> Reversing the Pistons of Empire: One America for Peace
1 November 2005, 03:35
I find Mr. Moses’s article very insightful, except for one thing. To call what the Federal Government of the US is doing as ’privatization’, is a misnomer, at best, or you are unfortunately accepting the Bush Administration’s definition of ’privatization’ as the correct one. It is very plainly not. In a true free market based economy, the government would award public works to the lowest experienced bidder with the best proposal. What the US Federal Government is doing, allowing no open bids on huge contracts, the richest of these strictly reserved for Bush cronies, cannot be mistaken for honest privatization, this is nothing but handing out charters for state-run monopolies, the anathema to a free market, and extremely unAmerican to boot. All this talk of ’free enterprise’ nonsense our nation’s political class has been harking about for generations is full of meaningless hot air. There hasn’t been any true free market in this country for decades.
What we see are markets dominated by oligarchic behemoths, who often work in collusion and in secrecy, and competition be damned. You can readily see this in most of the largest industries, dominated by no more than 5 giant companies, really often 2 or 3. This economic system, a powerful but very vulnerable form of state-run capitalism some call it a malevolent form of socialism as envisioned by old money parasites was generated by our central banking service and secretly, our Planning Commission, the Federal Reserve Board.
The Federal Reserve Board members can be speak the newspeak as good as the best mouth pieces of the Pentagon or the Justice Department. Words like ’Free Enterprise’ and ’Open Markets’ are used in much the same manner as ’Exporting Democracy’ or ’Fighting for World Peace’ are used by the Feds, phrases twisted to such perverted ends that they become the very opposite of the virtues that they were intended to symbolize.
Avoiding the truth is rightfully considered to be a sign of misguided leadership. But to actively and continuously pervert the truth, can only be a sign of evil. And a democracy cannot let itself by ruled by evil, not if it wishes to survive.
I find Mr. Moses’s article very insightful, except for one thing. To call what the Federal Government of the US is doing as ’privatization’, is a misnomer, at best, or you are unfortunately accepting the Bush Administration’s definition of ’privatization’ as the correct one. It is very plainly not. In a true free market based economy, the government would award public works to the lowest experienced bidder with the best proposal. What the US Federal Government is doing, allowing no open bids on huge contracts, the richest of these strictly reserved for Bush cronies, cannot be mistaken for honest privatization, this is nothing but handing out charters for state-run monopolies, the anathema to a free market, and extremely unAmerican to boot. All this talk of ’free enterprise’ nonsense our nation’s political class has been harking about for generations is full of meaningless hot air. There hasn’t been any true free market in this country for decades.
What we see are markets dominated by oligarchic behemoths, who often work in collusion and in secrecy, and competition be damned. You can readily see this in most of the largest industries, dominated by no more than 5 giant companies, really often 2 or 3. This economic system, a powerful but very vulnerable form of state-run capitalism some call it a malevolent form of socialism as envisioned by old money parasites was generated by our central banking service and secretly, our Planning Commission, the Federal Reserve Board.
The Federal Reserve Board members can be speak the newspeak as good as the best mouth pieces of the Pentagon or the Justice Department. Words like ’Free Enterprise’ and ’Open Markets’ are used in much the same manner as ’Exporting Democracy’ or ’Fighting for World Peace’ are used by the Feds, phrases twisted to such perverted ends that they become the very opposite of the virtues that they were intended to symbolize.
Avoiding the truth is rightfully considered to be a sign of misguided leadership. But to actively and continuously pervert the truth, can only be a sign of evil. And a democracy cannot let itself by ruled by evil, not if it wishes to survive.