We're All Dead Anyway...Right?

James Fisher

November 24 via mobile

"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs, in the long run, we're all dead"- John Maynard Keynes.

Who is Keynes? He is the man who rewrote rational economics with his "General Theory" and destroyed a science for the majority.

His General theory is nothing more than garble and spit up contradictions, but he did something other economist did not think of. He told governments exactly what they wanted to hear.

That they could spend their way to prosperity. When the economy slows and unemployment is high, just get the aggregate demand going again and everything will be okay.

He destroyed 100s of years of progress by economists. Not that their information is not there. It still is, and many of us know where to find it. But trying to overcome the forces of the state when it gets this new tool of a supposed economic science which is telling them to spend more is almost impossible.

Most economic text books use Keynes as the foundation. So most of our economists today are trained in this false science.

This is one of the reasons why the Fed gets away with printing so much money and stealing your savings. They say they have science telling them to increase spending and aggregate demand.

Any rational person understands you can't spend your way to being richer. That saving will always increase wealth while spending decreases it. It's 2 year old smarts. But Keynes convinced a whole system into a lie.

It wasn't through some evil Genius that he did it. It wasn't some master plan. It was simple.

Governments steal and spend anyway. That's how they work. They must steal and spend to exist. So the first person, who was able to make an attempt at justifying this as a good backed by science, would be a hero to the states around the world.

Back to the Keynes quote?

This was his response when people asked him about the obvious affects of spending in the long term. If we always spend to fix the economy and create debt, then the debt will hurt the economy and makes us spend more to help it.

What about the long term Mr Keynes? Wouldn't this just be a cycle downward?

His answer?

"In the long run, we're all dead."

Rules Rules Rules

James Fisher

Rule driven behavior vs Profit driven behavior.

Often people think we need government bureaucracies like the FDA or EPA because we can't have just profit driving decisions on how business behaves. We must instead have rules driving their behavior as well.

Were it not for these agencies, the profit motive would be a destructive force.

Examine this closely. What is profit driven behavior? It is business figuring out what people will pay for. Meaning it is what people in society actually want.

People think that a drug company would sell snake oil as a cure for cancer for profit and so we need the rules of an FDA to prevent this. These evil companies must have a rule driven watchdog to stop them from selling us snake oil.

If there was no FDA, would there be companies doing this? Would these companies survive.

Were there no FDA, would you blindly buy any cancer drug? Or would you perhaps do a little research?

Profit driven behavior means the companies who best serve society survive, while the snake oils disappear due to no profit.

Rule driven behavior means a bureaucrat decides what drugs are available to you, not society's actual preference.

There is a different way....America's 3rd way....

Libertarianism.

Tyranny Wrapped In A Box Of Science & Politics

James Fisher

The progressive

The progressive realizes not where progress is made. All real human progress has been made by the market. By individuals figuring out what other individuals really want, need and more importantly, will part with their own savings for.

Yet despite the evidence of the market being responsible for real progress, the progressive seeks to centrally plan progress by the force of the state.

He says:

"We should do X"

"People need to be X"

"We shouldn't do X because the environment X"

Not realizing any time one makes a statement like this, it really means the force of the state guns is needed. Otherwise, if it were voluntary, it would just happen.

The progressive is responsible for horrors and setbacks to real progress.

For it was the progressives that were first to support Hitler.
The progressives looked to plan human development through sterilizing portions of population.
The progressive has no concept of evil and good. These are just relative terms to them.

Progress does not need to be forced onto people. That's tyranny!

For the progressive is tyranny wrapped in a box of science and politics.

Yummy Cupcakes No More?

James Fisher

Yummy cupcakes no more?

Just the other day I wrote a rant on teachers unions not realizing I was predicting the future in my piece. (Please read below on Unions)

I honestly had no idea that this was happening when I wrote it.

Hostess Cupcakes will close its doors. Their union is in the middle of striking.

The CEO says it doesn't matter if the strike ended a week ago, they still must close their doors.

So I want you to think about this for a second. The business has filed for bankruptcy twice since 2004. They have been hanging on by a thread running at a loss for years.

So what does their union do?

Go on strike! Think about that. Your company is dying and if you want to keep your job you should do everything in your power to help them. But instead, you walk out on strike to demand more from them?

Union president says that their failure is from a decade of financial mismanagement. As if he would know. But to me it doesn't matter. Your company is dying. Strike? How can putting the last nail in the coffin be the answer?

Their union has been battling them for years with strikes.

Like I said, unions choke off their companies until only the non-union companies are left standing with less competition.

Its a self correcting system in the free market. This is why you see very little unions in the private sector. The problem corrects itself.

Its also why you see the unions in the public sector instead. Where they can thrive because there is no failure. The failure just means higher taxes for the private sector.

So now 18,500 jobs will be lost because of unions. What else can you argue? That a company loosing money should have paid its workers more?

I wonder how may of those 18500 wanted nothing to do with the union, but had to go along because of the force unions use? How many would have been happy to stay at work but couldn't?

Quantitative Easing Or Just Plain Stealing

Evan Mulch shared Deep Thoughts, by Ben Bernanke's photo.

Quantitative easing is a euphemism for an inflationary strategy of monetary policy pursued by central banks. The bank adds money to its balance sheet ex nihilo (out of nothing), and uses the new money to purchase government securities, thus increasing bank reserves, raising the prices of government securities, and lowering their interest rates. It is equivalent to simply printing additional legal tender. ~Credit for this definition goes to the Mises Institute

Why We Are Hobos

James Fisher

The Tea Party is officially a failure. For it failed on many terms. But I now understand why it failed.

It was supposed to be aligned on 3 issues

Fiscal responsibility

Constitutional limited government
Free Markets

Although these 3 values are good ones. They tea party should have one core value.

Liberty!

It should use Liberty as its benchmark.

Now the Tea Party is dead and all but co-opted by the establishment. It's time for the Libertarians to take hold.

Want to join something that really means something and can't be co-opted by the establishment?

Start by reading Murray Rothbard and visit Mises.org

Voting = Civic Duty?

We are so indoctrinated by the State that it is our civic duty to vote that people actually believe we are a part of the government. That is more of a Soviet idea than an American one. Only since the Civil War could an idea such as this be perpetrated upon the American people. As a Baptist, I think have to agree with my brother, Jim. Historically, Baptists have been very leery of government and most certainly anti-war. So I decided to post this Facebook post written by my brother.

James Fisher

Do your civic duty and vote?

What did the founders think about government and our civic duty?

"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." - Jefferson [and he said this back then before the FDA, Dept of agriculture and so on etc...]

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson [Jefferson knew even within our own nation we would eventually have to fight our own government to restore liberty]

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” -George Washington [the founders understood the very nature of government. They did not seek to make a great government, but a severely restricted one]

"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide." - John Adams

 

As we all hail our civic duty to vote in our so called democracy, the democratic system is not something heralded by the founders. It was not attendance at polls they were worried about, but how to keep a limited state limited.

So why are they so interested in your attendance at the polls...Your so called civic duty?

Because they think that you can not claim their taxes as the theft it really is, if you go vote and are responsible for the system. By voting, you are supporting the system. The spending, the debt, the theft, all of it.

The last thing they want is for your refusal to put the next thief in his position. They don't want you to claim independence from the democratic Republic system. Where you can stand and say, "I'll have no part in this cycle of theft". Because then you can logically claim you are being stolen from, not taxed.

So do your civic duty!

Don't vote for either party and refuse to take part in this two party system.

It is your civic duty to resist tyranny of the state!