But it WASN'T exaggerated. It was dead on. That is why her book sales went off the chart after 2008. Their themes resonated with what was and still is happening in this country, and they are a dead on match with places like Venezuela.
Pick ONE. Business regulation has been expanding for a full 100 years. It is now collapsing under the weight. Not just Federal, but state and local regulations as well.
Further, income inequality is caused primarily by money printing by the central bank. It doesn't really have much to do with regulatory regimes. No, the purchasing power of everyone holding dollars is diluted every time a new dollar is printed, and they are printing $85 BILLION a month. Those who receive the freshly printed money first are the ones who get the benefit, as the purchasing power of the rest is transferred to them. It amounts to something like $268 for every man, woman, and child in the US. That's like every household having an extra mortgage to pay, on top of their own debt and the taxes they already pay, and you pay it without even knowing it, as it is simply taken out of the power of your dollars.
It can only work when the central authority making the plans has access to more and better information than the local businessman AND has more computational power than all the businessmen (or possibly every individual person) in the country put together.
The first requirement is extremely difficult. The second is simply impossible with a government run by humans. Strong AI might be able to centrally plan an economy after a few generations of exponential self improvement.
The founding fathers were "kooks". Puts me in good company, I guess. Better than being a patriotic non-"patriot" in land of the scared, home of the cowardly.
Nice dig at libertarianism there. You'd almost think that he didn't grow and develop as a person until he moved away from statism to libertarianism.
Also, don't cast stones when you can't tell the difference between the world of Starship Troopers and anything resembling a libertarian world.
Further, does writing about something gross make YOU gross? Does Brian X. Cohen want to nail his own Grandma (speaking of time travel incest plots)? Does Steven King want to eat children? No, rather what we have here is character assassination. But I guess its ok because libertarians r ebul.
Here's a clue: small amounts of energy savings lead to total dominance of one culture over another. When you are talking about trillions upon trillions of bacteria, the gene is going to fall out of one of them, and that one is going to multiply and take over once the selective pressure is gone.
I'm sure you mean "that WITH massive regulation and government intervention they destroy the society they function in."
Because we already have those things. And it's still happening. In fact, it is happening now, when it didn't back then, even when we were still fascist, but just much less so, like in the 60's and 70's.
Regulations raise costs, forcing farmers to do what they can to get more out of their money, including doing horrible things to their animals and the world.
There was no regulation that said that spent fuel had to be stored in a pool on site at Fukushima, but the regulations for moving and disposing of the stuff, not to mention upgrading the plant or opening new ones, were and are so severe that they didn't have another choice.
You know, the invisible hand actually does work. It's just that it isn't allowed to, because contrary to popular (read: idiotic) belief, the US is NOT a free market economy. This has been the case for 100 years now, and it is becoming ever clearer with each passing year.
The last company I worked at developed a new antimicrobial that was highly effective, but the regulatory barriers to market entry are so high, they have only made headway in using it to prevent tooth decay. Large companies might show interest, but they are risk adverse due to the bad economy, which has been caused by constant Fed meddling in the economy (chronically low interest rates caused a series of bubbles and busts, which have gotten worse and worse to the point that no-one wants to take ANY risk).
They spent 150 MILLION DOLLARS on this? Where on earth did the money go? This is like the first draft of a test written by a teacher who just doesn't care.
Bill Gates, if you are reading this, how about you give me just $1 million dollars and I will write you a much better standard, despite the fact that I don't know a damn thing about education. I do, at least, know how to read and write. I can research the rest.
The communists and the nazis are much the same, allowing their feelings to trump reality. That is why so many died under Franco, Stalin, Mao, etc. The difference is that they killed anyone who spoke out against their deadly foolishness, rather than simply castigating them with ad hominem (don't agree with what I say? You must be a tea bagger, ie a homosexual even though homosexuals are generally my constituents. But it's you guys who are prejudiced, not me, no sir.).
Apparently, violent crime is up six-fold over the last sixty years, concurrent with ever-tightening gun control laws. You forgot that the UK didn't go from guns everywhere to no guns in 1997. They had been gradually reducing really since the early 20th century, but really took off with the controls in the 1960's.
Liberals let their feelings dictate their actions, regardless of the consequences. That is why the UK has higher violent crime rates than the US, despite our much larger minority population and the fact that we border a country in a state of civil war against non-state actors that exist in both nations. Violence ALWAYS follows disarmament.
In fifteen years, we may well have fully configurable computer components being mass produced on paper or some other disposable substrate. You also use commodity wire to connect to your scissor cuttable e-ink color screen which refreshes 128 times a second.
