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John Taylor: "We Need Real Leaders Now!"
We Need Real Leaders Now!
January 13, 2011
By John Taylor, Jr.
Chief Investment Officer, FX Concepts
As Winston Churchill implied in a speech given from the Opposition bench in Parliament in 1947, after the voters had pushed his government out the year before, democracy might be the worst form of government, but he added that it was better than "all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Churchill was speaking just after the democratic countries had barely survived a dramatic challenge from the militarist, fascist states, Germany, Italy, and Japan, which took almost every ounce of human and economic strength to repel. At that time, the democracies were still faced with another militaristic, totalitarian philosophy: communism. Russia, its satellite states in Eastern Europe, and China, threatened to bury the individualistic, freedom-loving, disorganized democracies. Even the fascist threat was not quite over as Franco's Spain and Salazar's Portugal had managed to steer clear of Germany's defeat and were still safely in power. These totalitarian states, whether fascist or communist, were organized around goals, plans for the future structure of society that were their raison d'être. The goal was the only important issue for them; the means, the way they reached their philosophical endpoints was unimportant. Eliminating the Kulaks in the Soviet Union was the way to a classless state, and the injustice of their deaths meant nothing to the Communists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler killed anyone who stood in their way. On the other hand, democracies have no goals, but are only interested in the means, the just process of laws within society. With no plan for the future, democratic societies drift, allowing their citizens to plan their own lives and move the country along with them.
Compared to totalitarian states or the mercantile and Confucian states of Asia, which all have goal- oriented financial and social strategies that are regularly updated and assessed, democracies are very inefficient. When it comes to moving the country toward important goals, democracies like the United States are politically blind to the issues, quibble about them, and eventually are overwhelmed by them. We would argue that the last US President to make a decision was Ronald Reagan, when he chose to change the economic incentives within the American system. Franklin Roosevelt made a great many decisions and had to fight most US political and economic leaders as well as many voters every step of the way. The other US presidents between Roosevelt and Reagan were nothing more than caretakers, watching over their squabbling brood in Congress and in the country as a whole. In England the decision makers were Margaret Thatcher, Clement Attlee, and Winston Churchill. In France, we have to go back to Charles de Gaulle, Jean Monnet, and Robert Schuman to find leaders who reoriented the country's future. Significant decisions and changes of direction are extremely rare in democracies and do not occur unless the old structure is in critical disarray and is threatening to destroy the economic livelihood or military security of the people. Not all the leaders who rise to the top during crises have to be supportive of the democratic system. Both Mussolini and Hitler were elected first, and there is a risk of a tyrant with a simple goal-oriented solution will be the choice of desperate voters. Crises are risky. The Western democracies are drifting dangerously close to economic disaster, but the political rhetoric both in the United States and in Western Europe has completely avoided the underlying causes and possible solutions to these problems. Five of the ten largest states in the US are teetering toward bankruptcy and the financial position of the federal government is deteriorating fast, but no leadership is apparent — and the voters are unaware. In Europe the Latvian, Irish, and Icelandic examples are ignored even though they point the way to deprivation and strife. Governments will fall in Europe. The Irish one will on March 23 and the Portuguese will later this spring. The winners will be the ones that make the necessary changes — if they don't, they will be quickly gone. We need real leaders now!
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how can we have leaders with a lying media?
MSM now promotes the "recovery" and spins obama and left as positive no matter what
woe to those who call evil good and good, evil
what do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?
Leaders are needed. They champion memes that are "force multipliers" towards some future outcome. With out these memes, human behavior is subject to a sort of idea entropy.
What is a leader? Nobody gives a wank, but here's what I'm looking for:
1. Someone who has a vision of a future state of being and does not waiver in the face of the chaos of any particular chaotic present state. Their actions will seem calm in a astorm of chaos.
2. Someone that articulates the ideal future state clearly, so I can visulaize it and fell it and taste it. I can visualize my self in the future state and am gratified by the thought. I want to take action to acheive the future state.
3. Someone who isn't afraid to test their model of the universe by making verifiable predictions about the future. Past predictions are validated. I take action to prepare for the future state.
4. Someone with congruent, successful values. If I adopt the same values, the chaos and entropy is reduced. Ambiguity is reduced, freeing my brain cycles for action such as reproduction and long walks on the beach. Call it "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness" if you like.
