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The Government Monster: Presenting The Centrally Planned States Of America
Bill Buckler's latest Buckaneer report does a 10,000 foot quantification of the one most critical, yet underreported, trend in America's transformation from past to future: its gradual, and ever faster, conversion into a totalitarian, centrally-planned state.
The proportions and the nations change, but the question remains the same. We here at The Privateer have raised this question before in relation to the US and we will probably raise it again. How did a US government “govern” a nation of 92 million people with an annual budget of $US 0.7 Billion and a TOTAL (funded and unfunded) debt of $US 2.7 BILLION one hundred years ago? The answer is very simple. For the most part, they didn’t. And because they didn’t, they didn’t indulge in economic make believe. They had no income tax to “fund” them and no central bank to print more money - if necessary.
Today, the US government “GOVERNS” 310 million people with an annual budget of nearly $4,000 Billion and a TOTAL (funded and unfunded) debt approaching $US 100,000 Billion. It takes about 5400 times as many Dollars and about 37000 times more debt to “govern” about 3.35 times as many people as it did a century ago. Why? The answer is equally simple. Today, the US government “governs” everything. It is all pervasive. It has taken over the economy from its people.
At the same time, the present government reassures the governed that the cost involved is not theirs to bear but can be perpetually shifted to future generations if only they will continue to go along with economic make believe. Officially, this is known as the “full faith and credit” of the US government.
As for what the future holds in store for America, look no further than the outcome of every single attempt to enact a fully centrally-planned government in the history of the world.
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This Banana Republic has no value system whatsoever when it is punting Phd Chemists to the curb in droves. What the fuck else is more relevant to their world domination plan than that?
And if we had a FOR THE PEOPLE's (meaning all women) government:
300 million starving dogs would devour 300 million sheeple
Seriously, this entire Banana Republic is one big stinking dog kennel. Every chick in my town has literally 3 dogs.
There's something else the government did 100 years ago. It protected our industries from cut-throat mercantilists overseas. Mercantilism works!
Mercantilism works for the owners of protected capital. It doesnt do a whole lot for the common man who is forced to pay higher prices because of lack of competition.
Mercantilism works for the owners of protected capital. It doesnt do a whole lot for the common man who is forced to pay higher prices because of lack of competition.
uh oh....crude is losing it's feet
/si is on very uneven footing.
The Canadian Press - ONLINE EDITION
Vietnam's navy conducts live-fire drill following dispute with China over South China SeaBy: The Associated Press
Posted: 06/12/2011 9:58 PM
China will do better than we did, shorter supply lines!
The South China Sea thing has nothing to do with supply routes.
It is mostly about the exploration rights and strategic importance of that area.
II tthhiinnkk ii hhaavvee aa pprroobblleemm wwiitthh mmyy ccoommppuutteerr!!
Too much jizz crusting up the keys.
I found turning sideways while porn surfing extends the life of the keyboard.
Wrap your key board in Saran Wrap !
Good point.
Hadnt thought of that.
My first Timex Sinclair had a spill-proof keyboard, but then there was no internet porn.
Timing is everything.
You Ladies and Gentleman all have excellent points! The problem is we have a govern ment that has NO trust in it's people.
In life things become, perceived as priceless. Think about it! OR BETTER YET!!!!
ask Hemmingway.
this is the totalitarian dream come true but it should contain the seeds of its own destruction...on the other hand rome survived a thousand years so it's hard to say if the light at the end of the tunnel is a lantern or a train.
Total nonsense. America's problem is exactly the opposite-- an outdated federalist structure makes for huge duplication of effort and inefficiency at every level. The US needs a stronger centralized government with only a single set of officials making conclusive determinations. Instead we have thousands of legislators and tens of thousands of state employees doing the same thing over and over again as we continue to pretend states are just like separate countries. The federal sector is too large too, but only because checks and balances and overlapping jurisdiction create duplication. We desperately need to modernize US government.
The federal structure was an intentional counterbalance to central power.
We dont need more and more power and money given to the federal government, it needs to take care of national defense, regulate money, and regulate interstate commerce.
Let each state decide if it wants to do more. If you like socialism live in new york. If you dont, then move to tennessee where the firemen will let your house burn down if you dont pay the annual fee.
Personally I prefer tennessee.
What has streamlined, one man decision making efficiency done for the Cuban people ? The Syrian people ? The North Koreans ?
yes, that's the spririt of democracy--> one-size does fit all sarc/
Actually, centralization of power only makes it much more efficient for special interests to buy people off, much mor return for their lobby dollars. e.g. in 1913, the 17th amend was passed enabling the direct election of senators. Instead of ~3000 people to buy off, lobbyists could now buy off only 51 senators and half of the house to get favorable treatment.
