the system, there cannot be fake regulations created for the benefit of some to screw the others.
The problem is that all money that is pumped into the system is fake and all regulations that the system creates are fake, the only real money is market money and the only real regulations are market regulations.
Until people get it, nothing will change, but given what and how they are taught in all these educational establishments (and given that it is in the interest of education establishments to continue the current system perpetuating, it's very lucrative, never mind if something not for profit, somebody is profiting from it), there will be no change because there will be no understanding and even if understanding is fairly easy, there will be no acceptance.
The tax system is borked, as 16th amendment allows taxing income without apportionment to the States, the real problem is that some (half) people don't pay income taxes and so this fact can be used to raise taxes on those who pay them anyway, and the system is unfair in that the more one makes, the higher the rate of taxation is. As if it's not enough that making more automatically means one pays more taxes in dollar amounts, no, he has to be paying more percentage wise. Obviously you can't even imagine the resentment that this generates and fuck the economy if that's how it works. Just put it on a tab and fuck everybody who lives now and supports this system and fuck everybody who'll be inheriting this mess, after all, those who live now also inherited a mess from the past with all the SS and Medicare and War transfer payments.
Yes, those goddamn private schools that nobody is forced to attend and that are getting the students with the same loan subsidies that public schools get.
Obviously it's not the fact that everybody is guaranteed a government loan (and thanks to Obama those loans will never have to be repaid), it is the private schools.
ORLY? So an employer can't hire a black person or a disabled person or a woman due to the possible discrimination lawsuit and thus very high costs of employment.
Now they won't be able to hire anybody with a degree either.
Right, and you're advocating multiplying that by 50.
- more nonsense. The States HAVE the power that the federal government usurped.
Getting the power that federal government stole from the States away from federal government, decreases the amount of federal government.
In fact here is a simple enough exercise for you: take 10,000,000 out of federal government (fire them) and you have reduced the government.
Whether any of them will be hired by State government.. it's possible, but not the entire lot, especially because there isn't the same tax base in every SEPARATE State. They can't collect taxes and they can't print government.
In fact NOBODY can print money Constitutionally in USA. The Mint can take your gold and mint a coin for you, but it was your gold and it's your coin.
Just getting rid of the Federal reserve reduces the government size, scope and ability to get its tentacles everywhere.
advocating a strategy that involves creating more government power.
- this is pure nonsense. The power is currently all usurped in one single place where in fact it cannot reside by Constitution of USA. The States are SUPPOSED to have the power that the federal gov't stole (and I don't see much opposition to this theft, but whatever). The States ALREADY have that power, they CHOOSE not to exercise it. So taking power away from the federal government REDUCES the overall amount of power that is held by the government, it cannot increase it by definition.
That was always the design of the US.
- US didn't have a design. It was a free for all, graboarama, people grabbed whatever they could, that's why the old ideas from Britain of holding power in very few hands couldn't apply based on the law that only those with land can vote, because on the new continent near half of the people actually owned the land!
They were independent enough such that they had separate legislature and separate courts, there was no centralization. That's as much a separate state as any European nation before, the common thing was very few languages that were spoken.
Surely you're kidding. In the US, a handful of unelected intellectuals convened to form a system of government predicated on slavery, wealth- and power-based enfranchisement, genocide and expansion. None of that was the foundation of the formation of the EU.
- I am not talking about EU, I am talking about the nations that comprise it and their own history full of genocide, enfranchisement, slavery etc.
The USA had a much quicker route to unionization, that's what I am telling you. Europe had a long history before it created the union and US States didn't have a very long history at all. The end result is the same with total destruction of individual liberties, and this has to be fixed.
That much is obvious. That's why it's confounding to find such a gaping hole in logic in promoting "state rights".
- all that text based on simple misunderstanding that in USA there are multiple levels of government and different elections and thus separate problems have to be solved on separate levels.
It cannot all be lumped together, those are divide and conquer issues, what is not clear?
US "states" are not, and never were.
- now look at that. The original 13 States were for all purposes separate countries. Looking at history of the way European countries developed I don't see much difference except that it in fact was more democratic in US.
