capitalism blues

CAPITALISM BLUES


Well, okay, sure, another swerve off the panic superhighway on to a detour. I don’t necessarily want to make this a regular thing, but it does seem that in light of all the economic meltdown news that anything I say about preps is advice that even if repeated won’t put a fire under your butt if it hasn’t already and also in economic downturns entertainment is more appreciated. Think of this as my escapism article series. Actually, I wanted to do a week to ten days series that I could turn into an e-book. I was thinking perhaps on escaping the rat race for a few hundred bucks. Of course, I’ve covered it before, and my books do drag a bit so I can fluff them out, so I don’t know if I’d lose people here at the blog if I did that. Book sales are only 10% of my income, Amazon links are 80%. But, loving you all like the red headed stepchildren you are, I decided to spare you that drivel and just decided to go with a tie-in to Chevez nationalizing gold.

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As they say about capitalism, it is a terrible system but much better than anything else available. As if any of us would know, living in a fascist economy. Well, that isn’t necessarily true. We live in a central bank controlled fascist economy. The government gets its marching orders from the bankers ( he who controls the purse strings… ) and the corporations are only too glad to work with Uncle Sam to get monopoly protection. So, while I’m referring to capitalism I’m just using shorthand for money economy verses command economy. And whatever is good about capitalism, resource rationing is not one of them. Rationing never works well, but neither does pissing it away as fast as the printing presses can churn out the asking price. Chavez has nationalized his oil production ( and a lot of other things, but who cares about that ). The US pissed him off ( might have had something to do with the CIA trying to kill him, proving what a bad sport he is ), so he started selling that oil to China. If he had been a free market capitalist, he would have been pissing and moaning about how he couldn’t stop the oil to The Great Satan. He also bribes the population to stay in power, returning some profits as welfare. Now, look at this rationally. Here in Capitalism Land, one land owner gets rich when oil is found. Then, the oil companies make a profit. Uncle Sugar taxes that, takes the money and fights a war and pays the interest on a loan, and if any is left over, say about 1%, it pays 70% of that sum to a civil servant to administer a complicated and convoluted welfare payment that mostly benefits a corporation ( like free cell phones ). If I was on welfare I’d think I’d get a better cut down in South America.

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Putin, who ruled Russia overtly for several terms and now rules covertly through a hand picked puppet successor, took control of his countries energy sector back from Western private oil companies. Sure, he cheated, in effect nationalizing them, but he did benefit his country by doing so. If you were a Russian, wouldn’t you be glad to have your oil back? Russia also recently halted export of its wheat during the drought. In other words, feed our own people first. Here in the US, the grain monopolies and bankers will starve us all to make a profit. Guaranteed. Counting on the future generosity of those whores to feed us is like keeping your money in the bank. In both cases, it is far better to have the item on hand than controlled by rapists and prostitutes. And another point. Venezuela and Russia are ruled by former peasants/workers. Not politicians and lawyers. They grew up with dirtying their hands, and understand realpolitik. They aren’t some spoiled ivy league pansy who has no conception of reality. I’d rather have one of them overseeing my countries future. Now, before you get all stupid on me and complain about dictators and lack of civil rights and private property, do you really think we are any better off today in the former Land Of The Free that we would be in other places? At least there, you can grow your own food without being put in jail. Now, I’m not going anywhere. I still want to live here and I’m glad I do. I don’t want a dictator as a leader. All I am saying is that in a lot of ways, the international bankers controlling our future are less interested in our welfare than a lot of non-African dictators ( Africa has that tribal chaos inside artificial borders legacy from colonialism which will always ensure conflict ) are in their countrymen. They at least lead with the future in mind rather than being in a race to use up all the resources as fast as possible.

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Heck, look at France. So socialist they might as well be commies, at least they are trying to be energy independent, farming is decentralized for safety, and they recognize that taking care of the lower classes means civil harmony. You can’t just run an economy to benefit one small minority and expect anything other than civil war eventually ( in other words, we are currently running things as poorly as a crack smoking African dictator with a room temperature IQ ( any similarity with Obammy was of course an unintended pun ). We have our poor classes for the most part pacified ( with a safety valve that they can lash out at whitey if he is foolish enough to go into the ghetto [ whitey pretty much just lashes out at his own kind in the trailer park ] ) but as soon as real hunger starts in this country, it all goes up like a bone dry pine forest. Which was watered by kerosene. Because for the most part, our rich and ruling elite have been plundering our economy for multiple generations in an environment of growth. There was always enough. They know no better, or if they do they don’t care, and will keep taking, unaware that the pie is shrinking now. Third World country dictators know better, and return enough graft to the poor masses to keep them quiet. We will just keep taking until the poor have nothing and revolt. Sure, the ride down will be bumpy, but good lord will it sure be sweet to string up a few Yuppie lawyers, bankers and politicians.

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