"We must stop this whole thing! Why for ninety-eight years we've put up with it now! We MUST stop the Fed from coming! ...But HOW?"
Then he got an idea! An awful idea! THE GRINCH GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA! "I know just what to do! Instead of ZHers talking to themselves, they should talk to everyone, times two"
The Grinch Laughed in his throat, as he thought to himself, "How many ZHer's can we get in this boat?"
"Start a local blog, it can be very small" as the Grinch stared at his City Hall.
"about little issues, that concern one Whoo and all."
Then, with his intellect, and the U.S. Debt Burden, the Grinch said, "With this blog, and a manly avatar, I'll be just like Tyler Durden."
Iacocca: Where Have All the Leaders Gone?Iacocca: Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
American Empire | Books
Excerpt: Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney
04/11/07 "ICH" -- -- -Had Enough? Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course." Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out! You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies.Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don't need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for.
I've had enough. How about you? I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have...
The real leaders are stocking their bunkers and will emerge after...please stand by.....
We needed decent leaders 20 fucking years ago. Now is far too late.
We don't need leaders at all. This is America, where government is supposed to do the will of the people, not lead them. What we need are decent honest employees.
rule by the people = rule by the mob.
Don't think that'll ever happen....
We are already ruled by a mob. What is the difference?
Just do it!
leadershit
Unfortunately the rock isn't big enough. Try this one.
Are those weeds around it or trees?
Don't you recognize Sutter Butte?
If they were weeds it would still be too small. :>)
They are the 'green shoots'.
+0.5
(Vertically challenged)
Now, if we could only tie Ben, Hillary, and Barry to him. ;)
Now, if we could only tie Ben, Hillary, and Barry to him. ;)
Revalue the yuan you uncooperative Chinese, or I'll toss the rock in the pool.
Timmy is just posing, that's a wading pool.
The Real leaders are the ones who get smacked down long before they ever get a chance because they are a threat to the status quo.
We need real journalism to tell the truth to people, what the real problems are, so real leaders can then emerge to fill the void. The media is owned by TPTB, the leaders are already there.
+100
+ Oustanding Fiscal Liabilities
Yes the MSM is owned by the TPTB but ZH is not. Thank you TD! Keep at the truth. It is the only thing that may save us as a nation.
This is truly the crux of the matter. As long as we continue to be lied to at every angle, consensus created by said lies will prevent any chance for a solution to this mess we are in..
I fear the events needed to create the change we need..
Read my comments, supra.
No, the current crop of lickspittle is doing rather nicely, as there is nothing to "reform". Far too broken.
I went to the Tucson Arizona Massacre Memorial, and all I've got to show for it is this crummy T-Shirt:
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//110112/480/urn_publicid_a...
That t-shirt really means. With your support a few thrive. Without it not so much.
The funeral service as a political campaign event. Err, or do I have that reversed?
...And the tag inside reads: Made in China
i hate that i have become so pessimistic, i really do......but that picture disgusts me on so many levels....i am sick of the people who push this stuff and the people who fall for it
I am with you 100%. At first I was self-conscious about my cynicism, thought I was coming off wrong in front of my friends, etc. But now I've learned to basically stay quiet - after all, we are on the right side of this trade.
My friends have been gushing all morning about how great Obama was last night. I just don't get it, so I quietly brood.
And in the final days they will accumulate for themselves leaders who will tickle their ears and tell them what they want to hear....loosely translated.
+1000
At first I was self-conscious about my cynicism, thought I was coming off wrong in front of my friends, etc. But now I've learned to basically stay quiet - after all, we are on the right side of this trade.
I have also found myself in this situation and I think on some level I have opted to avoid those who continue to support Obama & Co. My only hope is that they wake up and realize their mistake before its too late, if its not already.
Obama gets no love from anyone I talk to or associate with, and these people are far from extemists of any kind.
Concerning such things you are certainly not alone in spirit.
how bizarre. a memorial for massacre victims turns into a campaign rally for obama
the commentary I read likened it to a shameless pep rally replete with whooping and hollering. Apparently the convocation included a prayer for reptiles or something. And this was commentary from a clear NeO supporter, who claimed he just brilliantly rose above it again, like god or something.
News flash: IT'S HIS SPEECHWRITERS and those glass panels in front of him that make the words, not him
Anyone else getting tired of the collectivist "we" rhetoric? The fact that they pushed it at a memorial is sick. Maybe they didn't understand the definition of "memorial."
