America – Red, White and Blue Brainwashed - January 11, 2008
We Need Government to Manage the Economy.
Without government control over economic policy our economy would be in constant depressions…bull sheep!
If this was true then after every natural disaster government should be able to step in and bring things back to normal quickly. How normal is New Orleans? By some estimates the government has spent $400,000 per person affected by Katrina. It’s still a disaster area. When hurricane Andrew ripped apart South Florida government stepped in. Years later the area was referred to as the “Blue Roof Land” — because roofing consisted mostly of blue tarp. Government bungling had scared contractors away from the area.
Some may say: “What about the Great Depression?” This is a perfect example of the FedGov stepping in and making a mess. Normally recessions and depressions last 1 to 3 years. The Great Depression lasted nearly 14 years! Some of Roosevelt’s harmful practices (part of the New Deal) were: handing out jobs as political favors, forcibly setting ridiculously high wages, closing shops that stayed open too long, and removing capital from job creators to pay for it all!
Let’s keep it simple. Businesses and individuals create jobs. Government can only hire people when they remove capital from individuals and businesses that are the job creators. Government then wastes 70% or more of this capital before finally using it to public benefit.
When the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates to “soften” economic downturns they are also destroying the value of the U.S. Dollar. In 2007 the stock market was up nearly 6%, but the U.S. Dollar lost 25% of it’s buying power to most of the world’s currencies. By propping up Wall Street, government has hurt Main Street. Consumers will find that oil and other essential commodities will cost them more USD.
Government should stick to protecting the rights of individuals and defending our nation from it’s enemies. When government takes on more, we all suffer.
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Now, if you are at all sensitive, at all serious, you will not only be aware of your conditioning but you will also be aware of the dangers it results in, what brutality and hatred it leads to. Why, then, if you see the danger of your conditioning, don’t you act? Is it because you are lazy, laziness being lack of energy? Yet you will not lack energy if you see an immediate physical danger like a snake in your path, or a precipice, or a fire. Why, then, don’t you act when you see the danger of your conditioning? If you saw the danger of nationalism to your own security, wouldn’t you act?
The answer is you don’t see. Through an intellectual process of analysis you may see that nationalism leads to self-destruction but there is no emotional content in that. Only when there is an emotional content do you become vital.
If you see the danger of your conditioning merely as an intellectual concept, you will never do anything about it. In seeing a danger as a mere idea there is conflict between the idea and action and that conflict takes away your energy. It is only when you see the conditioning and the danger of it immediately, and as you would see a precipice, that you act. So seeing is acting.
Most of us walk through life inattentively, reacting unthinkingly according to the environment in which we have been brought up, and such reactions create only further bondage, further conditioning, but the moment you give your total attention to your conditioning you will see that you are free from the past completely, that it falls away from you naturally.
Krishnamurti