For things like the emergency services, where you tend to only have one large supplier of services (how many fire departments do you have in your town?) private industry doesn't work well.
- that's dogma, that's not factual. Fire dep't should be private as well as other services, but in worst case scenario it's a local gov't issue, but it's definitely not a federal case.
Look at healthcare in the US, where you pay more in "health insurance"
USA provides some private companies with monopoly/oligopoly power, that has nothing to do with market. USA had a very good private system prior to federal gov't usurping the power and destroying what worked.
States don't have money because citizens don't have money because they are robbed by the federal government, both in terms of taxes and in terms of economic destruction created by the federal government, the inflation resulting from counterfeiting and loss of jobs resulting from all the regulations and corruption.
Hell, you're even firing the people who you're turning to to save you from riots. I'll bet they won't be too enthusiastic about that option.
- save ME? I don't give two hoots. If I were a president and was able to accomplish that goal, I wouldn't bother with another term or elections, that would be my actual goal, to shut down most of what government does.
This also ignores the reality that those government workers are also a "PRODUCTIVE part of the population".
- wrong. There is no such thing as a 'productive' government employee. It doesn't exist in nature.
They pay their bills, buy things, and go to work just like everyone else
- that's not being productive, that's being a consumer.
They screwed your head up. Productive means PRODUCING something that somebody else actually wants to have and thus they pay for it with their own production.
Just consuming - buying, that's the Orwellian / Keynesian nonsense definition of 'productive'. Nobody is productive when they pay money to buy a piece of food and they eat it. That's consumption.
I am NOT against consumption, but don't confuse it for what it is, and consumption comes as a natural consequence of production (first you catch a fish, then you eat it.)
Gov't employees don't produce anything anybody wants in real life, but they do produce laws and regulations that certain special interests like, because it prevents competition and saves them from having to compete and gives them captive audience.
This retaliatory theme that's been bandied about got us into messes like the Great Depression, the Civil War, both World Wars, etc. It's our strength in community that got us out.
- nonsense.
All of those problems were created by the government intervention.
The Civil War as well as other wars was all about grabbing more power
The Great Depression was caused by Federal reserve creating a bubble by buying bad UK debt, this created an asset bubble in agriculture equities. When the corrective bust came, both presidents: Hoover and FDR worked to create the depression by spending a lot of counterfeit money to do it. They propped up prices, bailed out companies, destroyed livestock and agricultural output (burned it, like Greenspan offering to buy and destroy the glut of houses nowadays).
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Belgium's politicians are totally corrupt, or at best hopelessly incompetent.
- by default all politicians are totally corrupt AND hopelessly incompetent. They wouldn't be politicians if they weren't both of those things necessarily.
The number of incorruptible and actually competent politicians is in very low numbers. Gov't seizes power so it sells it (corruption) and people who are competent don't go to government, they do much better in private sector.
No, if all the costs added by government and all the license fees, patents, copyrights and costs of passing FDA are gone, then the barrier to entry is insignificant. Anybody can come up with new medical instruments and drugs actually, the technology now made it much cheaper - from DNA sequencers to computer tech and tools, to allow anybody basically to come up with new stuff in their garages.
The reason that there is little development in many medical areas today is not that there is no market and no way to make money, the problem is that gov't added cost is too high to overcome that barrier to entry and it makes it unprofitable to search for ways to treat many medical conditions, so it's much safer just to concentrate on things that huge numbers of population are having real OR perceived problems with (baldness, erectile difficulties, psychological problems and all the related shit - from hair growing elixirs to whatever they use to get your dick up and running at age of 80 to Xanax instead of pot) than to try and find cures for real problems.
The real problem is gov't costs prevents many competitors from entering the market with real innovations.
the pharma has the consumer by the balls because of FDA, because of Medicare, because of special gov't privileges.
myself. It means I didn't take care of it and I fix it. Is that relevant?
I didn't RTFM at first and I still didn't now. I don't care who and how this came out to be, that was not the center of my point at all, did you even read it?