<sarc>
Man I better pop over to e-bay and get me one of those bad boys. It will go great with my, "Ground Zero: I survived 9/11" t-shirt.
</sarc>
a leader is going to have to come in and chop heads , literally !
It's a TRAP. You show any real leadership right now and you'll be dead before sundown.
or categorized as a loon or a racist.
Sure if that works. Let's call that "soft power".
Behold the power of bullshit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5v9i04XsqU
harr deee har har!!!! Now that is funny! Forgot about that add.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKfF-nxjDi0
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Too late, world fascist government next.
If you think these bunch of criminal parasites are hard to remove, try removing a worldwide tyrannical government.
And when your children ask you what you did to stop it, you can say you sat on your fat ass even as you saw the signs daily.
I hope you're wrong... but fear you may right.
Because the truth is we can't depend on the charisma of leaders, especially when media makes of them Gods... remote from our own personal experience and with easily feigned qualities impossible to evaluate without that personal experience.
So we assume that the people in our everyday lives may be nice, they may be smart... but we wait for the special-interest deification-process to choose a short list of actually possible candidates.
It IS possible to re-localize decision and bust the monopoly (concentrated monied interests) controlling the duopoly (Republicrats and Demicans). But as I've been finding out... you can't wait for the plutocracy to be helpful in that process.
Actually I believe its fairly simple in technological terms...
Money IS a decision technology... as much as we might wish it wasn't.
Decision Technologies: Currencies and the Social Contract
http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2010/07/decision-technologies-currencies-and.html
P.S. Don't think I'm a leader... but if part of the deal is being relentless I qualify. Though frankly I'm sick of the whole thing and would just as soon get a personal bailout somehow, move very far away from everything and everybody at this point and just sit and paint pictures or go fishing. If this world is too stupid to save itself... well we can all try to hope for other planets to do better.
What makes you think China and Russia will continue to play along?
The Irish one is about to fall - Cowen expected to resign today
Kennedy was trying very hard to be a leader of substance. Certainly he made mistakes, particularly listening to his generals and the CIA with regard to Cuba etc. Maybe he was trying too hard. He was shoot in the head to derail his efforts to diminish the power of the central banksters.
Mission Accomplished.
Executive Order 11110
President Kennedy's Executive Order (E.O.) 11110 modified the pre-existing Executive Order 10289 issued by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in 1951,[1] and stated the following[2]:
The order then lists tasks (a) through (h) which the Secretary can now do without bothering the President. None of the powers assigned to the Treasury in E.O. 10289 relate to money or to monetary policy. Kennedy's E.O. 11110 then instructs that:
[edit] RevocationE.O. 11110 was never reversed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and remained on the books until President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12608 on September 9, 1987 as part of a general clean-up of executive orders. E.O. 12608 specifically revoked the sections added by E.O. 11110 which effectively revoked the entire Order. By this time, however, the remaining legislative authority behind E.O. 11110 had been repealed by Congress when Pub.L. 97-258 was passed in 1982.
In March 1964, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon halted redemption of silver certificates for silver dollars. In the 1970s, large numbers of the remaining silver dollars in the mint vaults were sold to the collecting public for collector value. All redemption in silver ceased on June 24, 1968.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11110
Despite his faults, he was the best pres you had post war.
But look on the bright side, a couple of years and you can 'man-up' with the Palin creature.
It's pretty sad when the corrupt and inept son of a bootlegger is considered to be one of our greatest presidents.
I would suggest we need a system of non-government that contains the capabilities of leaders and promotes the sovereignty of the individual.
Humans are subjective and infinitely variable. Bad combination for leaders.
The wisdom of elders in a non-enforceable resolution- sure! The command of some nunchuk with a god complex- no thanks. Just shoot the bastards and get it over with.
"let each man be his own leader."
unfortunately, none of the ponzi schemes would work if we tried this, so its a non-starter
Not So Off Topic
Another secret way to tax, via the TBTF Banks
$2,500 limit per day per check to cash at JP Morgan Chase, AND a $6 fee OR open an account there.
We are definitely on the way to a plutocracy of banks - like the Money Trusts of old, why notmake it $1,000 per day per ck limit, and a $50 fee.
Give 'em time. That is where it is going.
