Originally posted by mnemeth1
reply to post by stephinrazin
love your post.
You are right on the money.
The State is a safety blanket that protects people from the evils of competition and personal responsibility.
I love how people go on and on about markets creating monopolies and that without a State some private entrepreneur would eventually take over the
world and act like a tyrannical king. While in reality, the State is solely responsible for creating and maintaining monopolies.
The Federal Reserve is a cartel of private banking interests.
The Post Office is one of the largest monopolies in the world.
The patent and copyright system was put in place for the sole purpose of CREATING monopolies.
The railroads were monopolies that leveraged State funds to build their rails, used the State to confiscate the land needed to build their rails, and
they used the State to cartelize the railroad markets.
The oil industry is entirely cartelized through federal regulations. A private land owner can not access the oil on his land if it has been deemed to
be part of the "national reserve" - and the licenses to get at the oil are next to impossible to acquire unless you have a million dollar lobbying arm
in congress.
Etc.. etc.. etc..
Corrupt societies create corrupt governments. We are partially to blame for them being at an advantage in this society. Right is Right. Wrong is
Wrong. Period. But do we believe that across the board?
People tend to believe the central-nannystate will always have their back when the going gets tough. Most of the time the nannystate is a pretty good
sideline official for private property and defending rights. But people can be bought,suicided, or threatened,tortured into compliance. Resources in
the form of money or other materials tend to corrupt people. History confirms that is true. What happens when a state is corrupted by corrupt people?
Because they are just a group of people with flaws and differing opinions.
What happens when the nanny-state is working almost exclusively with a small private group of families and business and not the general public?
What happens when the public management department is warped into a yoke,chains, and whip for the corporate "masters"?
Big Private has a rather large rent-a-serf racket going on. Problem is the middle-upper chaste/class serfs are "house-serfs" for the Private interest
cartel. As long as they are getting their tasty carcinogenic food rations, "VIP" materialism, mind-numbing formulaic entertainment, and cheap beer
they are content.
They are "better" than the struggling serfs in the fields and the coal mines so who cares.
The elites and corporate have been playing this psyop sideshow for years now.We are just now starting to catch on to their games because they got
arrogant or impatient and tried too much too fast.Creating a world police state takes time. Its like we are playing chess with a grand master that is
constantly cheating and has a 4 turn lead on us.
edit on 9-7-2011 by John_Rodger_Cornman because: (no reason given)