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Monday, March 2, 2009

Stupid chain e-mail

Recently, a well meaning relative sent me a stupid e-mail. (Actually she sends a lot of them. No, it's not my Mom!) The subject of the e-mail made me so mad that I wrote the following response. After my response, I will include the text of the e-mail for your reading pleasure.

My response:

Let’s start with Truman and put to rest this colossally bad idea. He is the only person in history to order not one, but two nuclear attacks against civilians (that’s what Hiroshima and Nagasaki were/are – cities - civilization – civil - civilians). He was also complicit in the illegal, unconstitutional, immoral and extrajudicial detention and internment of innocent American citizens of Japanese descent. He was and remains an immoral midget and any argument that he did something and we should follow his example is morally bankrupt.

Secondly, I seriously doubt that the job demographics of undocumented aliens and Iraq and Afghanistan veterans overlaps to any significant extent.

Next, let’s leave aside the moral ramifications of this proposed deportation for a moment to discuss some of the other side effects.

The results would be rather predictable. The hideous violence necessary to repatriate these people – tearing them from their families, children, homes, communities, lives, jobs, businesses, etc., would bring down the governments of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and perhaps Wyoming, Idaho, New Jersey and New York. The government of Mexico would be overthrown if it did nothing to intervene and who knows but what the narcos would take complete control in the DF. The accelerated destruction of the Bill of Rights (even beyond Dubya and his gulag of torture) necessary in identifying these undocumented aliens could also lead to full blown civil war in the rest of the United States. Neighbors would become snitches, perhaps thinking they might get some of the possessions left behind by the deportees. Could pogroms be far behind?

And if the US somehow accomplished this deportation? What will it have achieved beyond the Hitleresque crimes themselves? Will the United States be prosperous and free again? Will the disturbed Iraq and Afghanistan veterans be employed in construction, landscaping, domestic help, and fast food industries? Or will they inhabit the homeless shelters like their colleagues still do from the Vietnam war?

What are you really trying to do by deporting 12 million people? What is the objective? To give jobs to returning veterans? A lot of them are going to need medical and psychiatric care for the rest of their lives – forget about jobs for these veterans. With luck, a large part of the rest of them will be able to integrate into peaceful society. If your objective is for these veterans to have jobs, try the following ideas that don’t involve violence. Eliminate capital gains tax, eliminate income taxes on new business (and old businesses, for that matter), slash the red tape involved with starting new businesses, don’t bailout another single bank, deregulate business, freeze the money supply, etc.

In short, let the money and the people be free from government manipulation! Entrepreneurs will then create jobs for returning veterans and everyone else besides and without violent revolutions at home and abroad.

This was the stupid e-mail:

This is something to think about. Consider the loss of jobs right now and` the cost to you, the tax payer. Then ask why would we keep them here illegally. The new president says he will bring home all the troops from the Middle East , where will they work, there are little jobs now?

THREE PRESIDENTS
The people that are in Washington , tell us they can not deport 12 million illegals! We` probably need to vote all of them out of office and send them back to school to learn history! We pay more to illegals in welfare than it would cost to deport them! Our career politicians need to work for the voters and the good of the United States of America , not the lobbyist and big business.

HOOVER , TRUMAN AND EISENHOWER Here is something that should be of great interest for you to pass around. I didn't know of this until it was pointed out to me. But, back during The Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work. Harry Truman deported over two million Illegal's after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans. And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 4 million Mexican nationals! The program was called 'Operation Wetback' so that American WWII and Korean veterans had a better chance at jobs. It took 2 Years, but they deported them! Now, if they could deport the illegals back then, they can sure do it today!!

If you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for yourself.
Reminder. Don't forget to pay your taxes... 12 million Illegal Aliens are depending on` you.

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DerekMarch 3, 2009 at 5:13 PM
That was really interesting and I would have to say that I agree with you.
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MarthaMarch 5, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Please tell me you're not STILL getting these stupid emails from she who must not be named! I completely agree with you dad. The 'jobs' were there before the illegal aliens and they'll still be there after. Veterans WON’T work in fast food and all the other labor intensive as well as time consuming jobs these aliens are working.
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Culture

The self-educated individual – confident in his gender, his heritage, his religion, and the traditional culture that he seeks to project into the future – stands as a threat to the very existence of the state: He does not need its ministrations.

Where then to begin the creation of capitalist culture? The destruction of the moral pretenses of the state is the irreducible first step toward the realization of a capitalist culture….

Terry Hulsey

I would add:

The destruction of the moral pretenses of the state is the irreducible first step toward preserving traditional culture.

Delusionists

The delusionists are those who believe that the current system can be reformed, made more efficient, streamlined. The delusionists believe that government bureaucracies act on market-like incentives. The delusionists believe that those in government bureaucracy can be convinced to reduce their role and influence. The delusionists believe that the president is in control of the bureaucracies. The delusionists believe that government bureaucracies are led by good people just trying to do the right thing. The delusionists believe that individuals, acting as central planners, are even capable of identifying the right thing to do.

Bionic Mosquito

The State

"A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats." - Walter Lippmann

Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

"The logic of compulsory schooling in the middle of a democracy is a contradiction of the original national charter; it breaks the contract of the Bill of Rights, using as its justification the excuse that kids can't learn any other way, that they can't be trusted with responsibility. The truth is exactly the opposite: unless they are trusted with responsibility they cannot learn much, and under the thumb of central compulsion the lessons they do learn are bad ones."

