A Lesson in Marxism

Very Compelling, But THINK!  There's a ton of bulldookie here.

Watch this video, then read my opinions below.

 

(Watch this video, then watch this video again, but this time pause the video at the
end of each segment listed below to see
MY opinions on the garbage presented in this video.)

Most of  the above video is presented with the sole purpose of leading you down a rosy path to accept  Marxism. Don't be fooled.... There's a ton of better ways to solve our country's problems.

WARNING! Don't Get Sucked In.

NOT ONE MARXIST COUNTRY SURVIVED WITHOUT DISASTER DURING ITS SHORT LIFE!  Why do Marxists keep doing the same thing and expect a different result?

Here Are MY Comments.........

Minutes      Comments/Opinions

3:11    3:27       "Glen Beck Version" aimed at denigrating him?  Too much regulation of the wrong
                           sort can be fixed!

3:46    3:55       He starts presenting the Marxist perspective which is "The Only" way to understand
                          the situation. Really?  How's about some other perspective.. where will we end up
                          then?

6:00    6:07       Is finance capital really the root of the problem? Finance capital is the engine that
                          provides places to work, a way to speed up the building of factories to provide more
                          jobs!  So what if a lot of jobs go overseas?  My previous post explains how to get the
                          "greedy" capitalists to come back to the U.S. to invest and create jobs.

   Yes, labor unions ARE THE PROBLEM!

Why?  Because they have too much power to  bleed their employers and non-union taxpayers
                 dry.  They use strong-arm tactics to force people to join the union so that they can get dues
                 to finance their own interests and the unrealistic promises they gave to their members  

                 which are not in the best interest of our country or of most of our U.S. citizens.

6:12    6:36    Wage repression?

Why? Because of the need to compete with cheap labor overseas.  The obvious "solution" being
                 used by those without a brain is to repress wages in order to keep costs down so they can
                 compete and increase profits.  This is a losing strategy because taking this approach
                 drives wages toward a bottom, ZERO!

                What happened to the assembly line?  Technology is steadily improving processes can
                 increase the speed of production.  Speed of production reduces  the "cost of labor" for each
                 item sold.  Will we lose jobs if this happens.... NO!  Why?  Because there's always a
                 demand for cheaper, yet higher quality goods.  Over 90% of the world's population are in
                 abject poverty.  Poverty causes the population to grow. (Note: Population is decreasing in
                 more affluent countries, it's a natural process which guarantees a stable population years
                 out as more people leave poverty.)

6:35    6:36   Credit Cards

Credit Card Companies are EVIL!
(My Opinion)

           Talk about killing your customers!
                     Our federal government allows credit card companies to charge loan shark rates which
                 the greedy credit card companies do with glee.
                     (I remember the interest rate on my first credit card. It was 7%!  7% allowed the credit
                 card companies to double their profit in 7 years.)  This 7% rate of profit is much higher
                 than most other companies out there.
                    Regulations protect these "Too Big to Fail" companies. Our government gives them
                 bailouts with your money.

There's a better way to regulate credit card companies.

                     We need to put a limit on the interest rate they charge like we had in the past.
                 They'll whine and complain saying they cannot survive.  But the truth is, they don't want                      to lose their unfair advantage of doing business without competition.

                    Competition is the only way to survive.  Competition causes companies to streamline
                their operations to reduce costs and provide a better service to their customers. This way
                they would not kill their customers and customers can have more money to spend on goods
                and services which provide jobs.

7:01    END   Let's follow the explanation of Capitalism then note the special interest Marxist spin
               on "Greedy, out of control Financiers"from minute  8:34 on.                       The solution to this greed problem is to regulate this greed behavior.
                                                        PROBLEM SOLVED!
                         There can and should be more billionaires who have the money to invest in factories
                      and provide jobs to improve their profits and the lives of the workers and society as a
                      whole.

Here's my suggestion for you.

Don't let others think for you.

You have a brain.  USE IT!

Get some brain practice by critiquing some of the other Marxist Videos Here.
Warning! Don't Get Sucked Into This Stupidity.

The comments on this post are the opinions of its author.

Eliminate Corporate Taxes

Eliminate Corporate Taxes

(= Massive Foreign Investment into the U.S.A.)

All taxes paid by Corporations and expenses associated with complying with IRS regulations are added to the purchase price of everything they sell.

It is the PURCHASER who bears the financial burden for running our government and paying down the National Debt.

Elimination of Corporate Taxes will reduce this "COST OF DOING BUSINESS" that is added to the purchase price.

So, AT THE END OF THE DAY, Corporations DO NOT PAY TAXES, their consumers do.

