The modern Marxists are wrong again

Now they tell us that innovation has made economic growth impossible, but the only thing that's killing economic growth is government interventionism and central planning. There are no new innovative means of producing what we need that have killed the possibility of great economic growth.

There are technological changes that America has to catch up with, but that's a failure of public education. A private sector revolution in America would transform our economy making us a global leader in manufacturing, but we have to get past the dinosaurs of European-style State management and  government-connected unions.

If free enterprise is not hampered by government interventions, then we have much growth ahead of us.

Morning Joe 1/16/2012 -- Finally, Joe speaks up

On Morning Joe today, Scarborough sounded as if he's running for President to the right of Romney and the other Big Government candidates, except Ron Paul who is the only liberty candidate. To start the program, Morning Joe had on the usual bored and boring suspects -- Al Sharpton, Tina Brown and Jeffrey Sachs, then later Suze Orman was on. The entire first segment was a Republican-bash, along with private sector enterprise bashing. Actually, what the Leftist guests were bashing is government intervention in the economy, but they don't see it that way. Sachs made the incredible claim that deregulation came about before the housing crash.

 Government was up to its elbows in the housing crash. Government has heavily regulated all industries for a long, long time. It's ludicrous to suggest that free market principles have been at work ever in America's history. From the start, Hamilton won in designing a system controlled by the combined interests of the elite from business and government -- A Merchant-State.

After about an hour or so of this, when Sachs had gone on to claim that private enterprise had also ruined healthcare, Scarborough, I suppose, had had enough, and whatever connection he has to free market philosophy inspired him to respond -- what Scarborough condemned is statist growth. Now in the 21st century we're drowning in debt along with Europe. Sachs and the other Leftists blamed practically all our problems on private sector enterprise, yet all they can propose is higher taxes on the rich. What then? They don't know and never have known. The Left wants more money to pay for their past failures and to fund their central planning going forward which will also fail. It's time to stop the madness. Kudos to Scarborough for standing up.

Update on Monday, January 16, 2012 at 08:52AM by M. Farmer

I forgot that the first part of Morning Joe was spent talking about Huntsman dropping out. They all repeated the conventional wisdom that Huntsman was the most conservative candidate in the race -- so, conservative Huntsman endorses Centrist Romney. I'm not sure what a conservative is anymore, but Huntsman, in DC, out of Utah, would be a Big Government Republican. A Big Government Republican is a statist, like Obama is a statist -- they only focus on different areas of central planning and control.

Is America too far gone?

I hold out hope that the Information Age produces enough information and common sense to counteract the propaganda and political spin produced by the political class. Even pundits I've admired in the past appear affected by the delusional world of American politics. Over and over I hear analyses stuck in political strategy, although I find it difficult to believe that the American people can be fooled by these strategies in 2011. I hear very few analyses taking into account the changing American mindset regarding government, even though poll after poll show that Americans have little faith in congress, and more and more Americans are turning on a president who was very popular and historically significant.

Do any of the political experts have the ability to remove themselves from the delusional world of inside politics and DC culture in order to fully understand the changing electorate? The conventional wisdom in DC is that Obama has a good chance to win re-election by framing Republicans as obstacles to his plans to turn around the economy. There is also a common acceptance in DC that Obama's "successes" in foreign policy will offset the economic troubles - he got bin Laden, you know, and Qaddafi is toast, too.

In reality, Obama has furthered statist interventions at home and global progressivism abroad that have brought America to the brink of collapse. If Europe goes under, this could be the blow that creates a worldwide depression, and most of the problems leading up to this global crisis can be traced to powerful States mismanaging economies and international relationships. China, praised by the political class from Obama to Krugman to moderate Republicans who admire the ease with which they centrally plan economic growth, is inflating perhaps the biggest bubble known to mankind so far. China has entire cities which are ghost towns, and the majority of their admired "growth" has been manufactured by ambitious statists who think big, shiny buildings equal wealth.

America is bogged down in the mideast, spending hundreds of billions on military efforts which will produce nothing but more terrorists spread out around the globe. Our interventions have rekindled Cold War passions in Russia, and we fund military bases in countries which should have become self-protected decades ago.

Businesses in America finally threw up their hands in surrender as regulations and the prospect of higher taxes prevent them from investing and growing their businesses. Young entrepreneurs find it almost impossible to start new companies, and, yet, regulations pour out government agencies like cement to keep what was once, and could be again, a dynamic market stuck in place.

All these problems and many more bear down on us, but political analysts talk about political strategy which is basically a pack of lies intended to fool American voters so that this system can continue unthreatened by change. It hardly matters if Obama can fool voters, or if Romney or some other Republican candidate fools them even more, if we don't get representatives in office who can make systemic changes and stop the march of government interventionism, we're doomed.  Can the American people still be that gullible? I hope not.

Let China be

If we discover China stealing, spying or doing anything that threatens our security, then, of course, we should react, but it's time to let China be and avoid creating another evil opponent to justify the continued expansion of our national defense machine with no oversight. If our leaders, the media and the American people ever learn to embrace market principles, they will understand that if China continues on its present path of State capitalism, they will not control the world's economy in the immediate future as they all fret over.

China will go the way of the USSR -- not the same route, but the same result. There are certain economic laws that countries can't violate without consequences -- however, if we don't stop our march into complete State capitalism ouit of fear that China is "winning" something, we might beat them to collapse. China is not a threat, but out interventionist, central planning, social engineering government is a major threat, and this should be a greater concern in the 21st century than worrying about China's ignorant, shor-term economic manipulations. If both America and China allow free markets, the whole world will be better off, but if China doesn't allow a free market, then all we have to do is stick to rational economic principles and wait. We definitely don't need to follow China down the road to ruin.

A central 2012 issue

Chris Edwards at Cato addresses what should be one of the most important issues heading into the 2012 elections -- the NLRB and their power over businesses such as Boeing. I wouldn't consider voting for any candidate who doesn't spiritedly oppose NLRB and call for its elimination.

You don't have to be a wild-eyed libertarian to understand that the type of power possessed by NLRB to prevent a company like Boeing from opening up a plant in any state Boeing chooses is a serious attack on freedom (what we have left) -- all the specious reasoning in the world from the Left can't justify this type of power and control over American enterprise.

If this case is not addressed and resolved in favor of Boeing and American free enterprise, and if serious changes aren't made, we are further down the slope of decline and closer to becoming a nation of weak dependents and groveling subjects.