I understand and basically agree with your indignation, however your understanding of the role played by the Federal Reserve is deeply flawed. I find it so depressing that intelligent, educated, and caring individuals such as yourself are so deeply and, what's worse, uniformly misinformed when it comes to the workings of monetary systems.
It's as though there were air support groups who were up-in-arms over abuse of innocent air molecules because some air is subjected to merciless pummeling by being imprisoned in the pneumatic tires of motor vehicles. You're that far off.
Really! I asked this same question, like 3 years ago. But then again, why don't we have a monetary system that does not self-destruct on ever-mounting debt, and does not destroy the nation by demanding production and storage of a commodity like gold? Why? Why? Why?
Because people are fucking stupid. "Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
>> Said companies receive money for development and operation of whatever it is they do
Ermm, no they don't. The exchanges just move ownership of *existing* company assets around. They don't increase those assets as you seem to think. Yes, without the exchanges, the initial investors would be more cautious leading to less investment, but, please, let's keep in mind what the exchanges do actually do, as well as what they *don't* actually do, m'kay?
The letter presents way too eloquent a case. No way will any of *our* senators listen to rational rhetoric like that. Their brains would literally melt.
First, for the record, the energy cartel is the little brother. The banking cartel is the big brother. That said, I believe that all the fuss about global warming is AstroTurf. Why promote the debate? Because when everyone is arguing about a subject that cannot be proven one way or the other, no one is thinking about the energy cartel.
My children are educated in top private schools, and will treat their servants, your children, very humanely, as long as they know their place. A four-day school week is plenty of time to learn how to shine shoes, mow lawns, and heroically charge the enemy lines. A nation of religious morons and safety-serving cowards deserves no better.
Economic downturns only happen when there are unsustainable booms or bubbles. Eliminate the booms and the bubbles, and you eliminate the downturns. Plus you eliminate the most profound source of human suffering. Oh, what's that you say? How? Don't ask your local expert economist. Don't ask the Austrians. Don't ask the Keynesians. They all shrug and say that "business cycles" are a natural part of the economy. Well, no, booms and busts are not a natural part of the economy. It's actually very simple; one law is all you need. Ban fractional reserve lending. Done. My sig will point you to the source of true economic wisdom.
>> Patent law exists to protect smaller businesses from larger ones
Uh, no. Patent law exists to encourage people to publish their inventions so that others may use them. In other words patent law is only doing its job if it is encouraging progress. If it is discouraging progress, it is not doing its job and needs to be modified or eliminated.
I am sure that one thing that plays a part is the shipping cartel that apparently controls international freight going in and out of oz. Price a shipment to Australia - it's insane.
So less guns means less death by guns. Fair enough, and not surprising, but does it also mean less murder? And why is the United States one of the murder capitols of the world, yet our gun ownership is much lower than Canada's where they have a very low murder rate.
Don't scratch your head George. Instead think about what food will cost when gasoline is $20 per gallon and diesel fuel and fertilizer are priced accordingly. Wait, maybe I'm being too pessimistic. Let's see, in 1973 I bought gas for $0.24/gallon. Now it's about $4. OK, so that's a 1500% increase in 38 years. So in 10 years gas will be about, yep, $20/gallon. What will food cost? More than you'll be able to afford. Feeling hungry yet? Well... If we pulled our troops out of Ifuckistan, or where ever they are this month, put them to work building nuclear power plants, blanket the country with them, (Shoot any protesters on sight - marines got no beef with that.), hmmm. I reckon that food prices might stay reasonable. Might. No guarantees, but that's the only plan that makes sense to me. Hell, if we did it right, power might get cheap, then us inventors could get back to work and then put the rest of you yo-yos back to work in the factories we'd build to make our inventions.
It doesn't matter. We will have a massive human die off way before global warming can do any real damage. Unless. Unless we start, NOW, to build and build and build. Build what? Thousands of nuclear power plants. Thousands of solar plants. Thousands of wind and tide plants. Any of it. More importantly, ALL of it. Fossil fuels are a death trap, not because of global warming, but because they are only going to get more expensive year after year. Right now they are still cheap enough that we can afford to build all the replacement infrastructure, if we don't do anything stupid like tax fossil fuels. If we wait, we won't be able to afford building the replacements. We will be struggling just to survive, and then it'll get worse... Help yourself to another cheeseburger while you think about it.