Hell, in 25 years we might have full functioning robotic fabricators that can do everything from laser sintering to textile weaving to chemical vapor deposition on the desktop. A fully automated, fully configurable and reconfigurable factory in a box.
That is, if we can keep hysterical police state nutters from smashing that which they do not understand.
I was about to make a comment about how modern music is garbage, and that people only download the stuff made a long time ago and probably that they already owned at some point, but then I realized that there are a bunch of damn kids on my lawn again.
Your name is fitting. First things first--you should know that currency collapses don't happen instantly. They are a result of government overspending. Governments footing the bill for healthcare is one way to do it. Spending trillions on foreign wars of aggression is another. Put too many together and you speed your demise. Your demise is also put off by the amount of capital you have available in the system and the willingness of other nations and your own people to lend you money. Canada has vast natural resources and a low population. We aren't talking about Canada. Canada will face the fate of England, Europe, and the United States after it has exhausted its natural resources, or when demand for them collapses.
I bet your think your property values will just continue to rise forever, too. Lots of people in the US thought the same ten years ago.
Secondly, if you don't have death panels, then your spending will of necessity spiral wildly out of control. You can spend huge amounts of money to extend someone's life for a short amount of time. SOMEONE must make the decision when to pull the plug, whether it is a few doctors sitting in a room, or a bureaucrat who schedules your next appointment for five months from now when you need treatment within weeks to live, as is the case in Canada. You really should never say never, especially when the thing you are denying already exists in a slightly modified form.
There used to be such a thing as a charity hospital. Those have been mostly eliminated due to ever rising costs associated with the fascist model followed by the US medical industry.
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I guess you forgot about the Revolutionary War.
But it WASN'T exaggerated. It was dead on. That is why her book sales went off the chart after 2008. Their themes resonated with what was and still is happening in this country, and they are a dead on match with places like Venezuela.
Somalia was communist. Haiti was communist. African countries were and are communist. Certainly none of them were capitalist.
Being a liberal means never owning the past failures of your desired policies. Disgusting, really.
If you want to talk about the Bible, you should read the Bible. If you want to talk about Atlas Shrugged, you should read Atlas Shrugged.
Liberals are so foolish they don't even recognize identity functions, I guess.
>United States
>Unregulated business
Pick ONE. Business regulation has been expanding for a full 100 years. It is now collapsing under the weight. Not just Federal, but state and local regulations as well.
Further, income inequality is caused primarily by money printing by the central bank. It doesn't really have much to do with regulatory regimes. No, the purchasing power of everyone holding dollars is diluted every time a new dollar is printed, and they are printing $85 BILLION a month. Those who receive the freshly printed money first are the ones who get the benefit, as the purchasing power of the rest is transferred to them. It amounts to something like $268 for every man, woman, and child in the US. That's like every household having an extra mortgage to pay, on top of their own debt and the taxes they already pay, and you pay it without even knowing it, as it is simply taken out of the power of your dollars.
It won't end well for most.
Wow. Just wow.
It can only work when the central authority making the plans has access to more and better information than the local businessman AND has more computational power than all the businessmen (or possibly every individual person) in the country put together.
The first requirement is extremely difficult. The second is simply impossible with a government run by humans. Strong AI might be able to centrally plan an economy after a few generations of exponential self improvement.
"Kook" is an epithet against freedom lovers.
The founding fathers were "kooks". Puts me in good company, I guess. Better than being a patriotic non-"patriot" in land of the scared, home of the cowardly.
Nice dig at libertarianism there. You'd almost think that he didn't grow and develop as a person until he moved away from statism to libertarianism.
Also, don't cast stones when you can't tell the difference between the world of Starship Troopers and anything resembling a libertarian world.
Further, does writing about something gross make YOU gross? Does Brian X. Cohen want to nail his own Grandma (speaking of time travel incest plots)? Does Steven King want to eat children? No, rather what we have here is character assassination. But I guess its ok because libertarians r ebul.
"down to luck"
Somehow, I don't think you took microbiology.
Here's a clue: small amounts of energy savings lead to total dominance of one culture over another. When you are talking about trillions upon trillions of bacteria, the gene is going to fall out of one of them, and that one is going to multiply and take over once the selective pressure is gone.
I'm sure you mean "that WITH massive regulation and government intervention they destroy the society they function in."
Because we already have those things. And it's still happening. In fact, it is happening now, when it didn't back then, even when we were still fascist, but just much less so, like in the 60's and 70's.
Considering the current level of intervention, and the fact that you are calling for more, yes, you are, in fact, calling for totalitarianism.
