[TheForge] chinese shoes (re-rant)

[Andy Vida]

Kevin Donahoe wrote:
> 
> I think we'll be at the starving level when the gov't is in charge of
> capital and the means of production. 

	Probably not, actually.  But you WILL be at their mercy.
	Smart power is always as subtle as it can be and moves
	into vulgar displays only when there is no other way.

	A key to lasting power is concealing from the governed
	that they are being manipulated.  Another key it the old
	carrot and stick approach.  When they do as you wish, they
	have materially comfortable lives.  When they need to be
	oved this way or that, conditions are set such that they
	by some means get the picture that moving this way or that
	will regain them their now lapsing comforts.  Voila! 
	Movement!

	When power is sufficiently consolidated, people are very
	very easy to make do almost anything you want them to if
	your techniques are carefully chosen and executed.

> Most people are starving because the
> gov't interferes with the free exchange of goods and ideas between them,
> some due to food aid that undermines the farm market or war or despot's self
> serving pathological personalities.

	So ask yourself: to what end?  Very little in the political
	arena happens by mere chance.  The economy is the absolute 
	thick of politics.
> 
> Most
> taxes and redistribution of wealth programs are simply veiled theft by our
> own representative gov't.

	You mean to tell us that there are some that aren't?  PLease go on. :)