Gavin McInnis on Baby Boomers

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(05-22-2016, 01:22 AM)taramarie Wrote: Should be an interesting future as i hear the majority of American millies are leaning more towards socialism. Should be interesting how they take this news.

In general the American Millie conception of what socialism is "free health care", "free college", "free this" and "free that". What they don't step back and realize, largely because their Boomer parents never taught them--nothing is actually free. Those of us who are in X and older portions of millies have experience with GIs and Older Xers the Lost know that there is no such thing as free. Things have to be paid for and there are very few ways to actually pay for those things.

1. Is making things people want to get money, and then tax that money that has been earned.
2. Taxing imported goods.
3. Manipulating the currency.

Since the status quo is to not tax imported goods, and since Americans have pursued a free trade policy and cannot compete against those who are paid a bowl of rice a day making things and selling them to others is out too. For the US this leaves manipulating currency. This is of course fine if you hold reserve currency status, but if you do it too much you will lose that reserve status--all the checks written to pay for all those "free goodies" come due all at once and the country resorts to massive inflation to discharge its debts with inflated paper.

The result of course in countries who don't have reserve status is Venezuela. Chavez's left wing populism worked fine as long as oil prices were high--they dropped, they didn't have the dollars coming in to cover the dollars going out and chaos ensued.

As for agreeing on a vision, I don't think everyone in a country ever will ever agree on such a vision. That being said I'll settle for some core basic things.

1. Everyone has the right to do, say and be anything thing they want within the boundaries of reasonable laws.
2. There is no free anything--welfare is gone completely. If non-state entities want to run charities that is fine.
3. There will be tariffs to protect domestic industry. It does not matter if foreign goods are better, the country has an interest in having industries of its own, you know in-case-shit.
4. The economy will be more geared toward the importation of raw materials and export of finished goods than the import of finished goods and the export of raw materials.
5. The state has absolute control over who can enter the country. Naturally anyone who wants to leave, well I hope the door doesn't hit them in the ass on the way out.
6. An end to being policeman of the world. If countries want us to defend them...fine...they're paying for the occupation. If you want to be a colony you'll get treated like one.

In short going back to precisely the program that the US ran until just after WW2 and made the US the Largest Economy, the Largest Trading Country and the largest military power in the world.