Politics and Trade

Re: [spiers] Politics and Trade

> I critique the universal problem of
> giving politicians any power. And here, outside of
> say Switzerland, San Marino, Singapore,
> Andorra, the Vatican, Iceland (they managed nearly
> 300 years without any government
> whatsoever!)

Well, maybe no formally structured government, but I
guarantee Icelanders organized and cooperated for the
common good of their community.

> Our president is merely the CEO of one
> branch of the federal government, a branch
> ultimately under the congress, which represents the
> people to the federal government, that
> strictly limited entity. Or so the theory goes.

I don't think the Bush Administration gets the
"ultimately under the congress" part.


>
> Pre-Revolutionary Spiers were sailing merchants,
> landowners, slave owners. Henry Spires
> (the spellings changed often before Webster and
> Johnson standardized spelling) was given a
> land patent in Virginia for 100 acres by the King in
> 1744, and John Speirs got 600 acres 80
> years earlier.

The same King that granted Henry Spires land also had
Pyphoria, a liver disorder only treated by an Orphan
drug that is not profitable for a drug company to
make. So, the government steps in and makes it
possible for the drug company to make the drug and the
people who are afflicted with Pyphoria are helped.
Isn't public health a benefit of government?

> Spiers were wealthy and active in the
> revolution, indeed, quite well-to-do financially
> until, at least in my line, the fortune was
> wiped out in the stock market crash of 1929, before
> government policy caused the
> depression.

Didn't unbridled unchecked capitalism cause the great
depression? FDR is said to have "saved capitalism
from itself" with his work progress programs that the
Hamiltonians considered communism.

> The reason we no longer
> have slaves is that word “inalienable”
> associated with rights, which made inevitable the
> end of slavery in USA. Whether Jefferson
> foresaw this effect downstream is debatable, but the
> fact is he wrote the words and the words
> led to the end of slavery, the ultimate expression
> of libido dominandi.

And the reason we had slaves was unchecked unbridled
libido dominandi, and it was government to the rescue
again.


> Privately this family history is no more important
> to me than the genealogy of Gwyneth
> Paltrow. But it is terribly important to some
> family members who keep careful track of it all.
> How else will my daughters assume their place in the
> Daughters of the American Revolution?
> The genealogy must be exact. There is a certain
> entitlement that comes with being of
> revolutionary stock, and we must not lose our
> patrimony through neglect. On the other
> hand, if one had an ancestor executed by Berkeley
> during Bacon’s rebellion, then perhaps

Geneticist Spencer Wells proved that all Europeans can
trace thier paternal lineage to ONE man in Central
Asia a mere 2000 generations ago. And EVERY person
living today shares paternal DNA from the oldest tribe
of people on Earth; the Kalahari Bush people in
Southern Africa. You and I are ~40,000 years removed
cousins.


>So now we have an America capable of what the
>revolutionaries fought, that Hamiltonian
>imperial power. The Bushes, as do the democrats, no
>matter who they run as candidate,
>represent the Hamiltonian strain of USA politics.

And what party represents the Jeffersonians?


Anthony

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