Whats this? Glenn Beck sells key chains at my local Wal-Mart? These are not exactly his, nor are the terms exclusively Beck’s but I cannot help but think that he is not responsible for the modern resurgence of the three ideas. Okay, maybe it has nothing to do with Glenn Beck at all, but I am going to give him the credit. How many of you own your very own network? That is what I thought.
This is a response to a Facebook Note by Mark Cuban. It seems to me that Mark is suggesting things to close the market furthermore and move towards even more central planning. It is cute for him to suggest such measures, as a billionaire he would never be negatively affected by them like people like me. In fact, if he is really smart, he is suggesting these actions as a way to limit his competition because his massive ego could not deal with someone superseding his moderate success.
I may not know it all, but I know that elitists, intellectuals and those like Mark Cuban do not have the answers, the market always does. There are three categories that celebrity entrepreneurs, celebrities and business people fall into when they open their big mouths and make public statements about politicians, politics and economics.
The Great Lie of Wall Street
Perhaps it is not a lie. They are beyond their own self-interest, looking at the health of their company, longevity and bottom line. The 47 along with their best ally and friend Obama are not providing the most stable economic conditions, leading evil greedy Wall Street types to hoard cash.
Perhaps the most intellectually honest thing to say would be “We are here to make a profit, and after that we are here to make a bigger profit. Thirdly, we are concerned about shareholders.”
But what people like Cuban and the 47%ers really want is a massive shift in human nature. Rather than being concerned about their own well-being, the 47%ers want successful people to be concerned about whining 47%. Do not get me wrong, they want companies to go about creating massive profits, but rather than then let those who created those profits decide how they will be spent, they feel that it is their right to determine how those dollars will be distributed.
The argument about government spending money on the unemployed is vastly circular, since no fare minded free market thinking would support it to start. So using that as the basis for an argument in support of increased regulation and taxation is utterly misguided.
Make All Financial Institutions Partnerships
Perhaps the hazard starts with the government requiring banks to create loans for those we all knew could not repay it, then having the government’s own banking and lending arms acquiring those loans as an investment instrument. It seems silly to be mad at the middle man, who by law was required to take the risk. But let’s not talk about the facts because that would make it less fun to riot in the streets. We are the 47%.
Limit Student Loans to $2,000 Per Year
Good idea. I think it is high time to put institutions of so-called “higher learning” in their place. I am not sure if you are suggesting the government come in an regulate this, but it would be the only way to make it happen. Banks control very little of student loans. The government controls the vast majority of loans since Obama became supreme chancellor. Why? Simple, it makes it easier for him to forgive the loans of his voting base. It is not a bribe though, even suggesting it makes you racist. Anyone who has ever needed a microloan will tell you they are hard to come by because the bank does not need to risk their capital for such a lousy return. Maybe Mark plans to offer the Mavericks up as a thug security force to make banks do this?
Mark Cuban has no understand of markets. The lack of loans did not make houses cheaper, the over production of homes due to cheap lending required by the government put to many expensive homes on the market. In an effort to dump bad debt, people/lenders sell them at cheap prices.
Mark, like many elitist snobs misses the point. If you want to make college cheap, you encourage students to drop out and those graduating high school to join the military, the work force, go to a trade school and start a business and work on the side.
Finally, students do not need a free pass, they need a reality check. In the face. Colleges do not make successful people, and they do not make a successful economy does. Mark Cuban, of all people, should have a grasp of this concept.
Tax the Hell Out of Wall Street; Give it to Main Street
When Cuban willingly and freely hands me the reigns to vast fortune and his corporate holdings, then we can talk about the ideas laid out here.
The Bailouts
I hated bailouts as much as the next liberal. We were told that our financial system would have collapsed had we not had them. While I approach that idea with much hesitation and reservation, if it is truly the case then that system deserved to fail and a new, free market based capitalist one built it its place. Think about this though: The money that was lent to the banks has been paid back, in full with interest. The TARP fund has remained open however with those funds being willed to whomever the Obama administration sees fit.
The auto bailouts are something no 99er or progressive wants to touch because it involves the teat of big labor, the buyer of presidential seats and purveyor of progressive dreams. Not a single soul who is currently in the UAW voted to unionize nor asked to be represented by the UAW, they are forced into it, however when two of the three American auto manufactures were failing, big labor was given top billing over investors. Obama even appointed a new CEO for GM. Right there, is the most transparent of the unholy unions between big labor dollars and the government. That money has not even been paid back, and many say it cannot be paid back. Where are progressive occupiers on that issue? They dare even broach the subject as some of them as now being paid to occupy by big labor.
TIN FOIL HAT CONSPIRACY THEORY
The bailouts were not necessary except for their revolutionary purposes. I think that many progressive saw bank bailouts as a spark to revitalize their lost communist revolution from the 60s. What else could provide so much violent vitriol as loans to billionaires? What could provide better coverage than a rising of the proletariat? Big labor and big green energy are walking away with our dollars, and there just are not enough hours in the twenty-four-hour-news cycle to cover that because there are smelly college students making children on private land they have occupied.
THEY WANT TO PRIVATIZE THE GLOBE
Like the use of the term “Tea Bagger”, liberals have propagated this notion that all Republicans want to privatize everything. They repeat the meme often enough, I am starting to think they believe it.
“The government builds roads, schools and the military, that is socialism too!”
Listen you half-brained mcnuggets, there is a very, very slim population of people who identify themselves as private-party anarchists. I personally do not see that as the intent of our framers, but that aside, if the whole or even the vast majority of the republican establishment showed this level of clear headed thinking, we would never be in such dire straits. The fact remains that most republicans are far too moderate to even believe a flat tax could work. Republicans are far too progressive.