Monster
Steppenwolf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDFKphodBQI
....And though the past has it's share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it's protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it's a monster and will not obey
(Suicide)
The spirit was freedom and justice
And it's keepers seem generous and kind
It's leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they won't pay it no mind
'Cause the people grew fat and got lazy
And now their vote is a meaningless joke
They talk about law and order
But it's all just an echo of what they've been told
Yeah, there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watchin'
Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin' the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can't understand
We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching
(America)
America where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know we need you now
We can't fight alone against the monster
Well done!
Not well done. I hate feeling hopeless and depressed before going to bed. Thanks a lot tyler.
Ya been busy TCT. Made some Good points though. I have a few more weeks in Asia.
Just checking in. Trade well.
Steppenwolf is probably an Idi-O-Bama groupie ? He didn't have any answers but more Centrally Planned Socialism ? Just thinking with my fingers ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llLY9VUKpRM
Amen Mr. Buckler. Government regulation and central planning run amok needs more and more revenues to redistribute.
Sadly most Americans want this (particularly the 47% who pay no federal income taxes -- seemingly, what do they have to lose by demanding more government). Most really do not want to be personally responsible for themselves and want lots of government services. Sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFCLiij0CBA&feature=share
Surrender the keys to your private property, just in case the state needs access.
And it's a Iranian dude talking down to the sheeple. Probably every American sheeple who goes to the DMV has had this eerie feeling having some fucking foriegn POS talking down to them from a postion of authority "in their own country." triple in quotes irony tag.
...I do not have any faith or trust in America or the people's ability to resolve and overcome the corruption that is now risen to power over the nations. It does not take any faith to ''know'' America has ZERO TRUST TO OFFER!!!
It is plain to see, the people are worth-less and power-less because they have fallen for the that old offer of temptation, which is risen with the elder of man, saying, ''you shall not surely die, ...trust that''.
America, as with any nation, knows it's past. History stands as the elder of man and nations, proclaiming the trust of the elder. The Truth stands fast and above all, proclaiming the fallen and the broken trust of the elder that ''knowingly'' cast the child upon the flaming alter. The smoke and stench transends time and this last generation stands as an American whore riding the elder beast, drunk, naked and having aborted life, freedom, liberty, independence and justice. America has knowingly forsaken the body and the blood of every child that has fought to preserve her virtue. She has cast soldiers, the next generation, upon the elder's flaming alter of trust and burnt her defense. She is drunk from the blood of nations, She has consumed her defenders ...and is offensive.
America has lost my trust. She stands naked before me, calling for me to enter into her bed ...and I have no desire for her. I am not even tempted by her offer. She is compromised, her cup lacks my blood and she looks upon me with out my image in her mirror. She is a vampire Bitchez. America is not trust worthy. She is a killer Queen, dynamite with a laser beam, guaranteed to blow herself up. She's such a Bitch in fact, she will do anything at this point to get anyone she can to trust her. She has assembled the global Fight Club members.
From what I see, her cup is filled, not even the blood of her children can quench her desire because, she has aborted her own children, and that of the strangers, for the sake of the elder's evil claim of dominion. Fools enter her bed and are fallen. She is totally screwed and is now piss drunk, wildly throwing punches she can't back up ...but with her own face. She has pulled the trigger and blown up the World Trade Center but, Tyler has not gone away. Chairsatan still sits, making calls for S&P 666. The echo of Rahm Co., stands like a burning Bush, priced in crisis management, upon The Great Wal Mart of China's rubble, at Ground Zero ...Zero Interest.
...I am not Spartacus. I am Spartacus in her eye ...and I can't order soup that has not been pissed in, it does not matter what country.
...the nations have lost their American defense. There is no security. Fear not, judgment cometh and the end of contempt is at hand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJjAIkvZCI
Those that cry against the lack of faith in the markets never read the Madness and Delusions part.
it is different this time, not in a good way, maybe in the past America recovered because it wasn't so governed?
I wonder who will be the American Adolf Hitler.
The winner of American Idol ?
There will not be an American Hitler. Look at the video above. When given the choice "Americans" vote for Indonesians and Iranians to rule them. Imbeciles cannot act in their own best interest.
When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. (Sinclair Lewis)
When things really start deteriorating, people will be begging for more authoritarian rule under the guise of being taken care of; many are already wishing for this. There will be a whole lot of "good germans" at that point.
The government is protecting us from disasters.
Maybe they should let the disaster happen and then clean it up.