The US is already a fascist state, if you hadn't noticed.
Regulations raise costs, forcing farmers to do what they can to get more out of their money, including doing horrible things to their animals and the world.
There was no regulation that said that spent fuel had to be stored in a pool on site at Fukushima, but the regulations for moving and disposing of the stuff, not to mention upgrading the plant or opening new ones, were and are so severe that they didn't have another choice.
You know, the invisible hand actually does work. It's just that it isn't allowed to, because contrary to popular (read: idiotic) belief, the US is NOT a free market economy. This has been the case for 100 years now, and it is becoming ever clearer with each passing year.
The last company I worked at developed a new antimicrobial that was highly effective, but the regulatory barriers to market entry are so high, they have only made headway in using it to prevent tooth decay. Large companies might show interest, but they are risk adverse due to the bad economy, which has been caused by constant Fed meddling in the economy (chronically low interest rates caused a series of bubbles and busts, which have gotten worse and worse to the point that no-one wants to take ANY risk).
They spent 150 MILLION DOLLARS on this? Where on earth did the money go? This is like the first draft of a test written by a teacher who just doesn't care.
Bill Gates, if you are reading this, how about you give me just $1 million dollars and I will write you a much better standard, despite the fact that I don't know a damn thing about education. I do, at least, know how to read and write. I can research the rest.
The communists and the nazis are much the same, allowing their feelings to trump reality. That is why so many died under Franco, Stalin, Mao, etc. The difference is that they killed anyone who spoke out against their deadly foolishness, rather than simply castigating them with ad hominem (don't agree with what I say? You must be a tea bagger, ie a homosexual even though homosexuals are generally my constituents. But it's you guys who are prejudiced, not me, no sir.).
Nice strawman with the daily mail, but kudos for at least using google. Might try this one instead: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/5712573/UK-is-violent-crime-capital-of-Europe.html
Apparently, violent crime is up six-fold over the last sixty years, concurrent with ever-tightening gun control laws. You forgot that the UK didn't go from guns everywhere to no guns in 1997. They had been gradually reducing really since the early 20th century, but really took off with the controls in the 1960's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_Kingdom
Liberals let their feelings dictate their actions, regardless of the consequences. That is why the UK has higher violent crime rates than the US, despite our much larger minority population and the fact that we border a country in a state of civil war against non-state actors that exist in both nations. Violence ALWAYS follows disarmament.
In fifteen years, we may well have fully configurable computer components being mass produced on paper or some other disposable substrate. You also use commodity wire to connect to your scissor cuttable e-ink color screen which refreshes 128 times a second.
Hell, in 25 years we might have full functioning robotic fabricators that can do everything from laser sintering to textile weaving to chemical vapor deposition on the desktop. A fully automated, fully configurable and reconfigurable factory in a box.
That is, if we can keep hysterical police state nutters from smashing that which they do not understand.
I was about to make a comment about how modern music is garbage, and that people only download the stuff made a long time ago and probably that they already owned at some point, but then I realized that there are a bunch of damn kids on my lawn again.
Your name is fitting. First things first--you should know that currency collapses don't happen instantly. They are a result of government overspending. Governments footing the bill for healthcare is one way to do it. Spending trillions on foreign wars of aggression is another. Put too many together and you speed your demise. Your demise is also put off by the amount of capital you have available in the system and the willingness of other nations and your own people to lend you money. Canada has vast natural resources and a low population. We aren't talking about Canada. Canada will face the fate of England, Europe, and the United States after it has exhausted its natural resources, or when demand for them collapses.
I bet your think your property values will just continue to rise forever, too. Lots of people in the US thought the same ten years ago.
Secondly, if you don't have death panels, then your spending will of necessity spiral wildly out of control. You can spend huge amounts of money to extend someone's life for a short amount of time. SOMEONE must make the decision when to pull the plug, whether it is a few doctors sitting in a room, or a bureaucrat who schedules your next appointment for five months from now when you need treatment within weeks to live, as is the case in Canada. You really should never say never, especially when the thing you are denying already exists in a slightly modified form.
It's only ok for the poor to die when the government makes the decision. There would never be anything arbitrary about such decisions.
Who is "we"? What EXACTLY have you PERSONALLY done to "satisfy their whims" that makes you think you are entitled to their money?
What a creep.
Dude, there are ads for lawyers talking about shit just like that every day. "Call the strongarm!" "Get the gorilla!", etc.
There used to be such a thing as a charity hospital. Those have been mostly eliminated due to ever rising costs associated with the fascist model followed by the US medical industry.
This is how liberals actually feel about others.