Socialism my way

OK, I'll go along with "From each according to his ability to each according to his need" -- as long as I get to decide who needs, what they need, and how much of what I produce with my ability I give them. --L. Reichard White, April 6, 2012

THINK outside - - -

Think outside the banks - - - --L. Reichard White, Thursday, April 05, 2012 11:33 PM

REALpolitik

Politics: The art of stealing credit for things you didn't do and probably interfered with.  --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, April 03, 2012 9:01 AM

Duped??

If you still think it's "our" government, you haven't figured it out yet.  --L. Reichard White, Monday, April 02, 2012 12:01 PM

But WHY??

Don't tell me you disagree with me, tell me WHY you disagree with me. --L. Reichard White, Monday, March 19, 2012 3:24 AM

What "peer review" and elections have in common - - -

Peer Review: "I don't care who you vote for, just let me choose the candidates, count the votes, and report the results." --John Rundee, Thursday, March 15, 2012 6:23 AM

Wage slave?

You are NOT a wage slave, you are a TAX slave. --L. Reichard White, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:14 PM

Who is 'free enterprise' good for?

"Free enterprise can't be justified because it's good for business -- it isn't. It can only be justified because it's good for society." --Peter Drucker quoted on CNBC, October 10, 2002

Fairytale

That voters control governments is one of the biggest fairy-tales of all time. --L. Reichard White, Sunday, January 08, 2012 9:02 AM

The REAL reason governments want you to work

Governments are so keen to get you to work because they take about half of everything you make.  --L. Reichard White, Wednesday, January 04, 2012 8:51 AM

MSM Rule of Thumb:

Rule of Thumb for U.S. Main Stream Media: If they don't cover it it's important, if they do, it's propaganda. --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:07 PM

"Right" or privilege?

You own a "right."  If it's a privilege, someone else loaned it to you.  Temporarily. --L. Reichard White, December 16, 2011, 12:58:44

THE Common Enemy?

As Americans we must always remember that we all have a   common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and   relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.   --Columnist Dave Barry

The revolutionary truth - - -

Revolutionaries say revolution [is] a 'right and a duty' . . . .  until they get into power . . . then it's a Capital Crime. --Ronald Tonkyro, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 9:08 AM

Profit motive - - -

Overall, the medical machine isn't incentivised to cure -- that would deprive it of repeat customers. --L. Reichard White, December 21, 2011, 08:45:33

A "Unitary Executive" we could love

We want a presidency with so little power we could put Adolph Hitler or Joseph Stalin in the position without losing any sleep over it. --L. Reichard White, December 10, 2011, 23:35:48

"Unitary Executive?"  See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory

Have YOU been paying attention?

If they hate us because of our freedom, they haven't been paying attention either. --L. Reichard White, Monday, November 28, 2011 6:27 PM

It's not who or what you think - - -

It's not the power elite, it's the Machine(s) that largely exist independently of the people who run them. --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, November 22, 2011 8:27 AM

"...by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything." --U.S. President Bill Clinton 1998

"...we had created a doom machine"

But who runs these "doom machines?" And why?

In The Constant Gardener, in particular, it was quite extraordinary to go to Basel, to get among the young pharmaceutical executives in a private way, promise them that I would never tell-divulge their names, and listen to them pouring out their rage against the work they were doing, at the people who were making them do it. But they were still taking the penny, and they were still doing what they were doing. They were still contributing to the invention of diseases. --British Novelist John le Carré, Democracy Now!, November 25, 2010

So, it's often like this - - -

"U.S. Defense Sec. McNamara: "I was part of a mechanism..."

So governments are themselves such doom machines, ones over which we have even less control than we have over corporations. If you don't like a particular corporation, stop buying and paying for "its" products. If that's not enough, organize a boycott, etc. As Sam Walton pointed out,

"There is only one boss--the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." --Sam Walton

When there is constant inexorable FREE market competition (which, thanks to governments, we often don't have), businesses are very very sensitive to their customers.

What's the equivalent control over government doom machines?  If we don't stop financing them with our tax money, there are only things like this - - -

What can be done?

And, if that doesn't work, as U.S. PresideNT John F. Kennedy observed, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

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"Authorities??"

"They're NOT 'authorities.' If they actually knew anything, they wouldn't be doing this crap."  --L. Reichard White, Friday, November 04, 2011 7:54 PM

Victor Milan, Two more Strategic Errors

Yeah, that part of OWS which imagines government will save it expects to be rescued from the rich and powerful by ... the rich and powerful.

Phony oppositions - Democrat vs. Republican, Government vs. Big Business - have formed a key part of the fraud which is the State over much if not all of the millennia over which it's been socializing cost and centralizing gain.

--Victor Milán