BTW for the free market priesthood: this is a perfect example of how blind adherence to the free market religion can lead you into a catastrophe.
I tried to join the "Tea Party". (For wholesome reasons, you can trust.) Well, guess what? There ain't one, and there ain't "one". There's a whole bunch of them, all with slightly different names, and nobody ever contacts you, no meetups, no nothing. Astroturf may not be real grass, but it exists in the physical universe. The Tea Party? Virtual Astroturf... *sigh*
The religious war over climate change is a very cleverly astroturfed bit of drama to conceal the real problem: replacing carbon based energy sources is the biggest technological challenge humankind has ever faced. No doubt we must replace them, as the low hanging fruit has already been harvested, so the rest of the coal, oil and gas is only going to get more and more and more expensive. And there are powerful interests who want to delay the program as long as possible for their selfish interests, thus all the blah, blah, blah about climate change. The tragic part is that the longer we delay, the larger the inevitable die off, but not from climate change! Way before that becomes a significant problem, billions of people will die of starvation: in our industrial culture, expensive energy = expensive food. Too bad you can't afford to eat prole.
Oh, rest assured that there will be horrible problems. The banksters will do everything in their nearly immeasurable power to de-stabilize any of the 50 new nations who don't fall right in line with a private central bank.
>> Some Americans are trying to do some very bad things.
I can think of 2 groups of Americans trying to do some very bad things right now: The Americans who think like you, and the Americans who work for the NSA.
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I understand and basically agree with your indignation, however your understanding of the role played by the Federal Reserve is deeply flawed. I find it so depressing that intelligent, educated, and caring individuals such as yourself are so deeply and, what's worse, uniformly misinformed when it comes to the workings of monetary systems.
It's as though there were air support groups who were up-in-arms over abuse of innocent air molecules because some air is subjected to merciless pummeling by being imprisoned in the pneumatic tires of motor vehicles. You're that far off.
>> Of course they would still have to prove that this actually was the reason for the delay.
No, this is a civil suit. All they have to do is convince a jury that it is more likely than not. The standard is, "a preponderance of the evidence".
In my mother's garage is a GE refrigerator that has been running continuously for over 50 years, and has never been serviced!
Craigslist are also pricks. They threaten legal action against anyone who aggregates their listings. Why? Who does this hurt?
Really! I asked this same question, like 3 years ago. But then again, why don't we have a monetary system that does not self-destruct on ever-mounting debt, and does not destroy the nation by demanding production and storage of a commodity like gold? Why? Why? Why?
Because people are fucking stupid. "Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
You are intending to harm ColbaltBlueDW by denigrating their reasoning ability. You should be stopped! You fucking moron...
>> Said companies receive money for development and operation of whatever it is they do
Ermm, no they don't. The exchanges just move ownership of *existing* company assets around. They don't increase those assets as you seem to think. Yes, without the exchanges, the initial investors would be more cautious leading to less investment, but, please, let's keep in mind what the exchanges do actually do, as well as what they *don't* actually do, m'kay?
The letter presents way too eloquent a case. No way will any of *our* senators listen to rational rhetoric like that. Their brains would literally melt.
God, I hope I'm wrong!
First, for the record, the energy cartel is the little brother. The banking cartel is the big brother. That said, I believe that all the fuss about global warming is AstroTurf. Why promote the debate? Because when everyone is arguing about a subject that cannot be proven one way or the other, no one is thinking about the energy cartel.
My children are educated in top private schools, and will treat their servants, your children, very humanely, as long as they know their place. A four-day school week is plenty of time to learn how to shine shoes, mow lawns, and heroically charge the enemy lines. A nation of religious morons and safety-serving cowards deserves no better.
Economic downturns only happen when there are unsustainable booms or bubbles. Eliminate the booms and the bubbles, and you eliminate the downturns. Plus you eliminate the most profound source of human suffering. Oh, what's that you say? How? Don't ask your local expert economist. Don't ask the Austrians. Don't ask the Keynesians. They all shrug and say that "business cycles" are a natural part of the economy. Well, no, booms and busts are not a natural part of the economy. It's actually very simple; one law is all you need. Ban fractional reserve lending. Done. My sig will point you to the source of true economic wisdom.
