Op-Ed Columnist

Why Depressions happen?

By Letters From Earth (lettersfromearth1@gmail.com)

Published: February 4, 2009

 

The way Sen. Dodd told me this morning about it, somebody said, "Well, what if we don't do anything?" And Bernanke says, "There will be no economy on Monday."

"No economy on Monday".  What does that mean?  Maybe we'd be better off without your economy, Mr. Bernanke.  And if I had done half as bad as you and the other politicians and elitists have done, I would not only resign in shame, I would apologize and admit my criminal activity.  The fact is you and the other elitists need depressions.  Think about it, who mans the armies for the wars you fight?  Ordinary people do.  Why do they do it? Because they have no choice, there are no significant social programs in America.  You have no insurance unless you work for these dog-eat-dog corporations.  The entire thought process is wrong.  If someone has a broken leg, the first thing I think of is how I can help them.  The first think you of is how can I profit from this person's broken leg.  How you live with youself, I do not know.

The same holds true for other basic human needs such as food and shelter.   This is already true for fire fighting and crime fighting.  The case of fire fighting is simpler.  When your house is burning down and the fire department comes to your door, do they think "how can I profit from this burning house?"  Do they ask "Excuse me sir, do you have fire fighting insurance?"  No, they put out the fire.

The police department is more complicated.  In a fair and just society, we will have laws but not a military police force which creates a police state.  But yet, the profit motive is not involved here.  This is as it should be.  In fact, the "profit motive" is basis of the problem with the world today.  Why do the common people become police officers?  For the exact same reason that soldiers volunteer to go to war.  Let's go back to the Vietnam War.  There was a draft and people hated the draft.  Obviously, war is not feasible if there are no soldiers.  If a draft is not possible, then you need depressions to force people into a crisis state where they will do anything to get money.

So, you see all the false talk about hating the depression or quotes such as "no one could have predicted this disaster".  WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?  What if you tell the police officer when he stops you for some minor speeding infraction, "Officer, the car accelerator got stuck and no one could have predicted this disaster"  You would be laughed at and fined.  What if you work at a factory you've ignored the machines for years and then one day they all rust and stop and you say when asked why it happened.  "What a disaster, no one could have predicted it"  You would be gone the next day.

So, why is Bernanke and the other elitists still there?  When will the people wake up.

The conclusion is we need to realize that we all need to eat, we all need shelter, we all get sick, we all are going to die, and we all equally important.  Not only "created equal" but "always equally important"

Next topic: The "profit motive" vs. "creative motive".

 

 

Amazing: Princeton Professor says global warming is good.

AMY GOODMAN: On Wednesday, our guest, Chris Field, testified before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. The Republican minority invited Princeton University physicist William Happer to testify at the same hearing. He's a former Energy Department official and chair of the board of directors of the George Marshall Institute, an organization that's reportedly received $715,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. This is a part of what Professor Happer had to say. 

 

WILLIAM HAPPER: The increasing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere will cause some warming of the earth's surface. The key question is, will the net effect of the warming and any other effects of CO2 be good or bad for humanity? I believe the increase of CO2 will be good.


I predict that future historians will look back on this period much as we now look back on the period just before we passed the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution to prohibit the manufacturing, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors. At the time, the 18th Amendment seemed to be exactly the right thing to do. It was a 1917 version of saving the planet from the ravages of climate change. More than half the states enacted prohibition laws before the 18th Amendment was finally ratified. Only one state, Rhode Island, voted against it, and my hat's off to the senator from Rhode Island. I'm sorry he's not here.


Well, there were many people who thought that Prohibition might do more harm than good, but they were completely outmatched by the temperance movement, whose motives and methods had much in common with the movement to stop climate change. Deeply sincere people thought they were saving humanity from the evils of alcohol, just as many people now sincerely think they're saving humanity from the evils of CO2. Prohibition was a mistake, and our country's probably still not fully recovered from the damage it did. For example, institutions like organized crime got their start in that era. Drastic limitations on CO2 are likely to damage our country in an analogous way. There's tremendous opportunity for corruption there.

 

source: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/26/member_of_un_environment_panel_warns

 

What can one say.  This is amazing.  I guess flooding of large portions of the world is considered good to Mr. William Happer.