Another Blog: Semper Libertas
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Screed by will @ October 29, 2008
Forbes: A formal strong-dollar policy is essential.
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http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1110/018_3.html
Stolen from DIGG
Screed by will @ October 29, 2008
Taking the New Deal Global
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Harald Meyerson writes in The Washington Post advocating pushing regulation of the ilk of the New Deal unto the world. Nice reasoning, the policies of The New Deal, those failures that kept us in the Depression for many unneeded extra years, are exactly what we need as we are leaving the melancholy world of a deep recession in to the depressing world of a, well, a Depression. Do we need more regulation? well the right amount of government makes us freer, but all regulation should be designed to free citizens to be industrious, even after the Law of Unforseen Consequences hits.
There might be a better way, reduce the liability protections that allow products to be created or services rendered in other countries, that effect the end consumer/user. This is an already successful practice that has withstood the test of time, and is surely the conservative path, for in Texas a design, of any origin, must be signed of by a Texas certified professional engineer, thus there is always local liability. In the abstract this answers the same problem so we can extend it to say widgets. From the moment of the it arrives on the shores of the our there must be a seller or reseller who is liable. Thus, practices that endanger Americans can remedied in civil courts even when American laws were not broken.
Government cannot outlaw the business cycle, but it can legislate away the recovery. Let us have a less restrictive government but one the let us remedies
Screed by will @ October 21, 2008
John Stossel does it again.
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John Stossel -20/20
Part I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phs6CwnutoY
Part II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e11-_cE63Us
Part III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuL8teeuJD8&feature=related
Part IV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pu6cT6ICQQ&feature=related
(heads up from Jessica H.)
Screed by will @ October 20, 2008
The coming wave of Post-Consumerism
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v.002
Man was never one with the Earth, rather, man stood in spite of it, for all creatures stand in spite of the world. And, it is in our standing, in spite of the odds, against (and with) the other wights of our realm that creates the balance. However, man has reached an unsustainable pseudo-equilibrium, that is, our failure is far enough over the horizon that it is hid as a balance, but nay, our consumer driven existence shall not be borne for ever. The markets shall not bear it, for what is the market but nature through the hands and will of man.
America’s hubris was not living within some of our belief, that we could spread democracy to the world, but rather, that we could consume all, we gluttons, and that the world was our cornucopia. Well it isn’t so, we cannot not work have our ipod too, we cannot sunder our forests and swamps, and expect the nature not sunder us. This not a pro-environmental rant but rather a plea that we must be conservative in all things, including how we consume.
Further, as our cultural values have changed, as the worth of our family has wanned and we prioritized our purchasing power over our children, as we have leveraged debt, instead of our debt to our kin, we have found our lives empty. What we need is a lap-band for our spending habits.
While it is understood that our unsustainable easy-credit lifestyles are coming to end, what is not seen is the that culture that tolerated must also yield. And, when we can no longer put off the pain, we shall then embrace acceptance and that acceptance is our shall be our post-consumerism attitudes.
Yet, one cannot say the future, but one can hope a return to what worked in the past, a family as a central unit of society and a society the suffers change slowly.
Screed by will @ October 19, 2008
Understanding Booms and Busts
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Folks, (draft 1)
There seems to be a bit of confusion about the roles and separation of the Federal Reserves’ Monetary Policy and the Problem’s drive by the inherit weakness of the GSE’s such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The Fed’s Monetary Policy guaranteed that there would be an exacerbated boom and bust, that is one driven by extreme mal-investment ending with an equally extreme correction; it was the underwriting by the GSE’s pointed the malinvestement towards housing.
Thus, it is the monetary policy creates the fools and the GSE’s bear them.
God Save the Republic,
Will
Screed by will @ October 19, 2008