Posted by rycK on Thursday, April
30, 2009 9:06:57 AM
The Futile
Attempt of Forcing Equality Among the Masses.
Most
of our world history can be boldly indexed according to failures in financial
programs and policies. It seems that the Spanish, English, Germans, Italians,
Argentineans and many others who had leaders that boasted of some modicum of
education and/or we advised by ‘experts’ managed to find ways to trash their own
societies in one way or another. Most of the time the government led financial
systems packed up in a massive inflation caused by massive debt and defaults.
While
many of the examples above derived from imperialism or fascism, the current
thoughts on the Absolute Way to create and foster societies uses the same
cognitive processes and propaganda, but shifts the emphasis to socialism or
Marxism. There have been very few decent governments since 1900 in terms of
providing a stable society, plenty of food and a stable currency. We have 190
countries now and most of them are failures headed by dictators, kings or
worse. While in previous times
exploration, conquering, commerce and war were the main political driving
forces of governments the current political focus in the United States is on
the inexpressible notion of equality.
Here is my translation
of the current leftist views on egalitarianism:
To
realize equality using any metric that is available we first have to presuppose
that each individual must be entitled or limited to some measurable quantity of
this substance. The excuse frequently used is the zero sum rule,[1]which
states, in part, that Africa is poor because the US has stolen their futures
and such. Such thinking is farcical. The
most facile first topic to address is always money and its distribution among
the masses so the socialists like Bernard Shaw [Shavianism][2] had hoped for forced
equality using government policies where they would accept and implement his
Fabianism.[3] He monotonously postulated
that incomes should be equal. Shaw could not produce
a scenario by which this might occur after repeated requests but he did praise
the Bolsheviks
for their attempts in this area. Of course, the Soviets distributed the loot from
their plunder after murdering millions according to party membership thus
providing a very good life for the top tier of the 4% of the Russian population
who were party members and the rest were left with a much smaller portion or to
starve. Strangely, the leftist can
celebrate and praise a flamboyant dictator like Castro who impoverishes their
own country and produces poverty, war and famine as long as the money the
dictator squanders was derived from the rich or from nationalizing corporate
capital. This is a political mental affliction that has yet to be squared with
reality. Those liberal Democrats would not like to live under such a system
unless they had a guaranteed supply of narcotics at low cost.
If
we choose health care as the metric then we must ask if people really do have
equal access to such care in any modern state. The issue in the US is
frequently confused by equating medical insurance with medical care. Cuba[4]
boasts of a low-cost medical system that operates so that “annual health care spending [in Cuba ed.] averages just $230 a person compared with $6,096 in
the United States,” a statement [from the NYT ]that
defies a rational financial conclusion given that a simple blood test costs
$400 in the US and cannot be less [if
not subsidized] in Cuba. That means that
a few tests and some minor surgery wipe out the reserve for several dozen
people in this phony place where they have ‘free” health care. There is no
money in Cuba for even a lousy medical system unless you think rattles, drums
and political chants are good medicine. This coverage level is a lie, of course,
as the arithmetic demonstrates but lies are important to the left. The left thrives on lies and the Grand Lie is
that we can have ‘equality’ in our time. Canada and England have long waiting
lists for operations such as hip replacements in their medical system. This is
rationing. A proper medical system rations care? We do not in the US. Cuba
rations food. This is equality?
If we choose housing as
a metric and specify the number of square feet for each person then we cannot
find a place where such equality is in force. Our attempts at high-rise
apartments for the poor resulted in disasters like the Cabrini Green project[5] and
most of these were imploded and dismissed as failures.
If we choose jobs as a topic
and think about equality then we see a wide range of affirmative action
programs, quotas, union stonewalling and featherbedding, set-asides, corruption
and more that by the very definition force inequality upon the workers. These
programs do not provide equality in any way and must rely on racism, politics,
unionism and bias against those with the proper work skills to squeeze in
persons with lesser skills. The governments have decided to force employers to
hire people with lesser skills and employ them on some kind of ‘equality’
footing whereby they cannot perform with those higher up on the scale for
obvious reasons. IQ tests are outlawed for hiring because they seem to act
disparately against certain minorities and that is the direct result of
cognitive skill sorting. What should an IQ test measure if not IQ? IQ
differentials are unfair we are told.
Cognitive equality is an
oxymoron. There is no way you can give standardized tests and ensure that
everybody gets the average test grade with nobody getting a higher or a lower
test result. The much maligned Bell Curve[6],
sometimes accused of actually causing the ‘problem’ of cognitive mal-distribution
in the US, actually states the blunt facts about our societies and the
distribution of mental skills. This salient fact that half the people who take
the standardized test will score below the median is the rallying point for ‘change’
in ‘education.’[7]
That is not fair. Society must be equalized.[8] Thus propaganda must replace education. The Bell Curve correctly predicts who will pass
high school, college and who will excel in the work place—and who will not—on a
group basis. This fact commits millions to menial jobs but is casus belli for the political left.