John Taylor Gatto, "A Different Kind of Teacher", pg. 193-194

Robert P. Murphy

In particular, the market interest rate coordinates the "intertemporal" (i.e., across-time) activities of investors, businesses, and consumers. If consumers become more future oriented and want to reduce consumption in the near term in order to provide more for later years, what happens in the free market is that the increased savings push down interest rates, which then signal entrepreneurs to borrow more and invest in longer projects. Thus resources (such as labor, oil, steel, and machine time) get redirected away from present goods, like TVs and sports cars, and the freed-up resources flow into capital or investment goods like tractors and cargo ships.

Now when the Federal Reserve artificially reduces interest rates below their free-market level, it sends a false message to entrepreneurs. Firms begin expanding as if consumers have increased their savings, but in fact consumers have reduced their savings (due to the lower interest rates). Businesses that churn out durable goods, such as furnaces, cargo ships, and, yes, houses will find business booming, because these sectors respond positively to low interest rates.

On the other hand, other sectors don't need to contract, because (unlike the scenario of genuine savings) nobody is cutting back on consumption. This is precisely why the Fed-induced boom is unsustainable — real resources have not been released from consumer sectors in order to fuel the expansion of the capital sectors. Because modern economies are so complex, the charade can continue for a few years, with entrepreneurs cutting corners and "consuming capital" (i.e., postponing necessary replacement and maintenance on equipment) while both investment and consumer goods keep flowing out of the pipeline at increased rates. But the music eventually stops, since (after all) the Fed's printing of green pieces of paper doesn't really make a country wealthier. When the Fed "cuts interest rates" it isn't really creating more capital for businesses to borrow; it is instead distorting the signal that the market interest rate was trying to convey.

From mises.org

Gary North

Gary North recently wrote a great article on the politico-economic outcome caused by the anti-nuclear media forces following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami:

"Energy is the key to output. This has been true for over 200 years. To control a primary source of energy is to get rich. China will be able to buy uranium by means of its output from uranium. It will convert uranium into wealth. It will do so with the lowest energy cost-per-output ratio of any nation. Its people will find employment.

I think this has shifted the balance of economic power away from India. India will face public resistance to nuclear power. China will not. India has a lot of advantages: English, the legal system, the free flow of ideas, and a lot of motivated, well-educated people. I am not saying that India will fall behind the world. It will advance. But with respect to the job market for millions of recent arrivals from rural districts, nuclear power will give China the edge.

The anti-nuke forces will never talk about this in public. They will never say publicly, "We have delivered the world's economy into the hands of China." But they will have done just that."

Lew Rockwell - again

The beauty and glory of economic science is that it consists in a series of laws and principles that do not change according to time and place. The prescription for prosperity and stability and human economic flourishing is always and everywhere the same: freedom of association, freedom of contract, freedom of enterprise, freedom to trade across borders without penalty, sound money that is redeemable in something besides paper, private property rights, wages and prices that adjust by market conditions, and a legal structure that shores up these institutions rather than undermines them.

James H. Polve

“Mechanical engineers design and manufacture machines, machines to help mankind, to ease his burden and to make like more abundant. Machine work supplants slave labor and provides power far in excess of muscle power to free men from hard labor and yet provides the means to accomplish. Automobiles, airplanes, tractors, electrical and nuclear power plants, steam plants and many other similar kinds of plants and machines are typical examples of design and manufacture by the mechanical engineer. His special abilities are aimed at coupling natural laws with natural materials to produce work. He channels energy available on earth, and wherever possible in the universe, through devices into more usable forms to aid man. He can multiply man’s strength and quickness through hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical devices. He can transport men and goods faster, further, and more efficiently than man can walk or carry. He provides for warmth in the winter and coolness in the summer. He is aided and yet constrained by the physical laws and the characteristics of resources that surround him; and yet he has made great advances to free men somewhat from the edict ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, til thou return unto the ground’ (Gen. 3:19).”

Ted Rockwell - The Best Quote Ever

That tactic, of making problems out of advantages—making sow’s ears out of silk purses, I call it—permeates the whole nuclear enterprise. The advantage that radioactivity continually and automatically gets less and less toxic every day, is converted to, “it stays toxic for thousands of years.” And this is implied to pose an unprecedented problem that humanity is not equipped to deal with. And breakable light bulbs containing mercury are called “green,” and radioactivity is called uniquely hazardous.

http://www.nucleartownhall.com/blog/townhall-qa-rickover-to-the-renaissance/

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How much money will UTOPIA ultimately consume? Currently they have spent $516 million. I bet the total goes over $700 million before bankruptcy is declared.
Why does lightning occur with earthquakes? Is Harold Aspden's theory about this correct?
Where was Joseph, the Carpenter when Christ was crucified? Had he already died?
What was it like to be a Christian in the 1st century, when the Apostles were still alive?
What influences Americans against nuclear power?
Chinese Trade - what was it paid with in AD 800?
History of Property Taxes in Utah. When Brigham Young said "This is the right place", there weren't any property taxes.
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