Benefits:

1. Lower Prices for Consumers = More discretionary money for them to spend on goods and services.
   
2. Corporate Tax Deductions aimed at improving the health and further growth investment of Corporations would be eliminated.. however, the costs saved by not needing to comply to IRS regulations would improve their bottom line for growth investment. Immense savings would be gotten by eliminating all tax accountants, tax lawyers, and associated facility expenses which could be used for GROWTH.
3. The people displaced by this move have the skills and abilities to provide Corporations with cost saving budgets and processes. Another GROWTH activity... Lean and Mean. New Foreign Investors would compete to hire displaced tax attorneys, tax accountants, and tax related employees because of a shortage in the work force.
4. Less government expense managing Corporate Taxes = more money for the government to use in more productive endeavors such as improving EPA monitoring of environmental issues  (which I believe should be handled by the States. Why?, Because the cleanest states would compete against other states for quality of life for corporate employees.)
5.  A more simplified system that would free up an immense amount of time for Corporations and individuals to create new technology, provide better services, and SPEND MONEY, It is only when money is spent that all taxes are actually paid to the governments: Federal, State, and Local.
6. NO CORPORATE TAXES would cause a MASSIVE INFLUX of FOREIGN INVESTMENT into the U.S.A. thereby reducing the number of unemployed and increasing the competition for employees = Higher wages and benefits. Massive foreign investment would mean more purchases = more money for the government coffers.
7. Happier, less stressed citizens at all levels = lower Medicare and Medicaid and other entitlement costs such as unemployment.

Big Lies

Our Global Meltdown has a cause. THE NEWS!!!!

On the news today, it was announced that the 911 call by George Zimmerman was modified by NBC which cut out key phrases to make it sound like Mr. Zimmerman was a racist. This modified 911 recording was blasted all over the news (even FOX News was duped. ) which riled our black community. http://tinyurl.com/6ovaktz 
Al Sharpton, Rev. Jessie Jackson, The Black Panthers, and many other black activists jumped into this opportunity to rile up our black citizens based on misinformation.

Greg Palast is shown on LinkTV.org (a leftist cable station) as being a real/honest investigative reporter. So, what does he do?  He finds the few corporations that have been naughty, investigates them. Then he blasts his GOTCHAS to any audience who will pay him money. Michael Moore is a sucker for these one-sided issues and blasts all corporations as being the same kind of BAD.
See "The Vulture's Picnic" at http://tinyurl.com/74w3vn6

My takes:

1) We are all God's creation. No "race" is better or worse than another. We ARE all equal. Period! No ifs, ands, or buts about it. (Some people and corporations misbehave, and we have to be able to recognize who they are and take them to task.)

2) The News, any news: left, right, center, makes most of their money by providing bad, controversial, or provocative news. We never hear about the good that people and corporations do.

For every "EVIL" corporation, there are a thousand"GOOD"corporations.

3) For every "EVIL" rich man, there are a thousand "GOOD" rich men.

Let's NOT take advice or believe what we hear in the press. All you'll find in the press are lies, distortions, or agendas. Follow the money!!!!

Oil Prices - Cost of Gas

 FOOD FOR THOUGHT

 I would like this idea to fester... it might evolve into something useful.

We are in an economic war.  A real war, much like the war on terror, that is threatening the national security of our country.

This "Global" economy is killing us.  Why? Because we cannot possibly provide our standard of living to all 7 billion people on this planet at once.

The oil, natural gas, and coal under the ground in our country belongs to us, the U.S. citizen.

I propose thinking about our oil as ours; our coal as ours, our natural gas as ours.  It does not belong to the big, global energy companies.

So, here's my proposal.

Declare "economic war"

This means that we should focus on having our oil refined for us only.  Have our coal mined for us only. Have our natural gas tapped for us only.... FIRST.

Let the oil companies play on the global market and make their money.

But we should take care of ourselves (citizens) first.

Let our government search for oil on our own land and when found, invest in building U.S. owned refineries to supply our country first.  This should allow us to be energy independent and allow us (U.S.) to be free from the swings in oil prices due to speculation, global demand, or global conflicts.  We, as citizens can sell "our" excess oil globally, but only after our needs and economy are satisfied.

I hate the idea of getting the government involved in this but it is the Federal Government's responsibility to assure national security.  The only branch of the government I trust is the military and feel they should be the ones handling this. (Keep "Industry" out of this.)





One quick way to do this is to increase the strategic oil reserve to the point where we can control global oil prices. (i.e. make it too costly for the oil countries to overcharge for their oil.

We must have the ability to stabilize global energy costs.  If Iran threatens the oil supply, so what? We have our own to tap from.

The Fence

One of my best friends has a philosophy that the life you live has two choices.  One right, one wrong.

I differ somewhat in this philosophy because people interpret right and wrong differently; what's right for one person is wrong to the other, yet they both feel they are doing the right (good) thing.

We've all been on this earth long enough for us to chose a time and place where we were unjustifiably persecuted by an "enemy". Propagandist's can mold our beliefs by bringing back memories when persecution happened and make enemies of anyone they chose. They can twist the truth into all kinds of lies; half truths and  focusing on only one side of the story.