Our government decided
that ‘affordable
housing’ was some obvious social mandate and passed the CRA [Community
Reinvestment Act][9][10] that has now created mountains of bad debt[11] by forcing banks to give away free houses to the uncreditworthy
low class in exchange for their votes under penalty of prosecution by the
government. We now have several trillion dollars in worthless mortgages that
are forcing bank failures. The scam here was that banks were forced to loan
money to people with poor credit, scant educational skills, drug addicts and
even illegal aliens and could peddle this worthless paper into the government
financial dumpsters known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These two phony
big-lie federal quasi-government corporations racked up 3-5 trillion dollars in
debt [we don’t know how much yet and it must much larger than that] and started
off a steep recession that will probably turn into a depression.[12] We cannot sustain such a high debt and it is quickly doubling
during the Obama administration.
We can safely state that this phony
government “affordable housing” program is not exactly working according to any known leftist
theory of equality. The ‘poor’ cannot pay for their mortgages as predicted[13] so the system is unfair. This observation brings up the broad-spectrum
question about any known history of leveling of factors that brought about some
form of equality. The closest I can find is the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. [14]
This is probably the left’s best effort to achieve equality as they simply
suffocated anybody they found who could read or had soft hands. That is one method that can square off a bell
curve—just eliminate the upper half and tail. After a fully rereading of some
books like Animal Farm, 1984 and reviewing the Cambodian Splendor,
it is clear that people like Castro, Ortega, Chavez, Morales[15]
and Kim in North Korea are simply pigs. They deal in poverty, murder and
sleaze. They are the exact converse of equality. The mumblings of Evo Morales who now identifies
himself as “Marxist-Leninist” brings
the promise of land reform. What a joke. Lenin promised land reform and several
million Kulaks [known as Dekulakization[16]] died trying to get in on the deal.[17] Food was the issue in the Ukraine and the Soviet solution was Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор translation:
death by starvation).[18]
The left can seemingly stand up and offer to support the ‘poor’ even thought
they preach from atop a pile of 100,000,000 dead bodies.
The
government thus assumes that if a market [stocks, houses, etc.] goes up then
this is fine as taxes can be raised and money spread around to ‘aid’ the lower
classes and pad the salaries of the politicians and their friends. If the
market, like housing, goes down and wealth is lost then the government, leaning
on the taxpayer as always, must make up the difference with taxes and social
programs. Unemployment and lost tax
revenues must be replaced by higher taxes on the upper income levels. This
effect generates a spiral whereby more jobs and lost and taxes must be raised,
which ensures that tax revenues will decrease. The strange notion here is that
jobs and wealth cannot be lost and the government must intervene to
reverse such a situation. If the economy sinks and the GDP
falls then the government must provide money for jobs and things to pull the GDP back up even though when they raise taxes they
thus ruin new job formation. High corporate taxes force businesses to lay off
workers. The government seems to believe that the government is the employer of
last resort and lately the lender of first and last resort. This would, of
course, call for more taxes and so on and so forth. This cycle never ends. To
pay for all this socialism the government now prints money which will soon result
in massive inflation—an outcome that does not help the poor.
Equality does not exist in our various societies and the quest for such is not a
moral or a social endeavor—it is an excuse to dominate the situation with power
given to the politicians who will become famous and stuff their pockets with
money. Only a fool can read history and look at the thousands of social
programs that have failed and conclude that this is a viable option. Every time
the far left get their way with government accounts the system crashes and, for
a while, the citizens are somewhat ‘equal.’ What these people want is power and
the power is derived from other people’s money. They will squander that wealth while
pretending to help the poor. They always have.
Our current government is on a wild
spending spree and fantasizing about green products, electric cars and other
fanciful dreams that are derived from smoking crack or other leftist pastimes.
California [or what I call the California Disease][19]
is the
test case as they will probably get to the very limit of ‘equality’ as soon as
they go bankrupt and unemployment soars in the Golden State. The Gold will surely turn to rust. New York State and New Jersey, all controlled by left liberals
will soon follow. Ever notice that the top 10 cities famous for high murder rates
are run by 9 Democrats and 1 liberal Republican? The leftists sure know how to
run major cities equitably as the propensity to get murdered is similar in
these cities. [20]
Something
to think about:
"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of
other people's money." --
Margaret Thatcher.[21]
Our
government is fast running out of our money and now will print some new money
to achieve equality. Are we to go bankrupt over an impossible
social experiment? The answer to this is yes from the
far left. What ever it takes!
rycK
Comments:
ryckki@gmail.com
[2] G. Bernard Shaw gave a
thousand speeches on ‘equal incomes’ and could never be coaxed into telling
anybody how this might be accomplished. A reference to G. Bernard Shaw. From whom Shavian, or in my usage Shavianism
was named. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw.
