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On 7/20/2011 9:55 AM, Will Steinberg wrote:
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Deregulation will let the biggest organized criminals of all--the
corporations--go unchecked. <br>
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Hmmm. Are <i>all</i> Corporations the registered equivalents of
organized crime? How about the non-profit corporations? Private
zoos? One-man air charter services? One might conclude that the
trap is only intended to snare the likes of Microsoft and Bank of
America in the criminal category, but with such broad strokes of the
brush it's hard to make out specifics - if there are any. But, at
any rate, I can offer up one fact that can be verified with facts:
my corporations, while I still ran them, were just regular old
places to work; no employees or members of the public were harmed in
any way, nothing was stolen.<br>
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<div>I simply believe government is, *by far*, the lesser of these
two evils. I will also heartily and readily admit that the
current US government (and probably all current country
governments) is pretty evil.</div>
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Government isn't evil, it is just terribly inefficient. If it has
to have an adjective, "insidious" might be a better one. And the
people allow it to be that way, stay that way, and to get even
larger, more expensive, and less efficient, through their vote. The
people have also allowed the government to erect defenses for itself
against the wishes of the people, in the liberal courts and
politicians they elect. In helping to protect itself, the
government takes advantage of it's direct communication with the
people to socially engineer the population, thus bringing the
general opinions of the people into line with the general opinions
of people who would be politicians. For example, the electorate
would be far less likely today to vote out of office a Democrat who
openly declared him- or herself a Marxist, or even a Communist, than
it would have been before the government started calling "Communist
Red China" the "People's Republic of China." A goodly number of
slogans that are tossed about here as though they came off
Babylonian clay tablets have their origins in social engineering
initiatives. <br>
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<div>However, if y'all really care about changing the world, it is
my personal opinion that there is only one good way to do it in
time. A grand paternalism, if you will. Human unity! What
could be better? Individualism is selfish. Don't tear me apart
for that one!</div>
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Rather like ants? <br>
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The world will change alright; that die is cast. Change,
irreversible political and economic change in the Western world,
with more momentum than there is power to stop it, has been set in
motion by the last 100 years of legislation, abetted by a complacent
and gullible populace who allowed themselves to be coerced into
having a sense of guilt for the tolerable surroundings created at
their own hands. As we "sink," the nations now emerging as
economic, and, shortly to follow, military powerhouses will take our
place. For us in our lands, things won't be so bad though,
(ignoring the possibility of invasion and conquest), we'll just
become a breadbasket for other parts of the world. Adapting will
require little more than learning to speak the languages of North
and Central Africa, Asia, and Mexico, which will become the more
commonly spoken. And it should be nice and peaceful, with the
disruption of the big companies gone: the people with the money,
tremendous talent and boundless energy will be elsewhere -- they
won't take us with them, and why should they? We hate them all,
except, of course, for the ball players, and Oprah, and Michael
Moore.<br>
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What was the name of the town in that valley situated among the
mountains of Colorado we read about awhile back, Damien? We should
start looking around for a place there for our families pretty soon,
while land is still affordable, and private ownership is still
allowed.<br>
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FutureMan <br>
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