My point has nothing to do with who invented THIS particular thing or ANY thing, my point is that government money, influence, power, regulations, laws, taxes, subsidies, protections, bail outs, stimulus and GUNS to our heads make it impossible for normal free market to work and drive costs down via competition.
I don't care WHO came out with what, in free market there is competition that you won't see in this patented, copyrighted, trade marked prison.
The farm, where the system is collecting your tax money to buy the idea from the cows that they NEED the farmer. That it's not just a ruse, just a farm, just slaughter house, where the cows get milked, get slaughter and get eaten, and where the favors are bought with that same money that cows may have produced at some point, and now it's just their lives (and their children lives), but it's instead a benevolent system that is by the people for the people designed to protect the people. It's absurd.
What people are protected by this miserable terrorist mafia organization that you call government and I call your owner? Which people are protected?
The idea that you can have what you want by playing nice with the bully that the government is, the idea that the bully will help you while he really uses you as meat. You are the collateral in the global debt repositioning, you are part of the herd, the farm.
They buy your 'vote' in this, you think - well, they will set it up, I'll have a medical insurance/health system. I'll have a pension. I'll have a union job. May you will. Maybe you are one of those who do get to participate in the union jobs. But then you are just part of the farmer's club. You are not the owner, but you get the crumbs.
But the point is that the system is designed to make you support it with all this nonsense, but the system grows, because all this productivity of the past liberty created all this space for it to grow, eventually it grew beyond the real space and now it's growing in vacuum, just by inertia of the past growth, not by any new production. You don't actually produce anything except debt anymore, and the counterfeit money and whatever can be stolen from those who still do produce (under 7% and shrinking), this can't save the system, but it can create more inflation and more DESIRE for more of the same - having the farmer subsidize more of your 'free' drugs and food and wars and oil and plastics.
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There is no freedom and so there is no prosperity, but there is inflation and there are monopolies and there is counterfeit currency still being printed, and it can be printed for a little while longer.
Freedoms make society prosper and government destroys what it feeds on, because Matrix was only half correct: it's not the humans as individuals that are the parasite and virus, it's the system that humans create - the government system that is parasitic and destroys the host.
Wake up.
There are too many people completely misunderstanding that innovation and inventions and new technology drives costs down.
MRI shortens the time it takes to understand what is wrong with a patient, the precision of understanding goes very high, there is very little need (if any) for exploratory surgery with good imaging. Yet people (and on THIS site!) argue that technology is almost supposed to push medical costs higher. This is absolute nonsense.
When this new algorithm makes it into the MRI machines, do you suppose the costs of using the machines will go or down.
Think about it: if there is more throughput with the same equipment, so there are more people being scanned faster, do the costs go up or down? It's the same salaried stuff. It's the same electricity! It's the same machine that's being amortized (crazy government not letting businesses write cost of capital purchases against taxes in the first year, forcing even loans to be taken for that!)
So think about this new algorithm and every new technology that has been developed in the last 60 years. Now think about the actual costs of health care going up. Does this compute?
Now realize that the other factors include government created inflation, government money - Medicare, government subsidies and protections via FDA (you think you can build a better MRI machine in your garage and sell it more competitively to make a profit? Do you HAVE half a billion dollars to push it through FDA?)
This technology is great, but it only really brings costs down, increases efficiency and actually helps people by not participating in destruction of economy in free markets, not in any type of economies that are government controlled.
Also - there is much to do in medical field. There are all sorts of needs there, but with all the regulations you won't be able to just build a company making this stuff, coming up with new innovations and inventions. You can't do it in USA or the rest of the Western world because of government.
If you have these ideas of profiting from providing people with better technology - learn Mandarin.
You are exactly right. Government supports monopolies. It prefers monopolies. It creates monopolies. Every single unelected office, every single regulation, every single bit of business and money that government gets into is about supporting, promoting, subsidizing and protecting/bailing out/stimulating monopolies.
Government loves monopolies. It gives out franchise licenses and other types of licenses and it puts its hands all over the market, distorting it, creating artificial scarcity and preventing competition.
