Where Has All the Logic Gone?
Does anyone ever wonder when and why logic departed from our political discourse?
In one breath I hear people admit that when Kennedy, Reagan and Bush cut taxes they spurred economic growth and the taxes on that growth resulted in increases in revenue to the US Treasury. So, why do I hear moderators like Chris Wallace ask how the Congress intends to pay for a tax cut? Isn't it logical that these tax cuts never have to be "paid for" by the Congress? Won't they pay for themselves?
Whether you are a supply-side or a Keynesian economist both theories are emphatic that when the economy is in recession you do not take money out of the economy. Keynesians believe you pump money in through government spending, deficit spending. Supply-siders believe that you cut taxes and cut spending and onerous regulations to spur economic growth. Neither believes you should raise taxes. Therefore, why do so many believe that an ever-shrinking US economy will benefit from allowing government to raise income taxes thus shrinking it more?
Our federal bureaucracy is intent on "punishing" BP for the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico. My understanding today is that the oil seems to be dissipating on its own due to the scale of the spill volume as compared to the volume of ocean waters. 3/4 of the oil apparently can no longer be found. So, why is the same bureaucracy now simply shifting the sin from the oil spilled to the chemical dispersants that were used by BP to accelerate its dissipation? Must this administration have a devil to assail? Couldn't we simply admit to how wonderful a filter the ocean is and say, "thank you God." ? No, they can't and isn't it logical that they can't? The Obama Administration has a need to cast someone as villain to enable them to identify themselves as necessary to protect the public whether it be BP, big business, insurance companies, banks, Wall Street and of course, George W Bush.
And what has the government learned from this oil spill? Anything? Would they admit that the risk to off shore drilling is far less than once thought because such a large volume of oil was adequately handled by the ocean filter? Yet their reaction remains to declare moratoriums against deep water drilling. The federal government is prepared to deprive this country of 24% of its domestic production of oil because of the "fear" that another accident could happen. The statistics favor the oil companies here because this was the first accident among hundreds, maybe thousands of off shore oil rigs and without regard to this Gulf Oil Spill there remains a higher risk to the shorelines from normal ship leakage than from these rigs. Yet, environmentalists, the Congress and this president are intent on eliminating off shore drilling. This is more than simply not logical, it is insane. It is also telling. Environmentalism has nothing at all to do with the environment and protecting the earth. It is about raw political power. It is an attempt to control YOU.
Wake up America. Voters, think logically!
Categories: Gulf Oil Disaster
Tags: tax cuts Logic Chris Wallace economics taxes Gulf Oil Spill Supply Side Keynesian
No, no, no. BP messed up. The Tea Party needs to take the binoculars they put to government and put those to the works of big business, too. We certainly should have a free market, but not an irresponsible cannibalism, versus capitalism. The unabated mergers that are eating up most of US wealth (90 of US wealth in 10 percent of the citizen's hands), the monopolies posing as various corporations through brand fraud (i.e. how we think they are in competition because they own different brands that are actually all sibling companies, children of one merger), the mental illness that has taken over business which assumes that profit is the end all be-all, even when extreme issues, like the environment and global warming (which is objectively proven) hang in the balance--
All this needs to go. We can't have oppressors anywhere-in the government, or in the business sphere. The government does not have a right to control wages or prices, but like deism, they have a right in the interest of the people to wind the clock of laws that are for the benefit of the whole and then leave business to itself within the confines of those laws: and here are the two biggies:
1) Reinstate monopoly law (you don't want socialism? Then put an end to the freaking ridiculous division of wealth in the nation by battling mergers. They cripple the free market.)
2) End primogeniture for once and for all. In other words, inheritance can't exceed a certain amount for one individual, nor can inherited company shares. A guy who works his way up and earns all his capital, or a woman, keeps it, but when that person dies, you break that capital up again and scatter it around like bread crumbs and let the brave comers vie for it, you don't heap it all down on primogeniture clowns, the worst example of which would be Paris Hilton.
Look, some people have worked for their money. Some have inherited it. What did the aristocrats do that America broke with? Pass legacies of power and privilege down so a man or woman didn't have to work for what he or she had and could still inherit half the nation's wealth.
For a free nation, this is outlandish.
I'm not talking fascism. I'm talking get rid of the remnants of feudalism, which capitalism replaced. Hello?
Also corporations giving in elections do not the people make. We all will be sorry when a few select businesses (complete elitism) have made it so smaller franchises can't compete, and when a business is free to do whatever it wants that damages other business (i.e. kicking the ass out of local fisheries in the gulf) without accountability. Nope. It's time for cleaner government and cleaner business.
Read me loud and clear. And I am as big a lover of this nation as anyone. And someone who believes in the Free Market. What I don't believe in is PACs and corporations and special interest groups buying off elections as they have been doing and probably will, until we all take a stand on ending it.
The ordinary citizen can't compete.
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