Category Archives: Socialism

Home Invaders-Cum-Home Liberators

Communism, Crime, Individual Rights, Private Property, Socialism

All the characters involved in this operation are de facto and de jure squatters, trespassers, and home invaders.

But to the Associated Press, they are “activists,” “homeless,” and “realtors” with a difference. In an article titled “Activist moves homeless into foreclosures,” the AP prattles:

Rameau is an activist who has been executing a bailout plan of his own around Miami’s empty streets: He is helping homeless people illegally move into foreclosed homes.
“We’re matching homeless people with people-less homes,” he said with a grin.
Rameau and a group of like-minded advocates formed Take Back the Land, which also helps the new “tenants” with secondhand furniture, cleaning supplies and yard upkeep. So far, he has moved six families into foreclosed homes and has nine on a waiting list.

It takes all kinds to make a village of idiots.

Keynesian Commies

Economy, Federal Reserve Bank, Inflation, Political Economy, Socialism

The American economy is being socialized. The government has nationalized the mortgage market and a good chunk of the investment banks. No principled argument is offered against the government acquiring a share of the auto industry. The debate hinges only on whether the government’s growing “investment” portfolio will solve the “problem” or not.

Government intervention in the economy invariably results in a complete takeover. Consequently, once it was agreed that this one industry, GM, was too vital to fail, the government went on to specify the conditions of the baleful bailout. The political ponces—the people who do nothing but sap the productive economy—want to see a viable business plan, no less.

The public and the experts don’t think to question the State’s financial savvy–its ability to “plan” a viable industry. Where is the money coming from—this too is never asked. The soundness of borrowing or printing funny money out of thin air to implement the grand plans—this is never doubted. (Except by Ron Paul.)

Public works and big-time spending by government are planned as ways to get the economy going. Even Lou Dobbs, The Independent, fails to question Paul Krugman, the Keynesian commie, as to why more credit expansion and spending is key to recovery.

Note: Every economist touting the Keynesian twaddle of spending ourselves out of the recession is speaking the language of politics, not economics. The laws of economics are natural, immutable laws. The government, like the average Joe and Jane, can’t spend itself out of bankruptcy. (Try suggesting that to your banker, won’t you?)

With its capacity to inflate the economy with worthless fiat money, all the state does is pacify some politically powerful debtor sectors, to the detriment of politically powerless creditor sectors and other solvent citizens. At least we can hope that’s all they’ll do: The difference between Generic Joe’s insolvency and the government’s is that the first will not bring down the entire country.

A good guide to the perplexed is Mises.org’s “Bail Out Reader.”

‘Diversity: The Mating Call Of The Contemporary Academic Bureaucrat’

Affirmative Action, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Multiculturalism, Propaganda, Race, Socialism

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether” tells of inmates in an asylum who overpower their wardens, tar and feather them, throw them into underground cells, and proceed to have “a jolly season of it” without them. After reading what follows, you have to wonder: What are we waiting for?

Writes Tom DiLorenzo:

“The [Cultural Marxists] have taken over the hiring process, instructing academic departments to merely provide them with unranked lists of acceptable candidates for interviews. They will then choose which candidates are invited for campus interviews after a proper, politically-correct vetting process. We have been told to ignore whether or not a candidate’s research interests are similar to others in the department. Scientific synergy, like everything else, plays second fiddle to achieving the correct conglomeration of skin colors on campus. …

Atheists, communists, and abortion activists are all welcomed at Loyola College, but there is one category that is not: defenders of capitalism – the system that allows the parents of Loyola College students to accumulate enough wealth to pay those hefty tuition bills every year, and which provides the means of success for the College’s non-stop fund-raising drives. Defenders of capitalism may exist on campus, but it is clear that such views are not welcomed or appreciated.”

“Tales From an Academic Looney Bin” is a must read, as is “A (Not So) Funny Thing Happened To Me in Baltimore” by Walter Block.