tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post7271393014583176964..comments2024-03-29T02:19:19.866-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Ron Jacobs — The Deep State is the Statemike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-48995673530236683522017-05-28T11:11:40.944-04:002017-05-28T11:11:40.944-04:00A gold standard would prevent political corruption...<i>A gold standard would prevent political corruption? LOL</i><br /><br />No, you geniuses. Getting rid of politics would prevent political corruption. There's no pillage, rape, murder or theft with private property. There's no lying permitted with contracts. <br /><br /><br /><i>The increased policy space has a variety of uses that are decided politically.<br /><br />I don't think that this is a good reason for rejecting increasing policy space though.<br /><br />It's a wakeup call that there is policy space for welfare instead of war.</i><br /><br />Those problems you want to allegedly solve with your “policy space” do not exist except for your prior use of the “policy space”. You interventionists are the cause of the problems you claim you want to resolve. <br /><br />“Policy space” is nothing but vicious and totally unnecessary government violence against innocent and non-criminal people.Bob Roddishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263804608074597937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-51635839436655364482017-05-27T20:51:33.567-04:002017-05-27T20:51:33.567-04:00A gold standard would prevent political corruption...A gold standard would prevent political corruption? LOLNoah Wayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12012500819097539976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-42812959704824818302017-05-27T19:33:56.894-04:002017-05-27T19:33:56.894-04:00Right Bob, if only we were on a gold standard then...Right Bob, if only we were on a gold standard then the wealthy wouldn't be able to buy politicians. Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03139782404004492965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-61382619245246599472017-05-27T17:13:10.230-04:002017-05-27T17:13:10.230-04:00Add to that the military.
Never a question of aff...Add to that the military.<br /><br />Never a question of affordability with either.<br /><br />And US involvement in and funding of Vietnam was arguably a factor in Nixon's decision to close the gold window for settlement of international accounts unilaterally.<br /><br />The increased policy space has a variety of uses that are decided politically.<br /><br />I don't think that this is a good reason for rejecting increasing policy space though.<br /><br />It's a wakeup call that there is policy space for welfare instead of war.Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-13432570760329068902017-05-27T15:39:06.872-04:002017-05-27T15:39:06.872-04:00It's a good thing the DEEP STATE isn't rev...It's a good thing the DEEP STATE isn't revenue constrained thanks to the marvels of MODERN MONEY.Bob Roddishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263804608074597937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-91840401276828440392017-05-27T11:58:56.518-04:002017-05-27T11:58:56.518-04:00It's not that they get into position of power,...It's not that they get into position of power, it's that they are in positions of power and can't readily be removed or replaced. <br /><br />Elections only change a few puppets, not the underlying system. And as we've seen repeatedly, there are two kinds of puppets: gleeful followers of the program and resisters who must be brought into line. Noah Wayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12012500819097539976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-91667226449862511792017-05-27T10:43:12.435-04:002017-05-27T10:43:12.435-04:00These people are monsters, and yet they get into p...These people are monsters, and yet they get into positions of power. Then the MSM backs them, I'm sure they have no idea what's happening. Kaiveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04195639305785321786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-25705164209401015082017-05-27T10:41:53.117-04:002017-05-27T10:41:53.117-04:00The reason it is important it alerting voters to t...The reason it is important it alerting voters to the fact that the people that run significant areas of public policy are not elected and some don't change from administration to administration.<br /><br />The advantage is supposed to be providing continuity and expertise in government, but the tradeoff is giving up potentially significant democratic control over government.<br /><br />This is why the terms ruling elite, ruling class, deep state, etc. are used in political science and related subjects.<br /> <br />The US continually criticizing this in other non-democratic or less democratic governments abroad while ignoring it at home.Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-24448057959575611322017-05-27T09:14:16.865-04:002017-05-27T09:14:16.865-04:00The deep state in this view is the unelected gover...The deep state in this view is the unelected government. What is the USSR was called the siloviki (intel services) and nomenklatura (senior administrative bureaucracy rather than the run of the mill civil service).Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-49620942667870505662017-05-27T05:07:08.760-04:002017-05-27T05:07:08.760-04:00The deep state is not some enigmatic entity that o...<i>The deep state is not some enigmatic entity that operates outside the US government. It is the US state itself.</i><br /><br />Then there is no deep state.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11018306000410021518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-33367750150062660092017-05-26T21:00:37.005-04:002017-05-26T21:00:37.005-04:00Very good piece, with the exception of overestimat...Very good piece, with the exception of overestimating Trump's intelligence.Noah Wayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12012500819097539976noreply@blogger.com