By QE4 $2500 won't fill yer tank...
Everybody is a millionaire in Zimbabwe.
First mistake...
Going into JP Morgan to do business.
If you're going to do anything other than shout insults or rob the place, I'd suggest a nice little credit union.
I, for one, would rather go leaderless. Each man is his own leader - let markets, contracts, and voluntary association sort out the rest.
Great orators are wonderful for the masses because they stir up all kinds of emotion.....but I'll take an inarticulate, hard-working, dedicated working man any day of the week.
No leaders for me, sorry.
+1000
Gold. Gold chart is very ragged. head and shoulder rolling underneath broken trendlines. Looks lower
Platinum. Platinum platinum platinum. Platinum.
Oil. Oil oil oil oil.
doop. come on ZH Pentium, keep up!
I KNOW her. Be sure you keep your fingers out of her eerily blonde hair. Oh, and don't light a smoke near her head.
Nice girl though.
Interesting. Completely wrong, but interesting.
Didn't Hayek's critique of this line of thinking sink in, John? The course you propose only leads one place - serfdom. We don't need more 'leaders' - we need more individual liberty.
agree, more collectivist pabulum
Leaders are best when people barely know they exist,
Not so good when people obey and acclaim them.
Worst when people despise them.
Fail to honour people, they fail to honour you.
But of good leaders, who talk little,
when their work is done, task fulfilled,
people will say: "We have done this ourselves!"
Lao-Tzu
If you stand by the side of the river long enough, you will see the body of your opponent floating by.
Americans rarely read the wisdom of other cultures. Pity really.
Awful touch of propaganda. Of course, the West is driven by a long term goal. The long term goal is to transfer as much weath as possible to the West from the exterior.
Anyone admitting this point is now armed to see that all policies in the West are driven toward achieving this goal.
The debt scheme, the outsourcing of jobs, the nature of trade deal established etc... We have the good stuff of a deal while the others have the bad stuff. If you wind back the hands of time, you will notice the same trend.
The distortion comes from the belief that being born in the West is enough to benefit from the course.
When actually, it is a excluding process. People who have participated to the scheme might find themselves compelled to join the other side.
That is very different.
When you can murder and rob with impunity, live in secure gated communities having every wish catered to, and have the adulation of the population - why who has the will or even inclination to lead - this is stuff kings dreamed of. Change will come but in what form and how quickly are the interesting questions.
I just finished listening to a 3-part video by Kirk MacKenzie which is posted on the SILVER BEAR CAFE website, entitled: HOW TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK . NOW I UNDERSTAND EVEN MORE !! THESE PEOPLE HAVE TO GO ! the only leader for this job is RON PAUL . I'm still a learner, after watching that 3-part video, I feel like I have to RUN !! WHERE CAN I RUN TO? THERE IS NO WHERE TO RUN ANYMORE !! ........ silver / gold / productive farmland.
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape too, this is the last stand on earth. RR
I find myself wondering about this quite a bit.
Unemployment up, foreclosures up, manufacturing data down and CMG at 225.00 up 7 bucks. I guess we just have to buy burritos.
Leroy, NY - it is near an Amish community - can trade PM's for food, etc.
http://realestate.yahoo.com/New_York/Le_Roy/leroy-caledonia-rd:e85fee2b1...
Durden/Singer '12
Sorry--this level of analysis (to put it rudely, neo-con horseshit) is pointless.
This is the man who should be on the $10 bill, not Hamilton:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_August_Lindbergh
Well I think you need to fully understand what leader is. Most of the people that vie for leadership within the political regime are more power mongers than leaders. They like to control people, they like to be heard and they like the social elitism that accompanies such titles. The qualities that allow a person to get into congress or parliament (here in Canada) are less than admirable these days.
A leader makes tough and UNPOPULAR decisions. They are able to inspire people with their causes which are based on altruism and they generally show the way by example. They do not crave the spot light but rather welcome a challenge. They create versus destroy and they are remebered for their good deeds. They listen very well and they delegate responsibility very well. They accept advice from others and they are not open to bribes and payoffs. Their agenda is to make their community, country and world a better place. They tell truths, not half lies and masquerade as false prophets. They do what they say and they under all circumstances keep their word. They are not interested in being popular and they make the decisions (be they good or bad) that others lack the courage to do.