Think of recent disasters:
WW2 -- In Europe -- no sign of it
Hiroshima - Nagasaki -- Thriving
Tornadoes Hurricanes Oil Spills
Volcanoes Blizzards--- the earth is self cleansing
Now Global warming and the EPA protecting us from trace amounts of Mercury -- while allowing GE to foister upon us Mercury light bulbs.
Please no more protection
No more armies of protectors
to live free, will always be the dream of those in chains..free men are not government men..
more government=less freedom
preditors always live at the top..
no government of man is exempt from the natural state; Preditors and prey.
owning weapons is useless without the will to use them.
socialism demands people have no will to resist
socialism rewards the good citizen
Well we all know where central planning goes-- into the dust bin of history, unfortunately with many "innocent" victims.
Its a Wall St govt.
Elections dont mean anything in the US. Does'nt matter who gets elected, they always end up serving the ineterests of the Intl banksters. What a joke!
See 'Inside Job'... it has a bunch of enlightening interviews.
"When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving a cross"
~H.L. Mencken
(i suppose that's why corn-pone fascists like Palin scare me)
LOL, such nonsense about am indians and blacks contributing to the wealth of a nation..
stone age tribesmen living in an steel and iron age..had nothing to contribute to wealth. the patronizing racism of you leftists is only surpassed by your ability to look at history and
draw exactly the wrong conclusions..
The Indians owned nothing but what they had in their hands..the land never belonged to them..they fought among the tribes for years over land that they "owned"..stone age savages romanticized by idiots.
I therefore believe that the kind of oppression that threatens democratic peoples is unlike any the world has seen before. Our contemporaries will find no image of it in their memories. I search in vain for an expression that exactly reproduces my idea of it and captures it fully. The old words "despotism" and "tyranny" will not do. The thing is new, hence I must try to define it, since I cannot give it a name.
(...)
Over these men stands an immense tutelary power, which assumes sole responsibility for securing their pleasure and watching over their fate. It is absolute, meticulous, regular, provident, and mild. It would resemble paternal authority if only its purpose were the same, namely, to prepare men for manhood. But on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them in childhood irrevocably. It likes citizens to rejoice, provided they think only of rejoicing. It works willingly for their happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and takes care of their needs, facilitates their pleasures, manages their most important affairs, directs their industry, regulates their successions, and divides their inheritances. Why not relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and the difficulty of living?
Every day it thus makes man's use of his free will rarer and more futile. It circumscribes the action of the will more narrowly, and little by little robs each citizen of the use of his own faculties.
(...)
The sovereign, after taking individuals one by one in his powerful hands and kneading them to his liking, reaches out to embrace society as a whole. Over it he spreads a fine mesh of uniform, minute, and complex rules, through which not even the most original minds and most vigorous souls can poke their heads above the crowd. He does not break men's wills but softens, bends, and guides them. He seldom forces anyone to act but consistently opposes action. He does not destroy things but prevents them from coming into being. Rather than tyrannize, he inhibits, represses, saps, stifles, and stultifies, and in the end he reduces each nation to nothing but a flock of timid and industrious animals, with the government as its shepherd.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
I therefore believe that the kind of oppression that threatens democratic peoples is unlike any the world has seen before. Our contemporaries will find no image of it in their memories. I search in vain for an expression that exactly reproduces my idea of it and captures it fully. The old words "despotism" and "tyranny" will not do. The thing is new, hence I must try to define it, since I cannot give it a name.
(...)
Over these men stands an immense tutelary power, which assumes sole responsibility for securing their pleasure and watching over their fate. It is absolute, meticulous, regular, provident, and mild. It would resemble paternal authority if only its purpose were the same, namely, to prepare men for manhood. But on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them in childhood irrevocably. It likes citizens to rejoice, provided they think only of rejoicing. It works willingly for their happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and takes care of their needs, facilitates their pleasures, manages their most important affairs, directs their industry, regulates their successions, and divides their inheritances. Why not relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and the difficulty of living?
Every day it thus makes man's use of his free will rarer and more futile. It circumscribes the action of the will more narrowly, and little by little robs each citizen of the use of his own faculties.
(...)
The sovereign, after taking individuals one by one in his powerful hands and kneading them to his liking, reaches out to embrace society as a whole. Over it he spreads a fine mesh of uniform, minute, and complex rules, through which not even the most original minds and most vigorous souls can poke their heads above the crowd. He does not break men's wills but softens, bends, and guides them. He seldom forces anyone to act but consistently opposes action. He does not destroy things but prevents them from coming into being. Rather than tyrannize, he inhibits, represses, saps, stifles, and stultifies, and in the end he reduces each nation to nothing but a flock of timid and industrious animals, with the government as its shepherd.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
I therefore believe that the kind of oppression that threatens democratic peoples is unlike any the world has seen before. Our contemporaries will find no image of it in their memories. I search in vain for an expression that exactly reproduces my idea of it and captures it fully. The old words "despotism" and "tyranny" will not do. The thing is new, hence I must try to define it, since I cannot give it a name.