The RICH are getting RICHER because GOVERNMENT PROTECTS THEM from the next big thing - something somebody makes on their own.
There is no way to compete ONLY when there is government standing with a gun to your head, and don't be mistaken - government power, all of it is about having a gun to your head.
DHS is just another unelected office, created by push regulations that destroy your liberties and obviously your economy in the process.
You didn't think things like "Patriot Act" and DHS cause harm to the economy as well as your liberties? Anything that causes harm to liberties hurts the economy, there is no way around it.
Fight against this obvious take over of your government by basically fascists on all sides, vote for Ron Paul.
By the way, just calling something a 'Jobs Bill' doesn't make it a bill that can possibly do anything useful to create
It's like that little bill they passed that was not exactly adding to the liberties of people, quite the opposite, but it passed because it was conveniently named 'Patriot Act'.
It says in the description of the video that this robot is used to test clothing.
It does all sorts of movements that soldiers would do, that's how you test clothing.
1912 is the year before Federal reserve was established, it is the year before IRS started collecting income taxes, it is the year before the destruction of American economy began.
1/100th size of gov't is the size of gov't that existed about then, and in 1921 the gov't was cut by 70%. To do the same cuts today it takes over 99%.
I am not at all saying that States will do less damage, my point is that whatever federal gov't is doing is unconstitutional. At least with 50 States there are 50 competing entities. With federal gov't there is only 1 monopoly.
Yes, the free market handles everything morally and equally, including human life, which is not handled morally or equally under the command type economy or whatever fascist state system that exists today.
50% of the people today don't pay income taxes. Those who do pay, pay significantly more taxes than their parents and grandparents. It's all about effective rate, it's not about what the law sets for marginal rate. Parents and grandparents paid no more than 20% at any moment in time even when rates were the highest (94% or 70% etc), because nobody would report an income that would be paying those rates. People are smart and they don't work for a few pennies on a dollar, so that's why parents and grandparents did business in USA and currently people moved and are still moving business abroad.
The difference is in all the centralization, in all the ways that taxes cannot be reduced by writing off expenses. Nobody who could have an income of 10,000,000 back in 1949 reported an income of 10,000,000. They would have reported just a bit above average income and would have taken care of all their expenses from their corporation.
What can't you afford that lifting all taxes would allow?
- it's not only taxes. It's all of the regulations. Every single regulation that is put in place prevents some form of business. It's all about creating gov't assisted monopolies, it's all about destroying currency with inflation, it's all about taxing to the max. Of-course people move their investments and businesses elsewhere, but it's not because they don't like America, it's because the government has now made it impossible to invest there.
Switching BACK to the gold standard is asinine and only serves to line the pockets of those that have been investing heavily in gold for the last decade.
- gold is the only Constitutional money, it's the only system that would prevent politicians from spending what they don't have and from faking money price (interest rates), it would have prevented the current problems with the fake money being pumped into the system and no reserves present to back up all those gambling bets.
But gold is just one type of money, the point is to allow people to choose what they use as money. Gov't doesn't want that to happen obviously, because they want to control every bit of currency that's printed as they want to print it and it's all about buying power, helping the special interests, etc. Allowing THAT to continue is asinine.
As to people not having gold - no shit. They are ALL broke.
let's fix the problems instead of destroying all we've built over the last 200 years.
- just the past 100 years, don't put words into my mouth I didn't say. The last 100 years have been disastrous and like a bad build they have to be rolled back, the Constitution has to be fixed to prevent this type of abuse from happening again.
It must be expressly forbidden to tax income rather than impose excise taxes, it must be expressly forbidden to allow gov't to set price of money, to print money, to create currencies, to counterfeit in any way, it must be expressly forbidden for gov't to interfere with business in any way, it must be expressly forbidden to subsidize anybody, any bail outs, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, guaranteeing any types of loans, business, student loans, etc. It must be completely forbidden for gov't to do
Interest is not purely profit. Interest is designed to offset inflation
- another problem in itself is that gov't shouldn't be 'designing interest'. Interest is price of money and as all price controls this control fails too.