>> Patent law exists to protect smaller businesses from larger ones
Uh, no. Patent law exists to encourage people to publish their inventions so that others may use them. In other words patent law is only doing its job if it is encouraging progress. If it is discouraging progress, it is not doing its job and needs to be modified or eliminated.
I am sure that one thing that plays a part is the shipping cartel that apparently controls international freight going in and out of oz. Price a shipment to Australia - it's insane.
So less guns means less death by guns. Fair enough, and not surprising, but does it also mean less murder? And why is the United States one of the murder capitols of the world, yet our gun ownership is much lower than Canada's where they have a very low murder rate.
Yeah. WTF? How does shit like this happen? Can I buy a google license to sell search services, only with a non frustrating useful UI?
Don't scratch your head George. Instead think about what food will cost when gasoline is $20 per gallon and diesel fuel and fertilizer are priced accordingly. Wait, maybe I'm being too pessimistic. Let's see, in 1973 I bought gas for $0.24/gallon. Now it's about $4. OK, so that's a 1500% increase in 38 years. So in 10 years gas will be about, yep, $20/gallon. What will food cost? More than you'll be able to afford. Feeling hungry yet? Well... If we pulled our troops out of Ifuckistan, or where ever they are this month, put them to work building nuclear power plants, blanket the country with them, (Shoot any protesters on sight - marines got no beef with that.), hmmm. I reckon that food prices might stay reasonable. Might. No guarantees, but that's the only plan that makes sense to me. Hell, if we did it right, power might get cheap, then us inventors could get back to work and then put the rest of you yo-yos back to work in the factories we'd build to make our inventions.
Oh for Pete's sake!
in fact it is supposed to mean that you do, but in 2011, it means that you don't.
FTFY - what fantasy world do you live in?
It doesn't matter. We will have a massive human die off way before global warming can do any real damage. Unless. Unless we start, NOW, to build and build and build. Build what? Thousands of nuclear power plants. Thousands of solar plants. Thousands of wind and tide plants. Any of it. More importantly, ALL of it. Fossil fuels are a death trap, not because of global warming, but because they are only going to get more expensive year after year. Right now they are still cheap enough that we can afford to build all the replacement infrastructure, if we don't do anything stupid like tax fossil fuels. If we wait, we won't be able to afford building the replacements. We will be struggling just to survive, and then it'll get worse... Help yourself to another cheeseburger while you think about it.
BTW for the free market priesthood: this is a perfect example of how blind adherence to the free market religion can lead you into a catastrophe.
I tried to join the "Tea Party". (For wholesome reasons, you can trust.) Well, guess what? There ain't one, and there ain't "one". There's a whole bunch of them, all with slightly different names, and nobody ever contacts you, no meetups, no nothing. Astroturf may not be real grass, but it exists in the physical universe. The Tea Party? Virtual Astroturf... *sigh*
The religious war over climate change is a very cleverly astroturfed bit of drama to conceal the real problem: replacing carbon based energy sources is the biggest technological challenge humankind has ever faced. No doubt we must replace them, as the low hanging fruit has already been harvested, so the rest of the coal, oil and gas is only going to get more and more and more expensive. And there are powerful interests who want to delay the program as long as possible for their selfish interests, thus all the blah, blah, blah about climate change. The tragic part is that the longer we delay, the larger the inevitable die off, but not from climate change! Way before that becomes a significant problem, billions of people will die of starvation: in our industrial culture, expensive energy = expensive food. Too bad you can't afford to eat prole.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Oh, rest assured that there will be horrible problems. The banksters will do everything in their nearly immeasurable power to de-stabilize any of the 50 new nations who don't fall right in line with a private central bank.
The motherfucking military! Hells yes! Cut it in to about 1/5 of what we spend now. What a fucking nightmare!
>> Some Americans are trying to do some very bad things.
I can think of 2 groups of Americans trying to do some very bad things right now: The Americans who think like you, and the Americans who work for the NSA.
Fuckwad!
You, sir or madam, are a bona fide genius. Allow me to introduce you to the originator of the ideas you espouse. My sig points the way...
You've never been to LA County.