Comments on: UPDATED: Talking Truth Until You’re Blue In the Face

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:13:09 +0000

Ah, the WORKERS PARADISE! My Russian clients had some interesting things to say about that and several in particular when each spoke about the schools the kids attended here and what these kids wanted to learn.

Here’s something from Vox Day’s comments today on WND:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/the-limits-of-democracy/

Delusions, Illusions, and Myths – read
Mark R. Levin’s, “AMERITOPIA” and contrast what he has written about Utopian ideas versus what Ilana detailed in “CANNIBAL” after the new regime took over with their self-styled “enlightened utopian” ideas and leaders. [Levin the Talker? He’s a neocon-cum-Jacobin. Hopefully nobody on this site wastes money on his books.]

The reality of life is – TANSTAAFL.

By: John Danforth

John Danforth — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:19:57 +0000

Anything more than three syllables rules out 95% of the population. We all seem to grow up with the delusion that once people see the truth, they must inevitably accept it. That this is demonstrably not true is one of the hardest lessons of all to learn. It is appalling to discover the price people will pay in order to cling to their delusions. I like Higgs’s work, but I’m not like most others.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:24:55 +0000

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES as seen by an Austrian Economist:

http://mises.org/daily/5788/Keynes-Was-No-Liberal

Note the second paragraph and the highlighted passage referenced within the foreward of the German Edition of Keynes’s “GENERAL THEORY”.

Remember “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Lord Acton

There is no Utopia. The political direction in which U.S. Government appears to be headed – hard Socialism – seems to me to be the perfect partner for Keynes’s General Theory as stated in his foreward noted above.

By: My RON-PAUL i

My RON-PAUL i — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:21:41 +0000

“We are all Keynesians now” said Friedman and Nixon. The body politic can be divided into 3 segments: secular leftist Keynesian socialists like Obama vs. religious rightist Keynesian fascists like Gingrich vs. nutcase dissenting capitalists like Paul.

The USSR paradise had zero unemployment – everyone had a job including keeping 10% “working” in the gulag. Although people saw what the long haul of “positive rights”, guaranteed jobs, rationing, no-profits, and economic equality brought to the Communist World – many people fear the unemployment, failures, and uncertainties of capitalism. Trabant, the General Motors of East Germany, never had layoffs since their viability was guaranteed by the Red Army. Another wonderful “benefit” was no glaring inequality – the more educated managers of Trabant probably just lived marginally better than the janitors (but worse than VW workers).

Capitalist/libertarians are “hypocrites” because, like the lion in the zoo, we receive “benefits” from the zookeeper. If you desire life in a cage getting your 3 PM steak, enjoy the command economy. If you are a nutcase lion, then you have to go out and HUNT for your food!!! Most Americans prefer to live a zoo with the cage lined with savannah posters providing an illusion of “freedom”.

By: George Pal

George Pal — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:19:04 +0000

It may be the best benchmark of civilization that in its ascendency it makes satire of public policy and in decay makes public policy of satire. I have not yet come across a better measure of the ups and downs.

Down:
“We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it” – Madam Speaker Pelosi

Against such as this, the masters of Greek philosophy, Roman law and government, the Old and New Testaments, and Liberal political philosophy wouldn’t stand a chance.

Mr. Higgs need not despair for having done his best in the worst of times. He is not on the wrong side of history but on the wrong slope of civilization.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:13:44 +0000

George Orwell touches upon war as an instrument of internal control as well. Let’s remember that in ‘1984’, the three superstates wage war merely to keep the population in poverty through an essentially world-wide broken window mechanism.

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:32:34 +0000

I often hear conservatives advocate war because it is supposedly good for the economy. This is the lesson they picked up from our WW2 experience. The point they never seem to get is that the US benefited by destroying, or having others destroy, all the factories of our competitors, whether actual friend or foe.

To put this into modern context, the Iraq, Afghan and now Iran wars might be good for the US economy if only we could manage to destroy the factories in China while avoiding such destruction at home.