This sixteen-part series, The Souls of the People, will explore these issues and the ideas and economics behind them. The values, origins, economics and philosophy behind the call “to drown the baby” that is our own government, the creation of think tanks specifically to provide a pseudo-intellectual foundation for inequality. The rise, reasons for, and effect of beliefs that markets without law allow for full employment and that wage laws cause unemployment. That competition alone can bring about good working conditions. The rejection of progressive taxes, the right to avail ourselves of the power and resources of the country through organizing public goods, and most important of all, the way law enriches the wealthy while simultaneously empowering the wealthy to stop change on these issues from happening.
If the laws don’t change, inequality will worsen. If inequality worsens, the laws won’t change. It is hard to know where to start....
Clint Ballinger
The Souls of the People
7 comments:
Policies are not laws. So begin there.
Thanks Tom! I've tweaked that last paragraph a little also.
Hmm, the policy comment - anyone else have a comment on that comment? Always open to suggestions.
Policy is always based on law…
We have the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act and the Federal Reserve Act…
HH requires FULL employment and FRA requires MAXIMUM employment….
So what do we do?
Put Art Degree morons who think we are “out of money!” in control of policy … go figure…
We need to euthanize the Art Degree morons pronto…
“euthanize the rentier!”…. I say euthanize the Art Degree douchebags…… get those people no where near policy…
You pass a piece of legislation. But then you have to get it enforced. Humphrey-Hawkins never made it to the enforcement stage.
Nothing is being done about unemployment. Instead, it is claimed that the US already has full employment, as per the NAIRU definition.
There are environmental regulations that are not being enforced, or don't have the funding required to enforce them. Federal and state governments have been sued in court for failing to enforce legislation. How much evidence of corruption do you need?
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