(...)
Over these men stands an immense tutelary power, which assumes sole responsibility for securing their pleasure and watching over their fate. It is absolute, meticulous, regular, provident, and mild. It would resemble paternal authority if only its purpose were the same, namely, to prepare men for manhood. But on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them in childhood irrevocably. It likes citizens to rejoice, provided they think only of rejoicing. It works willingly for their happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and takes care of their needs, facilitates their pleasures, manages their most important affairs, directs their industry, regulates their successions, and divides their inheritances. Why not relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and the difficulty of living?
Every day it thus makes man's use of his free will rarer and more futile. It circumscribes the action of the will more narrowly, and little by little robs each citizen of the use of his own faculties.
(...)
The sovereign, after taking individuals one by one in his powerful hands and kneading them to his liking, reaches out to embrace society as a whole. Over it he spreads a fine mesh of uniform, minute, and complex rules, through which not even the most original minds and most vigorous souls can poke their heads above the crowd. He does not break men's wills but softens, bends, and guides them. He seldom forces anyone to act but consistently opposes action. He does not destroy things but prevents them from coming into being. Rather than tyrannize, he inhibits, represses, saps, stifles, and stultifies, and in the end he reduces each nation to nothing but a flock of timid and industrious animals, with the government as its shepherd.
- Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America), 1835
I therefore believe that the kind of oppression that threatens democratic peoples is unlike any the world has seen before. Our contemporaries will find no image of it in their memories. I search in vain for an expression that exactly reproduces my idea of it and captures it fully. The old words "despotism" and "tyranny" will not do. The thing is new, hence I must try to define it, since I cannot give it a name.
(...)
Over these men stands an immense tutelary power, which assumes sole responsibility for securing their pleasure and watching over their fate. It is absolute, meticulous, regular, provident, and mild. It would resemble paternal authority if only its purpose were the same, namely, to prepare men for manhood. But on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them in childhood irrevocably. It likes citizens to rejoice, provided they think only of rejoicing. It works willingly for their happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and takes care of their needs, facilitates their pleasures, manages their most important affairs, directs their industry, regulates their successions, and divides their inheritances. Why not relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and the difficulty of living?
Every day it thus makes man's use of his free will rarer and more futile. It circumscribes the action of the will more narrowly, and little by little robs each citizen of the use of his own faculties.
(...)
The sovereign, after taking individuals one by one in his powerful hands and kneading them to his liking, reaches out to embrace society as a whole. Over it he spreads a fine mesh of uniform, minute, and complex rules, through which not even the most original minds and most vigorous souls can poke their heads above the crowd. He does not break men's wills but softens, bends, and guides them. He seldom forces anyone to act but consistently opposes action. He does not destroy things but prevents them from coming into being. Rather than tyrannize, he inhibits, represses, saps, stifles, and stultifies, and in the end he reduces each nation to nothing but a flock of timid and industrious animals, with the government as its shepherd.
- Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America), 1835
To Democrats who protest that Republicans share just as much of the responsibility for the mess as they do..... Monedas replies that for 80 years (America's adult Socialist life) the Democrats have held 60% of all elected office ! It's my "General without a staff" guess ! Correct me if I'm understating Democrat hegemony !............So they should gladly accept 60% of the responsibility ? The collateral advantages of their sustained majority exagerates their power to 80% of the responsibility ! Some slimy leftist Republicans have fought for a few greasy crumbs ! Don't give me this shit that the parties are equally bad ! Monedas 2011 85% of TSA police are Democrat ! Correct me if I understate the problem !!! http://trololololololololololo.com/
Hey sorry about that multiple posting, I suppose I thought I was a central banker and could print indefinitely for a second...
That's happened to most of us ! Since there is no delete, I've edited my extra message to zero then make it my humble pie mea culpa ? I love resourceful people....I'm a Yankee ! Monedas 2011 Comedy Jihad World Tour
You forgot the 17th Amendment (election of senators).
It enabled the special interests one-stop shopping. That is, it is much more cost effective to buy 51 senators than 3000-odd state legislators.
It was also when the US effectively stopped being a federal republic. Do you think the feds could dictate to the states if each state legislature could recall their senators? Yeah, right. Also, the coincidence with ever increasing laws and regulations should not be dismissed. Prior to 1913, their was a structural impediment to federal overreach of power and protection of states rights. After the 17th amendment, that impediment was removed.