Opportunities In A False Economy

The bailouts were about preserving A system, not THE system.  The worst parts of the false economy are the financial system and the warfare/welfare state.  The reform groups such as the Tea Party do not want to change anything, they simply believe they would do better at war and welfare if they were in charge. They would not.

The powers that be see none of this is sustainable.  Trouble ahead.  Governor Christie of New Jersey is talking sensible reforms, which will leave public union pensioners with little to look forward to.  After 40 years of paying off cops and firemen and other government workers, it is time to burn the beneficiaries, according to the powers that be.  As much that has gone into telling us what wonderful and selfless people government workers are, we are now hearing how awful and undeserving they are.  Here is a video of a police officer casually murdering a man on a pleasant summer day.  He immediately lies to a witness about what he has done, and the first back up officer, seeing he has killed a man, says "good job...you did the right thing..." having absolutely no idea what transpired.  Such video before would never see the light of day, but this is the 4th or 5th police outrage video in Seattle alone in the last year or so.

Believing that the powers that be would never turn on cops and fireman is to ignore history.  USA left countless POWs behind in Vietnam, abuses citizens in secret medical experiments, abandons disabled vets from the current war and falsely accuses people for political gain.  The most celebrated "keepers of the peace" in the last millenium, the Samurai, woke up one day to poverty in the Meiji restoration.  Never mind all that honor and duty stuff, get a job.

Just do without cops?  No, something else. It was no problem switching from constabulary to paramilitary force in policing over the last 50 years...  it is clear the next phase is soviet style snitching, with local, state and feds advertising heavily pro-snitch attitudes.  Between the mandatory facebook page, google communications, and your ID/debit smart card, it will take almost no cops to keep our society in lockdown.  There are smartphone apps for snitching.  There will be no-knock surgical night raids to complement the system.

Something that makes this inevitable, indeed necessary, is the false economy we have.  More people work for government than make things.  Those who do make things, such as software and pharmaceuticals or cars, make then in support of a government program, to busy government workers, or are subsidized by government.  And lots of lawyers sorting squabbles, they too government workers. Education is geared to supply workers for this economy, as any kid seeking student aid learns war or welfare award big right now. Then it takes a lot of coffee to keep this crowd going, hence Starbucks.  Then there are gyms to meet people. Restaurants, airlines, travel destinations all live off the government worker economy, since the elimination of that segment would bankrupt their operations.

But it is what they want. The atty general warns us of domestic terrorists who want changes.  (He says "radicals" when he means extremists, he speaks of 3 past false flag operations to make his case, proving he has no idea what is going on.) No doubt plots are afoot, but only by people who think they can do a better job if they were in charge.  Again, they can't.  And no one has the right to take this system away from those who clamor for it, although it will come crashing down of its own accord someday, or slowly if not over decades

Regulation and taxes, if not outright assault, such as on small farmers, make it difficult for anyone to offer goods or service outside of the mass merchandise channels.  It can be done, there is still enough market left, but it is harder.  We are the salvation of this country, but too few want that right now.

There are the powers that be that want to keep things going, not that they believe in anything except themselves, and will burn the segments that so supported them.  Industrial labor for 30 years has been famished, while govt unions, religion, academia, law, medicine, you name it, are blind, like a pig that cannot open its eyes for how fat is its face.

How to do good while doing well in this environment?  Get edgy.  One reason we are descending so fast is the law is failing, they being govt workers too.  IN particular judges throw out warrants like confetti.  A real service would be to create a database of judges, the warrants they issue, and then the results of the police raid.  Voters would have a new metric by which to judge a judge, the website would sell ads to the eyeballs visiting, not to mention the political ad revenue.

Look at who is making big bucks: those taking the jobs of soldiers, cops, teachers, govt workers...  blackwater mercenaries, charter schools, public works.  It is not enough to just provide the same govt work at a lower cost, design services that actually serve the people.

For example, I met a statistician once.  He worked for the ambulance companies hired by the cities.  Through statistics they got ambulances to trouble spots faster and at less cost than when the city handled it.  Full moon, park closer to the saloon district.  Holidays?  Closer to the interstate exchanges.  Fewer ambulances, lower costs, better service, more profits for the private companies. But since the system is built around the centralized hospital, with its outrageous overhead, go one step better - figure out where to post doctors in community clinics so they can respond on the spot faster to trouble.  Or better yet, deregulate medicine so "doctor" lives in a neighborhood, knows and sees everyone, and an ambulance is a rare event.

It all looks so overwhelming, but narrow your focus on what you can do.

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