I like taking arrogant and ignorant left wingers out at the knees. This is likely a character flaw, but I am good at it. This is a response to a response on Keynes I put up several days ago. He listed the normal responses, including the obligatory pretense that there are “countercyclical” spending cuts, which of course there never are, and never have been anywhere I know of since the initiation of this madness in the 1930’s.
What we need to understand is that “austerity”, as it is being bandied about in Europe and the United States, is committing to provide 20 candy bars a day to a 600 pound man, with an annual increase of 2 candy bars per day per year for the next forty years, or until he dies. He gets used to this idea, then all of a sudden it is decided to reduce the amount of increase to 1 3/4 candy bars a year. The horror.
Put another way, if true austerity is “belt tightening”, what is actually being discussed is a decrease in the rate at which the belt is loosened. It is still belt loosening; the only thing being discussed is the rate at which we should continue becoming fatter; or, to make it concrete, the rate at which the Federal Government continues to metastasize.
And it is worth reiterating often both that every public sector job can ONLY exist at the expense of private sector jobs, and that government stimulus in the best possible case does the same work the private sector would have done, after taking a cut out of it, and in most cases subtracting intelligence. If you believe that digging and filling in holes is productive, that is taking intelligence out, and ensuring that whatever word is used, “investment” is not and can never be an appropriate one.
When
used by the left wing the word austerity is to sound fiscal policy what
the word social justice is to actual fairness. It is a propagandistic
meme designed to allow the short sighted to convince the stupid that 1.4
trillion dollar deficits can be sustained forever. To be clear, that
IS what is being proposed. Obama’s latest budget does not balance EVER,
within the lifetime of ANYONE. And that is just the annual budget.
NOBODY, on the left or the right, is proposing actually paying down our
debt, except Rand Paul, whose proposal is serious, and Paul Ryan, whose
proposal is far too weak.
Mussollini did praise Keynes, and Keynes did praise Hitler, but I am
not going to take the time to look it up. I would ask, though: what
would Keynes have objected to in Hitler’s use of state power to buy up
large segments of the private sector and enhance employment? And Hitler
DID have a plan to balance the budget: invade the rest of Europe. He
was far more sane than Lenin.
If you want intelligent analysis of the faults of our system, read my treatment of it: http://www.goodnessmovement.com/Page23.html
. What you think you know consists in logical fallacy, presumption of
facts which are not true, and the repetition of talking points created
by people just as ignorant as you.
What we need to understand is that “austerity”, as it is being bandied about in Europe and the United States, is committing to provide 20 candy bars a day to a 600 pound man, with an annual increase of 2 candy bars per day per year for the next forty years, or until he dies. He gets used to this idea, then all of a sudden it is decided to reduce the amount of increase to 1 3/4 candy bars a year. The horror.
Put another way, if true austerity is “belt tightening”, what is actually being discussed is a decrease in the rate at which the belt is loosened. It is still belt loosening; the only thing being discussed is the rate at which we should continue becoming fatter; or, to make it concrete, the rate at which the Federal Government continues to metastasize.
And it is worth reiterating often both that every public sector job can ONLY exist at the expense of private sector jobs, and that government stimulus in the best possible case does the same work the private sector would have done, after taking a cut out of it, and in most cases subtracting intelligence. If you believe that digging and filling in holes is productive, that is taking intelligence out, and ensuring that whatever word is used, “investment” is not and can never be an appropriate one.
When
used by the left wing the word austerity is to sound fiscal policy what
the word social justice is to actual fairness. It is a propagandistic
meme designed to allow the short sighted to convince the stupid that 1.4
trillion dollar deficits can be sustained forever. To be clear, that
IS what is being proposed. Obama’s latest budget does not balance EVER,
within the lifetime of ANYONE. And that is just the annual budget.
NOBODY, on the left or the right, is proposing actually paying down our
debt, except Rand Paul, whose proposal is serious, and Paul Ryan, whose
proposal is far too weak.
Mussollini did praise Keynes, and Keynes did praise Hitler, but I am
not going to take the time to look it up. I would ask, though: what
would Keynes have objected to in Hitler’s use of state power to buy up
large segments of the private sector and enhance employment? And Hitler
DID have a plan to balance the budget: invade the rest of Europe. He
was far more sane than Lenin.
If you want intelligent analysis of the faults of our system, read my treatment of it: http://www.goodnessmovement.com/Page23.html
. What you think you know consists in logical fallacy, presumption of
facts which are not true, and the repetition of talking points created
by people just as ignorant as you.