Tag Archives: global warming

Billionaire’s Next Cash Cow

When Wall Street is completely mined out, the mob is going to need a new hustle. Climate change is the ticket. The American public has been fleeced many times but global warming may provide the best opportunity yet. Public private partnerships are the path to billions for anyone who has the political power to use Washington as a tool.

The public is still focused on enhancing and protecting their self esteem. Most see the government as the proper vehicle to stop folks from calling them names but are unaware of all dangers that linger just outside of their naive field of vision.

The time is right to sheer those sheep while they still have a little wool. The public especially Republicans see public private partnerships as a way to bring competitive influences into government.  Of course public private partnerships are nothing of the kind. Now is the time for the mob to make their move. The average American is still clueless to the fact that public private partnerships are the main business model in a fascist economy.

Global Warning Danger!

globalwarmingThe greatest possible harm from global warning will come from turning the issue over to government to solve. It would be safer for everyone, to go ahead and let the planet be destroyed. Proponents of global warning prevention initiatives misunderstand how government works. It is assumed, that once government starts tackling the problem, everything will be fine from then on. However, once government takes control of the issue, society is in more danger than if nothing was done. That is because self interest doesn’t disappear when people join the government workforce.  Global warming will become another problem to exploit for profit. Government workers will be better of as the problem grows. Politically powerful  business people will lobby relentlessly for laws that benefit them. More people will die much quicker with government action on global warming.

Remember, that people don’t look to government for help out of intellect. Instinct causes people to assume government has all kinds of abilities it doesn’t have. To an American citizen looking to government for help is like a child petitioning a parent. Unfortunately government doesn’t function like a parent. This is all instinctive behavior which completely bypasses reasoning.

 

 

Markets, Manias, and Weather

James, this is a quote often used today, and for good reason I think.

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”

The line is from a book first published in 1841 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1814-1889).

 

In today’s world, when large numbers of people seem to accept that governments can control the weather with taxes and regulations, that decisions from the halls of power are superior to ordinary market-driven decisions of multitudes of individuals, and the major indices soar on abysmal data, one must wonder at the lack of any reasoning or logic. Perhaps Shakespeare was correct – there truly is nothing new under the sun, but the scale today is breathtaking.

The book is available on Amazon (and other sellers I’m sure).

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