They are goal oriented and they have an inner strength that is admired by all. They are cognizant of thier responsibility as a leader and are careful to not abuse their power. The greatest thing they do is to make others better people for havingbeen around them. When they make errors they admit their mistake and they try to do better. THEY DO NOT BLAME or pass the buck.
I could go on and on but I think you get the gist. How many of these clowns that pass themselves off as leaders have any respect from the public at all? Here in Canada they are classified as "honorable". Honor is a word that is obviously used very loosely these days. To me it is one of the most powerful words that a leader can possess. It is a title that comes with a lot of responsibility. To me it is of a lost generation that stood in the face of a storm, grabbed the wheel of the shipand steered it through while all stood in awe of the persons determination and effort. Know anyone like that today that stands for all that is good and honorable in politics. Maybe Ron Paul comes close but it will take some one who is willing to die for what he believes, like a Martin L. King to make true change. Someone to lead the 20% of those who will challenge the status quo and make a difference.
excellent / that was good ...how true
Please identify any of these past "leaders" that were not employed by the elite to do their bidding. There are good actors, there are people whom believe them, but there has never been a leader that was unselfish in their pursuits or remiss to accumulate power and abuse it.
We like to paint a past with a golden age of leaders, but they were nothing but tools. Once you study history, the history you cannot find in government schools, you begin to understand.
It is the use of government, sold by "leaders", that has enslaved humans since the beginning of government. When you give people the power to make your decisions, do your thinking and do your research- you are giving them carte blanche in the affairs of your life. They will act accordingly and usurp your position as the rudder in your life and put you on a course to poverty, immorality and pain. You can join them- and sell your soul or you can fight them- and struggle to survive, but as long as we continue to use the broken paradigm of government, we will be abused and enslaved.
1 Samuel 8
4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
5And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
6But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
7And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
8According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
9Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
10And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
11And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
12And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
13And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
15And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
17He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
19Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
20That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Take Take Take
"6But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD."
This is the place in the story where suspending disbelief becomes impossible.
Marcus,
I was impressed by what Richard Winters said about leadership (from his obituary this week).
Winters talked about his view of leadership for an August 2004 article in American History Magazine:
"If you can," he wrote, "find that peace within yourself, that peace and quiet and confidence that you can pass on to others, so that they know that you are honest and you are fair and will help them, no matter what, when the chips are down."
When people asked whether he was a hero, he echoed the words of his World War II buddy, Mike Ranney: "No, but I served in a company of heroes."
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/app/obituary.aspx?n=richard-winters-dic...
tea party part deux Bitches!!!!!!!
thats what we need...
Pro... no I mean anti abortion! cant piss off those Jeusus freaks! we need them hell fire fuckers!
National populist leaders went out with AM Radio, think more on the cellular level now.
The only person among politicians who seems to have some gumption right now is Chris Christie.
Hopefully Americans will be more sensible than electing Obama again!!
I think he *might* be starting to get it. He said all of that, and this time, didn't say 'cut this and that'. He actually used iceland as an example. Guess he lived and learned, at least a bit.
True leaders that can change the direction of a society is rare under any political system. Take China for example, we had only two real leaders in the past 60 years -- Mao from 1949-1976 and Deng from 1979 - 1997. The rest were (and are) merely caretakers. China has been in cruise control since Deng died in 1997. No one change the course of that nation no matter how much imbalance the currency system accumulates. Expect some spectacular fireworks in this decade.
i nominate 2 leaders of industry with ACTUAL EXPERINCE for Pres - The Donald who last week told Micheal Savage that he is thinking of running and trying to clean this country up ( financially and another man for VP who used to make those great Godfather Pizza -Herman Cain
Well, this is a fine discussion -- very depressing.
Actually, Hitler and Mussolini were not elected, not with majorities. Mussolini did a "March on Rome" and forced himself into the cabinet. Then a couple years later, he staged an internal coup and took over the government completely. Hitler never got a majority, so he formed a coalition government with some other parties. He then staged an internal coup, gradually eliminating all non-Nazi parties and figures. Both were imitating what Lenin did in 1917. After the constitutional revolution in March, Lenin bided his time, then formed a coalition with the much larger Social Democratic party. After Russia's war effort collapsed in the fall of 1917 and the country started falling apart, Lenin staged an internal coup in November 1917, forcing the Liberal and Social Democratic figures to flee. And the Soviets did the same after WII, in Eastern Europe, forming phony coalitions, then staging coups, in one famous case, throwing "partners" out the window.
