Perhaps I should not be commenting on health care reform at this point, since I do not dissect the various proposals, including the current legislation. Here’s the problem: no health care reform will be close to ideal at this point. Like most things in our increasing paternalistic society the ideal to my mind would involve [...]
I no longer watch corporate media news, but I was informed about some talking heads out there claiming Haiti is getting what they deserved. That is why I don’t watch corporate media news. I don’t care if those pundits came from one of the most respected think tanks, those are the most dangerous ones for [...]
I sent along some final thoughts to the editor of the business magazine for the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia, Molly Curso. Here they are.
Final Thoughts
First, I would like to qualify my previous answer to question #2. I said markets were necessary for the middle class. I would add that free markets are best. [...]
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A teachable moment recently occurred on The Middle Class Forum. I received a comment faulting how I related entitlements to stockholders. I approved and replied to that comment, but I’m going to cut and paste that reply here for three reasons: 1) my original reply was “off the cuff” and there was sloppiness in my [...]
We have devalued our belonging to people and place as our allegiance to paternal sources has grown. These allegiances include political parties, corporations and interest groups. We trust in these paternal sources, particularly as represented by corporate media and think tanks, while skeptical of human nature. This reverses where the “innocent until proven guilty” focus [...]
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The one place where you most expect wisdom from government is where authoritarianism has its greatest stranglehold. Supreme Court Justices are nominated for life through party politics. They overwhelmingly represent wealth and power elites, with corporate lawyers in the lead. They establish jurisprudence through arbitrary justifications couched in obtuse legal dogma. Restoring political balance will [...]
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There is a simple one-size-fits-all solution to restoring economic balance, a solution that no one would disagree with in principle, a solution that will never be implemented: good economic indicators. We are bombarded with stock market indicators incessantly. Consequently, that is where our focus lies for “restoring balance.” When the stock market does well it’s [...]
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Restoring economic balance will require greater experimentation, as reported in the previous entry for this series, and better information. Most people equate misinformation as being distortions of information. Others maintain that as long as the information is out there somewhere in some format then “Buyer Beware.” Yet hidden or obscured information is essentially misinformation, afflicting [...]
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As a media person Mark Levin has the resources of corporate media to reinforce misinformation (principle #8). His opinions become part of an entertainment package that gets echoed until one wonders who could possibly think differently. As a media person he is trusted by certain segments of the population (principle #9), a trust that would [...]
Continue reading about Liberty and Tyranny – Misinformation Wrap-up Part Three
The previous entry revealed that Mark Levin’s primary distortion of information in his book Liberty and Tyranny was creating the impression that a paternal (Statist) Supreme Court began with the New Deal. In reality it began in 1800 and distorting this fact has implications for what is conveyed as paternal. This entry refers to my [...]
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