Of-course government prints money and since it's worthless, the interest is also a meaningless idea on money that is counterfeit in the first place. So it's 0 to the owners of the government, because why not? But businesses cannot get any loans at these rates and savings are impossible so investments are impossible and any existing investments have to outrun inflation and make some profit, so there will be no jobs.
Students loans are theft by government, because all loans guaranteed by government is theft, because government counterfeits the loans and then it counterfeits the guarantees, but they buy real stuff with the counterfeit money - from companies and mortgages (houses), to labor (wages), to obligations (student's futures), whoever gets paid in counterfeit money gets stolen from.
It's very simple and I have been pointing this out for almost a decade, but who cares? The money originates at the source, that's where it has to be chocked off. There cannot be fake money pumped into the system, there cannot be fake regulations created for the benefit of some to screw the others.
The problem is that all money that is pumped into the system is fake and all regulations that the system creates are fake, the only real money is market money and the only real regulations are market regulations.
Until people get it, nothing will change, but given what and how they are taught in all these educational establishments (and given that it is in the interest of education establishments to continue the current system perpetuating, it's very lucrative, never mind if something not for profit, somebody is profiting from it), there will be no change because there will be no understanding and even if understanding is fairly easy, there will be no acceptance.
The tax system is borked, as 16th amendment allows taxing income without apportionment to the States, the real problem is that some (half) people don't pay income taxes and so this fact can be used to raise taxes on those who pay them anyway, and the system is unfair in that the more one makes, the higher the rate of taxation is. As if it's not enough that making more automatically means one pays more taxes in dollar amounts, no, he has to be paying more percentage wise. Obviously you can't even imagine the resentment that this generates and fuck the economy if that's how it works. Just put it on a tab and fuck everybody who lives now and supports this system and fuck everybody who'll be inheriting this mess, after all, those who live now also inherited a mess from the past with all the SS and Medicare and War transfer payments.
You don't see a problem?
Yes, those goddamn private schools that nobody is forced to attend and that are getting the students with the same loan subsidies that public schools get.
Obviously it's not the fact that everybody is guaranteed a government loan (and thanks to Obama those loans will never have to be repaid), it is the private schools.
ORLY? So an employer can't hire a black person or a disabled person or a woman due to the possible discrimination lawsuit and thus very high costs of employment.
Now they won't be able to hire anybody with a degree either.
It's going to get much worse now, with the new Obama's plan to destroy education.
Right, and you're advocating multiplying that by 50.
- more nonsense. The States HAVE the power that the federal government usurped.
Getting the power that federal government stole from the States away from federal government, decreases the amount of federal government.
In fact here is a simple enough exercise for you: take 10,000,000 out of federal government (fire them) and you have reduced the government.
Whether any of them will be hired by State government .. it's possible, but not the entire lot, especially because there isn't the same tax base in every SEPARATE State. They can't collect taxes and they can't print government.
In fact NOBODY can print money Constitutionally in USA. The Mint can take your gold and mint a coin for you, but it was your gold and it's your coin.
Just getting rid of the Federal reserve reduces the government size, scope and ability to get its tentacles everywhere.
You see, you need to start thinking.
Yes, it is a debt bubble.
This much has been clear for a long time now, we did ask a question on /. What is you college major worth? - well, it's not worth much.
Here is what I think about Minimum Wage and Inflation and Obama's plan to destroy the education further. They don't allow price competition with public universities, you know?
Anyway, this is a debt bubble, so are US bonds and any US denominated debt for that matter because the US dollar is a bubble.
advocating a strategy that involves creating more government power.
- this is pure nonsense. The power is currently all usurped in one single place where in fact it cannot reside by Constitution of USA. The States are SUPPOSED to have the power that the federal gov't stole (and I don't see much opposition to this theft, but whatever). The States ALREADY have that power, they CHOOSE not to exercise it. So taking power away from the federal government REDUCES the overall amount of power that is held by the government, it cannot increase it by definition.
