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.

My Perfect USA

This idea has been noodling in my head and I can't stop thinking about it.

It involves the nasty politics, name calling, distrust, lobbying or lying with an agenda.

This current scenario doe not have to exist if we adjust a few things.

Presently, there are two main activities occurring in our society..

1) Productive Work: building houses, manufacturing products, providing services.

2) Non-productive work: Law enforcement, writing laws, collecting taxes, politics (Yes, all politicians try to get a bigger piece of the tax revenue pie.)

What would happen if our country focused all of its efforts on Productive Work, and eliminated as much Non-productive work as possible.

Here are some thoughts that I invite others to embellish upon.

1) Eliminate any tax responsibility from Corporations who hire people. (This would free up the money and non-productive time that corporations spend on tax accounting, tax lawyers, and all other the tax compliance issues. i.e. the employee would pay income taxes, flat rate, no sliding scale. Say 5% ????)

THINK OF CORPORATIONS AS HIRING MACHINES. That's their only job. That's it.

2) Corporations could not lobby for any special favors or consideration. In other words, if the company cannot provide a service that people want, they will have to adjust their business to supply what people DO want, else fail. No longer could companies come to Washington to lobby/ask for assistance. They are on their own.

This way, companies would no longer have a need to be "evil", there would be no advantage for them. In other words, they could focus all their time and resources to building their business and be competitive
( = more jobs. , more tax revenue)

3) The whole idea here is to create a demand for employees. If employees are in short supply, there will be competition between corporations to get them. This translates into higher pay for employees, training, health insurance, retirement benefits, and other perks to keep and make good employees. (Better perks = less dependence on Social Security and Medicare.)

Other thoughts....

If corporations did not have to deal with taxes, then overseas corporations would want to set up business here in our country = more employment for US citizens = more revenue for national security and major multi-state infrastructure.

States would have to compete for employees. In other words, those states that are more corporation/employee friendly would be more successful. This would engender a need for all States and corporations to compete against each other by improving their products, benefits, and productivity.

The dollar would be super strong, because it would represent real value made by PRODUCTIVE work, not debt or unfunded entitlements.

Corporations and employees will still be subject to the law. Environmental and employee protection laws would have to be in effect to prevent cheating the system.

ANY ACTION THAT CAUSES AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OVER OTHERS WOULD BE REGULATED.

There should be term limits for regulators:: Congressmen, senators, the president.
Each government job would have a defined and limited responsibility.

Harsh penalties for all cheaters.

Education would focus on entrepreneurship and creativity. Course schedules would be prioritized toward productive work. Laziness would be ridiculed.

Employees should realize that in order for them to be in demand, they will also have to compete against each other. In other words, they would be induced to improve their productivity and support the company to keep it competitive.

Arts flourish in productive societies. Arts are important for engendering creative solutions to current problems.

So..... noodle this in your head a little. I've heard a lot of good ideas from others that could fit into this paradigm and with a little more thought, we could have a society that eliminates much of our human suffering.

Population control? Hmmm.. think about this. If you have a child at age 20, you will be competing with them for your job when you're 44. Or, hows about this?

Eric

Overpopulated? I think not.

I did some thumbnail calculations tonight and this is what I found out.

1. Let's say we have 6.5 billion people in this world.
2. If we placed all 6.5 billion people in this world in one place where each one occupied 21 square feet lying down (3ft. x 7 ft.) they would occupy ONLY 233 square miles.
3. Let's say we use all of our currently cultivated land for food. (6,679,143 sq. mi.)
4. This will equal 0.65764 acres per person cultivated land.
5. Let's say each person requires 2200 calories worth of food per day to survive.
6. This means each person will need 803,000 calories per year to survive.
7. If we can grow 26,500 pounds of potatoes per acre, this means 0.65764 acres can produce 5,533,463 calories per year. THAT's MORE THAN 803,000 calories!

So my point is this.

1. The sun can produce many more calories per acre than we need for food.
2. Cultivated land area can be increased by adding things like irrigation and making our unproductive land into productive land by using things like desalination plants (like Israel does), and doing other things. (See http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Arable_land for more examples.)
3. There's still plenty of unused fertile land we can use to produce food.
4. I didn't count anything we can get from the oceans and lakes.

We, as humans, like to aggregate into cities. This means what we see is "overpopulation" and start thinking there's too many people on this planet.

Let me know how you feel when your out in the vast wilderness areas left in this world that's not used for anything.... you'll start wishing there were more people around.

The total land area of the earth is 57,506,059 square miles.
(Our total populaton occupies 233 sq. miles laying down!)

THERE'S A TON OF EMPTY SPACE OUT THERE!

ON LAND!

Why do people starve? I say politics is the biggest reason.

How can 233 square miles of ANYTHING affect global ANYTHING!

The world has a surface area of 196,939,911 square miles. (i.e. the population occupies only 233/196,939,911 th of the worlds surface area.

That's only 0.000118% that we occupy! Do you really think we have any power to affect anything?

What should we concentrate on for our own good?

1) Food Preservation and transportation.
2) Fuel Production (Just to make life easier and to transport food.)

If the world economy goes down the tubes... we'll all be OK
If we could learn to get along with each other...we'd have paradise on earth for many billions of years to come. (As long as we take care of what we got. And we've got plenty.)

See the world..., see what's left... http://www.travellersgold.com