But, if Rio de Janeiro  slum statistics are representative of the percentage of all people who consciously chose the wrong path, 94% of the people on this earth want peace, want to pull their own weight and do not want to hurt anyone but live their life as honorably as they can. The other 6% has made living in the slum a living hell for the honest majority with drugs, gangs, murder, and fear mongering.

94% of the people want peace on earth.

The U.S. does not have a perfect record of doing only good.  It has done some nasty things to other countries for personal gain... but, the good the U.S. has done for the world outweighs the bad by a long shot.

Both friendly and unfriendly countries have many of the conveniences they have because of the U.S.  Every country has cars, cell phones, high tech medicine, cell phones, refrigerators, and telephones.  Where did the transistor come from?  Where did the home computer and television come from?  Where did mechanized agriculture come from?  From inventions done by people in the U.S. where they had the freedom to create with the promise that they could make and hold onto wealth.

So, dear enemies of the U.S. , count the blessings you have that came from the U.S.  Also, count the curses the technologies brought when used inappropriately.  Cars came first, then tanks which would not have been possible without the internal combustion engine.

My point in all of this is that any country can have a free and productive society if its citizens are allowed to pursue their dreams.

Rich citizens = rich leaders.

Unlimited Mattress!!!!!

Real Quick.....  If you understood my last two posts.

Do you know who has a mattress full of money with an unlimited supply?

You are right!!!!  It's the FED = (Federal Reserve Bank that is privately owned by rich dudes.)

Remember the story of the guy who went to California and bought up all the shovels. (He limited supply.)
He then sold the shovels for a very high price to the hopeful miners and ended up being a millionaire?)  Was that fair?  Was it fair to the miners? ....... You answer.

Back to the FED -- (I'm FED up.)

The FED steals money any time it wants.  All it has to do is print more money.  A nickel could buy a candy bar when I was a kid.  Now you have to pay at least $1.00 for a candy bar.  Thanks to the Fed printing money,  the nickels I saved back then are practically worthless.

So, the controllers of our money dictates and controls our lives, our savings, supply, demand, and our economy at will. We have no recourse.... (Not even gold can escape this strategy.... Gold is a commodity, has gone up and down precipitously in the past and many people lost their shirts counting on it.)


Now, if we could tax the unlimited mattress (privately owned) according to the rules laid out in my two previous posts, we might be able to put "money" back doing what it is supposed to do... move and provide jobs.

Eric

Do I Live in a World Full of PinHeads?

I'm watching the NEWS and the topic of the day is about
"TAXING THE RICH"

The Rich DO NOT PAY TAXES!!!!!!!!
(See my previous post for explanation.)

Since I'm also a pinhead, I assumed everyone would be able to think logically enough to expand on my previous concept.  Especially since I (a fellow pinhead) can understand it.

Let's expand on the concept of ECONOMY = MOVEMENT of MONEY. (Explained in my previous post.)

1. Time spent well, time wasted.
   
   A lot of time and money is spent on "Escapism".  Yes, people need to "decompress", but not 4 hours a day. 
   
   Money and time spent on escaping from reality is the same as opening the windows in the dead of winter... the only result is higher fuel bills.
   
   Complex government regulations are the same. They waste valuable time and resources because there are no products produced that provide value to anyone... just aggravation and fear..
   
   
2. Too much money is in the control of too few people. (No, not communist here.)
   
   There are super wealthy individuals, organizations and countries that have an excess of IDLE money. This idle money is used to leverage markets by  buying up surplus to get a higher profit on artificially rarified supply.  Taxing IDLE money would make it more profitable for these control freaks to put their idle money into investments that cause money to move. Only moving money creates more wealth.
   
   
3. Rich is not necessarily Evil.
   
   Just because a person is rich doesn't mean that this "rich" person is doing anything wrong.  Investments that provide capital to build more "money movers" is a good thing.
   
   
4. Stupid investments.
   
   Mistakes like making an Edsel when everyone wants Volkswagens is a waste of economy (money). Solyndra anyone?
   
   
5. Planned Obsolescence:
   
   Items made to fail to force consumers to buy new builds more poverty.
   
   Cash for Clunkers made used cars much more expensive for those unable to afford a new car. Working poor cannot afford new cars.
   Yet, the working poor are the ones that build items that provide value.
   
   * Safety considerations can logically force obsolescence.
   
   * Poor is a relative term. 
   (A friend of mine complained of making ONLY $25/hr back in the 60's.  He felt poor when the average wage was $6.25/hr where I lived.
   
   
6. Needs, then Wants
   
   Our main social structure must provide for the needs of all.
   Needs = food, shelter
   Wants help make life more pleasant.
   
   Focus should be spent on making needs less expensive so more money can be spent on wants
   .
7. Diversity
   
   New technology and new products would be very difficult to discover if we all thought the same way.
   
   
   
   
   Seen on Lib Wailing Wall...
   "We need more rich to suck money from"