Elizabeth Warren recently stated that the public at large had a right to the wealth of the rich because they got rich by shipping goods on public roads and using public schools. While I fail to see how public schools innovate anything, the truth is the rich pay for those roads. Their shipping trucks use diesel fuel, which is taxed heavily to keep roads paved, they also pay for them when the fill up the gas guzzling luxury SUVs, thefore using her logic, one could even make the argument that the rich own more of the roads than anyone else.
Roads, interstate infrastructure development, and military. These are things government should do. Progressives cannot deal with such common sense thinking, can they?
The hacker group Anonymous who is responsible for the Occupy Wall Street protests and other city occupations set to begin today has called for college students to walk out of their classrooms because of high student debt and rapidly rising tuition.
There are several lessons here. First, we can understand something about Anonymous and their flock: They have no understanding of market economics (human nature). Walking out of a classroom will not help their debt concern, only make it worse. Paying tuition and walking out of class is like buying a movie ticket and never walking in the theater. Due to the overrated value placed on attending college in addition with displaced workers that have decided to take this time to go back finish degrees, demand has soared. The supply of degrees has always remained the same. Thus, tuition goes up. However, since there is more fancy parchment on the street, a simple four year parchment is no longer in high demand as it once might have been. In addition, there are displaced workers with real world experience and knowledge of the world who have just printed themselves a parchment. Competition is now fierce.
Second, they do not understand the root cause of their surface problem. Their surface problem is the lack of jobs, competition to get those jobs, mounting debt, and inflation. Like all progressives, they cannot find fault within themselves or their sacred cows of universities or government. Most in my generation chose to believe that a parchment will lead to lasting employment that would someday make them wealthy. It does not. Hard work leads to wealth. Most of these kids do not understand that concept. Capitalism has allowed our society to advance to a place where the average human need not feel certain pressures. However, it is pressure that makes coal into a diamond. What we have here are graduates who are finally feeling the pressure of their decision to get a Master of Fine Arts in musical theater writing, with a minor in German. Any old degree will not do get you a $250,000 job. But they cannot blame their university for charging them so much and they cannot blame government for spending us into recession. They blame the banks because that is what in vogue. However, blaming the rich, who are most likely their parents, does not resolve the root cause: YOU HAVE NO PURPOSE. Free markets do not necessarily make us happier; they just ensure misery will come by our own hand and not by force.
Dear Sheeples,
If you want to send a real message, not just to colleges, but also to Wall Street, you drop out of college and never return. By walking out, you tell us that you believe that your degree will something and you do not know why, but you know you need it. By dropping out, you tell us that know that your degree is worthless and that you really have no idea what you want from life. The current path leads to your mothers couch anyway. Skip the lecture you will most likely Facebook through and just get the mixing bowl and Captain Crunch going, it will save you plenty in the long run.
There is a vast right-wing conspiracy to keep people fed and housed through meaningful work, perhaps even work on Wall Street. Thanks to the choice that capitalism allows you, you do not need to participate in that if you do not want to. Think for yourself, if you walk out the college keeps your tuition. Most of you are still early enough in the semester that you can recoup most of your loan money if you quit now. Do not protest in the streets and crap in a depends for six months just because a Guy Fawkes mask with a digital voice scrambler tells you should. You followed that logic once and it lead to the debt and insignificance you now suffer from. Will it be any different this time around? No.
Hearts & Handguns,
Daniel K. Thomas
P.S. You are all stupid. Get bent.
P.P.S. When you do not hit you kids, they grow up and leech off of you and then protest your place of work. Moral of the story? Beat your dang kids.
The 24-hour-news-cycle-complex conjured up by the well known baby-eating capitalist, Roger Ailes, sends America atwitter every two or four years attempting to let the people choose rulers that will have lasting global impact, not to mention the other leaders in other countries that are chosen by similar processes; all of whom have the ability to make poor decisions that can ruin everyone on the the face of the earth. Is it really fair to change leadership that often? How does this effect the poor and the not-so-light-so-skinned? Not to mention the all the different leaders of all of these countries. I mean, can anyone really tell the difference from our president to the presidents of other nations? Isn’t this just segregation like in the 60s? I think it is a high time to call this whole process of “electing presidents of countries” into review. I mean, is this even legal or moral?
Yes, I understand that voting has been a central theme of most democratic societies, but I am now asking the question if perhaps we can evolve or progress past this archaic, old world system invented by slave-owning white men. Technology and science have advanced society in ways that the people who stole this land from the Native Americans could have never imagined.
I am proposing the government develop and build a technologically advanced weaving loom that can see into the future, and when this magical loom sees an individual, a group of people, or really smart dolphins and gorillas that can unite the world of the future, it would weave their name(s), longitude and latitude into fabric; letting the world know who shall be its new facilitator. It is not fair that America is separate from other countries like Europe and Africa, so part of this plan means that the globe can finally be united. This process removes illiterate people, like those of the American Tea Party movement from this all important equation. Do you know that some of these people have not even gone to Harvard? How can we rely on them to make sound decisions? No wonder our world has problems, we let people who do not laugh at the New Yorker cartoon vote for things! This is the moral civil rights movement of our time. My friends and fellow activists, it is high time we apply for another grant from George Soros and get a few billion dollars to spread the message of what I am calling the Esperanto Decision Loom, or EDL. Yes, I know it does not exist yet, but this the cause that can finally end pain, suffering, hunger and global warming.
I know this concept sounds like something out of an Angelina Jolie movie, but I really believe that the future of progressive government is global. We cannot let the people choose what’s wrong for them and I feel this is the solution the world needs to heal from the damage capitalism and human existence has caused.
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