That was always the design of the US.
- US didn't have a design. It was a free for all, graboarama, people grabbed whatever they could, that's why the old ideas from Britain of holding power in very few hands couldn't apply based on the law that only those with land can vote, because on the new continent near half of the people actually owned the land!
They were independent enough such that they had separate legislature and separate courts, there was no centralization. That's as much a separate state as any European nation before, the common thing was very few languages that were spoken.
Surely you're kidding. In the US, a handful of unelected intellectuals convened to form a system of government predicated on slavery, wealth- and power-based enfranchisement, genocide and expansion. None of that was the foundation of the formation of the EU.
- I am not talking about EU, I am talking about the nations that comprise it and their own history full of genocide, enfranchisement, slavery etc.
The USA had a much quicker route to unionization, that's what I am telling you. Europe had a long history before it created the union and US States didn't have a very long history at all. The end result is the same with total destruction of individual liberties, and this has to be fixed.
I think the main problem is that there aren't enough people getting shot in the head
- tell me about it.
That much is obvious. That's why it's confounding to find such a gaping hole in logic in promoting "state rights".
- all that text based on simple misunderstanding that in USA there are multiple levels of government and different elections and thus separate problems have to be solved on separate levels.
It cannot all be lumped together, those are divide and conquer issues, what is not clear?
US "states" are not, and never were.
- now look at that. The original 13 States were for all purposes separate countries. Looking at history of the way European countries developed I don't see much difference except that it in fact was more democratic in US.
For things like the emergency services, where you tend to only have one large supplier of services (how many fire departments do you have in your town?) private industry doesn't work well.
- that's dogma, that's not factual. Fire dep't should be private as well as other services, but in worst case scenario it's a local gov't issue, but it's definitely not a federal case.
Look at healthcare in the US, where you pay more in "health insurance"
- you are looking at it and you see a MARKET failure? It's a government failure, I talked about it.
USA provides some private companies with monopoly/oligopoly power, that has nothing to do with market. USA had a very good private system prior to federal gov't usurping the power and destroying what worked.
States don't have money because citizens don't have money because they are robbed by the federal government, both in terms of taxes and in terms of economic destruction created by the federal government, the inflation resulting from counterfeiting and loss of jobs resulting from all the regulations and corruption.
Hell, you're even firing the people who you're turning to to save you from riots. I'll bet they won't be too enthusiastic about that option.
- save ME? I don't give two hoots. If I were a president and was able to accomplish that goal, I wouldn't bother with another term or elections, that would be my actual goal, to shut down most of what government does.
This also ignores the reality that those government workers are also a "PRODUCTIVE part of the population".
- wrong. There is no such thing as a 'productive' government employee. It doesn't exist in nature.
They pay their bills, buy things, and go to work just like everyone else
- that's not being productive, that's being a consumer.
They screwed your head up. Productive means PRODUCING something that somebody else actually wants to have and thus they pay for it with their own production.
Just consuming - buying, that's the Orwellian / Keynesian nonsense definition of 'productive'. Nobody is productive when they pay money to buy a piece of food and they eat it. That's consumption.
I am NOT against consumption, but don't confuse it for what it is, and consumption comes as a natural consequence of production (first you catch a fish, then you eat it.)
Gov't employees don't produce anything anybody wants in real life, but they do produce laws and regulations that certain special interests like, because it prevents competition and saves them from having to compete and gives them captive audience.
This retaliatory theme that's been bandied about got us into messes like the Great Depression, the Civil War, both World Wars, etc. It's our strength in community that got us out.
- nonsense.
All of those problems were created by the government intervention.
The Civil War as well as other wars was all about grabbing more power
The Great Depression was caused by Federal reserve creating a bubble by buying bad UK debt, this created an asset bubble in agriculture equities. When the corrective bust came, both presidents: Hoover and FDR worked to create the depression by spending a lot of counterfeit money to do it. They propped up prices, bailed out companies, destroyed livestock and agricultural output (burned it, like Greenspan offering to buy and destroy the glut of houses nowadays).
I already have this written down.