There's a theme here, I guess :) Seriously, we have, in the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations, a shadow group of Wall Street figures who can't get elected or taken seriously on their own. But they've formed mutually profitable partnerships with political figures that we do elect or appoint. Watch out for these unelected and unelectable, but powerful, groups that latch on to parties and movements, blow them up with infusions of cash, and end up in charge.
Deus ex Machina?
GTFO here Taylor. Churchill couldn't print oil either.
The leaders of men,
Born out of your frustration.
The leaders of men,
Just a strange infatuation.
The leaders of men,
Made a promise for a new life.
No saviour for our sakes,
To twist the internees of hate,
Self induced manipulation,
To crush all thoughts of mass salvation.
Democracies and free markets are by far the most efficient invented. Whereas other forms of governance rely on some degree (more or less) on central planning, there is an opportunity cost and a great amount of inefficiency in the allocation of resources. One only has to look at the long lines in the former Soviet Union for basic necessities like toilet paper to see central planning in action.
By pushing the decision making power to the lowest common denominator, the people, you take advantage of a very simple algorithm that nature has used since life was first created: the genetic algorithm. If you consider a nation to be a massively parallel computer composed of individual citizens each pursuing their individual goals within a set of commonly agreed upon boundaries (i.e. laws), the best ideas, companies, and successful individuals naturally rise to the top. Yes, it does result in many, many failures along the way, but this is the nature of stochastic processes. While seemingly inefficient on the surface, this kind of society is extremely adaptive to new circumstances and new opportunities in ways that more structured, top down societies can never hope to achieve. What I have described, in essence, is a large self-optimizing machine, and you only get this with free markets and the open exchange of ideas and opinions.
I don't want to be led by anyone who would seek the position.
"I don't want to be led by anyone who would seek the position."
+1
There are some organizations that have that rule (e.g. the Orthodox Christians). Here's a 2000-year track record to back this method.
Tom Woods
Real Leader = Quick Simple fix.Not happening and not possible.
We are more likely to get a radical movement
Tyler, I can assure you that two real leader are on the way to address the European sovereign debt and bank debt imbroglio, as I wrote in chart article Gold Stocks And Basic Material Stocks Turn Lower On Falling Commodity Prices .. As European Semester Process Implements Vetting Of National Budgets Before They Are Submitted To State Legislatures that the Apostle John saw the days we are living in and wrote of it in bible prophecy of Revelation 13:1-4, where he saw a beast system rising to be sovereign from the sea of humanity integrating mankind’s seven institutions and ruling over ten world-wide regions, these being the ten regions of global governance called for by the Club of Rome in 1974. I foresee national sovereignty passing away throughout the world, as Leaders’ Framework Agreements establish ten regions of global governance as called for by the Club of Rome in 1974; hence people will no longer be citizens of sovereign nation states, rather residents living in a region of global government.
A catastrophe is coming as a result of rising European sovereign debt interest rates, and failed sovereign debt auctions, and plummeting bank stock values, as well out of further global competitive currency devaluations at the hands of the currency traders. Soon, the European Financial Institutions, EUFN, will fall quickly falling in value, taking the entire global financial system down, resulting in Götterdämmerung, an investment flame out.
Out of chaos, bible prophecy in Revelation 13:5-10 foretells a Chancellor, that is a Sovereign, such as Herman van Rompuy, Angela Merkel or John Redwood or Tony Blair, will rise to be the EU political leader.
And Revelation, 13:11-17, foretells a Banker, that is a Seignior, such as Wolfgang Schäuble, or Olli Rehn, or Jean-Claude Trichet, or Gordon Brown or Jose Manuel Barroso, or Giulio Tremonti or Jean-Claude Juncker will rise to provide credit.
The Seignior will likely have fiscal sovereignty to control deficit spending, enforce internal country devaluations, provide a common EU Treasury for both taxation and transfer payments, assure mutual guarantees of the EU debt, and as Timothy Geithner called for, implement unified regulation of banking globally. All seigniorage, both credit and fiscal will come and go through the Seignior, who will make decisions on where money is spent. The Seignior will coordinate all aspects of economic policy, includes taxes, wages.
Religion was the main stream media sense makers for the last like 3500 years. They aren't doing a very good job.