Herbert
Stooges for the “Studies” by Leftist Think Tanks and Translates their
Objectives: Higher Taxes
[3] http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O88-Fabianism.html
[5] “(CBS) They’re finally tearing down Cabrini-Green. For decades, the
red and white tenements near downtown Chicago
[6] The Bell
by
Herrnstein, Richard J. and Murray,
Charles Free Press of Glencoe , Inc, Old
Tappan , New
Jersey , U.S.A.
[8] Political Lies, Ghouls,
Dictators and the Eternal Quest for your Wealth.
http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/11/20/political_lies,_ghouls,_dictators_and_the_eternal_quest_for_your_wealth.thtml
“The quest for ‘equality’
and ‘social
justice’ might be attained in other ways we are told and that
‘education’ of the masses is the way to do this. If we teach our offspring to
be classless and steep them in fairness and humanity then social justice will
spring forth like flowers in the meadows.
The disease that prevented this splendor was capitalism. Any intrinsic
truths in the educational theory entrenched in this message failed to
materialize in the society as a whole because of two factors: propaganda and the maldistribution of cognitive attributes or IQs. “
“To
fix this problem, propaganda must replace education. The trickle down theory of distribution of
wealth was unacceptable according to the new educated view. Now leaders of corporations became greedy
tyrants and exploited their employees instead of being benefactors and
employing millions from their risk-taking and ingenuity. Only a few of these
entrepreneurs would rise to power and they were not the ones who by an accident
of birth became royal rulers, but they were the ones who were adept in
business. In England
[9] “Bear Stearns made the first public securitization of Community
Reinvestment Act (CRA ) loans started in 1997.[6] Editorialists in some American
newspapers[7][8] and US Congressman Ron Paul[9] say the CRA
loans were lent to otherwise un-credit-worthy consumers in the name of ending
discrimination, although an analysis of actual lending patterns does not
generally support this conclusion.[10][11][12]
On June 22, 2007,
Bear Stearns pledged a collateralized loan of up to $3.2 billion to "bail
out" one of its funds, the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Fund,
while negotiating with other banks to loan money against collateral to another
fund, the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Enhanced Leveraged Fund.[13] The funds were invested in thinly
traded collateralized
debt obligations (CDOs)
found to be worth less than their mark-to-market value. Merrill Lynch seized $850 million worth of the
underlying collateral but only was able to auction $100 million of them. The
incident sparked concern of contagion as Bear Stearns might be forced to
liquidate its CDOs, prompting a mark-down of similar assets in other
portfolios.[14][15] Richard
A. Marin, a senior executive at Bear Stearns Asset Management
responsible for the two hedge funds, was replaced on June 29 by Jeffrey
B. Lane, a former Vice Chairman of rival investment bank, Lehman Brothers.[16]
During
the week of July 16, 2007,
Bear Stearns disclosed that the two subprime hedge funds had lost nearly all of
their value amid a rapid decline in the market for subprime mortgages.
[11] The Rape of the Your
Wealth: Obama and his Illegal Aliens are set to Regulate and Redistribute All
that you have.
“"These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind
of financial crisis," said
Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts
[12] Political Lies, Ghouls,
Dictators and the Eternal Quest for your Wealth.
[13] The ‘poor’ and criminal class and
certain minorities have very low IQs that place them permanently at the bottom
of the job scale. Most criminals in prison have very low IQ scores.
[14] “In 1977 Chomsky, with Edward S. Herman,
published a review article, "Distortions at Fourth Hand." Examining
reports of mass atrocities committed by the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, they argued
that there were "sharply conflicting assessments" of events in Cambodia U.S. Cambodia
[15] ““It
can’t be understood why for ideological motives someone is kicked out of OAS.
I’m also Marxist-Leninist, so what are they going to kick me out also?” said
Morales in the interview.
“How many governments nowadays in Latinamerica have
left wing governments?” added Morales who said he hoped the United States
would lift the embargo on Cuba .
“That is why no final declaration was signed at the end of the Trinidad Tobago
(Americas )
summit”, which was drafted 18 months ago when there was no capitalism financial
crisis or this great feeling towards Cuba , “and it was not the result of
debate among presidents”.
Morales said the “principles or Marxism are part of the indigenous movement
struggle for freedom, dignity and above all land”. http://en.mercopress.com/2009/04/30/morales-lobbies-for-cuba-and-describes-himself-as-partly-marxist-leninist
[19] California
The
Continuing Collapse of California Third World Marxist Economies in the
Coming Depression II.
The
Terminal Financial Psychosis of California
The
Continuing Collapse of California Third World Marxist Economies in the
Coming Depression.
The
Collapse of California Third World Marxist Economies. They
want our Taxes.
Ref:
Murder in the Cities: The Triumph of Liberalism
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